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Grazing Animals Help Spread Plant Disease

Wednesday, December 31st, 2008

Researchers have discovered that grazing animals including deer and rabbits are actually helping to spread plant disease – quadrupling its prevalence in some cases – and encouraging an invasion of annual grasses that threatens more than 20 million acres of native grasslands in California. Click here to read the full article.