while crop contents of grasshoppers collected in western Nebraska consisted of 88 percent sand sagebrush and the remainder undetermined forbs and pollen. The geographic range of the two host plants ...
In 2021, a report by the United States Geological Survey showed greater sage grouse populations are not improving, and numbers throughout their range have plummeted by 80 percent since 1965.
The region's shinnery oaks are only four or five feet high, but they provide food, shade and a breeding ground for the small, brown dunes sagebrush lizard — otherwise known as the sand dune lizard.
Horses overlap with sage grouse in only about 12% of the bird’s range, said Tom Christiansen, the Wyoming Game and Fish Department’s retired sage grouse biologist. And horses are far from the ...