Trainees in the Bureau of Land Management's Vale District firefighter school get ready for the fire season in 2020. (The Enterprise/FILE)
Nearly 45% of historic sagebrush ecosystems in the Great Basin – 200,000 square miles of California, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Utah and Wyoming – have been lost to invasive plants, grasses and wildfires, according to the federal Bureau of Land Management.

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