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Invasive grass is overwhelming U.S. deserts providing fuel for wildfires
Volunteers are yanking the dangerous grasses from public lands across the American Southwest.
ByShaena Montanari
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In recent years, large swathes of the desert landscape in the parks around Tucson, Arizona have started to look a lot like grassland. And that’s a problem. 
Buffelgrass, a perennial arid climate-adapted grass from Africa, was brought to the United States in the 1930s and planted throughout Arizona, Texas, and Mexico to control soil erosion and provide cattle forage. In the 1980s, it started to take over the Sonoran Desert including state and national parks causing a multitude of ecological issues and fueling wildfires. ....

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