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The sagebrush steppe basins of the Intermountain West and the shrub-steppe grasslands of the High Plains are home to an abundant diversity of wildlife.
In pockets of relatively pristine habitat, like Wyoming’s Red Desert, the diversity and abundance of sagebrush wildlife draws comparisons to the Serengeti in Africa.
But sagebrush habitats are shrinking in the West, threatened by livestock grazing, invasion of nonnative, extremely flammable cheatgrass, and subsequent unnaturally frequent wildfires.
On the Plains and in the Rocky Mountain basins, sagebrush habitats are defenseless against agricultural conversion and fossil fuel development. Very little of the Sagebrush Sea has been designated for any formal protections; safeguarding our most diverse and productive sagebrush ecosystems represents one of our generation’s most urgent conservation challenges.
