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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

New research that relied in part on satellite images suggests that cheatgrass, an invasive species brought west by settlers in the 1800s, is one cause for the larger, hotter and more frequent range ...

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 grasses of ...

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 chess ...

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 ...

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 ...