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  • Idaho's Governor Otter, other governors declare war on cheatgrass

    Ralph Maughan

    Otter, other governors declare war on cheatgrass. They want 500 volunteers to help collect native seeds, so threatened areas can be replanted. Idaho Statesman. By Rocky Barker. Controlling cheatgrass is absolutely critical. If they don’t have enough native seed, they need to encourage the production of native grass and forbs for seed as an agricultural…

  • Salmon Farming May Doom Wild Populations, Study Says

    Ralph Maughan

    Salmon Farming May Doom Wild Populations, Study Says. By Juliet Eilperin and Marc Kaufman. Washington Post Staff Writers. Salmon farms spread disease and sea lice among wild populations.

  • Montana knapweed researcher sees work paying off

    Ralph Maughan

    Montana knapweed researcher sees work paying off. By Perry Backus. Missoulian. Aside from cheatgrass, the spread of the knapweeds: spotted knapweed, diffuse knapweed, Russian knapweed, and yellow starthistle, is probably the biggest exotic noxious plant problem in the West. Like cheatgrass, its adverse effects are often unappreciated by the casual observer of wildlife or those…

  • Wildlife Services, the misnamed federal agency killed 1.6 million animals in 2006

    Ralph Maughan

    Federal wildlife agents killed 1.6 million animals in ’06. By Matthew Brown. Associated Press. The federal agency Wildlife Services “serviced” 1.6 million animals last year. Numerically most of them were birds, but a lot of them were animals that many, perhaps most Americans, would rather not see killed to fatten the bottom line for ranchers…

  • Next year's cheatgrass is growing rapidly right now

    Ralph Maughan

    It seems that this year produced a growing agreement on most sides of the issue that cheatgrass is just plain awful and is responsible in part for the range fires, small and large, that swept Idaho, Utah and Nevada beginning in late May. Some ranchers and too many politicians have pushed, and are still pushing…

  • Climate Change Likely to Increase Fires from Invasive Weeds

    Ralph Maughan

    Yesterday begreen made a detailed post here about the U.S. Senate subcommittee hearing on wildfires in Las Vegas. Here is the first article I found about the testimony. Climate Change Likely to Increase Fires from Invasive weeds. Associated Press. By Kathleen Hennessey. Related story. Sagebrush recovery efforts under way. By Emily Simnitt. Idaho Statesman. Cheatgrass…

  • Senate Subcommittee considers Great Basin management

    Brian Ertz

    The Senate Public Lands and Forests Subcommittee is holding a hearing in Las Vegas today ~ Thursday, October 11 ~ to discuss threats to the Great Basin. From what I gather, fire and cheatgrass will be highlighted on the agenda. Subscription only article from E & E : The Senate Public Lands and Forests Subcommittee…

  • Invasive weed (cheat grass) a fuel for West's wildfires

    Ralph Maughan

    Invasive weed a fuel for West’s wildfires. By Patrick O’Driscoll, USA Today. This is a fine and an easy-to-understand article on the role cheatgrass plays in the range fires of today’s West. It wasn’t supposed to be this way — conservationists were to be held to blame for the fires and Larry Craig was to…

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