In Rabbit Valley near the Colorado-Utah border, some signs indicate that aster could stymie the dominance of the invasive species Cheatgrass, Bromus tectorum, is an invading species that now dominates ...

BOISE -- Cheatgrass is causing problems throughout Idaho and the West. It's an invasive weed species choking out native vegetation. It acts as big fuel for wildfires and can be a problem for pets.

BOISE, Idaho — Cheatgrass can be a dirty word for land managers in the West. Sure, they marvel at the invasive species’ toughness and respect its stubborn ability to muscle out native bunch ...

Cheatgrass is about as Western as cowboy boots and sagebrush. It grows in yellowish clumps, about knee high to a horse, and likes arid land. One thing cheatgrass does is burn — in fact, more ...

Cheatgrass first spread across the U.S. West in the 1800s, carried by settlers and in contaminated seed and straw. The spikey, droopy, almost hairy plant spreads like a weed, chokes out native ...

It’s long been known that livestock played a role in speading cheatgrass, an annual grass from Eurasia that is thought to have been accidentally introduced to the West by settlers in the late 1800s.

Jeff Rosenthal. We’re talking about the seedheads from a plant that is common throughout southwest Idaho: cheatgrass. "These get up in between their toes and form these nasty abscesses," said Dr.

In his seminal 1949 book A Sand County Almanac, American naturalist Aldo Leopold warned of the perils of cheatgrass—a tall and hairy invasive plant that originated in Europe and Asia.

Overshadowing all those others, at least when it comes to rangeland fire and the day-to-day lives of Westerners, is cheatgrass. Cheatgrass is a winter annual, which means seeds germinate in ...

Reducing the invasion of cheatgrass is given as the rationale for more livestock grazing, however, the agency, ranchers, range “scientists ignore the many studies that link livestock grazing and ...