Somebody had shown me years ago when you throw a drop of water on a cheat grass seed,

it expands immediately and it has these little spikes that come out which allow it to grip into any

imperfection in the surface of the soil or rock.

Whoa, dude.

It's can become a desolate, more desolate landscape than what was there before and it's a silent desolate landscape because people a lot of times don't realize why are they're not as much wildlife as there used to be. It's the same amount of acres out there.

It's a different plant that doesn't support a huge ecosystem. Your diversity's gone and your

nutrition and eating plants is gone.

It's an incredible thing to walk through this

after doing the helicopter treatments and go,

this used to have cheat grass everywhere.

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