Cheat grass fires are burning wildlife winter browse up to higher altitudes

Evidence

These prickly awns cover the autumn hills with a yellow blanket as inflammable as cotton-wool. It is impossible fully to protect cheat country from fire. As a consequence, the remnants of good browse plants, such as sagebrush and bitterbrush, are being burned back to higher altitudes, where they are less useful as winter forage. The lower fringes of pine timber, needed as winter cover for deer and birds, are likewise being singed back to higher levels. — Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac, 553

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Overgrazing caused cheat to replace native grasses on foothill rangeland — Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac: With Other…, 551

Broader Connections

• Overgrazing caused cheat to replace native grasses on foothill rangeland #qualifies (0.80) — Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac, 551