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This first patch of cheapgrass was in Southern British Columbia, Canada, in 1889. But fire spreads it. Every year, it dries to gunpowder, and now land that used to burn every ten years, it burns every year. And the cheapgrass recovers fast. Cheapgrass loves fire. But the native plants, the sagebrush and desert phlox, they don't. And every year it burns, there's more cheapgrass and less anything else. And the deer and antelope that depended on those other plants are gone now. So are the rabbits. So are the hawks and owls that ate the rabbits. The mice starve, so the snakes that ate the mice starve.
- from Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk
- from Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk
