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Editorial
Sagebrush Shrub-steppe or Cheatgrass Prairie?
09/25/2023
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7273/000008577
Abstract
Although I work in irrigated agriculture, the views on my morning commute are all sagebrush, or the shrub-steppe as this native plant community is called. And cheatgrass, a lot of cheatgrass. Where there have been recent fires, stands of cheatgrass thrive. Sagebrush, the iconic plant of the shrub-steppe ecosystem, is having a hard time. The combined effects of fire frequency, climate change, and cheatgrass invasion have made sagebrush recovery an uphill battle. Will the shrub-steppe recover to its former subtle beauty, or should we get used to the cheatgrass prairie?
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- Title
- Sagebrush Shrub-steppe or Cheatgrass Prairie?
- Creators
- Andrew McGuire - WSU Extension
- Academic Unit
- Perspectives; Irrigation, Water and the Columbia Basin
- Publisher
- Washington State University
- Format
- html
- Identifiers
- 99901402601601842
- Copyright
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Editorial