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HELLO!
When your tasks for the day are done or are to be continued on the morrow, allow yourself time to relax and read about the unassumingly magnificent Sagebrush Sea.
Silvery sagebrush with pale yellow flowers once stretched across approximately 500,000 square miles of the American West including Nevada where it is esteemed as the state flower. Yet thought the Sagebrush Seas provides shelter or food for an estimated 350 species of plants and animals, it is shrinking.
News stories and conservation statements about the perennial flower and its predicament are not, however, simply stories of habitat loss. Rather they are engaging and beautifully poetic stories of our national landscape and compassionate hope as exemplified by the National Wildlife Federation headline quoted on the featured photograph (above) and the Nature Conservancy article lead quoted under Our Inner Landscape (below).
Time spent reading about the Sagebrush Sea can inspire deep appreciation for our American landscape including deserts called "home."
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