Among the other new small champions you may recognize are the Texas redbud, yellow paloverde, mountain-laurel, and big sagebrush. |
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Wildlife species that rely on native grasslands and sagebrush habitat have experienced considerable change. |
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The first home I made west of Lake Michigan was in central Arizona, tucked between low hills and covered in Ponderosa pine and sagebrush. |
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Milligan dragged himself through sagebrush, cactus and rocks, tearing what little skin he had left on his right arm and backside. |
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Cheatgrass, sagebrush, manzanita, and ponderosa pine are all part of the volatile ground fuels mix that surrounds the fast-growing city. |
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The greater sage-grouse is all about the sagebrush, an aromatic, woody shrub with silvery leaves. |
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The nest is usually located in or under big sagebrush or three-tip sage plants. |
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Almost all of these are away from major rivers, dry creeks, and sagebrush flats, where recent sediments tend to cover the older rocks. |
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Dominant features of the refuge include freshwater marshes, lakes, meadows, alkali flats, rimrocks, and sagebrush and juniper uplands. |
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After this the paving ends and I follow a dirt track through pine trees and sagebrush. |
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The garden is situated on the undeveloped edge of a large city park, among the muted tones of sagebrush, oak and eucalyptus. |
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I made an unusually gentle landing for a person of my size in a wild patch of sagebrush on the top of huge knoll. |
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Bitterbrush, sagebrush, and rabbitbrush predominate in a mosaic where patches of blackbrush and mormon tea are common. |
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Elsewhere, disappearing rabbits can signal declining health of grassland and sagebrush ecosystems. |
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Wide open spaces beckon hikers to the slopes of Peavine Mountain, where jackrabbits and aromatic sagebrush still thrive. |
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Next to a dry wash off County Road 4955, the current Velasquez spread rises out of the red earth and sagebrush. |
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But only the tumbleweeds, sagebrush and cactus, that stood like splintered sentries, were visible in this vast wilderness. |
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Sideoats grama, buffalo grass, sagebrush, yucca and prickly pear cactus are also common on the canyon floor and walls. |
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On the east side of the river are scattered pastures and farm houses, and on the west side is an old lava flow covered with sagebrush. |
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In summer months they eat cacti, sagebrush, mesquite, alfalfa, clover, other grasses, and herbaceous vegetation. |
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To really appreciate the area, hike above the treeline on a mountain slope where you can see sagebrush and several other alpine flowers. |
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Black-throated Sparrows use a variety of dry, open, grassy or shrubby habitats, including sagebrush and creosote bush deserts. |
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Other common plants are brittlebush, California sagebrush, several wildflowers in the aster family, and a wild four-o'clock. |
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They also typically wore animal-skin moccasins sometimes ankle high or woven yucca or sagebrush bark sandals on their feet. |
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We reached the summit, hunkered below the skyline and began glassing the open swoops and dips of sagebrush terrain. |
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Botanical species in this ancient ecosystem included sagebrush, bluegrass, sedges, and herbs. |
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Left to itself, it would be sagebrush and cactus, but American capital and hydro-engineering wizardry have made it greener than wet Seattle. |
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We're parked atop a vertigo-inducing earthen dam in the San Juan Basin, in northwestern New Mexico's arid sandstone and sagebrush country. |
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Blacktail Deer Creek is a third-order montane stream with a narrow, well-defined riparian area bounded by sagebrush and open forest uplands. |
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The thin mantle of soil and quartzitic gravel is vegetated with ubiquitous sagebrush typical of the high desert in northeastern Nevada. |
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It has achieved dominant status on tens of millions of hectares of former cold desert shrubland and sagebrush steppe vegetation. |
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Depending on their location, sagebrush lizards are saxicolous, arboreal, or generalize among different habitat types including sand dunes. |
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From base camp with vans in the rugged Smoke Creek Desert north of Reno, we will day-hike in these sweeping expanses of sagebrush and juniper. |
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Although there is some overlap, dialect regions are generally separated by tracts of mostly unused sagebrush or forested areas. |
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It faces imminent extinction resulting from disturbances to its sagebrush habitat, disease, predation, and loss of genetic diversity. |
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Just as impressive is its surrounding 90,000 acres of upland sagebrush steppe, which once predominated in the Columbia Basin. |
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It should ride on many a hip traveling over sagebrush covered deserts, into the foothills, through timbered areas and on to mountain tops. |
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He strolled from the hotel across a vacant field of cactus and sagebrush, shooting snakes and beer cans as he made his way. |
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Across much of its range, the Gray Flycatcher prefers sagebrush and juniper. |
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Vegetation consists predominantly of big sagebrush, little sagebrush, rabbitbrush, snowberry, bluebunch wheatgrass, Idaho fescue, and squirreltail grass. |
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During spring, the heifers grazed crested wheatgrass and native sagebrush. |
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The sagebrush and yucca plants made the groups course jagged. |
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American Kestrels are found in a wide variety of open habitats, among them agricultural areas, grasslands, sagebrush, shrub-steppe, steppe, and dry forest zones. |
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The scientific name of fringed sagebrush is Artemisia frigida Willd. |
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As a resident of the chaparral biome, sagebrush could come to dominate the habitat. |
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The desert hereabouts was hillocky, with bushes like sagebrush dotted around. |
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This is cowboy country, an almost-desert unique in Canada, where cactus, sagebrush, bitterroot, bitterbush and other species thrive. |
