Sentences with phrase «of sagebrush»

Just south of Sagebrush Drive in Fairway Estates is a stone and timber framed home on three acres, sited to take advantage of unobstructed views of the entire Teton Range, and the Sleeping Indian across the valley.

Yellowstone's northern range of sagebrush - grasslands and bison, elk, wolf, and bear inhabitants is founded on glacial moraines, sub-glacial till, and outwash deposited during the last glaciation.

Wilson looks up close at rock faces and vegetation, from New England to the country of sagebrush and salt flats.

Monarch Beach is named after its most prominent geological feature «Monarch Bay» aptly named as its rolling hills of Sagebrush and Manzanita were once a breeding ground for the Monarch Butterfly.

The overall impression it left was of a sunken prairie, with the sea rods and the bushy and feathery black corals playing the role of sagebrush.

Find a thick group of sagebrush or another cover that is common to where you will be hunting.

This chameleon fancies himself an actor, and so before the town does him in, he launches into his newest creation, Rango, a legendary gunfighter and hero of the sagebrush.

Gaucho Serenade, a Gene Autry vehicle, is not so much a western with music as a musical with a just a pinch of the sagebrush.

TV: 2007 reboot of Bionic Woman — Volume One (don't hold your breath for a Volume Two), an ABC Family Channel series Greek: Chapter One, and The Wild Wild West: The Fourth Season, the final season of the sagebrush secret service adventure starring Robert Conrad and Ross Martin.

WILD DESERT SAGE / artemisia tridentata POWERFUL ANTIOXIDANT + RICH IN VITAMIN C The foliage of sagebrush is rich in Artimitin, a powerful disinfectant and antiseptic rich in Vitamin C.

The greater sage - grouse is an umbrella species, emblematic of the health of sagebrush habitat it shares with more than 350 other kinds of wildlife, including world - class populations of mule deer, elk, pronghorn, and golden eagles.

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.

• Selected areas dominated by contiguous stands of sagebrush.

«Researcher studies increased predation of sagebrush songbirds in natural gas fields.»

But in the heated plot, the biomass of sagebrush was 10 per cent greater than that of the forbs.

In the summer of 1993, for instance, the biomass of forbs was three times that of sagebrush in the unheated meadowland.

This means that the number of sagebrush plants will increase still further as older plants die off and are replaced by new seedlings.

He broke ground out of sagebrush using teams of horses and helped to dig early irrigation canals in the area.

Not exact matches

Consider as well the so - called «sagebrush rebellions» against federal control of vast areas of the western U.S — a revolt that gave birth to many threats and acts of violence directed at Park Service personnel.

Although the land was full of rocks and sagebrush at first, the Auvil brothers cleared it and soon had a thriving orchard of apples and apricots.

Howard Zenimura, one of Kenichi's sons, was there the day they began clearing away sagebrush from the desert floor.

Between 1.6 million and 16 million sage - grouse populated the sagebrush plains of 13 U.S. states and three Canadian provinces in the 19th century, but their populations today are estimated between 100,000 and 500,000.

The established umbrella reserve, a sagebrush - steppe ecosystem in Wyoming, protected 82 percent of the state's greater sage grouse population and 0 - 63 percent of the habitat of the background species studied.

«Certainly, as a result of that, it has resulted in a lot less loss and fragmentation of Wyoming's sagebrush habitat.»

Experiments in 2014 on sagebrush showed some plants spoke a language dominated by camphor compounds, while others emitted more thujone, coincidentally the same chemical suspected to be responsible for the hallucinogenic effects of absinthe.

The great Sonoran Desert stretches from deep in Mexico to the middle of Arizona, a dun landscape dotted with 20 - foot - tall saguaro cacti and scraggly sagebrush.

I always say, just imagine filming The Sound of Music outside of Elko, Nevada, where it's just dry, arid lands covered with sagebrush,» says Harte.

Anna Chalfoun, a University of Wyoming associate professor in the Department of Zoology and Physiology, and assistant unit leader of the Wyoming Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Unit, and her graduate students have been studying and collecting data about three species — the Brewer's sparrow, sagebrush sparrow and sage thrasher — in Wyoming for seven years.

«Increases in Common Raven distribution and abundance in the American west mirror declines in distribution and abundance of Greater Sage - Grouse, where energy transmission corridors and other land use changes have altered sagebrush steppe habitat,» said David Delehanty of ISU.

The scientists believe that in contrast to continuous sagebrush stands, edges enable the ravens to more readily detect prey and depredate nests of other bird species.

A new study by the Wildlife Conservation Society, Idaho State University and the U.S. Geological Survey suggests that habitat fragmentation and the addition of makeshift perches such as transmission polls in sagebrush ecosystems are creating preferred habitat for common ravens that threaten sensitive native bird species, including greater sage grouse.

The study, «Landscape alterations influence differential habitat use of nesting Buteos and ravens within sagebrush ecosystem: Implications for transmission line development,» will appear in the August 2014 print issue of the journal The Condor.

«Raven populations have increased precipitously in the past four decades in sagebrush ecosystems, largely as a result of fragmentation and development of anthropogenic structures.

Conservationists say some 16 million sage grouse went from nearly blacking out the sun when they took wing over the sprawling western sagebrush to being nearly blacked out by the destruction of their habitat.

Sagebrush supports deer, elk, songbirds and a range of other species that have existed for centuries, and states currently rely on them for hunting and tourism.

The health of sage grouse population reflects the overall health of the bird's 165 - million - acre sagebrush habitat.

Protecting the greater sage grouse benefits a host of other species that depend on the Sagebrush Sea, including pronghorn, elk, mule deer, golden eagle, native trout and nearly 200 migratory and resident bird species.

In the last few years, I've focused on the impacts of noise from oil and gas development on arthropod and bird communities, and the cascading effects on sagebrush physiology.

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Charley's quest carries him from a horse - racing track in Portland, through the sagebrush of the Oregon desert, to the city streets of Denver, his sole companion the stolen racehorse Lean on Pete.

Secondarily, looking at the backdrop with the brown dirt and sagebrush, I couldn't help but be reminded of a western.

After Del's ancient truck breaks down, cinematographer Magnus Nordenhof Jønck («A War») keeps us close to the sagebrush and flatlands of Eastern Oregon as the boy and his horse (to whom he confides his innermost thoughts) travel together on foot, coming into contact with both the hard working underclass of American society and the dregs who prey on the innocent and trusting.

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.

«Now there's an interesting sight,» DeLoy declares, sizing up the wreckage of a television satellite dish behind some sagebrush off the side of the road.

Exhilarated by her newfound passion for archeology, Catherine Lemay is left feeling deflated when she's assigned to a dig in the sprawling sagebrush of 1950s Montana.

(Chicago) The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), the fastest growing division of the American Library Association (ALA), is pleased to announce that Joanna Peled has won the 2007 YALSA / Sagebrush Award for a Young Adult Reading or Literature Program.

The Nevada portion of the route, dubbed «The Loneliest Road in America» by travel writers and tourist boards, is one of the most compelling long - distance drives in the country — provided you find miles and miles of little more than mountains, sagebrush, and blue sky compelling.

A small flock of sage grouse, partially camouflaged by the sagebrush, waited patiently for us to pass by, sometimes spooked by the enormous steel cage on wheels that made our trip possible.

Talking of the event, Sagebrush Community ChurchÂ's Missions Director, Meredith Nohviay Melton said that they wanted to build a strong relationship in the community so people know they can rely on the group for support and aid.

The destruction of this sparrow's sagebrush and coreopsis nesting habitat and the presence of feral cats led to the extinction of this species in the 1960s.