Like so many other wild spaces, Washington's steppe-scrubland is disappearing. Most of it has been lost to agricultural, mostly apple and fruit orchards in the southeast corner of the state. Some remains, mostly around the Grand Coulee area. The high steppes scrub, purple sage and bunchgrass scene here is around Horse Heaven Hills, near Prosser. Besides the ever popular Pygmy Rabbit, some inhabitants are the Western Meadowlark, with its bright yellow vest and trilling song, the bright blue Lazuli Bunting, and the strutting Greater Sage Grouse. And lizards and coyotes. And rattlesnakes.
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