What does a beautiful mountain valley have to lose if the invasive plant cheatgrass takes hold? Meet the Gunnison sage-grouse, a threatened species of bird that lives almost entirely in Colorado's Gunnison Valley.

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Episode 1: Of sage and sage-grouse

What's a beautiful mountain valley to do when an invasive plant takes hold? Cheatgrass, an exotic grass from Eurasia, has overrun millions of acres in the American West. This show explores a place on the front lines of the invasion--the Gunnison Valley of Colorado. We meet the people defending the valley from cheatgrass and fighting to save an endangered species from extinction.

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