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  Sagebrush - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sagebrush, or Big Sagebrush (or Common Sagebrush, Blue Sagebrush, Black Sagebrush) is the common name for Artemisia tridentata, a shrub or small tree from the composite family (Asteraceae).
Sagebrush leaves are wedge-shaped, and are attached to the branch by the narrow end.
Cattle that resort to sagebrush due to the lack of other fodder in the winter often freeze to death before starving, as they rely in large part on the heat of their digestive action for warmth.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sagebrush   (601 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - sagebrush, Plant (Plants) - Encyclopedia
sagebrush, name for several species of Artemisia, deciduous shrubs of the family Asteraceae (aster family), particularly abundant in arid regions of W North America.
Sagebrush is the state flower of Nevada, which is sometimes called the Sagebrush State.
Sagebrush is classified in the division Magnoliophyta, class Magnoliopsida, order Asterales, family Asteraceae.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/S/sagebrus.html   (270 words)

  
 Sagebrush -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Sagebrush, or Big Sagebrush (or Common Sagebrush, Blue Sagebrush, Black Sagebrush) is the common name for Artemisia tridentata, a shrub or small tree from the composite family ((Plants with heads composed of many florets: aster; daisy; dandelion; goldenrod; marigold; lettuces; ragweed; sunflower; thistle; zinnia) Asteraceae).
Sagebrush has a strong pungent fragrance, especially when wet, which is not unlike (Shrubby plant with aromatic grayish-green leaves used as a cooking herb) common sage.
Sagebrush (The period of time during which you are absent from work or duty) leaves are wedge-shaped, and are attached to the branch by the narrow end.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/sa/sagebrush.htm   (584 words)

  
 Common Sagebrush - Artemisia tridentata
Sagebrush can also be found on the dry plains of the western U.S. and the drier southern side of mountains.
Sagebrush is used by Native Americans as a smudge herb (an herb burnt for the smell).
Sagebrush is on no endangered species list, but doesn't grow in as many areas it used to.
www.blueplanetbiomes.org /common_sagebrush.htm   (428 words)

  
 Artemisia (Sagebrush)
Sagebrush (Artemesia californica) is common in both the Coastal Sage Scrub (soft chaparral) and the Hard Chaparral plant communities.
Sagebrush is a grayish-green, much-branched, woody shrub that grows 2 - 5 feet tall.
California sagebrush populations have greatly decreased in numbers on Santa Catalina and Santa Cruz Islands under heavy browsing by feral sheep and goats.
www.biosbcc.net /b100plant/htm/artemisia.htm   (297 words)

  
 Native American Plants and Herbs Sagebrush
Sagebrush, the icon of the “Old West”, is a common plant, found on desert hillsides and mountain foothills, usually up to 7,000 feet in elevation.; often found along roadsides.
Sagebrush is the traditional plant used for sweat lodge and ritual purification, with the smoke being used to clear the air of bad spirits and influences.
Sagebrush kills bacteria, inhibits free radicals, and has anti-inflammatory and anti-carcinogenic actions, and so is most useful as a cleansing first aid wash for disinfecting wounds and skin irritations.
www.angelfire.com /art/nativeherb/sagebrush.html   (372 words)

  
 Sagebrush Control , G80-510-A
Sagebrush is an all encompassing term commonly used to describe Artemisia species found on range and pasture lands in Nebraska.
Sand sagebrush (Artemisia filifolia Torr.) is a woody perennial shrub that reproduces by seed.
Sand sagebrush is an indicator of sandy soils.
ianrpubs.unl.edu /weeds/g510.htm   (1354 words)

  
 ARS | Publication request: Influence of Sagebrush and Grass Seeding Rates on Sagebrush Density and Plant Size   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Establishing Wyoming big sagebrush has been difficult to re-establish on mined lands because of the competition provided by the perennial grass stand that is required to be established to stabilize the soil against erosion and to provide forage of equal or greater production of that prior to disturbance.
Sagebrush seedling density has not shown a response to grass seeding rates over three years (1999-2001) but have exhibited significant sagebrush seedling size response to grass seeding rate.
Sagebrush seedling density declined at the higher grass seeding rates in 2001 but seedling density was not significantly affected by grass seeding rates (P=0.12).
ars.usda.gov /research/publications/publications.htm?SEQ_NO_115=145597   (615 words)

  
 Endangered species of Hanford Reach . . . the sagebrush   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Sagebrush, that pungent, ubiquitous emblem of the arid West, is not nearly so ubiquitous after the devastating wildfires that have become an unwelcome hallmark of summer.
Sagebrush seed has become a hot commodity because the plant is losing the battle for survival -- first to wildfires that easily kill it, and then to fast-growing weeds such as cheatgrass that crowd the slow-growing sagebrush out of its home after fires.
Typically, sagebrush seeds are harvested by whacking the bush with a tennis racket because this does the least amount of damage to the plant.
seattlepi.nwsource.com /local/hanf081.shtml   (935 words)

