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TOOLS & RESOURCES

AUDUBON SOCIETY

JUNE 2020
 

Cheatgrass, Fire, and Sagebrush

North America’s sagebrush steppe ecosystem is home to bird species found nowhere else, like the Greater Sage-Grouse. But a deadly invader threatens to send their habitat up flames. Learn how cheatgrass and other invasive weeds threaten this ecosystem’s very existence and what we must do to save it.

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Annual Herbaceous Cover across Rangelands of the Sagebrush Biome (Cheatgrass Map)
 
Rangeland Analysis Platform
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Society for Range Management
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Wild Sheep Foundation
A Fertility Based Soil Restoration Approach to Managing “Cheatgrass” and other Annual Invasive Grasses. 
Watch 2020 Presentation
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The Cheatgrass Challenge
Western Governors Association Toolkit for Invasive Grasses
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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Sagebrush Ecosystem
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INVASIVE ANNUAL GRASSES
Threats to Healthy Rangeland
Ventenata Plant Information (USDA)

Cheatgrass Plant Information (USDA)

Medusahead Plant Information (USDA)

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DESIRABLE NATIVE GRASSES

Core to Healthy Rangeland

Rancher's Guide to Perennial Grasses

Bluebunch Wheatgrass Plant Information (USDA)

Western Wheatgrass  Plant Information (USDA)

Idaho Fescue Plant Information (USDA)

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