[CPEO-MEF] NATURAL RESOURCES, REUSE: "Weed crew beats back invasive cheatgrass at Fort Ord, " CA

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Weed crew beats back invasive cheatgrass at Fort Ord

Sue Hubbard
Bureau of Land Management
June 29, 2012

The Fort Ord National Monument weed crew sprang into action this  
spring to beat back an invasive pest that has taken over miles of  
rangeland in the West.

As the weed crew returned from the Memorial Day holiday they learned  
that a grass which had been collected the week before had been  
positively identified as Bromus tectorum also known as cheat grass or  
downy brome, said Supervisory Biological Science Technician Susan  
Hubbard.

After surveying the site, they found patches of cheat grass within a  
5-acre area on a former firing range that had undergone a prescribed  
burn followed by ordnance removal.

Most of the cheat grass was already forming seeds and the plants had  
turned brown so applying herbicide was not an option. In addition,  
there were two species of federal protected plants growing in and  
around the cheat grass. Due to the possibility of unexploded  
ordnance, the plants couldn’t be dug out.

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For the entire release, see
http://www.blm.gov/ca/st/en/info/newsbytes/ 
2012/537xtra_cheatgrass_fortord.html


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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope Street, Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545
Fax: 650-961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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