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Energy, land use, and sagebrush ecosystems: Finding the delicate balance

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Product Type: Science Feature

Year: 2007

Author(s): Wilson, J.T., C. Aldridge, and C. Melcher

Pages: 2

Suggested Citation: Wilson, J.T., C. Aldridge, and C. Melcher. 2007. Energy, land use, and sagebrush ecosystems: Finding the delicate balance. http://www.fort.usgs.gov/SageEnergy/.

Abstract

Intense settlement and agricultural development have resulted in a loss of more than half the sagebrush ecosystems in the western United States and Canada. Today, these ecosystems continue to be threatened by a variety of land use practices such as urbanization, road building and road and trail use, grazing and agriculture, and especially, energy development. As a result of these expanding pressures and the habitat fragmentation and other disturbances they create, wildlife species dependent upon sagebrush habitat have experienced considerable declines in numbers and distribution...

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