by Protect Thacker Pass | Feb 7, 2021 | Art
Sagebrush steppe is a diverse habitat, supporting more than 350 recorded vertebrate species. It is key habitat for threatened species such as the greater sage-grouse and the pygmy rabbit. Sagebrush steppe is a threatened ecosystem in the American West, due to...
by Protect Thacker Pass | Feb 6, 2021 | Art
An homage to Picasso’s anti-war painting, Guernica, Travis London’s Guernica Pass is also an anti-war painting. The war depicted in Guernica Pass is industrial civilization’s war against the natural world, a war industrial civilization is currently...
by Protect Thacker Pass | Feb 5, 2021 | Art
Artist Jean Arnold has kindly given us permission to share art works from her collection, Extraction, with you. These paintings depict the strange new landscapes created by vast mining operations around the world. These are paintings of landscapes destroyed by...
by Protect Thacker Pass | Feb 3, 2021 | Art
By artist Travis London, @deepgreenarts Burrowing Owls have been declining in numbers for many years. Habitat loss and prairie dog and ground squirrel eradication have forced them to be considered endangered or threatened in many areas. They favor flat open ground,...
by Protect Thacker Pass | Feb 1, 2021 | Art
Thacker Pass is sagebrush steppe habitat, which is where sage-grouse nest. They prefer dense cover from big sagebrush, although they also use areas with rabbitbrush, and locate their leks on broad ridgetops, grassy swales and dry lakebeds. This perfectly describes the...
by Protect Thacker Pass | Jan 30, 2021 | Art
Crosby’s Buckwheat Eriogonum crosbyae is native to southcentral Oregon and northwestern Nevada. Crosby’s Buckwheat is named after botanist Virginia Crosby. The species is slow to spread, and grows only in tuff, soil composed of volcanic ash at elevations of...
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