Driving question

Driving Question:What should be done to help biodiversity in the Shrub Steppe?People should start helping in the shrub steppe. The animals are going extinct and many plants are dying off.

People need to help with the animals breeding so they can have babys. And also plant all kinds of plants. All the animals that live in the shrub steppe arent getting their healthy food because of all of the invasive species like the cheat grass. The cheat grass isent a good food that the animals get to eat.

I want to help because I went out to the shrub steppe feild, and did not see one single animal. I have watched a video on the shrub steppe and it said that the Pygmi Rabbit(Native animal to the shrub steppe) has gone extinct. It also said that the Sage Grouse(Another native animal to the shrub steppe) has become very close to extinction. The Sage Grouse is a very endangered animal.

 In the shrub steppe it's very dry and dead. A lot of the plants in the shrub steppe look dead and dried out but, they really are not. The invasive species I was talking about earlier such as Cheat grass, and cows, fill the shrub steppe land! The Cheat grass is all over the place and nearly imposible to get rid of. The cows belong to the farmers and the farmers are not going to give up their lifestock because they need that to sell, and to eat.

One thing that will really help the shrub steppe grow back, is if the farmers moved away, and did not bring all these invasive species to the shrub steppe. If they moved away from the shrub steppe, The shrub steppe can grow back properly. The Shrub Steppe used to be half the size of Washington State. Now... the Shrub steppe is only about 10% left of it in Washtington State.

The Farmers have brought many invasive speices like cattle, corn, beans and cheat grass. Biodiversity has happened before in different areas back in time. It has happened in the Amizon Rainforest.