Sagebrush Steppe Habitats Photo Gallery by Ruth Moorhead at pbase.com

Sagebrush Steppe Habitats

There are fine books written about the plants of the Sagebrush Steppe, and equally fine ones about the people
of the Sagebrush. As a result, there are probably billions of images, too. Yes, we need those images, lest we believe
that we have seen it all, because the Steppe is so unpredictable, so varied, as to be almost indefinable.
We might find it interrupted by a river, a reservoir, a system of dunes, or a forest of juniper, mountain-mahogany, or aspen...
...but when we get to the other side of that, we're back, usually, to sagebrush.

How odd is it, then, to notice that practically none of these images is of sagebrush?
Not at all...these are what's between. These are what you don't see when you think you're looking at sagebrush!

Can you tell I've enjoyed being here?
In November of 2011, my sagebrush steppe photos (more than the ones shown here) were featured during the First Friday Art Walk
in Pocatello, Idaho, by the Sagebrush Steppe Regional Land Trust office. We used four electronic screens, each running
a continuous slideshow of images from Bannock and adjacent counties.

I would probably get into some horrific copyright fracas if I posted a photo of it, but there used to be a magnificent Sagebrush Steppe
interpretive sign that was part of a Great Basin display at the Hwy. 26 rest stop between the Idaho Nuclear Lab and Arco, Idaho.

Lewis's Flax	Something on Every Inch	Standing tall--even though it isn't!	Arrayed on Snow	A Lively Assemblage
	Mountains South of Pocatello	Chinese Peak from Kirkham Trail	Sumac in Bloom	Starvation Cholla...Obviously Not Starving
Holding On Until Spring
Indian Paintbrush	Black Hawthorn	South from Kirkham Trailhead	A Prickly Pear That's Soon to Bloom	Ready for Summer
Early Morning in Early July	Just Up from West Center Street	Scout Mountain from Chinese Peak	Mertensia sp.	Celebration Park
Lichens in the Crevices	Pictograph Trail	Canyon Wren Cliff	Marching Artemesia	Mossy Rock
View to Snake River	Some of it isn't cheatgrass	Campground You Can't See	Up the Trail into Summer
				Lemonade Sumac
Snake River Welcomes Morning	Blazing-star Mentzelia	Snake River View	Trying for a Yin / Yang	Western Clematis
Shoshone Falls Coming into View	Above Shoshone Falls	Physalis sp. in flower	Basalt Stairsteps	Currant
Thistle	Bittersweet	Golden Currant	Lichen-covered Sagebrush	Small-flowered Blue-eyed Mary
Springtime Sunrise on the Reservoir	Little People's Playground	Goodenough Canyon	Salmon River Backdrop	Spent Wyethia
Bluebells	Pocatello's Southern Hills	Last Year's Leftovers	View East from Coldwater Rest Area	Cutleaf Filaree
Desert Evening-primrose		Climbing toward Dawn		The Long View
Dune from a Distance	Not a Rattler	Four-o'clocks	Sagebrush Shadows, Late Afternoon	At Home on the Range
From the Buchanan Rest Area	Almost to the Mountains	Arrowleaf Balsamroot	Sagebrush and Fence	Eriogonums
Arrowleaf Balsamroot	A Buckwheat	Mimulus Path	Phacelia sp.	McTucker Area
Willow Bay Watercolor	Milkweed Seed Pods	An Erigeron, or Fleabane
Pocatello Hills Through Window	High Life in Low Light	Springtime on Red Hill	Stephens Performing Arts Center	Pocatello's Watershed
				City Creek Trail
Above the trail	Black Hawthorn	Oval Leaf Buckwheat	Snowline Recession	The Far Edge of Winter
Snow Life With Stone	Western Hills, from Ridgecrest Apts.	Sagebrush and Blown Snow	Wind Sculpting	Snow and Wind at Work
		View of Scout Mountain	Low Light, High Drama	Northern end of Deep Creek Mountains
Hot Spring area, Hart Mt Antelope Refuge	South Putnam Mountain	Snake River from the Rim Trail	Coyotes were singing, across the river	A Snake River Sunset
Great Basin Big Sagebrush	Cholla at the Top	Between City and Cusick Creeks
Toward Kinport Peak	Southeast from Pocatello's Western Hills	Last Rays on Portneuf Range
	Windblown Grasses in Ephemeral Pool	Spent Artemesia by Snowmelt Pool	Bannock Range
			Hiking trail around Dierke's Lake	Poison Ivy
	Foothills Death-camas
			This will be gone	Summer Sunset, Looking Toward Chinese Peak
		Rough Wallflower		Rolling Pin Cloud
		Mt. Callaghan? from Campground		Red Paint!
Sagebrush on South 5th Avenue	Portneuf Range		We Still Have Some of the Views	Single Sagebrush Buttercup
Sheep Bridge	Sage Guards the City			What More Lovely Campsite?
	View over Island
Chilly Times on Willow Bay	Portneuf Range	Sagebrush Asana	Ascending Bloomington Canyon
Garden Creek's Beginnings	Lost River Range		Beckoning the Pioneer Range
Three Sisters	Mount Shasta			Downriver from Duck Point
Our View Southward up Cherry Creek	A Sea of Sagebrush	Heading for Smith Lake
	A View from the Picnic Area

comment

joseantonio		12-Jul-2011 04:56
You have done a great job here. Congratulations

Nirvan Hope		14-Mar-2011 02:57
Yes, it's very evident that you've it enjoyed it here! A wonderful gallery of a great landscape as well as the close up plants.

Paolo Peggi (aka Bracciodiferro)		06-Jun-2010 03:13
Very nice captures! BigVote Paolo

Guest		06-Jun-2010 01:42
Great gallery for the plant, nature and environment and also shown your excellent observation and warm heart, Ruth Voted! Jonathan

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