Learn cool facts and test your knowledge about the pygmy rabbit, one of 350 species that depends on healthy, intact sagebrush habitat.
1. Sagebrush provides 99% of the pygmy rabbit’s diet.
2. The adorable creature is the smallest rabbit in North America.
3. The pygmy rabbit is the only kind of rabbit to dig its own burrow.
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The vast sagebrush sea sustains 350 species — like the pygmy rabbit — as well as rural communities and our way of life in the American West. The Sage Grouse Initiative works with ranchers on a host of conservation strategies that benefit wildlife and agricultural operations.
Read about wildlife in sagebrush country
The American West’s sagebrush country sustains thousands of ranchers, hundreds of rural communities, and 350 species of plants and animals.