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Seen, Livestock Producer and People's Partner for Community Development (PPCD) Community Facilitator Peggy Fredericks is meeting with U.S. Department of Agriculture, USDA, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, APHIS, Plant Protection and Quarantine, PPQ, Montana State Plant Health Director Gary Adams, on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation, in Southeastern, MT, on July 16, 2021. The Cheyenne lease rangeland to ranchers to graze their cattle. For several years there has been a pest problem with grasshoppers. Fredericks said that there were so many that the ground would just hop. The plants were eaten down to just a stub. Last year, USDA APHIS PPQ was contacted for assistance. Adams was able to assist them in getting funding to suppress the grasshopper population that was eating away their forage plants. She says that they (USDA) got right on it, and approximately 50,000 acres of land were suppressed in a timely fashion. With APHIS's help, the natural rangeland plants grew back, and lease operations continue. Because suppression was applied early, the grasshoppers were not able to mate and lay eggs, which greatly reduces the population for some more years. Suppression was kept away from residential areas, cropland, bodies of water, waterways, and any area that might produce health and safety concerns. Bees, butterflies, and similar insects are not significantly affected by the suppression. Adams says we intend to keep the stewards of the land, on the land. Especially our Tribal partners.