Focus Area: Grazing Management

  • Ugly for a Reason:  Breaking Up Cheatgrass in the Jarbidge

    Ugly for a Reason:  Breaking Up Cheatgrass in the Jarbidge

    The following is a two-part story contributed by Don Smurthwaite, Communications Specialist for the Bureau of Land Management. Part I Glen Burkhardt points to a scrawny Russian Olive tree near a gravel road somewhere in the desert of southwestern Idaho. “The only tree in the Jarbidge,” he deadpans. And a quick look around the vista…