Sagebrush heart describes the sagebrush landscape and the problems faced by elko county in protecting and rehabilitating this landscape it is written for the people who have sagebrush in their peripheral vision readers who either live in or travel through this distinctive landscape. Sagebrush heart describes the sagebrush landscape and the problems faced by elko county in protecting and rehabilitating this landscape it is written for the people who have sagebrush in their peripheral vision readers who either live in or travel through this distinctive landscape. Sagebrush heart describes the sagebrush landscape and the problems faced by elko county in protecting and rehabilitating this landscape it is written for the people who have sagebrush in their peripheral vision readers who either live in or travel through this distinctive landscape. In elko county sagebrush is always within view if merely in ones peripheral vision the sagebrush landscape is a beautiful but harsh landscape a land little known and less understood it is also a landscape in trouble over 500000 acres of ground burned in 2007 and one million acres in 2006 nevada has seen six bad fire seasons since 1999 burning an average of one million acres each year. The sagebrush landscape held more habitat variety sagebrush still dominated the hills and valleys but the land was a mosaic of open grassland areas and areas of sagebrush before cheatgrass