Conservation tactics and management policies can help prevent invasive species from taking over and driving native North American plants to extinction.
Non-native grasses are classified as invasive if they have the following three attributes: These factors give an upper hand, which will allow the invader to outcompete the native plants.
European Cheatgrass invading the North American prairies is an example of a disturbance regime because it burns quickly and is very susceptible to fire.
[5] This is an effective method for the control of invasive grasses but it will take many hours of hard manual labor, which could be costly.
Other options include using multiple approaches at the same time, for example, mowing a specific region of grass land and then using an herbicide to target the invasive.
The ultimate way to control invasive grasses in North America is to prevent them from entering in the first place.