` Ahhh, it’s May. Which reminds me of how growing grass and fighting to keep it green in the West is as logical as cultivating sage in swamps of Mississippi. I think Cristina Milesi would agree. She went looking for data on how much of this country’s terrain is decked out unnaturally in close-cropped green but found nothing. So, by using the U.S. Geological Survey’s National Land Cover Database and NASA’s satellite information, Cristina and fellow researchers, beginning in 2003, painstakingly extrapolated... read more
