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 ...

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 ...

Sagebrush, that iconic low bush you see in growing wild throughout the West, may look unremarkable. But it’s an environmental powerhouse. Sagebrush, which makes up the largest interconnected habitat ...

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 ...

The Bureau of Land Management completed this spring large-scale aerial sagebrush seeding across more than 8,100 acres of public lands south of Red Lodge to restore wildlife habitat impacted by the ...

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With changes occurring in both the sagebrush landscapes and human populations in Idaho, members of the GEM3 Stakeholder Advisory Groups (SAGs) have identified a need to bridge the gap in the ...

Sagebrush engaged in self-recognition and communicate danger to their "clones" or genetically identical cuttings planted nearby, researchers show. To thine own self be true” may take on a new ...

In March, government scientists released two sobering reports about the status of the sagebrush steppe — a 160-million-acre landscape covering portions of 14 western states. According to the U.S.