[APWG] NEWS: Gibbons joins battle against weed that fuels wildfires
Olivia Kwong
plant at plantconservation.org
Wed Aug 8 11:28:15 CDT 2007
http://www.lvrj.com/news/8961792.html
Gibbons joins battle against weed that fuels wildfires
Four Western governors pledge to get rid of invasive cheatgrass
By JOHN MILLER
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BOISE, Idaho -- Four Western governors declared war Monday on cheatgrass,
a nonnative weedy grass they blame for filling the West's open spaces with
flammable fuels feeding this summer's massive wildfires.
Still, their efforts could be complicated by a shortage of seeds of other
grasses needed to restore the charred landscape before cheatgrass takes
hold. In fact, some of the federal Bureau of Land Management territory
where such seeds are collected has been burned.
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