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Perched on a broad alluvial fan dotted with rabbitbrush and Joshua trees, this ragtag community of artists, misanthropes and urban refugees has little time for politicians.

Orient yourself to the landscape and ancient history with the 3.6-mile Candy Mountain Trail, featuring interpretive markers so you can learn your sagebrush from rabbitbrush.

Many look for nectar on dandelion, rabbitbrush, Canada thistle, osier dogwood and chokecherry.

Sage, cedar and rabbitbrush covered large swaths of the course.

The administrative law judge in the Interior Department’s Office of Hearings and Appeals concluded that destroying sagebrush and rabbitbrush to increase livestock forage on public lands couldn’t be justified.