SRER

Efforts to control the invasive species buffelgrass are expanding across the city of Tucson. The School of Natural Resources and the Environment is involved at several sites including Tumamoc Hill and the Santa Rita Experimental Range. SNRE research specialist, Travis Bean is orchestrating the removal of buffelgrass from Tumamoc Hill on the west side of Tucson.

We are moving forward with efforts to control buffelgrass on the Santa Rita Experimental Range this year. Those efforts are being financed by the US Fish and Wildlife Service' Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program and the USDA Agricultural Research Service's Southwest Watershed Research Center. Eventually, we will spend a week spraying bufflegrass with glyphosate herbicide in early August 2008 and 2009.

Santa Rita Experimental Range (Santa Rita) is a field station uniquely positioned to support research, education, and outreach in the Southwest. Researchers from around the country are drawn to the Santa Rita.

History: Santa Rita is the longest continuously active rangeland research facility and among the 5 oldest biological field stations in the United States.