Christian Science Monitor: The landscape is quintessentially western vast expanses of sage-covered steppe punctuated by plateaus and mesas etched with canyons.
Known as the Greater Sheldon-Hart Mountain landscape, the tract is billed as one of the few remaining large parcels of sage-steppe habitat in the United States. Now, it's one of 10 pilot projects in a new US Interior Department program aimed at improving the resilience of iconic, ecologically important landscapes to wildfires.
The fire resilience concept isn't...