Volunteers are welcome to help Saturday to pull the invasive weed that fuels wildfires deadly to saguaros and other native plants.
Tony Davis Airborne and ground-based herbicide spraying and hand-pulling have shrunk what was once a 5-acre parcel of invasive buffelgrass in Saguaro National Park-West by 50 times over nine years.
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Now, with such a small amount of buffelgrass left,"we're getting kind of close to a knockout punch on this slope," Grissom said, adding that he thinks it will take a couple years more to remove it all. For more information, including driving directions to the area, contact trip leader Frank Staub at 520-260-1400, or [email protected] buffelgrass removals Here's a schedule of some other upcoming buffelgrass"pull" events. This link contains more details on each event: desertmuseum.org/buffelgrass/pullsitelist
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