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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Editor’s Note: The following is a guest post from ecologist Holly Copeland, a staff scientist with The Nature Conservancy. Copeland’s work focuses on mapping out wildlife migration corridors and other ...

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 ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The long drive between Salt Lake City and Reno on Interstate 80 feels endless, the landscape timeless. But these basins and ranges of the Great Basin Desert ...

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 ...

Driving along most rural roads in Idaho, it’s hard to miss sagebrush — an iconic rangeland plant species with its characteristic spicy, bitter smell and gnarled wood. But sagebrush is disappearing ...

In 1980, then-presidential candidate Ronald Reagan tossed support to the Sagebrush Rebellion, declaring himself a “rebel” opposed to federal land ownership en route to a landslide win in the West. Now ...

It saddens me that despite existing knowledge of how to make good management decisions, politics outside of Nevada keep getting in the way. Today, we find ourselves at a crossroads — if we don’t take ...