Cheat and cheatgrass ring true to their names – they sneak into wheatfields, grow alongside the grain and then rob farmers of ...

Cheatgrass, Bromus tectorum, is native to North Africa, Southwestern Asia and Europe, but is introduced and solidly established in North America. It was introduced an unknown number of times with ship ...

Cheatgrass ranks toward the top of my most-hated noxious weeds, outranked only by Russian olive and salt cedar (tamarisk). Cheatgrass is the most common plant in North America and has done ...

Before cheatgrass, the shrub-steppe ecosystem used to burn naturally every 50 to 100 years, but now, with so much flammable grass, it burns and then burns again - another fire every five to 10 years.

BOISE, Idaho — Cheatgrass can be a dirty word for land managers in the West. Sure, they marvel at the invasive species’ toughness and respect its stubborn ability to muscle out native bunch ...

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 rang… ...

Researchers have been desperately looking for a way to overthrow cheatgrass’s reign for decades, and have tried some wacky experiments in the process — from fungal pathogens like the macabre ...

Cheatgrass is about as Western as cowboy boots and sagebrush. And until recently, scientists didn't realize that the yellowish plant is making Western wildfires much worse.

Today's environmental threat comes to us from Europe, southwestern Asia, and northern Africa. It is the Bromus tectorum, also known as cheatgrass, broncograss, downy brome, downy chess, and soft ...

Cheatgrass dries out in the summer, transforming into extraordinarily effective tinder for wildfires. The fires then kill competing native plants and destroy habitat needed by cattle ranchers and ...

Cheatgrass is about as Western as cowboy boots and sagebrush. And until recently, scientists didn't realize that the yellowish plant is making Western wildfires much worse.

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 ...