It’s helped me understand how plants and animals work together.” In Wyoming, the leading threats to sagebrush steppe habitat include wildfire, invasive species, and overgrazing by livestock.

LANDER — Wyoming contains roughly half of the planet’s sagebrush rangelands, but 1.3 million acres per year are being degraded by large-scale threats. In Fremont County, students from Lander ...

Although it was just a byproduct of developing a new type of reactor, the generation of electricity from nuclear energy signaled a bright future ahead ...

LANDER — Wyoming contains roughly half of the planet’s sagebrush rangelands, but 1.3 million acres per year are being degraded by large-scale threats. In Fremont County, students from Lander ...

Cheatgrass is an especially great invader of the Sagebrush Steppe because it is designed to burn yearly, whereas our other native plant species are mostly if not all, slow-growing. For instance, ...

1 Department of Forestry and Rangeland Stewardship, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States 2 Department of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of New Hampshire, ...

I left home anticipating my favorite view of the Wallowa Mountains. The sort of stirring vista of snow peaks that inspires people to pen poetry.

The greater sage-grouse is an iconic sagebrush species spanning 11 Western states, including Nevada. This unique native landscape supports a delicate balance of wildlife, ranching, recreation and ...

The imperiled bird species even slightly avoided manipulated swaths of the sagebrush-steppe landscape, the data showed ... and it’s known to not be as resilient.” Flowering plants tend to increase in ...

Generations of Wyoming wildlife managers have mowed over swaths of the sagebrush sea, a practice long believed to improve conditions for wildlife in places like the Green River Basin, near Baggs ...