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Podcast: How Invasive Grasses Are Harming Hunting
Join Brian Mealor, director of the University of Wyoming’s Sheridan Research and Extension Center and the Institute for Managing Annual Grasses Invading Natural Ecosystems for this informative talk about invasive annual grasses and how they impact hunting.
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The On Our Mark: The Weatherby Podcast team sits down with University of Wyoming associate professor and director of the university’s Managing Annual Grasses Invading Natural Ecosystems Institute, Brian Mealor, to talk about invasive grasses and hunting.
Episode Title: How Invasive Grasses Are Harming Hunting
Podcast: On Our Mark: The Weatherby Podcast
Producer: Weatherby
WLFW Expert: Brian Mealor, director, Sheridan Research and Extension Center and the Institute for Managing Annual Grasses Invading Natural Ecosystems; associate professor, Department of Plant Sciences
Topic: Invasive annual grasses and their impact on hunting and rangeland health
Air Date: 4/19/23
Listen Time: 47:23
Episode Description: If you haven’t heard of annual invasive grasses, this is a great podcast, especially if you’re a hunter!
Annual invasive grasses are one of the biggest threats facing sagebrush rangelands and the game that depend on healthy sagebrush habitat. As invasive annual grasses spread, they impact everything from wildfire to pollinators to hunting. The Weatherby team sits down to talk with Brian Mealor, director of the Sheridan Research and Extension Center and the Institute for Managing Annual Grasses Invading Natural Ecosystems and an associate professor in Department of Plant Sciences at the University of Wyoming, about invasive grasses that are encroaching on our wild spaces and what to do about it. In this episode, they discuss:
- Types of invasive grasses
- What invasive grasses do to our ecosystems
- Who to contact if you come across invasive grasses
- How the changes to the ecosystem effect flora and fauna
- Why hunters and everyone should be paying attention to the spread of invasive grasses
- What it will look like if we do nothing to curb the spread
- Spraying herbicide to kill invasive grasses
Learn More:
- NRCS-Idaho Cheatgrass Challenge
- Publication Alert: Defend the Core: Maintaining intact rangelands by reducing vulnerability to invasive annual grasses
- Publication Alert: A geographical strategy for cross-jurisdictional proactive management of invasive annual grasses in Oregon
- Defend the Core: Fighting back against rangeland invaders in sagebrush country