LEDE: The federal government is using tens-of-millions of your tax dollars to restore a scrubby looking brush to the Western landscape. Planting crews are trying to speed up the re-growth of the native big sagebrush. A spate of wildfires this year destroyed large tracts of sage. Inland Northwest biologists say they value expanses of sagebrush just as much as old growth forests. Richland Correspondent Anna King caught up with one planting crew on the Hanford Reach near Richland, Washington. (SOQ 3:31)