Shrub-steppe

Friday, 05 November 2021

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Washington’s embattled shrub-steppe ecosystem gets monetary boost from Legislature

The Spokesman-Review 24 Oct 2021

The proviso’s funds are more focused on the latter with $1.5 million going toward shrub steppe and rangeland cooperative fencing ... “But with the shrub steppe proviso, we’re trying ... “Typically, you wouldn’t have shade, obviously, in a sunny dry shrub steppe ecosystem,” Garrity said.

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Homesteading family’s lasting legacy realized in agreement to return nearly 10,000 acres of habitat to ...

Finger Lakes Times 21 Oct 2021

SPOKANE, Wash. — On a February day, with wind-whipped temperatures falling to 4 below zero, Colville tribal leaders approved an unusual transaction at their offices in Nespelem ... The arrangement, which had been a decade in the making, represented a cultural and ecological milestone ... government in 1892 ... He knew that shrub-steppe land in a deep way ... ——— ... .

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Homesteading family’s lasting legacy realized in agreement to return nearly 10,000 acres of habitat to Colville Tribes in conservation deal

The Spokesman-Review 20 Oct 2021

On a February day, with wind-whipped temperatures falling to 4 below zero, Colville tribal leaders approved an unusual transaction at their offices in Nespelem ... government in 1892 ... He knew that shrub-steppe land in a deep way ... .

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Were woolly mammoths driven to extinction because it was TOO WET? Melting icebergs wiped out ...

The Daily Mail 20 Oct 2021

Instead, their loss appears to have coincided with the final shift from the 'Mammoth Steppe' environment to peatland, which took away the giant animal's food sources ... 'MAMMOTH STEPPE' ... Despite being cold, the steppe was home to a variety of plants on which the giants would have feasted — including grass, flowers and shrubs.

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WDFW warns solar farms could blot out habitat for at-risk species

Capital Press 04 Oct 2021

The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife says it needs more money to bird dog energy proposals that might cover shrub-steppe habitat with solar panels ... The department counts 33 pending solar proposals covering 70 square miles, mostly shrub-steppe, a landscape slightly wetter than a desert.

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S-R Hunting Outlook 2021: Fires, drought pose challenges for Washington big game hunters, opportunity remains

The Spokesman-Review 23 Sep 2021

From staff reports ... Biologists with the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife say there will still be opportunity to fill a tag ... Deer. District 1 ... One important rule change ... District 2 ... The terrain in GMUs 136–142 is better suited for muzzleloader and modern firearm, with open landscapes predominated by shrub steppe, scablands and dryland farming ... .

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Climate Change and Global Threat of Ecosystem Transformation

WhoWhatWhy 06 Sep 2021

Conversion of conifer forest to shrubland, steppe, and other ecosystems is underway from Mexico to Alaska. Shrub steppe and chaparral are giving way to non-native annual grassland in the western US. Floodplain forests are yielding to savanna in Amazonia, shrubs and trees are invading Arctic tundra, and reef corals are being replaced by macroalgae.

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Washington Puts Hawk on Endangered List; Wind Turbines Partly to Blame

The Centralia Chronicle 29 Aug 2021

The hawks seek out grasslands and shrub-steppe in Eastern Washington to nest and raise their young ... Over half of Washington's original shrub-steppe had been converted to agriculture land by 1986, leaving remaining habitat in fragmented segments, the draft review said.

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Firefighters Find Burned Bear Cub in Aftermath of the Cedar Creek Fire

The Centralia Chronicle 29 Jul 2021

The full impact of this summer won't be known until fire season is over and many species and habitats are still recovering from last year's wildfire season that burned 802,000 acres throughout Washington, including roughly one-half million acres of sensitive shrub-steppe habitat ... ....

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Climate change is shortening Central Asia's growing season study

Beijing News 28 Jul 2021

But the reverse is happening in most of Central Asia ... (Wu et al.) ... Some of the findings. ... Also, as noted above, the authors base their findings on analysis of native flora - steppe grasses, shrubs like the saxaul, and trees like larch and poplar - not crops ... Herders here rely on steppe grasslands to feed their animals ... ....

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Climate change is shortening Central Asia’s growing season – study

EurasiaNet 27 Jul 2021

But the reverse is happening in most of Central Asia ... (Wu et al.) ... Some of the findings ... Also, as noted above, the authors base their findings on analysis of native flora – steppe grasses, shrubs like the saxaul, and trees like larch and poplar – not crops ... Herders here rely on steppe grasslands to feed their animals ... .

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Proposal to lay cables under Columbia River met with skepticism

The Daily Astorian 26 Jul 2021

This electrical on-ramp is near the wind farms and solar farms installed along the Columbia Gorge in Eastern Oregon and Washington state ... Such ventures decimated the Columbia River’s fisheries and fenced off and degraded the shrub-steppe grasslands that the Yakama and other tribes and bands ceded in an 1855 treaty with the United States ... ....

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Proposal to lay cables under Columbia met with skepticism

The Spokesman-Review 25 Jul 2021

This electrical on-ramp is near the wind farms and solar farms installed along the Columbia Gorge in eastern Oregon and Washington ... Such ventures decimated the Columbia River’s fisheries and fenced off and degraded the shrub-steppe grasslands that the Yakama and other tribes and bands ceded in an 1855 treaty with the United States ... Corey Kupersmith ... .

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Awls Well That Ends Well

Flathead Beacon 14 Jul 2021

My now 1-year-old “pup” Jade has developed that wanderlust typical of young setters ... On the sagebrush steppe, regular fire consumes woody shrubs, such as sagebrush, which is one of the main threats to struggling sage grouse ... There, dissected on the kitchen table it seemed rather harmless, and not the scourge of the sagebrush steppe ... .

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KEEN on summer: Camp lets kids enjoy the outdoors

Ellensburg Daily Record 01 Jun 2021

Dear Parents, ... But we see these actions daily, whether you are a parent or an educator ... summer camp ... KEEN has been running nature-based camp programming since 2015 and our themes have always offered kids unique opportunities to connect to our local shrub steppe environment at Yakima Canyon Interpretive Center @ Helen McCabe State Park ... Sincerely, ... ....