- Located above the Okanogan River on a terrace formed 12,000 years ago by receding glaciers, this 36 acre preserve contains examples of two rare native shrub-grassland ecosystems that were once much more extensive along the Okanogan River and northern Columbia River. The preserve also supports a population of Snake River cryptantha, a state-listed sensitive plant species found only in arid shrub-grassland habitats. The Lime Belt wildfire burned through the entire preserve in 2015, removing most of the shrub cover but leaving an intact native grassland.
- Scheat (stars.astro.illinois.edu)
SCHEAT (Beta Pegasi). Scheat (she-at), at the northwest corner of the famed Great Square of Pegasus, rises first to announce the coming appearance of the constellation of the “Winged Horse,” which in mythology Perseus rode to rescue Andromeda.