The sagebrush ecosystem in the United States once encompassed
150 million acres is now in danger of collapse, roughly half of
the American West. Sagebrush has been cleared to provide a
different forage for cattle. Read a scientific report of the
Department of Agriculture, Pacific Northwest Research Station.
Click the link, Sagebrush. Wyoming Game and Fish report on
sagebrush ecology states that sagebrush habitat and related
plants harbor 87 mammal, 297 bird and 63 species of fish,
reptile and amphibians. Click, Wyoming Game and Fish report.
Lewis noticed not just one but several species of sagebrush. He
wrote, “[O]f this last the A[n]telope is very fond; they feed on
it, and perfume the hair of their foreheads and necks with it by
rubing against it.” From Sierra Club notes on Lewis and Clark
expedition. Excellent technical and scientific report on
California’s sagebrush preservation effort for sagebrush
(Artemisia arbusula). This is deep research, a long document
with color photographs. We cattlemen need to l