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  Greasewood - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Greasewood (Sarcobatus) is a genus of one or two species of flowering plants.
Traditionally it has been treated in the family Chenopodiaceae, but the APG II system, of 2003, places it in the family Sarcobataceae.
Although it can be grazed by animals that are adapted, grazing of greasewood by sheep and cattle can result in oxalate poisoning resulting in kidney failure [1].
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Greasewood   (246 words)

  
 Greasewood   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Greasewood grows on dry, sunny, flat valley bottoms, on lowland floodplains, in ephemeral stream channels, and at playa margins.
Greasewood is tolerant of a wide range of climatic conditions but most commonly grows in areas with hot, dry summers.
Greasewood is capable of vegetative regeneration, typically sprouting after fire, application of herbicides, and other types of disturbance.
extension.usu.edu /rangeplants/Woody/greasewood.htm   (403 words)

  
 Greasewood, Arizona - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Greasewood (Navajo: Díwózhii Biiʼ Tó) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Navajo County, Arizona, United States.
Greasewood is located at 35°31′32″N, 109°51′54″W (35.525467, -109.865005)
The area is served by the Holbrook Unified School District.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Greasewood,_Arizona   (381 words)

  
 Poisonous Plant Research Products and Services   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Greasewood is an erect, spiny, woody perennial shrub that grows 1 to 1.5 meters tall.
Greasewood is adapted to the heavy saline soils of semiarid regions.
Greasewood poisoning in livestock is similar to that caused by halogeton resulting in hypocalcemia, renal necrosis and subsequent uremia.
www.ars.usda.gov /Services/docs.htm?docid=9898   (451 words)

  
 GREASEWOOD
Greasewood has many thorns and thick, narrow, green leaves on ridged branches.
Greasewood is a range shrub that livestock can eat safely in moderate amounts with other forage.
Greasewood increases in toxicity as the growing season advances.
members.tripod.com /~aden4lyons/poison/grease.html   (238 words)

  
 Greasewood - DesertUSA
Greasewood is also known as fl greasewood or chicowood.
Greasewood was first collected by John C. Fremont – a famous Civil War veteran, western explorer and one-time presidential candidate – and first named by John Torrey as Fremontia vermiculatus, until it was discovered that the genus Sarcobatus already existed.
Greasewood grows throughout the West, north from California to Canada, east across the northern United States and southern Canada to the Dakotas, and south to Mexico.
www.desertusa.com /mag00/oct/papr/gwood.html   (466 words)

  
 Greasewood Flat
Greasewood is set up like an Old West watering hole.
Greasewood makes a good impression, no matter what side of the tracks you're from.
Greasewood Flat the movie is a fictional story about a family-owned bar struggling against new competition.
www.azcentral.com /ent/music/articles/1014barfly14.html   (396 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Drivers curse greasewood today, but Indian women valued it for digging sticks and cooking fires.Sacagawea may have used a sharp-pointed greasewood stick when she gathered roots called “white apples” on May 8, 1805.Then she may have roasted the roots in the embers of greasewood twigs so the ashes would impart a salty flavor.
Greasewood is a dominant plant of the Great Basin.It is found from 3,000 to 7,000 feet in elevation.
Greasewood grows on dry, sunny, flat valley bottoms and in the flood plains of large rivers.
www.umt.edu /mnps/sarcobatus_vermiculatus.htm   (482 words)

  
 Greasewood Arizona Resource Guide, City or community of Greasewood, Arizona Facts, Information, Relocation, Real ...
The population of Greasewood is approximately 196 (1990).
The distance from Greasewood to Washington DC is 1877 miles.
Greasewood is positioned 35.52 degrees north of the equator and 109.86 degrees west of the prime meridian.
www.usacitiesonline.com /azcountygreasewood.htm   (230 words)

  
 Chenop.html
Many of the plants are xerophytic, or salt-loving (halophytic), species, including the western greasewood, a plant that prefers alkaline flats.
Although Meriwether Lewis did not collect a specimen of greasewood (right) until he was on the Marias River on the expedition's return trip (July 30, 1806), he was well acquainted with the often troublesome plant and previously described it as a "fleshey leafed thorn." Lewis's plant was new to science
Greasewood has no forage value for the leaves contain oxalic acid (as do many chenopods), enough that a few pounds may be lethal for livestock.
www.larkspurbooks.com /Chenop.html   (414 words)

