The Casper Star Tribune highlights an important threat to wildlife habitat – weeds:
The article gives a pretty good indication of the extent to which different weeds threaten wildlife habitat and are an economic scourge – but I will take issue with one statement made in the article :
Native plants have no built-in defense mechanisms against noxious weeds, which spread like a slow wildfire, squeezing out native plants one by one.
This statement is just not true – and it’s a pretty neat thing why it’s not true :
The Wildlife News 