1 Insects clicking softly in the sagebrush.

2 We turned down a fence line through high sagebrush.

3 The sweet scent of sagebrush perfumed the air.

4 Boston Tea Party. The Whiskey Rebellion. The Sagebrush Rebellion.

5 They keep sagebrush under control.

6 In the unheated natural area, sagebrush is a source an army of thirsty insects.

7 While that's good for sagebrush ; it's not good for its plant neighbors.

8 But just a few feet away, sagebrush under the heater grows far better with fewer bugs.

9 Sagebrush is one of major components with high feeding value and wide distribution in native pasture.

10 Words were shouted but flew away behind us into arroyos and sagebrush.

11 When snow makes food sources scarce each fall, the herd heads through Wyoming's Gros Ventre Range toward plentiful sagebrush to the south.

12 The whitey-gray of the alkali-patches, the brown of the dry earth, and the rusty green of the sagebrush filled the foreground, melting in the distance into a purple-gray.

13 For the last several decades, ecologist John Harte, has watched global warming shift vegetation in the Rocky Mountains from a palette of wildflowers to sagebrush, the latter of which is hardier.

14 If global warming, or long-term climate change, does increase the year-around temperature here just a few degrees, John Hart predicts, in decades to come, flowers could be crowded out by sagebrush.

15 The creek, a long green finger flowing south to the Yellowstone River, is surrounded by sagebrush and wind - lots of wind, which, as Jarrett would explain later, is a good thing.

16 With a sigh, she returned her gaze to the nearer landscape, and stared sightlessly at the newly emerged tender silver-green leaves on the sagebrush lining the railroad.