  
 Animal Life in the Yosemite (Birds)
It would perch on the topmost shoot of a greasewood bush, facing away from the wind, its feathers blown outward somewhat, and would rock back and forth in keeping its balance on the swaying twig.
All were in small greasewood bushes, not over 24 inches tall, and placed within the cluster of upright stems.
The nests were composed of small twigs of the greasewood, with the dry whitish stems of some annual plant as a felting for the interior.
www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/grinnell/birds134.htm   (735 words)

  
 Greasewood Flat turns 30 in typical no-frills style
Greasewood Flat, once a bunkhouse at the end of a trail near Pinnacle Peak, has maintained its personality while luxury homes and golf courses have sprung up around it.
Greasewood Flat's birthday bash was an immediate success Saturday.
Davidson said he hopes Greasewood Flat remains in Scottsdale, and that the ownership does not give in to the development boom.
www.azcentral.com /arizonarepublic/local/articles/1128neflats28.html   (492 words)

  
 Greasewood Flat
Must be 21 to enter Greasewood, unless you’re with your parents.
Greasewood has served up hearty burgers and some wicked libations to Cowboys, Bikers, Locals, and Tourists alike.
Greasewood Flat is a bar, Reata Pass Steakhouse is a restaurant so you must be 21 to enter Greasewood, unless you’re with your parents.
www.greasewoodflat.net   (239 words)

  
 Greasewood: Sarcobatus vermiculatus
Greasewood is a 1-2 meter-tall shrub that is found growing throughout New Mexico and the Southwest on saline or alkaline soils.
Greasewood is forage for many animals including: jack rabbits (major food item), prairie dogs, California quail, and pronghorn (Elmore, 1976).
In Chaco Culture National Historical Park greasewood was used for construction, especially of lintels, for fuel, being a preferred wood for Pueblo kiva fires (NPS, n.d.).
www.explorenm.com /plants/Chenopodiaceae/Sarcobatus/vermiculatus   (430 words)

  
 Greasewood City Ramblers, 50's, 60's, & 70's Rock Band of the Pacific Northwest
Back in the 1970's, long before the Gorge at George concert phenomenon rose up out of the vineyards on the cliffs overlooking the Columbia River, Ellensburg was a dancing town and music venues were in abundance.
The group got off the ground in the late Sixties as a three-piece country/bluegrass band with Wayne Hunt on guitar, Mike Martin on bass, and Scott Hammond on banjo -- the under-age sons of loggers and ranchers whose hair had grown inexplicably long and whose ways had grown a little out of the ordinary.
Guitarist and keyboard player Bruce Bowen came over from Seattle and hooked up at one of Greasewood's Sunday afternoon jams at the Ranch, Frank Johnson filled the bass spot vacated by Mike Martin in the early Seventies, and the band gelled and began to really cook, shifting from country/bluegrass to country/rock, heavy on the rock.
pnwbands.com /greasewood.html   (1187 words)

  
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Greasewood Springs was founded in the 1850’s by a person named Si A’diinii.
Apparently, he came upon a pond in the middle of thick growing greasewood bushes.
The Greasewood Springs Boarding School was open in 1960, for all students whom can attend.
lowergreasewood.nndes.org   (379 words)

  
 Canadian Poisonous Plants Information System   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Greasewood (Sarcobatus vermiculatus) is a native shrub found in western Canada from southwestern Saskatchewan to southeastern British Columbia.
In the western United States, sheep that ingested this plant became ill and died.
Symptoms occur within 3-5 h of ingesting a toxic quantity of greasewood plant.
www.cbif.gc.ca /pls/pp/ppack.info?p_psn=7&p_type=all&p_sci=comm&p_x=px   (319 words)

  
 Special Screening of Susan K. Brigham's Greasewood Flat   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The Phoenix Film Project and Harkins Theatres are pleased to present a one-night encore screening to benefit the Phoenix Film Project on Thursday, July 28 at 7:00 pm at Harkins Camelview 5, 7001 E Highland Avenue.
Faced with endless dead-end gigs, and his own loss of passion for the music he once thought was his life, he finds himself returning home to face the three generations of women that he left behind.
GREASEWOOD FLAT was filmed and cast almost entirely in Arizona, with the film crew drawn solely from the Arizona film community.
www.azreporter.com /?itemid=454&catid=43   (540 words)

  
 Pinnacle Peak Attractions
For directions to Greasewood, please call Reata Pass Steakhouse in North Scottsdale.
Greasewood has a rich history to learn all about it visit History of Reata Pass and Greasewood Flat.
To learn more visit History of Reata Pass and Greasewood Flats.
www.scenicdrive.org /pinatt.htm   (279 words)

