BOISE, Idaho – It sounds like science fiction: An unstoppable invader is taking over the West and the best hope to stop its relentless advance is a small team of anonymous scientists. But that's what ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Last month’s Cheyenne Audubon guest speaker was Jake Courkamp, a research scientist in the Restoration Ecology Lab at Colorado ...

(KUTV) — An invasive species of grass is increasing the threat of wildfires across the western United States. A Tuesday article from the Pew Charitable Trusts stated western states are experiencing a ...

Cheatgrass, Bromus tectorum, is an invading species that now dominates millions of acres in North America. Although it is found in all of the 50 states, it has been particularly troublesome in ...

Rabbit Valley is the last exit on I70 as you drive west through Colorado. It is in the McInnis Canyons National Recreation Area and it has several places to camp, so I decided to visit. But as I drove ...

Efforts to restore funding in the House failed in a 26-34 split, with further-right lawmakers aligned with the caucus voting as a block to reduce spending on addressing invaded rangelands.

Standing sometimes only inches high, it's hard to believe that such a small grass could be responsible for such environmental and economic havoc. An invasive species brought accidentally from Europe ...

Miek Koshmrl WyoFile.com Dec 27, 2025 Dec 27, 2025 Editor’s note: This story was originally published at WyoFile.com. POWDER RIVER BASIN, Wyo. — Brian Mealor scanned the prairie east of Buffalo, but ...

Can grazing help control cheatgrass? That’s one of those questions that in some places doesn’t mean a thing, but in the Great Basin is likely to elicit a range of answers, from a decisive ‘yes’ to a ...

There is a long list of threats to sagebrush ecosystem health in Nevada and beyond. It includes global warming, drought, overgrazing, conifer encroachment, wildlife loss and misuse of water, among ...

Cheatgrass is about as Western as cowboy boots and sagebrush. It grows in yellowish clumps, about knee high to a horse, and likes arid land. One thing cheatgrass does is burn — in fact, more easily ...

Ranchers often argue that cattle grazing is the best way to combat cheatgrass, an aggressive invader that has taken over vast areas of the Great Basin, destroying the native sagebrush ecosystem and ...