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5 unusual facts about sagebrush


Iona, Idaho

Sagebrush, as tall as a man sitting on a horse, covered the now famous potato fields.

Monarch Beach, Dana Point, California

Monarch Beach is named after its most prominent geological feature "Monarch Bay" aptly named as its rolling hills of Sagebrush and Manzanita were once a breeding ground for the Monarch Butterfly.

Omar Blondahl

Omar Blondahl, (6 February 1923 – 11 December 1993), also known as "Sagebrush Sam", was a musician who became fascinated with the largely unrecorded folk songs of Newfoundland, Canada, and became famous for popularizing them.

Riddle Ranch

Sagebrush and Western juniper are common on upland slopes and undeveloped parts of the ranch.

Teton Wilderness

Sagebrush and willows are found in the open fields and along streams.


Battle of Camas Creek

Several warriors continued driving the mules on to camp, and others deployed among hillocks of black lava and broken terrain dotted with Aspen trees and sagebrush.

Blue-eyed Darner

The Blue-eyed Darner is a common dragonfly of the western United States commonly sighted in the sagebrush steppe of the Snake River Plain, occurring east to the Midwest from central Canada and the Dakotas south to west Texas and Oklahoma.

Cleome platycarpa

It is native to the western United States from northeastern California to Idaho, including the Modoc Plateau, where it grows on clay and volcanic soils in the sagebrush.

Delphinium stachydeum

It is native to the Pacific Northwest and Great Basin of the United States, where it grows in sagebrush scrub and along the edges of mountain forest habitat where it meets prairie and plateau.

Fine Just the Way It Is

A childless Wyoming couple transfer their affections first to a piglet, then to a chicken, and finally to a sagebrush they fancy to have the appearance of a child.

Heliocybe

Heliocybe sulcata typically fruits on decorticated, sun-dried and cracked wood, such as fence posts and rails, vineyard trellises in Europe, branches in slash areas, and semi-arid areas such on sagebrush or on naio branches in rain shadow areas of Hawaii, or in open pine forests.

Lava River Cave

The forest surrounding the cave entrance is dominated by large ponderosa pine trees with sagebrush, manzanita, bitterbrush, snowbrush, and chokecherries as the main ground cover.

Lee Fitzgerald

Their fieldwork concentrates on the ecological factors affecting reptiles, most notably the Tupinambis lizard and the dunes sagebrush lizard, Sceloporus arenicolus.

Luther Cressman

His most significant discovery came in 1938, when he discovered a pair of perfectly preserved shredded sagebrush bark sandals at Fort Rock in Oregon that were radiocarbon dated from 10,500 to 9,300 years old, making them the oldest footwear ever discovered.

Malheur National Wildlife Refuge

Deer, antelopes, ducks, pheasants, thrashers and quails can be found in the upland areas amongst the sagebrush, greasewood and wild rye.

Merriam's ground squirrel

The native habitat of Merriam's ground squirrel is arid chapparal environments dominated by sagebrush, and, to a lesser extent, by greasewood and shadscale.

Phrynosomatidae

Many members of the group are adapted to life in hot, sandy deserts, although the spiny lizards prefer rocky deserts or even relatively moist forest edges, and the short-horned lizard lives in prairie or sagebrush environments.

Potentilla johnstonii

Potentilla johnstonii is a rare species of flowering plant in the rose family known by the common name sagebrush cinquefoil.

Russian Settlement, Utah

Advertising described the local climate as "energizing," and it was claimed that the heavy growth of sagebrush indicated that the land was fertile for farming.

Sagebrush and Silver

Sagebrush and Silver is a 1941 American short documentary film directed by Frank Hurley.

Sagebrush Trail

Sagebrush Trail (UK title An Innocent Man) is a 1933 American modern day Western film with locations filmed at Bronson Canyon starring John Wayne and featuring Lane Chandler and Yakima Canutt.

San Diego Free Speech Fight

The bonus track "Tar and Sagebrush", from Anti-Flag's new album, The Bright Lights of America, is a folk punk interpretation of Ben Reitman's description of his torture.

Townsend's ground squirrel

In southeastern Idaho, the density of Townsend's ground squirrel burrows is highest on winterfat-Sandberg bluegrass (Poa secunda), intermediate in big sagebrush-Thurber needlegrass (Stipa thurberiana), and lowest in shadscale-Indian ricegrass (Oryzopsis hymenoides) and thread grass (Stipa comata) .

Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge

The area provides a high quality wildlife habitat in an ecosystems that represents an ecological transition between the dry, sagebrush dotted grasslands of the Columbia Basin up toward the timbered Selkirk and Bitterroot Mountain Ranges that rise up to the east.


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