Iconic Old West tumbleweeds roll in and blanket parts of suburban Salt Lake City
Iconic Old West tumbleweeds roll in and blanket parts of suburban Salt Lake City
Tumbleweeds, the gnarled icon of the Old West, rolled in over the weekend and kept rolling until blanketing some homes and streets in suburban Salt Lake City.
The gnarled icon of the Old West — ominously featured in movies as gunslingers square off on dusty streets and townsfolk shake behind curtained windows — rolled in over the weekend and kept rolling until blanketing some homes and streets in suburban Salt Lake City.
Crews on Tuesday continued to plow, load and haul carcasses of twisted and dried tumbleweeds from neighborhoods in South Jordan, Utah, four days after scores of the beachball-sized plants were bounced in by heavy winds.
“People woke up Saturday morning and it looked like these huge walls had been erected made of tumbleweed,” said Dawn Ramsey, South Jordan’s mayor. “We had entire streets in some of our neighborhoods completely blocked. They wrapped around homes.”
Alternative headline: Invasive Plant Species Becomes Unmanageable.
No, tumbleweeds are native to that area.
Nope. They come from Russia.
Salsola tragus is native to Eurasia and invasive in the US.
https://rivrlab.msi.ucsb.edu/invasive-species/russian-thistle
I learned recently that there were no tumbleweed in the old west. They didn't arrive to the American West until the 1870s. All the old western movies were made after that.
Relevant CPG Grey
It’s a good start! Keep em coming