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The Sagebrush Sea, also called the sagebrush steppe, is an ecosystem of the Great Basin that is primarily centered on the 27 species of sagebrush that grow from sea level to about 12,000 feet. This ecosystem is home to hundreds of species of both fauna and flora.
The Nevada Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR) is a Nevada state agency that focuses on the preservation and management of Nevada’s natural, cultural, and recreational resources. [1] The current director is James Settelmeyer. [2] The agency is headquartered in Carson City, Nevada. [3]
Meadows surrounded by sagebrush may be used as feeding grounds. [6] Use of meadows with a crown cover of silver sagebrush is especially important in Nevada during the summer. [7] Greater sage-grouse occur throughout the range of big sagebrush (A. tridentata), except on the periphery of big sagebrush distribution. [8]
Interior Secretary Deb Haaland on Thursday announced $9 million for 40 projects in Idaho and seven other Western states for sagebrush ecosystems to combat invasive species and wildfire, reduce the ...
The western and eastern Sierra Nevada have substantially different species of plants and animals, because the east lies in the rain shadow of the crest. The plants and animals in the east are thus adapted to much drier conditions. [4] The altitudes listed for the biotic zones are for the central Sierra Nevada.
Artemisia tridentata, commonly called big sagebrush, [2] Great Basin sagebrush [2] or simply sagebrush (one of several related species of this name), is an aromatic shrub from the family Asteraceae. It grows in arid and semi-arid conditions, throughout a range of cold desert , steppe , and mountain habitats in the Intermountain West of North ...
Sagebrush steppe with Artemisia tridentata, of the Great Basin region in Owyhee County, Idaho. Sagebrush steppe also known as the sagebrush sea, is a type of shrub-steppe, a plant community characterized by the presence of shrubs, and usually dominated by sagebrush, any of several species in the genus Artemisia. [1]
The Great Basin Desert is part of the Great Basin between the Sierra Nevada and the Wasatch Range.The desert is a geographical region that largely overlaps the Great Basin shrub steppe defined by the World Wildlife Fund, and the Central Basin and Range ecoregion defined by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and United States Geological Survey.