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The large fire, first reported on Sept. 28, is roughly 407 acres, burning salt cedar and mesquite in the Salt River bottom.
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Helen Rummel, The Arizona Republic, 30 Sep. 2024
Back then the riverside stretching north from downtown Yuma and the Yuma Crossing National Heritage Area was clogged with nonnative tamarisks, also known as salt cedars, and reeds.
—Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 30 June 2023
Areas that were once rich in biodiversity are now overrun by salt cedar, an invasive plant that sucks up any excess water that flows downstream or that falls from the sky.
—Jake Frederico, The Arizona Republic, 30 June 2023
Invasive salt cedar sprouts wildly along the path, sucking up precipitation that falls during the monsoon.
—Jake Frederico, The Arizona Republic, 30 June 2023
The river bed — a dry wash with small water pools in many sections — has widened and has plenty of invasive salt cedar, also called tamarisk.
—The Arizona Republic, 30 June 2023
Even salt cedar, an invasive and drought-tolerant species, is beginning to dry up and die along the former riparian areas of the river.
—Jake Frederico, The Arizona Republic, 13 Mar. 2023
Ron holds up a salt cedar specimen.
—Sonya Bennett-Brandt, WIRED, 22 Dec. 2022
Crews also are battling a 1.5 square mile (404 hectares) wildfire in rugged terrain four miles east of Bartlett Lake in the Tonto National Forest and a .23 square mile (59 hectares) wildfire in Florence that is burning in salt cedar along the Gila River.
—Fox News, 11 May 2021
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Helen Rummel, The Arizona Republic, 30 Sep. 2024
Back then the riverside stretching north from downtown Yuma and the Yuma Crossing National Heritage Area was clogged with nonnative tamarisks, also known as salt cedars, and reeds.
—Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 30 June 2023
Areas that were once rich in biodiversity are now overrun by salt cedar, an invasive plant that sucks up any excess water that flows downstream or that falls from the sky.
—Jake Frederico, The Arizona Republic, 30 June 2023
Invasive salt cedar sprouts wildly along the path, sucking up precipitation that falls during the monsoon.
—Jake Frederico, The Arizona Republic, 30 June 2023
The river bed — a dry wash with small water pools in many sections — has widened and has plenty of invasive salt cedar, also called tamarisk.
—The Arizona Republic, 30 June 2023
Even salt cedar, an invasive and drought-tolerant species, is beginning to dry up and die along the former riparian areas of the river.
—Jake Frederico, The Arizona Republic, 13 Mar. 2023
Ron holds up a salt cedar specimen.
—Sonya Bennett-Brandt, WIRED, 22 Dec. 2022
Crews also are battling a 1.5 square mile (404 hectares) wildfire in rugged terrain four miles east of Bartlett Lake in the Tonto National Forest and a .23 square mile (59 hectares) wildfire in Florence that is burning in salt cedar along the Gila River.
—Fox News, 11 May 2021
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“Salt cedar.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/salt%20cedar. Accessed 31 Dec. 2024.
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