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Noyes has been working more than a decade to eradicate nonnative plants such as thistle and Scotch broom from her property and replace them with wildlife-friendly prairie and savanna vegetation.

“The preserve is a pretty remarkable success story in restoration — being transformed from a Scotch broom field to a largely Native camas prairie,” said Sanders Freed, restoration manager for the Bureau of Land Management.

Scotch broom, with its vivid sweet pea-shaped yellow flowers, forms dense stands of brush.

Many of those weedy species are also invasive, including Scotch broom, dandelions, Himalayan blackberry and Japanese knotweed, among others.

Some common but non-native plants - including eucalyptus trees, cheatgrass and pernicious shrubs such as French and Scotch broom - burn more readily than native species.