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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.

Episode 4: Bombshell in a bad way

One of the Gunnison Basin's top sage-grouse experts explains why the threatened species has hit a record population low. We look at how the grim grous...
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Episode 2: Cheatgrass and fire

Bored high school students force Sam to eat invasive plants, we meet one of the top cheatgrass scientists in the world and learn why this plant and fi...
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