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Getting to Know a Grass - Basic Anatomy and Identification
Have you ever tried to identify a grass? Most of us who like to look at plants and learn their names will probably admit that we often give up on grasses pretty quickly, or just ignore them entirely. They aren’t the easiest plants to identify to species, and there are so many of them. Without close inspection, they can all look pretty similar. Their flowers aren’t particularly showy, and their…
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Also over the winter holidays, I started the process of making paper from an invasive species of grass, Bromus Tectorum (better known as cheatgrass or downy brome), which has effectively taken over, producing significant structural and functional changes to most desert ecosystems in the US. The photos above show a bag of cheatgrass collected adjacent to a recent wildfire in the foothills outside Boise, Idaho, and the cheatgrass fibers being pounded with a rubber mallet. First, the grass was soaked for 24 hours, then cooked in a solution of water and soda ash (sodium carbonate) for two hours. Then, drained, thoroughly rinsed, the fibers were beat thoroughly for 45-50 minutes until the fibers dispersed evenly when added to water. I then dried the mass out in the oven (to prevent it from molding in transit) and stowed it away in my luggage to take back to Oslo. This is only a portion of the grass harvested, processing being limited by the research facilities (a home kitchen and whatever accoutrements I could find around the house).
Spent a few days over the holidays working on a new series of muliti-block woodcuts looking at the (directly or indirectly) human factors influencing wildfire frequency and severity. The backgrounds are made using plywood partially burned in a fire.
Beginning Tuesday, Sept. 25 through Friday, Sept. 28, during the NV Energy Power Of Good giveaway, vote to support funding for post-Martin Fire native seedling plantings in the N. Fork Little Humboldt Wilderness Study Area: nvenergy.com/poggiveaway.
Invasive species like cheatgrass flourish in burnt areas - but not if our volunteers can get there first! The BLM needs our help to hand-plant native seedlings that attract pollinators in the riparian areas so they can focus on larger-scale restoration efforts. Help us ensure our native bees and butterflies come back to this rugged slice of wild Nevada - vote all four days!
This is Winston wearing an anti cheat grass wrap that keeps his ears, mouth, eyes and nose clear of unwanted invasion. Onlookers don’t always realize he can see, smell, drink water and have a great life. Thanks for letting us take a pic. #thisisboise #dogmom #dogmomlife #dogears #dognose #doghealth #doghat #dogs #activedog #healthydog #runningwithdogs #cheatgrass #dogsoutside #happydog #vet #wpg #wiredhairedpointinggriffon #griffon (at Hillside To Hollow Preserve)
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Cheatgrass of Teanaway / June 2016
The invasive weed, which makes wildfires more damaging, may be vulnerable to a naturally occurring soil bacterium.
The Palouse region of eastern Washington state, near Pullman, where cheatgrass lines the roads and inhabits the wheat fields of the area, diminishing the wheat crop. Credit Ruth Fremson/The New York Times
I just spent this morning with a group of high school kids on a climate change study project on a parcel in the high desert. One of the invasive grasses that littered the parcel, and on every other parcel on which I’ve volunteered in this climate change project, is cheatgrass, or brome. (The other favorite is Russian thistle, or tumbleweed.......with little stickers that hurt like shit when you try to remove the thing.)
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Cheatgrass could vie for the title of the most successful invasive species in North America. The weed lives in every state, and is the dominant plant on more than 154,000 square miles of the West, by one estimate.
The sins of cheatgrass are many. Its tenacious seeds lodge in the eyes and gums of livestock (not to mention the ears of pets and the socks of hikers). Even a moderate infestation in a wheat field can reduce yields by up to half.
Its profusion is a big reason today’s Western fires burn more land, more frequently and with more ferocity than in the past, scientists say. Unlike well-spaced native bunchgrasses, cheatgrass — its scientific name is Bromus tectorum, or downy brome — crowds tightly together and then dies early each summer to form dense mats of tinder.
Ann Kennedy, a soil scientist with the Agricultural Research Service of the United States Department of Agriculture, has discovered naturally occurring soil bacteria that inhibit the growth of the weed’s deep root system, its competitive advantage, even as those bacteria leave native plants untouched.
desolation canyon poems, april:
I left home tangle of wists, wondering - not what to look for - but why, why
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I left the old grove / sparse trails: greasewood and cheatgrass / no chance to walk straight
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I would give it all its due thick squalor and delicate murky water - wide sky (tu fu: unwashed roots, scaled fish)
maybe. it’s a question of faith. it is all there, empty and full I know rivers to ocean (some kind of death) along, grasp
though that part is easy to love all the foibles and tragedies rutted paths of fear, dishes. traces. reconciliation is where I stumble
. early morning blue light I was warm, sleeping on the ground thinking now, I try to assign but it was just that: paling sky above the river
