Overgrazing caused cheat to replace native grasses on foothill rangeland

Evidence

The cause of the substitution is overgrazing. When the too-great herds and flocks chewed and trampled the hide off the foothills, something had to cover the raw eroding earth. Cheat did. — Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac, 551

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Ecological invaders succeed one another in chains driven by land-use change — Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac: With Other…, 546; Livestock overgrazing can silently convert vast rangeland to a new weed — Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac: With Other…, 548; Cheat grass both enables the erosion its presence is blamed for preventing — Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac: With Other…, 557 (+1 more)