Tumbleweeds

Residents in Great Falls, Montana are being invaded — not by tourists, but by tumbleweeds.

According to the Natural History Museum, tumbleweeds are native to dry and semi-dry regions in Europe and Central Asia and “accidentally” arrived in South Dakota in 1870, in a shipment of flax seeds from Russia.

That was a smart safety move, Mr. Thorson said, but also one that left the tumbleweeds, which would normally roll out onto the desert, with no way off the road.

Thorson says five cars and one 18-wheel semi truck were trapped in the tumbleweeds.

Utah’s Tumbleweeds Film Festival is now offering films online for $6.

Over its three days, Tumbleweeds showcases a program of features, short films, animation and documentaries for and about young people.

Texas isn't the barren wasteland, full of cowboys and tumbleweeds, that Hollywood portrays.

The cost to remediate the land to a natural state not involving tons of tumbleweeds would run well into eight figures, according Mayor Gregg Hull.

An hour from Vegas, past rolling brown hills and more than a few tumbleweeds, you’ll find Spring Mountain Motor Resort and Country Club.

The weeds and brush were high including nasty thorny tumbleweeds.