I have obsessively spent a rather ridiculous amount of time trying to duplicate the distinctive look of Big Sagebrush, a.k.a. Basin Sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata), which is the dominant plant around much of the Lockwood Valley. At left is a bush made using the Harold Minkowitz method; center, my Big Sagebrush. At right is one made the same way but using brown fur and Scenic Express "Sage" colored foam. It might pass as Yerba Santa, another common plant in Lockwood Valley. Harold Mikowitz wrote about using fake fur to make bushes on his Pacific Coast Air Line Railway web site (www.pacificcoastairlinerr.com) and I tried his method. It makes good bushes, resembling dry season California chaparral, and I have made some that way and have a few on the diorama. It didn't look like the specific Big Sagebrush I was looking for, but I took that as a starting point and went from there. The main problem was color: Different sages and sagebrushes can vary widely in color, but t