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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Hi,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">I work for the Nature Conservancy’s Cool Green Science blog.
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This week I covered some promising research by Ann Kennedy that is using native Washington State soil microbes to inhibit the growth of cheatgrass roots. This gives native plants a chance to compete and within about 3-5 years the cheatgrass is wiped out from
the area: <a href="http://blog.nature.org/science/2016/09/07/attacking-invasive-cheatgrass-root-soil-microbes-biocontrol-sage/">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Where they are able to successfully apply the bacteria, they’re finding that by year 3 there is a 50% reduction in cheatgrass. I thought that you would all be interested to learn more.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">Lisa Feldkamp<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">The Nature Conservancy<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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