Sentences with phrase «sagebrush desert»

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

Lacking competition from other elk species in North America, they spread widely across many habitat types, from Pacific Northwest rain forests to sagebrush deserts.

Not exact matches

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

At the end of the Ice Age, forests and sagebrush steppe gave way to desert shrubland, but the flow of energy — from sunlight to foliage to herbivore and carnivore — remained more or less constant.

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