TUCSON, Ariz. (13 News) – Buffelgrass is the biggest threat to our ecosystem in southern Arizona and the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum has been working for years to remove it.
Now, the museum is taking a new approach to removing it in an effort to improve our ecosystem and prevent the spread of wildfires.
One of the only ways to remove buffelgrass is to pull it out of the ground, and because it’s too hot in the summer for volunteer groups to pull the grass by hand, the Desert Museum has turned to sheep…