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Shrub-steppe communities are amazingly complex, supporting a wide variety of vascular plants, cryptobiotic soil crusts, birds and animals. Less than 40% of the original area covered by shrub steppe remains unconverted in Washington. Scenes such as this one, of rolling hills with sage, grass, and lupine on Yakima Ridge, are increasingly rare and so all the more precious.
 Yakima Ridge. Photograph by Katie Beck. Copyright 2007. All rights reserved. |
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