America's Billion-Dollar Tree Problem
A Wired article released November 23, 2022, describes how drought-resistant invaders overrun grasslands that wreck animal habitats, suck up water supplies, and cost landowners a fortune. This article is based on the recent paper from NTSG Research Professor Scott Morford titled, "Herbaceous production lost to tree encroachment in United States rangelands," published in the Journal of Applied Ecology in October 2022.