A Month in the Mountains

It's a time when the weather can change dramatically in a few hours. The blazing green of new grass faced off with warmer than expected temperatures last week and in some places, has already begun to turn brown.

That's a problem in our forest; those brilliant green grasses are mostly a non-native species called cheat grass, which is short-lived, very prolific, and highly flammable. Our native grasses are perrenial, with a thick, clumped rhizome and blades or leaves that resist flame. Sadly, from the five thousand foot elevation down, most of what you'll see is not our lovely natives, but the cheat grass. We'll spend the rest of the season picking its seeds out of our socks and unwittingly hiking those seeds into new areas.

For a sample of all of it...from grasses and streams to snow and lizards and rocks and birds and plants and things, check out the month of April here: https://forest-recovery-projec...

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