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Alauna Grant, a member of the Karuk Tribe and the crew leader, slowly circles a scraggly 2-meter-tall antelope bitterbrush, deftly plucking tiny seeds no bigger than grains of wheat.

The surrounding mountainous terrain held a variety of vegetation from sage to bitterbrush, making the North Cascades an ideal testing ground for this newfangled idea.

Wind whipped through bitterbrush, competing with the sound of sparrow and meadowlark birdsong.

The documentary “Bitterbrush” follows Hollyn Patterson and Colie Moline, two female range riders who are spending their last summer herding cattle off the grid in remote Idaho.

Don’t go into the immersive, observational documentary “Bitterbrush” looking for profound insights or roiling conflict but rather a captivating and meditative look at two intrepid young women surviving — and seasonally thriving — in a traditionally male-dominated field: cattle herding.