RSSGeological study cuts tamarisk a break
This photo of Chinle Wash in Canyon de Chelly National Monument shows the extent to which tamarisk dark green foliage) and Russian olive trees (gray-green foliage) dominate the floodplain. Bands of native Fremont cottonwood (bright green trees) grow on the outer margins.
Tamarisk, a Eurasian transplant that’s taken over riparian areas throughout the West and long been disparaged as a water waster and unfriendly to native wildlife, may be getting a small…
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