  
 Shrub-Steppe Series: What About Sagebrush?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Sagebrush is a woody shrub with silvery leaves that stay green all year.
Sagebrush does not come back easily after human disturbance such as urban or agricultural development, or even after natural occurrences such as wildfire.
Sagebrush still hasn't returned to some areas of the Columbia Basin burned by a large fire 40 years ago.
www.pnl.gov /pals/resource_cards/Sagebrush.stm   (1034 words)

  
 Fringed Sagebrush - Artemisia frigida
Fringed sagebrush is a woody shrub with silvery leaves and little yellow flowers.
Sagebrush has a strong odor after it rains that smells like turpentine or camphor.
The sagebrush is used for livestock because it is so high in protein.
www.blueplanetbiomes.org /fringed_sagebrush.htm   (261 words)

  
 Species: Artemisia tridentata ssp. tridentata
Basin big sagebrush may serve as emergency food during severe winter weather, but it is not usually sought out by livestock or wildlife [7].
Sagebrush seed is not disseminated for great distances so off-site sources are probably less important than on-site seed [43].
Where sagebrush reduction is a desired goal, prescribed burns in basin big sagebrush communities tend to be more successful than those in Wyoming big sagebrush, but less successful than those in mountain big sagebrush [19].
www.fs.fed.us /database/feis/plants/shrub/arttrit/all.html   (7450 words)

  
 Effects of Management Practices on Grassland Birds: Greater Sage-Grouse
Sagebrush cover within the range of sage-grouse in Canada is generally less than that in the southern portions of the species' range (Aldridge and Brigham 2002), suggesting that the guidelines may require adjustment when used in northern fringe habitats.
Sage-grouse broods at the Sheldon NWR used primarily sagebrush uplands (low sagebrush and mountain and Wyoming big sagebrush) during 1978 and 1980; however, during the drought year of 1979, use was greater in wet meadows, and upland sites were abandoned by broods by late summer (Klebenow 1985).
Eng and Schladweiler (1972) suggested that sagebrush removal in winter habitats, which may compose a small portion of the year-round habitat of sage-grouse, may be especially detrimental because of the relatively long periods that winter habitat may be occupied by sage-grouse.
www.npwrc.usgs.gov /resource/literatr/grasbird/grsg/grsg.htm   (17663 words)

  
 Rainforest to Grassland, Sagebrush Steppe
An important plant community in the dry landscape of the Columbia Basin of central Washington is the sagebrush steppe.
Historically, the Washington sagebrush steppe was dominated by sagebrush interspersed with perennial bunchgrasses.
In particular, neither sagebrush nor perennial bunchgrasses are resistant to heavy grazing, and, after it was introduced by settlers to Washington, grazing led quickly to the colonization of disturbed steppe by plants, typically annual grasses and herbs, better-adapted to it.
www.wsu.edu:8080 /~wsherb/edpages/raingrass/sagebrush.html   (656 words)

  
 Sagebrush in the Sagebrush Sea
Some sagebrush species have lost approximately 50 percent of their historic range.
Sagebrush species range from sea level to nearly 12,000 feet and in places that receive only 8 inches of rain per year.
Nearly all varieties of sagebrush are endemic to the western United States, growing nowhere else in the world.
www.sagebrushsea.org /spp_sagebrush.htm   (365 words)

  
 KNAU   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Sagebrush isn’t related to the cooking herb of the same name.
Many efforts to restore sagebrush country focus on reversing the effects of livestock grazing.
One proposal to help the sagebrush would allow the federal government to buy back ranchers’ grazing permits, remove livestock, and restore some federal lands.
www.knauradio.org /News/News.cfm?ID=1141&c=19   (260 words)

  
 Sagebrush Rebellion Collection 85-04
The Sagebrush Rebellion is the name applied to a movement which gained momentum in the 1960s in the western United States and especially in the State of Nevada, to return control of federal lands to individual states.
Assembly Bill 413 entitled the "Sagebrush Rebellion" bill and passed by the 1979 Nevada Legislature, was designed to create a board of review and provide for state control of certain lands within state boundaries.
Over the years, issues of the Sagebrush Rebellion have included allotments of grazing rights, mining development, military land withdrawal, closure of selected public lands to hunting and fishing, and the proposed MX Missile defense system.
www.library.unr.edu /specoll/mss/85-04.html   (470 words)

  
 sagebrush --  Encyclopædia Britannica
The common sagebrush (A. tridentata) is a many-branched shrub, usually 1 to 2 m (about 3 to 6.5 feet) high, with silvery gray, bitter-aromatic foliage.
Founded in 1886 on the main line of the Union Pacific Railroad at the junction of a branch to Boise (20 miles [32 km] east), it was a hamlet in the sagebrush desert until irrigation made farming possible starting in the 1890s.
The best known of several species is the common, or basin, sagebrush, a many-branched plant.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9064734?tocId=9064734   (748 words)

