Invasive grasses are taking over the American West’s sea of sagebrush
Highly flammable cheatgrass and similar nonnative plants dominate one-fifth of the Great Basin
![Cheatgrass](https://i0.wp.com/www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/120121_br_cheatgrass_feat.jpg?fit=1030%2C580&ssl=1)
Cheatgrass (pictured) is invading sagebrush rangelands in the West, choking out native plants and causing more frequent wildfires.
Jaepil Cho, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Headquarters/Flickr (CC BY 2.0)