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Opinion: A terrible dilemma faces the Great Basin

Commentary: A Terrible Dilemma Faces the Great Basin

Before 1860, two-thirds of Great Basin landscape's habitats were treeless. Today, that's less than one-third, decreasing the acreage of sagebrush.

Writers on the Range | A terrible dilemma faces the Great Basin

The long drive between Salt Lake City, Utah and Reno, Nevada on Interstate 80 feels endless, the landscape timeless. But these basins and ranges of the Great Basin Desert are

(Opinion) Writers on the Range: Ecologists in the West may have to pick between saving piñon or sagebrush

I called this place “the sagebrush ocean” when I first wrote about it in the 1980s. Now, scientists mourn the loss of 1.3 million acres of healthy sagebrush each year, threatening animals that need sagebrush, like the Greater Sage Grouse and pygmy rabbit.

Writers on the Range | A terrible dilemma faces the Great Basin

The long drive between Salt Lake City, Utah and Reno, Nevada on Interstate 80 feels endless, the landscape timeless. But these basins and ranges of the Great Basin Desert are