Word: sagebrush
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...with its providential rains, was near. And while in an average year fires consume 130,051 acres statewide, this year they had burned less than half that: 52,151. Certainly, the danger was not yet past -- temperatures on Tuesday were close to the 90s and the humidity was a sagebrush-shriveling 7.5% -- but there was reason to hope that Southern California, which certainly has enough other problems, had got off easy this time...
After Farmington, there was almost nothing but sagebrush and cactus on the road until the Grand Canyon. After driving through land owned by the Navajo Indians for ten hours, I am now firmly convinced that they were ripped off a century ago. They own millions of acres of perhaps the most beautiful land in America. The most beautiful and the most worthless...
...Dust devil!" someone yells, and a stinging, 30-ft.-high spiral of sand, sagebrush, shale bits and a lizard or two snicks up the cliffside. Everyone grabs for the gliders, fluttering half assembled and helpless an hour before launch...
...Nixon's early career grew naturally from a raw strivers' culture. Just as Nixon fought hereditary barons in campus politics, he later bucked the genteel Republicanism of Earl Warren. Morris demolishes the stereotype of Nixon as disembodied political gypsy. Nixon had roots in the same soil that produced the sagebrush rebellion. Morris also reconstructs the network of Nixon's early financial backers, including some of the millionaires who would later sponsor Reagan. After only six years in Congress, Nixon connected with a national following. Ultimately, it would unseat the mandarins who created the Eisenhower candidacy, those Eastern stalwarts who chose...
...mining-reclamation bill in its history. Already the more progressive companies have embarked on efforts to ameliorate the eyesores their mining operations have created. The Pinson Mine on the Getchell Trend, in which Livermore has an interest, is actively transforming waste-rock dumps into gently rolling hills planted with sagebrush, bitterbrush and crested wheat. Freeport-McMoRan, for its part, has hired a wildlife biologist to take charge of its reclamation activities. It has laid ambitious plans to hide its footprints by recontouring and reseeding old exploration roads, waste dumps and leaching heaps...