Imagine a landscape that is completely dominated by cheatgrass. Instead of native grasses, wildflowers, sagebrush, and the call of songbirds, picture a monoculture of dried non-native grasses, mostly devoid of life and ready to ignite from the smallest spark. If we do not act, this could be the future of much of our western rangelands.
Our amazing partners at the University of Wyoming Institute for Managing Annual Grasses Invading Natural Ecosystems (IMAGINE) have embarked an an incredible journey to share the experiences of land stewards across the West as they contend with invasive annual grasses. Defend Your Core is the first of several feature films that take us through Wyoming, Nevada, Colorado and more as land managers fight hard to defend their beloved sagebrush ecosystems from plants that threaten to destroy them.
