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Desert Morning with Mountain. #Desert #Sagebrush #Nature #Photography

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/25/flowers-heated-2c-meadow-climate-crisis-experiment-rocky-mountains-aoe. "At the time [1991], it was believed a #temperature increase could lead to longer, lusher #grasses. But instead of flourishing, the grasses & #wildflowers started to disappear, replaced by #sagebrush. The experimental #meadows morphed into a desert-like #scrubland. Even the #fungi in the #soils were transformed by #heat."

Thomspson-Nicola area, British Columbia, Canada -
#rangeland #sagebrush #grass #landscape #photography

Great episode!

#ttrpg #nature #botany #sagebrush

The Road to nowhere, somewhere in eastern Oregon
#Photography #StormySkies #Sagebrush

🎉 #Utah, land of the #free and home of the fluoride-free, bravely marches forward into the 18th century. 🚰 Who needs modern #dental #health when you've got #essential #oils and sagebrush? 🦷✨
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gmggp2y99o #Fluoride #Sagebrush #HackerNews #ngated

🟡 Trees & Sagebrush Hills Teton Range Wyoming⁣
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There are a number of reasons why these projects have been initiated, one of which is to improve habitat for #sagebrush #birds, several of which are #conservation priorities.

Tell #BidenAdministration: Protect greater sage grouse.

#GreaterSageGrouse is a remarkable species unlike any other. This iconic species is losing its #habitat. Since 1965, the population has declined by 80%.

The #sagebrush plains are the only place where the greater sage #grouse lives. Losing more habitat to drilling, mining or other human activity would threaten this #bird and its wondrous mating display.

#SignPetition
https://environmentamerica.org/texas/take-action/tell-the-biden-administration-protect-the-greater-sage-grouse/

#wildlife #ecosystems #environmental #nature

USGS Friday's Findings - Adaptive Management, Fire, and Restoration in the Sagebrush Biome - May 24, 2024, at 2:00 pm Eastern/11:00 am Pacific (Free webinar). #wildfires #sagebrush https://www.usgs.gov/index.php/mission-areas/ecosystems/news/fridays-findings-may-24-2024

Early Estimates Of Exotic Annual Grass (EAG) In The Sagebrush Biome, USA, 2024 (ver. 1.0, April 2024)
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https://doi.org/10.5066/P9351ZTZ <-- link to @USGS open data resource
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#RemoteSensing #GIS #spatial #mapping #MachineLearning #Mapping #EnvironmentalResearch #earthobservation #datadownload #digitaldata #opendata #EROS #invasivespecies #exotic #grass #vegetation #spatialanalysis #EAG #AIM #AI #machinelearning #NDVI #USWest #USA #satellite #sagebrush #biome #landmanagement #planning #range #landmanagers
@USGS

#ThackerPass #Protectors File First-Ever '#BiodiversityNecessityDefense' in #Nevada Court

While pursuing a '#ClimateNecessityDefense,' and making allegations that #mining company has violated their rights, their attorney said, 'They’re not criminals; they’re heroes.'

Bhie-Cie Zahn-Nahtzu: “#LithiumNevada is a #greedy #corporation on the wrong side of history when it comes to #EnvironmentalRacism and desecration of #SacredSites. It’s ironic to me that I’m the trespasser because I want to see my ancestral land preserved.”

By #ProtectThackerPass, #CensoredNews, March 26, 2024

"In a first for the American legal system, the lawyers for six people sued by Lithium Nevada Corporation for protesting the Thacker Pass mine are arguing a ‘biodiversity necessity defense.’

"The necessity defense is a legal argument used to justify breaking the law when a greater harm is being prevented; for example, breaking a car window to save an infant locked inside on a stifling hot day, or breaking down a door to help someone screaming inside a locked home. In these cases, trespassing is justified to save a life.
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"This week’s filing states: 'Defendants possessed an actual belief that their acts of protest were necessary to prevent the present, continuing harms and evils of #ecocide and irreversible #ClimateChange.'

"'We’re in the midst of the 6th #MassExtinction of life on Earth, and it’s being caused by human activities like mining,' said attorney Terry Lodge, who is representing the #protesters. 'Our lives are made possible by #biodiversity and #ecosystems. Protecting our children from pollution and biodiversity collapse isn’t criminal, it’s heroic.'

"Currently Earth is experiencing one of the most rapid and widespread extinction events in the planet’s 4-billion-year history.

"Biologists report that habitat destruction, like the bulldozing of nearly 6,000 acres of biodiverse #sagebrush steppe for the Thacker Pass mine, is the main cause of this '#6thMassExtinction.'"

Read more:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/03/thacker-pass-protectors-file-first-ever.html

#ThackerPassProtectors #SLAPPs #SaveThackerPass #PeeheeMuhuh #Pauite #Shoshone #NoMining #LithiumMining #EarthDefenders

#Biden admin readies plan to save the sage grouse https://www.eenews.net/articles/biden-admin-readies-plan-to-save-the-sage-grouse/

"The survival of the #SageGrouse depends upon the wide-open #sagebrush plains that are increasingly threatened by #ClimateChange, #wildfires, #InvasiveSpecies... The main focus of the plan is to incorporate updated research that more accurately identifies where sage #grouse thrive and to set priority habitat boundaries"

#ClimateCrisis #Birds #Conservation #JoeBiden #USpol #Climate #Extinction #Wildlife

#Biden Announces More than $7 Million to Go Towards Sagebrush #Restoration in Western States
https://k2radio.com/biden-harris-administration-announces-more-than-7-million-to-go-towards-sagebrush-restoration-in-western-states/

"an average of 1.3 million acres of #sagebrush have been lost or degraded each year over the last 20 years... The #SagebrushKeystoneInitiative will address major threat to sagebrush habitat, including projects to restore #wetlands, reduce tree encroachment, and control #InvasiveSpecies"

#NatureRestoration #Conservation #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #USpol #JoeBiden #Democrats

Painting the barn 🌱

#ai #sagebrush #midjourney #stablediffusion #art #aiart #apps #swift #iOS #apple

✨Gold drips ✨

iPad AI painting with SageBrush

#aiart #aiartcommunity #ai #midjourney #stablediffusion #ml #apps #swiftui #iPad #apple #iOS #sagebrush

Big #Sagebrush blooming at #TopazLake near #CarsonCity #Nevada. Can you smell this photo?
#bloomscrolling #GreatBasin

Went on a ~5 mile hike this morning! Gotta love that northern mixed prairie ecoregion 🌟

#WyomingLandscapes #Sagebrush #Ecology #Hiking

Delighted to see our new paper out in Journal of Applied Ecology. We examine how #wildfire and #restoration interact with community composition to determine long-term #ecosystem dynamics. This work utilizes a unique 30+ year dataset from #sagebrush steppe in the Columbia Basin WA.

 http://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.14451

#ecology #cheatgrass #rangeland #herbicide #ecologicaltrajectory