EVERY YEAR, THE WEST loses 1.3 million acres of its iconic sagebrush steppe, according to the newest report from a multiagency group working to conserve this important ecosystem. That’s roughly 2,000 square miles — an area about the size of Grand Canyon National Park, or four times the sprawl of Los Angeles.
The largest terrestrial biome in the Lower 48, sagebrush rangeland spans 13 states and once covered a third of the continental U.S. Now, roughly half of it is gone. The report, released
