Nerd? geesh.....if the tag fits? why not a bit of sagebrush science....?

12-15% see someone has that figure......juicy stuff that percent canopy cover...

Yeah the invasive thingy.....combine that with all the other stuff and a bit of West Nile.....
matt.combes@greatbasinenvtl.com

showing a smiley wearing a mortar board and those pretty silk rope thingies sitting at the "right hand of God".....

I got a surprising piece of information this week talking with the ass. mgr. of Swanson Hills WMA where the Sharptail and Sage Grouse introductions are going on.....turns out Great Horned Owls are the biggest predator they have and that they tend to target Sage Grouse.....Great Horneds take more Sage Grouse than Coyotes and far more than all of the other avian predators combined the unofficial reason for that being that there are very limited elevated perches in the area and therefore very few Falcons, Ferruginous, Redtails, and Golden Eagles in the area..........add transmission lines from Wind Farms and that all changes.......interesting...

Steve

Just remember.....windy farm thingys are green thingy ma bobbers....how dare you say anything against them? Lets all just turn out the lights and go home...
matt.combes@greatbasinenvtl.com

Those are some cool pics Steve. Great info on the birds too. Hank

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Yeah, I have wondered about how long they will use an area after being disturbed by AG or other uses.
matt.combes@greatbasinenvtl.com

You may be thinking of russian thistle (tumbleweed). I also know that cheat grass is from europe.

Hey Sutton, I'm not trying to push buttons from a previous thread, but when it was legal, my dad shot em' all the time. If the protection acts get reversed. The chickens may stand a chance. Lets start a petition...hahaha

http://www.usu.edu/...ies/russianthis.html
http://www.usu.edu/...cies/cheatgrass.html

For those of you interested in where Russian thistle and cheat grass came from
matt.combes@greatbasinenvtl.com

That's it! From looking at Matt's links it was Russian Thistle that I remembered aka tumbleweed. Nice to know I wasn't completely off my rocker.


Pete


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Steve - Thanks - another bird I have never seen - what a show. The disappearing sage reminds me of how the real prairie grass is very sparse but I have seen some of the true red stuff in Iowa and the Dakotas. You are certainly also right about the show that woodcock put on. Trouble is the light is so low that I doubt many can get a shot of those birds corkscrewing straight up and then twirling all the way to bounce on the ground.
sarge

Pete...

If not completely off your rocker,,,what proportion is off thy rocker??? I think mine is at least 50% rockered out.......or at least thistled out...


Matt
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Great pics and commentary.