Pale tan cheatgrass dominating sagebrush and seedings. BLM seedings and millions of dollars of fire rehab. projects designed for cattle have greatly destroyed and fragmented sagebrush habitats. In the 1960s and 70s, BLM burned, sprayed and plowed sagebrush to plant crested wheatgrass (a soil-depleting Asian grass) for livestock forage. As large fires swept the increasingly weedy and heavily stocked lands of the Jarbidge in recent decades BLM continued to plant Asian grasses as fire rehab. and then stocked lands more heavily with cattle. These high cattle numbers have caused cheatgrass and now noxious weeds to expand and choke out understories in native plant communities and infested the seedings too!