Sentences with word «sagebrush»

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

Researchers compared nesting habitat selection between Common Ravens and three raptor species commonly found in sagebrush ecosystems: Red - tailed Hawks, Swainson's Hawks, and Ferruginous Hawks.

Listen to WildEarth Guardians Sagebrush Sea Campaign Director, Erik Molvar, discuss Deal Renews Controversy Over Sage Grouse Protections on Wyoming Public Media October 10, 2013

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.

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.

The pilot project, developed by the state legislature, aims to protect the greater sage - grouse, a ground - dwelling bird dependent on sagebrush ecosystems in 11 Western states.

These species include avian species; those highly associated with sagebrush plant communities; and those with widespread habitat, the paper says.

«What might be ideal sagebrush for sage grouse might not be right for other species.»

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

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.

Football is an extremely popular sport in Belize, and after San Pedro was host to a football tournament, Sagebrush Community Church has continued to highlight sport with a family football camp.

The deer form a train and wind their way through sagebrush canyons, swim rivers, and dash across roads to reach the mountains.

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.

But the judge in this case found Zokol could not expect the Davis lawyers to keep information obtained through their conversations with him from Sagebrush as the company, and not Zokol, had been the firm's client.

And as sagebrush absorbs more sunlight than the flowering herbs, the landscape will bake hotter still.

It will be the new Sagebrush Church building.

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While the original sagebrush rebellion grew out of conflicts over management of federal lands, often as specific as keeping a forest road open, the new takeover movement owes more to «tea party» politics, with a strong focus on reducing the scope of federal influence and opening land to more users.

If the Earth's temperature rises by 4 °C, flowering subalpine pastures could turn into desert scrubland dominated by sagebrush and other woody shrubs.

A new study by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and Idaho State University (ISU) explored how habitat alterations, including the addition of energy transmission towers, affect avian predators nesting in sagebrush landscapes.

Across the states where bushy sagebrush grows, public officials, helped by conservation groups such as the Nature Conservancy, have cut trees that invaded the once - treeless brush so that hawks and other birds that prey on the sage grouse can't perch on branches, eyeballing hens and chicks for a potential meal.

This former species was split into Bell's Sparrow and Sagebrush Sparrow in 2013.

Sagebrush Gulch features work that tracks the simplicity of social abstraction and cognitive association within minimal form, color and structure.

«For years, the oil industry here has spent millions of dollars battling to prevent the listing of just two rare animals, the lesser prairie chicken and the dunes sagebrush lizard, both by fighting in court and by funding voluntary preservation programs.»

The surge is strong, and sea fans sway like sagebrush on a windy mesa.

But as the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service prepares to determine whether to list the animal as threatened or endangered by Sept. 30 — a designation that 11 states that cover the 165 - million - acre sagebrush habitat oppose — there are questions about the timing of the positive development, and its influence on that decision.

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

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

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 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.

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As a result of unprecedented commitments by private landowners to voluntary conservation agreements now in place in New Mexico and Texas that provide for the long - term conservation of the dunes sagebrush lizard, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has determined that the species does not need to be listed under the Endangered Species Act.

The longtime assumption is that what's good for the grouse is good for any other species living in sagebrush country,» says Jason Carlisle, a Ph.D. student in UW's Program in Ecology from 2011 - 17 who led the study.

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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.

What it does is gives Sagebrush the flexibility it needs to serve when they need to serve.

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In that semi-arid climate, I lived amid sagebrush and dust.

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.

«Made with homegrown sagebrush and juniper berries, our Frey Ranch Gin is truly unique and smells just like a Nevada rainstorm.»

The product begins with three different grains — rye, barley and corn — grown and milled right on the ranch and combined with juniper berries and sagebrush sourced from the ranch.

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

Then, about 12,600 years ago, steppe plants like aromatic sagebrush appeared, followed soon after by animals such as woolly mammoth, bison, and jackrabbits.

Two genetically identical sagebrush plants grown side - by - side fended off herbivores, including caterpillars and grasshoppers, more effectively than did two unrelated plants.