The scientists identified pastures with areas of cheatgrass intermixed with native plant communities and grazed them with ...

A transdisciplinary team is working together to see if targeting sheep grazing could reduce Cheatgrass in highly infested ...

“Fire abatement is a weed management tool; it’s not a solution,” said Gloria Montero of Weed Warriors. She explained that ...

Other areas less affected by wildfire showed greater vibrancy and color because the native plants still thrived there, said Wilson. “Unfortunately, what happens is the cheatgrass will come back ...

I know we are saving lives by doing this.” A cheatgrass plant is well on its way in southeast Reno on May 2. Photo by Jamie Roice-Gomes. May is National Wildfire Awareness Month, and here in Nevada, ...

To make matters worse, many landscapes are threatened by invasive cheatgrass that burns easily and regrows faster after fires ...

That has worsened a trifecta of troubles—bark beetles, wildfires, and invasive plants such as cheatgrass—doing visible harm to the plant life covering three-fourths of the park.

Of the 10 weeds included in the study, cheatgrass poses the most economically damaging ... the “ripple effects” of lost agricultural rent. “Each year, invasive plants reduce the value of both forage ...