  
 Greasewood, AZ Houses, Apartments, Cars, Mortgage Status, and Residents Info
Back to: Greasewood main page, Arizona, Arizona smaller cities, Arizona small towns, All US cities.
Median gross rent in Greasewood, AZ in 2000: $322
Back to: Greasewood, AZ (don't miss, contains a wealth of additional information), Arizona, All US cities.
www.city-data.com /housing/houses-Greasewood-Arizona.html   (358 words)

  
 Greasewood Flat - History
During the Arizona Territory days, Reata Pass was on an old stagecoach stop along a dust-filled, rocky trail that wandered often steeply uphill northeast from Phoenix and on to connect Fort McDowell on the Verde River and Prescott.
Three generations of graceful Cavalliere ornamental ironwork accent the various inside as well as the patio and cookout areas outside.
Rusty western relics collected by the family over the years, such as branding irons and spurs, hang in scores from the rafters and walls here and the family's sister cowboy bar next door, Greasewood Flat.
www.greasewoodflat.net /history.htm   (417 words)

  
 Search for products to control Greasewood based upon pesticides registered in various states to control Greasewood   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Greasewood is a 'pest' (an unwanted organism) that can be controlled through the use of pesticides.
Pesticides, such as products to control Greasewood, are regulated by State Departments of Agriculture.
To find all products ever registered at EPA to control Greasewood: www.kellysolutions.com/epadata (login as username: 'Guest' and password: 'Guest' - your results will be limited to 5 items).
www.kellysolutions.com /searchpests/Greasewood.htm   (388 words)

  
 Movie Review - Greasewood Flat
At the ranch, a man walks over to a horse standing in a stall and climbs into the stall to pet it.
Horses are also seen in the background of several scenes, sometimes eating hay or just standing still in a corral.
The fictional Greasewood Flat ranch was filmed at a real dude ranch in Arizona that housed approximately 25 horses with their own stables and feeding areas.
www.ahafilm.info /movies/moviereviews.phtml?fid=7358   (318 words)

  
 Greasewood
his is the trading post at Greasewood Springs, where I started my painting career, in 1968.
I hope you'll come back soon, and meet some of my old friends, Clarence, Johnson, Peacho, Lucy and others, as I'll be adding more paintings, sketches, and stories from that period soon.
These boys, probably A. Yazzie's sons, were herding sheep near the store at Greasewood Springs.
www.johnfarnsworth.com /greasewood.htm   (144 words)

  
 Theresa Yazzie   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Funeral services for Theresa Yazzie, 48, who died on Monday, Dec. 5, 2005, in Holbrook, were held Dec. 12 at the Greasewood Chapel of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Theresa was born in White Cone on the Navajo Reservation to Henry and Stella Yazzie.
When she was 7, the family moved to Lower Greasewood.
www.azjournal.com /pages/2005obits/Yazzie_Theresa.html   (124 words)

  
 HON Allergy Glossary, Chenopodiaceae Pollens
The goosefoot family, Chenopodiaceae, consists of the genera Atriplex, Sarcobatus (Greasewood), Salicornia (e.g.
Chenopodium are weedy, rank-smelling plants which are found in a large variety of environments.
It should be noted that pigweed also refers to the Amaranthaceae family of weeds.
www.hon.ch /Library/Theme/Allergy/Glossary/chenopod.html   (92 words)

  
 greasewood - Sarcobatus vermiculatus Hook Torr   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The growth habit of the greasewood is found growing as a Shrub.
The greasewood is a Perennial plant which means it lives or continues more than two years, whether it retains its leaves in winter or not.
The greasewood can currently be found within 3 states in the United States, please see the information posted above to find out what state this plant currently resides.
database.dotflowers.com /item-greasewood.html   (238 words)

  
 Greasewood   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Ganado, Arizona, United States Postal Service Zip Code is 86505 (Greasewood) [SourcePSZ]
Greasewood, Arizona, United States [CDP]; population was 196 in 1990; housing units was 77 in 1990; location is 35°32'N 109°52'W; land area is 5.08 square miles (3,249 acres); FIPS code is 29430 [SourceCBP]
Greasewood, Arizona, United States [Place] is in Navajo County; location is 35°31'21"N 109°51'24"W [SourceGSP]
www.placesnamed.com /g/r/greasewood.asp   (69 words)

  
 Greasewood -- Utah Weeds and Wildflowers
They mature earlier than the female flowers to ensure that their pollen will not fertilize flowers from the same plant.
Greasewood is able to grow in saline soil, which is intolerable to many plants.
It may be poisonous to livestock if large amounts are eaten.
www.softcom.net /users/naturenotes/greaswd.htm   (137 words)

  
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 Greasewood Roommate Finder - Search Greasewood roommates in AZ
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