| Following the juniper removal, the Scanlans observed resprouting of sagebrush and an increase in the density of native bunchgrasses. |
| Vernal pools, protected lagoons, grassy hills rich in bunchgrasses and, where the San Francisco Bay is today, ancient bison and mammoths roaming a vast grassland. |
| There were Mojave mound cacti and blackbrush, widely spaced bunchgrasses and iodine bush, and treacherous, heavily armored cholla cacti. |
| Soils of dry sand prairie communities lacked a dark A horizon, and the grasses, most of which were bunchgrasses, rarely exceeded 1 m in height. |
| They usually are surrounded by big sagebrush, native bunchgrasses, wildflowers, mosses, and lichens. |
| Warm season perennial bunchgrasses were the dominant vegetation throughout. |
