Energy Fuels also acquired the 4% gross proceeds production royalty on Cameco's North Butte/Brown Ranch Project, the Ruby Ranch Project, and the
Greasewood property.
Concrete, pavement, "(tarmac, blacktop, lonesome)," "the neon of a floozy motel," and the "post-industrial particulate" of "the spiky city" come to feel every bit as natural--that is, as necessary--as the floral species of those southwestern biomes that ground these poems:
greasewood, cranesbill, "Doomful orange garden!" Palms appear in the book's final, fragile oasis: "(I almost forgot to tell you) III lived II in a desert / where palms are signposts of water, not the want of it." In counterpoint to the book's primary story of violence and survival, threads the motif of California's tenuous resilience.
Salt desert shrub ecoregions, characterized by less precipitation and alkaline soils, comprise approximately 19% of the OTR and are dominated by Gardner's saltbush Atriplex gardneri, shadscale Atriplex confertifolia, black
greasewood Sarcobatus vermiculatus, mock goldenweed and cushion-like phlox, with sporadic inclusions of Wyoming big sagebrush and basin big sagebrush A.
canescens), rabbitbrush (Ericameria nauseosa), big sagebrush (Artemesia tridentata), and
greasewood (Sarcobatus vermiculatus).
tenuipennis is abundant on fourwing saltbush, Atriplex canescens; it also occurs on cattle saltbush, Atriplex polycarpa, seepweed or seabite, Suaeda spp.,
greasewood, Sarcobatus vermiculatus, and introduced prickly Russian thistle, Salsola tragus (Ball et al.
(183 m) near
Greasewood, Arizona (Klersch and Keller, 1955).
Common plants found on the Warm Springs winter range include Wyoming Big Sagebrush, Basin Big Sagebrush (Artemesia tridentata tridentata), Mountain Big Sagebrush (Artemesia tridentata vaseyana), Tall Threetip Sagebrush (Artemesia tripartita tripartita), Fourwing Saltbush (Atriplex canescens),
Greasewood (Sarcobatus vermiculatus), and a variety of for b and grass species.
While our first night out in Scottsdale was a blur of burgers, beers, bars and robot rodeo bulls, the nearby
Greasewood Flats set on the edge of the desert provided something entirely different.
Although the signature (Shantz, 1923; Lauenroth et al., 2008) and dominant species of the shortgrass steppe is blue grama (Bouteloua gracilis), in southeastern Colorado short-grass steppe consists of a mosaic of plant communities that include mixed grass-shrublands containing woody plants such as sandsage (Artemisia filifolia), rabbitbrush (Ericameria nauseosa) and black
greasewood (Sarcobatus vermiculatus), as well as other grass species such as galleta grass (Pleuraphis jamesii), three-awn (Aristida purpurea) and species of dropseed (Sporobolus) including alkali sacaton (S.
Ferguson also refers to the possibility of Snake and Spring Valleys turning into dust bowls should the water table drop and deep-rooted plants such as
greasewood lose touch with moisture and die.
Another lovely, small book
Greasewood Creek by Pamela Steele, tells the story of a young woman who returns to the East Oregon ranchland of her home and tries to make an adult life in a place dense with childhood hauntings.
greasewood - low hardy much-branched spiny shrub common in alkaline soils of western America