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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]
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 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 restoration project removed dams to restore the flow of the river. [17] [full citation needed] [18] The Cooperative Sagebrush Initiative began in 2006 and concluded in 2013. [19] The project united western land users to conserve and restore the sagebrush ecosystem across portions of 11 western states.
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 lowest-elevation biotic zone in the Sierra Nevada is found along the boundary with the Central Valley. [5] This zone, stretching in elevation from 500 to 3,500 feet (150 to 1,070 m), is the foothill woodland zone, an area that is hot and dry in the summer with very little or no snow in the winter. [5]
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]
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 ...