Invasive Plants Encourage Wildfires, with Negative Human and Ecological Consequences
Thursday, September 15, 2011 - 15:00
in Biology & Nature
The past decade has seen 77,951 fires burn about 6.7 million acres in the United States. One condition that facilitates the spread of wildfires is invasive plant species. Nonnative weeds can modify the vegetation of a landscape and provide a source of fuel that did not previously exist.