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by Mike in O on Tue May 19, 2015 11:35 am

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Nature on PBS is showing "The Sage Brush Sea" on Wednesday the 20th of May...I will be watching since it is my home eco-system.
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/

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by SantaFeJoe on Tue May 19, 2015 12:59 pm

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Thanks for posting this. Although we may not have the variety of wildlife and birds in our sagebrush regions, we have a lot of sagebrush in the northern and some central parts of the state.

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by Mike in O on Tue May 19, 2015 1:28 pm

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Just play a little Ian Tyson, to get a feeling for the Sage Brush Sea in music.

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by SantaFeJoe on Wed May 20, 2015 8:56 pm

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Just finished watching it. Great footage, especially of the Sage Grouse. Well worth watching! Thanks again for posting this.

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by Brian E. Small on Thu May 21, 2015 1:34 pm

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Just thought I'd give a quick shout out to my friend Gerrit Vyn who did the cinematography and produced this film for the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. An outstanding job by a wonderful photographer...............if you're interested in more of his work and the photo blind he markets here's his site: http://gerritvynphoto.com/

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by Mike in O on Thu May 21, 2015 3:52 pm

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I looked at the site, Brian...nice images. The film seemed to be filmed mostly in Wyoming which looks a bit different than Oregon, Nevada, and California. The sage brush sea phrase comes from the glacial lakes that once existed (some still do)and stretch to the horizon as flat lake bottoms with a monoculture of sage (of course it isn't as simple as that). Sage Grouse eat the sage...at least 2 varieties in Oregon...tall and short with the tall being necessary for nesting and cover.

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