Last month’s Audubon guest speaker was Jake Courkamp, a research scientist in the Restoration Ecology Lab at Colorado State ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Last month’s Cheyenne Audubon guest speaker was Jake Courkamp, a research scientist in the Restoration Ecology Lab at Colorado State University who studies the control of cheatgrass. Why would this be ...