ANTELOPE BRUSH

low, deciduous shrub (Purshia tridentata) of the family Rosaceae (rose family), widely distributed in the W United States where it is a characteristic constituent of the vegetation on arid slopes and desert ranges. One of the most important Western browse plants, it provides abundant forage throughout the year for both cattle and deer. Antelope brush is classified in the division Magnoliophyta, class Magnoliopsida, order Rosales, family Rosaceae.

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books on: Antelope Brush  - 210 results

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The Way of the Brush: Painting Techniques of China and Japan
Book by Fritz van Briessen; Charles E. Tuttle, 1962
Subjects: Painting, Chinese, Painting, Japanese, Painting--Technique
...by a Chinese: Tree and Chickens, by Shen Chuan Ching . Courtesy Otsuka Kogeisha. 168. Western influences still strong in a Chinesestyle painting by a Westerner: Pine and Antelope, by Castiglione Ching. . Courtesy Otsuka Kogeisha.
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The Pattern of Asia
Book by Norton S. Ginsburg, John E. Brush; Prentice-Hall, 1958
Subjects: Asia
account for about 70 per cent of the fur exports of the country. Antelope hunters supply some supplementary food, but do little to reduce the range competition for grasses. The 13,000 wolf pelts taken...
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The Lewis and Clark Journals: An American Epic of Discovery
Book by Gary E. Moulton, Meriwether Lewis, William Clark; University of Nebraska Press, 2003
Subjects: Clark, William--1770-1838--Diaries, Explorers--West (U.S.)--Diaries, Lewis And Clark Expedition--(1804-1806), Lewis, Meriwether--1774-1809--Diaries, West (U.S.)--Description And Travel, West (U.S.)--Discovery And Exploration
...Philosophical Society, ix anchovies. See eulachon ant, western harvester, 159 , 159 n.31 antelope. See pronghorns antelope-brush, 335 , 335 n.11 Antelope Creek (Mont.), 160 Antelope Creek (S. Dak.), 47 Apash Wyakaikt (We-ark-koomt...
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Nevada: A Guide to the Silver State
Book; Binfords & Mort, 1940
Subjects: Nevada--Guidebooks
...species of sagebrush, rabbit brush, and other desert flora...grey-green of the rabbit brush and sagebrush. Also in the foothills is found the antelope brush Purshia tridentata...shrub among sagebrush, antelope brush, and rabbit brush...
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Naturalist's Guide to the Americas
Book by Victor E. Shelford; Williams & Wilkins, 1926
Subjects: Natural History, Nature Conservation
...and Balsamorhiza sagittata , and Indian paint brush Castilleja miniota . The vegetation in this area...to Piper, there are frequently found rabbit brush, hop sage Grayia spinosa , antelope brush Kunzia tridentata , and in alkaline situations...
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journal articles on: Antelope Brush  - 31 results

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Tracing the Traceless Antelope: Toward an Interartistic Semiotics of the Chinese Sister Arts
Journal article by Da'An Pan; College Literature, Vol. 23, 1996
Subjects: American Literature--History And Criticism, English Literature--History And Criticism
...and comments that the subtle artistry of Zhong Yaos (151-230) and Wang Xizhis (303-361) calligraphy "lies beyond the brush strokes" (Postscript to the Collection of Poetry by Huang Zisi, Su Dongpo ji II , 8: 22). This is what Su means by "a...
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Is Conservation a Lost Cause? from B.C. to Africa
Journal article; Journal of Business Administration and Policy Analysis, Vol. 24-26, 1996
Subjects: Biological diversity conservation--Addresses, essays, lectures, Conservation of natural resources--Addresses, essays, lectures, Environmentalists--Addresses, essays, lectures, Scholars--Addresses, essays, lectures, Sinclair, Anthony R.E.--Addresses, essays, lectures, Zoologists--Addresses, essays, lectures
...in the south Okanagan, which includes habitats of antelope brush (Purshia), blue bunch grassland and sagebrush...nowhere close to twelve percent of the bunch grass and antelope brush habitats, where these rare species occur, is reserved...
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An Ethnohistorical Consideration of the Role of Antilocapra Americana in the Lives of Indegenous Peoples and American Pioneers
Journal article by Russel L. Tanner; Plains Anthropologist, Vol. 45, 2000
Subjects: Conservation, Endangered & extinct species, Homesteading, Hunting, Indigenous people, Wildlife
...their hides and horns. In the brush along stream valleys footmen...Steward states that communal antelope drives were among the few...further describes communal antelope hunting as follows: Large...power in a vision to charm antelope. During one to several nights...was believed to capture the antelopes souls, rendering them docile...
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Reading the Painterly Text: Clarence Major's "The Slave Trade: View from the Middle Passage."
Journal article by Linda Furgerson Selzer; African American Review, Vol. 33, 1999
Subjects: Slavery and slaves in literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...unnaturalness of his having been sold "without consent of air, fish, water, bird or antelope," and the senselessness of his having been traded "for a damn shaving brush. . . . / Why not something useful? / Even a Kolanut?" (12). A long passage...
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Prehistoric Agriculture on the Canadian River of the Texas Panhandle: New Insights from West Pasture Sites on the M-cross Ranch
Journal article by Douglas K. Boyd; Plains Anthropologist, Vol. 53, 2008
Subjects: Corn, Farmers, Remote sensing, Research & development--R&D, Society, Texas
...of minimal importance to the Antelope Creek phase peoples (Brosowske...valley, to the east of the Antelope Creek core area and south of...the Type 3 houses defined for Antelope Creek by Lintz (1986:Figure...around the edge of some type of brush or hide hut. Structure 4 is...
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magazine articles on: Antelope Brush  - 45 results

