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December 16, 2014

Hope in the battle with cheatgrass

  • A scientist at WSU is drawing attention for her work on what one policy experts calls “the biggest public land issue of our time.”
    • By KEITH RIDLER
    Associated Press

    BOISE — A century-long losing battle has been waged in the West against an invasive weed that is responsible for massive wildfires and threatens native species and rangeland.

    Now, some 65 years after famed naturalist Aldo Leopold summed up the general consensus in the battle against cheatgrass as hopeless, there might be hope.


     
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