Even Sagebrush Parched for Water

The ColumbianJune 24, 2004

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PRICE, Utah - The topsoil is dry dust for the first 3 or 4 inches until finally there's enough moisture to give it some substance.

The surface has the look and feel of sand with scattered vegetation poking through. Small sagebrush shrubs that should be bushy and green are mostly a tangled mess of drab and dead, or dying, branches, only a few clinging to the small leaves that show the plant is still alive.

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Even Sagebrush Parched for Water

One of the most durable plants in the West, sagebrush is steadily succumbing across parts of Utah, another consequence of a six-year drought that has no end in sight. U...

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