[PCA] NEWS: Researcher Finds Way to Fight Cheatgrass, a Western Scourge

[Kwong, Olivia]

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/06/science/researcher-finds-way-to-fight-cheatgrass-a-western-scourge.html

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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