More protection: Department of Fish and Wildlife receives funds to protect shrubsteppe
A Columbia Basin pygmy rabbit nibbles on sagebrush in the Beezley Hills Preserve. Above: Keeping fire out of the preserve, where pygmy rabbit recovery efforts were hindered in 2020, is an ongoing effort.
Hannah Letinich/courtesy photo
The sage grouse is another species endangered by wildfire. Current population numbers are estimated to be around 700 in Washington.
Because of last year’s immense fire-scar on land vital to vulnerable and endangered animal populations in the Columbia Basin, state legislators passed a Shrubsteppe Fire Recovery and Preparedness Proviso to protect Department of Fish and Wildlife lands, as well as their partners and stakeholders.
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