Sentences with phrase «high sagebrush»

The Western is more of a forest bird, the Mountain more partial to open habitats: high sagebrush desert, mountain meadows, and even alpine tundra.

This road trip through lush mountain scenery and high sagebrush flats is highlighted by a visit to a very pretty alpine lake.

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Chambers et al. (2007) predict that the high flammability of this winter annual weed will increase wildfire frequency and thereby transform large areas of sagebrush steppe from perennial shrub to annual grass dominance decreasing the land's forage utility.

This is western country, and the dryness of the climate and sagebrush, not to mention lightning strikes in higher elevations, add to the possibility of fire.

About 100 miles south in California's high desert, get hitched in a real - life ghost town at Bodie State Historic Park, with sagebrush scented winds fluttering your veil.

Mornings in Red Rock Conservation Area may be chilly between January and March, but daytime highs during this time average between 14 - 21 degrees Celsius (58 - 70 degrees Fahrenheit), making it the most pleasant time of year to enjoy a stroll amongst the desert sagebrush, rusty rocks and towering cliffs and peaks.

Given current emissions trajectories, there is a chance that the temperature increase by 2100 could be near 6oC.21 The last time Earth exhibited a global mean temperature that high, what are now sagebrush grasslands in the southwestern Wyoming and Utah were covered by subtropical, closed canopy forests interspersed with open woodlands (Townsend et al., 2010), reminiscent of subtropical areas in Central America today.

Here the Ponderosa Pine forest transitions into the high desert, characterized by arid land, junipers, sagebrush, and bitter - brush.