Viewpoint: An Alternative Management Paradigm for Plant Communities Affected by Invasive Annual Grass in the Intermountain West
Author
Perryman, B. L.Schultz, B. W.
McAdoo, J. K.
Alverts, R. L.
Cervantes, J. C.
Foster, S.
McCuin, G.
Swanson, S.
Issue Date
2018-06Keywords
Bromus tectorumfuels management
Great Basin
Intermountain West
invasive annuals
remnant perennial grasses
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Perryman, B. L., Schultz, B. W., McAdoo, J. K., Alverts, R. L., Cervantes, J. C., Foster, S., McCuin, G., & Swanson, S. (2018). Viewpoint: An Alternative Management Paradigm for Plant Communities Affected by Invasive Annual Grass in the Intermountain West. Rangelands, 40(3), 77-82.Publisher
Society for Range ManagementJournal
RangelandsAdditional Links
https://rangelands.orgAbstract
Over 400,000 km2 of the Intermountain West is colonized by cheatgrass and other annual grasses. Planning and management actions designed to foster perennial grass health throughout the region have never addressed how annual grasses would respond. For decades, the most significant landscape-level management approach toward invasive annual grasses has been to complain. We now know how to begin the process of taking the Intermountain West back from the domination of invasive annual grasses: through the management of standing dead litter. Sustaining perennial bunchgrasses at landscape scales will require an integrated ecological approach to fuels management. The Society for Range ManagementType
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enISSN
0190-0528ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1016/j.rala.2018.03.004