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The arid eastern slopes support sagebrush, bitterbrush, juniper, piñon pine, and aspen. |
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The result is ground cover comprising mainly small oaks, manzanitas, lilacs, sumacs, buckwheat and sagebrush. |
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There are several kinds of ecosystem: alpine tundra, dense conifer forests, dry sagebrush and grasslands. |
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Working with ranchers to establish grazing methods that protect sagebrush habitats is a priority for the conservation of Greater Sage-Grouse. |
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In the deepest valleys where the rainshadow effect is strongest is a mosaic of open ponderosa pine forests, sagebrush and bunchgrass. |
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Habits: This skipper is found in virtually every kind of open habitat, including sagebrush and woodland clearings. |
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Habits: This butterfly tends to stick close to the foodplant in its sagebrush and meadow habitats on the tops of low hills. |
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This species of vole is strongly tied with sagebrush and is found on well-managed sagebrush-wheat grass rangeland. |
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Habits: This is a butterfly of sagebrush habitats on hillsides and in canyons. |
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Plant communities thrive there, from ribbons of riparian plants to sagebrush fiats, lodgepole pine forests, subalpine meadows and alpine stone fields. |
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Behind the new factory for a third of a mile workmen leveled off sagebrush and tumbleweeds for a landing strip just 2.5 times as wide as the Vega's wing span. |
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Forested slopes of lodgepole pine and subalpine fir give way to aspen-clad foothills and rolling sagebrush steppes that have the spongy look of muskeg, but two shades lighter. |
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Valley after valley floats a handful of cottonwood and aspen trees in a dry ocean of sagebrush, the pale gray green running out the flats and over the hills. |
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They appear to prefer areas dominated by sagebrush or bitterbrush, with native grasses intermixed, generally avoiding cheatgrass-dominated landscapes. |
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Because less than 3 percent of the entire sagebrush habitat is protected in parks or reserves, the resources in almost all sagebrush ecosystems are heavily used. |
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Deep gorges slice through the Canyonlands' vast sagebrush steppe, which supports one of the largest concentrations of California bighorn sheep in the West. |
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They inhabit dense forests, open sagebrush country, and alpine parklands. |
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Habits: This tends to be a butterfly of mountain canyons, meadows, and sagebrush areas in Canada. |
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The undergrowth is a circus of sagebrush, rabbit bush, cacti and Indian rice grass, to name but a few of the hardy residents who thrive in this rugged mountain landscape. |
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They usually are surrounded by big sagebrush, native bunchgrasses, wildflowers, mosses, and lichens. |
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Typical habitat is open or semiopen grasslands, as well as sagebrush, semiarid lands, and scrublands. |
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Leaning against the table are waist-high burlap sacks containing sagebrush, ceanothus, and bitterbrush seeds. |
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The trail begins by a message board on the right in a high desert landscape of sagebrush, juniper trees, bitterbrush and bunchgrass. |
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Natural vegetation of tall, mixed, and short grasses with sagebrush gives way northward to aspen-poplar parkland, then to slow-growing open spruce forests. |
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Its primary food source and shelter is sagebrush. |
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As she had done previously for pine and fir, Erica measured the force needed to bend sagebrush branches at subzero temperatures. |
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The team clipped sagebrush shrubs in a way that copied the behaviour of herbivores eating leaves. |
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For instance, southern varieties of Californian sagebrush, a fragrant grey-green shrub found on coastal hillsides, are expected to adjust to climate change better than many other plants. |
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Hitching his horse to a fence, the boy climbed aboard and began pumping his way down the track, past the scrub of sagebrush and greasewood, down a grade to the base of a narrow pass. |
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But Jack Weil did. Mr Weil reckoned that a cowboy on a horse, if wearing a shirt with buttons, was liable to get snagged on sagebrush or cactus or, worse than that, get a steerhorn straight through his fancy buttonhole. |
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Examples include wormwood, sagebrush, and tarragon. |
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Following the juniper removal, the Scanlans observed resprouting of sagebrush and an increase in the density of native bunchgrasses. |
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Native bunchgrass response to prescribed fire in ungrazed mountain big sagebrush ecosystems. |
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Rambouillet sheep prefer mountain big sagebrush over many other types of rangeland plants, ARS researchers have found. |
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More than half of all sagebrush lands have been lost, resulting in a 95 percent reduction in greater sage-grouse populations. |
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The sagebrush vole has a single pair of incisors in each jaw. |
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More moist sites are characterized by Douglas Fir, and water and paper birches, while the dry southern interior is devoid of trees and dominated instead by big sagebrush, rabbit-brush and antelope-brush. |
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Other plants found on the control sites include soapweed, sand sagebrush, and prickly pear cactus. |
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Only the sagebrush, the road, and the dusty blueberried spruce for miles and the sun pricking the sand. |
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It also lacks the pungent aroma of sagebrush, instead imparting only a subtle currylike smell to the air. |
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What he painted was scenes of the Old West, cowboys and Indians, cattle and horses. Pictures scraggly with sagebrush. |
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The sagebrush and mugwort season can start from the third week of July to early August and end late September to early October with low counts observed. |
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Valley bottoms support open stands of Douglas-fir and pine grass or parklands of scattered ponderosa pine in a matrix of bluebunch wheat grass and sagebrush. |
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Craters encompasses everything from volcanic splatter cones, cinder cones, and lava bombs to sagebrush steppe and the steep foothills of the Pioneer Mountains. |
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