Species of the Week: Grandmother Sagebrush

Species of the Week: Grandmother Sagebrush

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...
Guernica Pass

Guernica Pass

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...
Extraction, by Jean Arnold

Extraction, by Jean Arnold

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...
Species of the Week: Burrowing Owl

Species of the Week: Burrowing Owl

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,...
Species of the Week: Greater Sage-grouse

Species of the Week: Greater Sage-grouse

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...
Species of the week: Crosby’s Buckwheat

Species of the week: Crosby’s Buckwheat

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...