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Fig. 2.11 ( a ) A fi re that started along a major highway and burned through a sagebrush ecosystem
with B. tectorum in the understory and into a Jeffrey pine ecosystem, Washoe County, Nevada. ( b )
Landscape conversion of a sagebrush ecosystem to B. tectorum and other exotic annual dominance
following repeated fi re, Humboldt County, Nevada. Photos by Nolan E. Preece
M.L. Brooks et al.