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Wyoming Nature Guide
Wyoming is the high, dry roof of the Rockies — a state of sagebrush sea, montane forest, and alpine tundra where the Wind River, Teton, Bighorn, and Absaroka ranges rise out of vast cold-desert basins like the Red Desert. It holds the world's largest population of Greater Sage-Grouse, the spring spectacle of strutting leks, the wintering elk and Trumpeter Swans of the National Elk Refuge at Jackson, and the wildlife wealth of Yellowstone and Grand Teton. With USDA zones spanning roughly 3b to 5a, a short, frost-bracketed growing season, and some of the darkest night skies in the Lower 48, the Wyoming year runs from a long, hard winter through a brief, brilliant alpine summer.
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Wyoming Nature Year 2027
Everything Birch Compass knows about a year of nature in one state — the book, the posters, the sky calendar, the life list, and a weekly note through 2027.