County: Clark

Date: June 3, 2009

Photographer: Catherine Evans/KGS

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Short description: Landowners remove nonnative, invasive saltcedars because they suck up large amounts of water along streams and floodplains, compete with native plants and agricultural crops, and increase the salinity in soil. Saltcedars were brought to the United States from Eurasia in the 1800s as ornamental landscaping plants.

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