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It’s been called The Big Empty – an immense sea of sagebrush that once stretched 500,000 square miles across North America, exasperating thousands of westward-bound travelers as an endless place ...

Editor’s note: The following article is reproduced with permission of Yale Environment 360, a publication of the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. For more on the plight of the sage ...

Sagebrush reduction strategies, including mowing and herbicide application, are often employed to enhance habitat for the greater sage grouse and other sagebrush-dependent species. Efforts to improve ...

Efforts to enhance wildlife habitat by controlling vegetation could actually cause more harm than good. Wyoming big sagebrush is often manipulated to decrease its density and encourage the growth of ...

The Elk Mountains displayed bright colors on a frosty morning in early October. The sky was blue, the air was clear, and aspen displayed their full range of fall foliage colors. The rising sun's light ...

Natural gas extraction and field development are pervasive throughout the sagebrush steppe of Wyoming. We conducted this study to determine how roads associated with natural gas extraction affect the ...