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USDA-NRCS is currently looking into the attributes of certain plants that are native to the Great Basin to be used as a green strip, a type of firebreak, where plants are strategically placed to slow the advancement of a fire. For example,
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a recent study</a> out of the Aberdeen Plant Materials Center <span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">revealed that the native wildflower, </span><a href="https://plants.sc.egov.usda.gov/DocumentLibrary/plantguide/pdf/pg_grsq.pdf"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#005782;background:white;text-underline:none">curlycup
gumweed</span></a> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">(</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; display: inline !important;"><i>Grindelia
squarrosa</i>)</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal;">, ha</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">d
better traits for fire suppression and resistance than many of the most used species, such as crested wheatgrass (</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><i>Agropyron cristatum</i></span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">),
Siberian wheatgrass (</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><i>A. fragile</i></span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">),
and Russian wildrye </span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><u><i>(Psathrostachys juncea</i></u></span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">)-all
non-native to the United States. This information is being used to update tech</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">nical notes and practice standards in the west.</span><o:p> </o:p></p>
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Link to article: https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/detail/plantmaterials/home/?cid=NRCSEPRD1784029<o:p> </o:p></p>
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