USGS Sagebrush Ecosystem and Fire Science 2026 Webinar Series

The US Geological Survey Land Management Research Program and the Great Basin Fire Science Exchange are teaming up again to bring you updates in sagebrush, fire, invasives, wildlife, and monitoring related research.

Each 90-minute webinar will be comprised of multiple manager-focused presentations.

Dates, topics, and registration: 

6/10, 1:00 PDT/2:00 MDT – Greater sage-grouse, – Register

Pete Coates – Greater sage-grouse hierarchical population monitoring framework

Shawn O’Neil – Influence of future climate scenarios on habitat and population dynamics of greater sage-grouse

Greg Wann – GRSG habitat maps, trends, and thresholds

Sara Oyler-McCance – GRSG genetic synthesis

Shawna Zimmerman – Charaterizing the environmental drivers of range-wide gene flow

Shawna Zimmerman – Characterizing Greater sage-grouse climate driven maladaptation

6/11, 1:00 PDT/2:00 MDT – Wildlife, carbon, grazing, and fuel breaks – Register

Seren Bagcilar – Decadal effects of fuel treatments and annual grass invasion on sagebrush ecosystem carbon stocks

Jason Kreitler – UAS survey of sagebrush fuel breaks

Martin Holdrege – Livestock grazing for climate adaptation in drylands leads to tradeoffs between fire and vegetation condition

Will Janousek – Patterns and practical tools: Managing the interplay of habitat quality and temperature on mule deer demographics

Robert Arkle – Effects of fire and post-fire restoration seeding treatments on mammals in sagebrush steppe

Bill Davidson – Experiments to provide guidance on post-fire grazing resumption

6/15, 10:00 PDT/11:00 MDT – Invasive species – Register

Matthew Rigge – RCMAP near-real time exotic grass mapping

Julie Heinrichs – Assessing the proliferation, connectivity, and consequences of invasive fine fuels

Morgan Roche – Vectors of annual grass invasion

Cameron Aldridge – Synthesis of indaziflam outcomes for protecting sagebrush ecosystems

Bryan Tarbox – Increase connectivity within the SCD and assessing cheatgrass treatment efficacy

Matt Germino – Landscape-scale assessment of emerging techniques for controlling exotic annual grasses and longevity of herbicides

James Meldrum – Invasive annual grass economic assessment

6/16, 2:00 PDT/3:00 MDT – Monitoring – Register

Michelle Jeffries – Rangeland Monitoring Program, tech transfer tools from NORMP, and ROAM monitoring project

Stella Copeland – Variability in post-fire non-native perennial grass seeding outcomes

Matt Germino – Adapting digital geotech to work at the scale of management

Matthew Rigge – RCMAP vegetation trend summaries

6/17, 10:00 PDT/11:00 MDT – Fire – Register

Adam Noel – PJ treatments for minimizing climate and fire vulnerability

Cara Applestein – Predicting reburn risk to restoration investments

Seth Munson – Lessons from other ecosystems: TLS and remote sensing based multi-year fuel model and evaluation of past treatments

Jake Price – New, precision approaches for prioritizing fuel treatments

Matt Germino – Effectiveness of layering treatments in response to wildfire in sagebrush