page_title: Snake–Columbia shrub steppe
hierarchical_section_title: Snake–Columbia shrub steppe
caption_attribution_description: Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument, Idaho, USA. View over Snake River
context_page_description: The Snake–Columbia shrub steppe is an ecoregion defined by the World Wide Fund for Nature. This ecoregion receives little precipitation because it is within the rain shadow of the Cascade Range. It takes in a western portion of the Columbia Basin in Washington, and extends south along the Deschutes River Basin, expanding to cover most of southeast Oregon. This ecoregion reaches south from Oregon into northern Nevada and the northeast corner of California. It also connects east onto the Snake River Plain, which it follows east from Hells Canyon to the continental divide in eastern Idaho.
  Information about this ecoregion is covered by two articles that follow the ecoregion definitions of the United States Environmental Protection Agency:
  Columbia Plateau
  Snake River Plain
context_section_description: The Snake–Columbia shrub steppe is an ecoregion defined by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). This ecoregion receives little precipitation because it is within the rain shadow of the Cascade Range. It takes in a western portion of the Columbia Basin in Washington, and extends south along the Deschutes River Basin, expanding to cover most of southeast Oregon. This ecoregion reaches south from Oregon into northern Nevada and the northeast corner of California. It also connects east onto the Snake River Plain, which it follows east from Hells Canyon to the continental divide in eastern Idaho.
  Information about this ecoregion is covered by two articles that follow the ecoregion definitions of the United States Environmental Protection Agency:
  Columbia Plateau (ecoregion)
  Snake River Plain (ecoregion)
caption: Shrub-steppe of Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument, Idaho
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