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“All we had to do was throw a couple tumbleweeds in there and we would’ve had a ghost town,” Baker said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 18, 2026
Crews on Tuesday continued to plow, load and haul carcasses of twisted and dried tumbleweeds from neighborhoods in South Jordan, Utah, four days after scores of the beachball-sized plants were bounced in by heavy winds.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 5, 2024
But for researchers like Kainz and CU Boulder geologist Lon Abbott, the High Plains that extend over much of eastern Colorado -- the territory of tumbleweeds and prairie dogs -- may be even more interesting.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 4, 2024
In 1999, Vidler asked Nevada officials for permission to pump around 2,000 acre-feet of groundwater in Sandy Valley, a remote community of trailers and tumbleweeds about an hour southwest of Las Vegas.
From Salon ● May 7, 2023
He pushed the dry tumbleweeds farther into the pipe with his feet and tried to get comfortable; he would stay there until morning.
From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko
