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World Issues Forum

Date: 
04/15/2009 - 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Location: 
Fairhaven Auditorium, WWU, Bellingham

Exotic Grass Invasions and Altered Wildfire Regimes

Prof. Julio Betancourt, Geography & Regional Development Senior Scientist with the National Research Program. Large-scale invasions by Eurasian and African grasses, brought in by chance or to feed cattle and control erosion, have introduced frequent and extensive fires into American deserts that supported little or no burning in the pre-European era. Part of the World Issues Forum series
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