The bottomlands are carpeted with arid sagebrush and dotted with spring ponds.

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Here in northwest Colorado, wind whips through sagebrush in this hot and dusty landscape, home to one of the ferret reintroduction sites.

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An issue of dispute is whether the dunes sagebrush lizard in question is truly a separate species, or rather, a common sagebrush lizard subspecies.

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The facility is made up of hundreds of buildings spread over more than 230 square miles, and bunkers dot the sagebrush-covered hills visible from the highway.

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Since this isolated county was created in 1882 in sagebrush-strewn central Oregon, its inhabitants have successfully picked 26 consecutive winners, from Grover Cleveland to Ronald Reagan.

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It marks what some people consider the northern border of the Great Basin and sits upon the farthest shore of what author Stephen Trimble calls the Sagebrush Ocean.

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Surrounded by the Pioneer Mountains, Divide was nestled in a flat-backed valley sprinkled with sagebrush and half-burnt two-by-fours, a reminder of when people actually used to live here.

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It has become ground zero in a rekindled Sagebrush Rebellion.

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