  
 SageBrush Rebellion   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The Sagebrush Rebellion is known as organized resistance in the West to federal public land policies.
The land that is the focus of the Sagebrush Rebellion came into federal possession in one of three ways: cession from Mexico at the end of the Mexican-American War (1848), obtained from Great Britian in the Oregon Compromise of 1846, or in the Gadsden Purchase from Mexico in 1853.
The main cause of the defeat of the Sagebrush Rebellion was the States' inability to establish the basic legal claim that the public domain truly belongs to the States.
carbon.cudenver.edu /public/library/archives/sagebrsh/sagebrsh.html   (481 words)

  
 SDNHM - Southern Sagebrush Lizard
The Southern Sagebrush Lizard is a relatively small lizard, measuring up to 2 5/8 inches (snout-vent length).
Unlike the Western Fence Lizard, the Southern Sagebrush Lizard lacks yellow or orange on the posterior surface of the hindlimbs.
The distribution of the Southern Sagebrush Lizard extends in a series of disjunct, montane sky islands from Los Angeles County, southward to the Sierra San Pedro Martir in Baja California.
www.sdnhm.org /fieldguide/herps/scel-van.html   (407 words)

  
 Big sagebrush - DesertUSA
Sagebrush ecosystems have the largest habitat range in the United States, covering nearly four hundred and seventy thousand square miles across eleven western states.
Big sagebrush is an important winter browse plant for a number of wildlife species, including pronghorn, mule deer, domestic livestock, sage grouse and many small mammals.
These areas, known as leks, are the scenes of early morning activity in which males inflate yellow air sacs located in their chest, puff up their feathers and spread their tail feathers before strutting around the lek in the attempt to bond with one or more females.
www.desertusa.com /mag00/jul/papr/sage.html   (604 words)

  
 Sand Sagebrush   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Sand sagebrush is a freely branching, rounded crown, and aromatic shrub growing up to 4 feet tall.
Sand sagebrush is heavily browsed on some low elevation cold desert ranges, and furnishes forage for pronghorn and deer.
It is considered a locally good forage plant for wildlife and domestic livestock in parts of southern Utah, but is otherwise considered poor to worthless as forage for cattle, and poor to fair for horses and sheep.
extension.usu.edu /rangeplants/Woody/sandsage.htm   (309 words)

  
 Species: Artemisia tridentata ssp. wyomingensis
Wyoming big sagebrush is generally the most palatable of the big sagebrush subspecies, and big game species use it heavily, especially in winter [112,131].
Basin big sagebrush tends to occupy the deepest, most fertile soils, and mountain big sagebrush tends to occupy moderately deep soils that are wetter and cooler than those occupied by Wyoming big sagebrush [7,19,150].
Wyoming big sagebrush establishes after fire from the seedbank [12,90,112]; from seed produced by remnant plants that escaped fire [29]; and from plants adjacent to the burn that seed in [29,31].
www.fs.fed.us /database/feis/plants/shrub/arttriw/all.html   (9499 words)

  
 Establishment of silver sagebrush in the Northern Mixed Prairie by J.T. Romo and R.W. Grilz   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The objectives of this study were to determine the effects of seedbed manipulation treatments and autumn or spring sowing on establishment of silver sagebrush on sites previously seeded to native, perennial grasses.
Drastic disturbance of the seedbed is not required to establish silver sagebrush in established stands of perennial grasses.
Sowing silver sagebrush in late autumn when temperatures are consistently below 0°C or in early spring immediately after snowmelt is recommended.
uvalde.tamu.edu /jrm/May02/romo.htm   (290 words)

  
 Transition FAQs - INFOhio's Relationship with Sagebrush Corporation
Sagebrush will no longer sell or market the Sirsi K-12 product (sold by Sagebrush as the Accent product) in Ohio.
Sagebrush will continue to actively market its other two school library automation systems (Athena and Winnebago Spectrum), new school products, and its other products (e.g., Econo-Clad Books) and services (e.g., Sagebrush Data Services) in Ohio.
Sagebrush, like other library automation vendors with K-12 products, will continue to independently market its unique products in Ohio.
www.infohio.org /LibraryStaff/Transition/FAQSsagebrush.html   (850 words)

  
 Careers - Sagebrush Corporation
At Sagebrush, we recognize our unique opportunity to make a difference in the future of America's greatest asset - our kids.
Sagebrush offers a competitive benefits package, including health, dental, long-term disability, short-term disability, accidental death and dismemberment, basic life and optional life insurance, and health care and dependent care expense accounts.
A generous paid time off program, tuition reimbursement plan, and a 401K plan featuring a 50% match up to 6% of compensation are provided as well.
www.sagebrushcorp.com /company/careers.cfm   (154 words)

  
 CNN - 'Sagebrush rebellion' quieted -- for now - March 15, 1996
In its ruling, a U.S. district court told Nye County, Nevada, that public lands belonged to the federal government, not the state.
The county came to national attention as the seat of the so-called sagebrush rebellion, a series of efforts by local governments to wrest land control from the federal authorities.
Sally Fairfax of the University of California at Berkeley has been studying the sagebrush rebellion.
www.cnn.com /US/9603/sagebrush   (453 words)

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