Mule deer could lose half their northeast Wyoming habitat to cheatgrass without help

Mule deer could lose half their northeast Wyoming habitat to cheatgrass without help

When thin shoots of cheatgrass are the first plants to green up in the spring, mule deer might nibble the tops like any of us might idly crunch last week’s pretzels still sitting on our office desks.  Come early summer, though, that same cheatgrass turns into brown, leggy strands. At that point, mule deer want to eat it as much as we want to consume the cardboard box containing those stale pretzels. They just won’t do it.  In fact, they dislike …