I recently attended a presentation on invasive weeds by a representative of the Deschutes National Forest.
The problem with the presentation was that it promoted and legitimized an industrial paradigm to weed threats. The Forest Service (FS) promotes an Industrial Forestry Paradigm that treats the symptoms, not the causes of ecological degradation.
The biggest factors […]
Continue Reading →Mike Hudak interviews Retired USDA researcher Steve Monsen about livestock grazing’s impact to weed and Pinion-Juniper spread in the western United States:
Retired USDA researcher Steve Monsen explains how overgrazing by cattle and sheep throughout the Great Basin, beginning in the mid-19th century and continuing to the present day, has initiated a cascade of […]
Continue Reading →An annual grass worse than cheatgrass
Medusahead grass has the ability to take over a landscape like cheatgrass but nothing will eat it after it dies and dries out in the early summer months. It is becoming a huge problem in some areas and I’ve seen allotments with vast expanses where it is about the […]
Continue Reading →The role livestock plays spreading wildlife harming weeds in the Rockies should be obvious-
Livestock–the elephant in the room when it comes to weeds. By George Wuerthner. New West.
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My comments:
Weeds are of great harm to ungulates.
Rangeland cattle in particular are culprits. They cause bare patches of […]
Continue Reading →Here’s a classic-
As I mentioned in an earlier comment, I got a new camera today. I headed to the mountains south of Pocatello to try it out and came back with a disgusting photo (as well as some attractive landscapes).
Continue Reading →We have talked a lot about knapweed on this forum because of its negative consequences for wildlife habitat.
Biocontrol has been pushed as an alternative to herbicides, but this is bad news.
“ScienceDaily (Sep. 5, 2008) — Biocontrol agents, such as insects, are often released outside of their native ranges to control invasive plants.”
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Continue Reading →The Casper Star Tribune highlights an important threat to wildlife habitat – weeds:
The article gives a pretty good indication of the extent to which different weeds threaten wildlife habitat and are an economic scourge – but I will take issue with one statement made in the article :
Native […]
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