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VFW Antelope Hunt Marks Silver Anniversary
Magazine article by Tim Dyhouse; VFW, Veterans of Foreign Wars Magazine, Vol. 95, February 2008
Subjects: Explosives, Hunting, Mines
...ducking under some heavy brush when I hit a trip wire...other vets. During the antelope hunt, he was able to pass...information." On the antelope hunt, Joyner shot a "14 1/2 to 14 3/4-inch" antelope with a 170-yard shot...
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Vote for De-Suburbanization: New Policies Are Key to Reining in Sprawl
Magazine article by Deborah Curran; Alternatives Journal, Vol. 34, August 2008
Subjects: City planning--Environmental aspects, City planning--Social aspects, Suburbanization--Environmental aspects, Suburbanization--Social aspects, Urban planning--Environmental aspects, Urban planning--Social aspects
...social cohesion and regional safety. So habitat lost to sprawl continues largely unabated across Canada--from the antelope-brush grasslands of the Okanagan to the beaches of Nova Scotia. Similarly, the majority of Canadas best arable land is...
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Deja Vu: In an Eerie Echo of the Past, the American News Media Have Drastically Underplayed Genocide in Sudan's Darfur Region Just as They Did a Similar Catastrophe in Rwanda a Decade Ago. but Some Individual Journalists Have Done Outstanding Work
Magazine article by Sherry Ricchiardi; American Journalism Review, Vol. 27, February 2005
Subjects: Journalists--Services, War--Media coverage, War--Services, Wartime press--Services
...Sudan, living off dates and gristly chunks of antelope killed by a sniper named Isaac, who doubled...butchered for food; another time they shot an antelope after chasing it through the brush. What motivated a big-city girl from Queens...
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Answering the Call of the Wild
Magazine article by Robert Zaiglin; Techniques, Vol. 81, April 2006
Subjects: College students, Colleges & universities, Curricula, Southwest Texas Junior College-Uvalde TX, Wildlife management
...first cool front of the year arrived in the brush country of South Texas, a young college...rapidly disappeared back into the sea of brush, but not before the young man could distinguish...north, with the low-lying buck-rich brush country to the south, and the Chihuahuan...
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Prairie Goats
Magazine article by Bill Croke; The American Spectator, Vol. 32, September 1999
Subjects: Animals, Hunting
...last to see a large herd of antelope maybe a mile or more away...nearby and rising barely to brush-level as he scans with his...corner of my eye I see a buck antelope struggle to escape using only...peels over the earth and the antelope pass into pale light, the...
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newspaper articles on: Antelope Brush  - 15 results

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One Has to Laugh; World Cup 2010 Trio Brush off Dressing Room Invasion
Newspaper article; Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland), June 20, 2010
One Has to Laugh; World Cup 2010 Trio Brush off Dressing Room Invasion. Byline: DEREK ALEXANDER DAVID...an appearance. The kuduzela - made from the horn of a kudu antelope - is banned by FIFA from 2010 World Cup stadiums over fears...
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Wildfire Smolders in Desert near L.A
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), August 1, 2010
Subjects: News agencies, The Associated Press, Wildfires
...charred nearly 22 square miles of brush in the Antelope Valley. It was 82 percent contained...concentrating on digging up any remaining brush along the containment lines established...dangerous levels in portions of the Antelope Valley, San Gabriel Mountains...
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Hundreds More Battle California Wildfire
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, August 1, 2010
Subjects: Wildfires
...more than 35 square kilometers of brush in the Antelope Valley. It was 82 percent contained...concentrating on digging up any remaining brush along the containment lines established...dangerous levels in portions of the Antelope Valley, San Gabriel Mountains...
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World and Nation in 60 Seconds the World
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), August 2, 2010
...wildfire smoldering Sunday in the high desert north of Los Angeles. The fire charred nearly 22 square miles of brush in the Antelope Valley. It was 87 percent contained Sunday and crews hoped to have it fully surrounded by Monday evening, Los...
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Space Race
Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), March 15, 2009
...the harsh environment. Roadrunners, wily coyotes, jackrabbits and even oryx (antelope introduced from Africa) eke out a living among yucca and mesquite brush. White Sands is the valley where the worlds first atomic bomb exploded in July 1945...
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encyclopedia articles on: Antelope Brush  - 6 results

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Antelope Brush
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ANTELOPE BRUSH low, deciduous shrub ( Purshia tridentata ) of the family Rosaceae...provides abundant forage throughout the year for both cattle and deer. Antelope brush is classified in the division Magnoliophyta , class Magnoliopsida...
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Antelope
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...small, straight-horned antelopes of forest and thick brush country. Marsh antelopes are deerlike animals of...damalisk are horselike antelopes of the grasslands. The...addax is a related desert antelope. The sable antelope and...
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Rose
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...make many members of the family prized as ornamentals, e.g., the fruit trees and bushes mentioned and also the antelope brush , Christmasberry , mountain ash , pyracantha , and shadbush . Many genera have species that are native wildflowers...
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Eland
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ELAND e l nd, large, spiral-horned African antelope , genus Taurotragus, found in brush country or open forest at the edge of grasslands. Elands...The two species of eland are the largest of all living antelopes. The common eland, Taurotragus oryx, of S and E Africa...
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Navajo , Indigenous People of North America
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...tribe. In winter they lived in earth-covered lodges and in summer in brush shelters called hogans. They farmed (corn and beans), hunted (deer, elk, and antelope), and gathered wild vegetable products. After sheep were introduced...
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