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Researcher Finds Way to Fight Cheatgrass


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Researcher Finds Way to Fight Cheatgrass, a Western ...
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Researcher Finds Way to Fight Cheatgrass, a Western Scourge

By CHRISTOPHER SOLOMON

OCT. 5, 2015



Cheatgrass could vie for the title of the most successful invasive species in North America. The weed lives in every state, and is the dominant plant on more than 154,000 square miles of the West, by one estimate. When it turns green in the spring, “you can actually see it from space,” said Bethany Bradley, an assistant professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, who studies biogeography, the spatial distribution of species.



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