As the landscape across Reporter Country begins to green up with the help of recent moisture and warming temperatures, a coalition of researchers - from the University of Nevada-Reno, Montana State University, the University of Wyoming, and other state and federal agencies - is urging awareness, preparedness, and strategic action, when it comes to managing invasive annual grasses, such as cheatgrass, across the west. Cheatgrass was only known to exist in western and central Europe, northern Africa, and Asia until the 19th century, according to the Cheatgrass Management Handbook. It was accidentally introduced to the United States “…via contaminated grain...

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