[APWG] NEWS: Gibbons joins battle against weed that fuels wildfires

[Olivia Kwong]

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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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