It may seem, to anyone who has driven long stretches of highway across the West, that there is plenty — maybe even more than enough — sagebrush. Sagebrush once covered 250 million acres of western ...

Research assistants Chelsea Merriman, standing, and Adrian Rus place markers that can be seen from the air in a research plot of sagebrush. Three subspecies of sagebrush, grown from seeds from a ...

Anyone who has spent much time in Nevada knows the state’s official flower is actually a shrub known as Artemisia tridentate—or sagebrush. The scruffy green-gray bush thrives just about everywhere in ...

Efforts to improve sage grouse habitat through conventional management practices may be ineffective -- and even counterproductive -- according to research by University of Wyoming and other scientists ...

For centuries, the Great Basin has been synonymous with sagebrush. In Nevada, its rolling sea of silvery green leaves spreads out as far as the eye can see, disappearing over the horizon. Sagebrush is ...

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 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 ...

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.