The Horse Heaven Hills south of the Tri-Cities are a patchwork quilt of shrubs, bushes and grasses a few inches to 6 feet in height.
“The best way to see shrub-steppe is to lay down to look into it. …. It’s as complex as the rain forests on the Olympic Peninsula,” said Mike Ritter, a wildlife biologist with the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife.
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