It is alleged that the high shrub cover is a result of continuous grazing.
There is diurnal movement of 2 to 10 miles (3-16 km) from shrub cover in day to open foraging areas at night.
Just as they reached the end of the shrub cover, the front door of the house burst open and several shots rang out.
All are fairly secretive and hard to spot, living in low shrub cover.
Pygmy rabbits are restricted to areas with heavy shrub cover.
This system is similar to Florida dry prairie, but has taller and denser shrub cover.
Its natural habitat is sandy desert with low shrub cover.
They remain under shrub cover for much of the day, moving into the open in the early morning and late evening to feed.
When the engineers approached the area they had to use hand tools to cut open the shrub cover and make a foot path towards the location.
No greater sage-grouse hens nested in the most arid, open areas with less than 10% total shrub cover.