Monitoring, pinyon-juniper, and fuels management topics: 2025 USGS rangeland and fire science webinar series

The US Geological Survey Land Management Research Program and the Great Basin Fire Science Exchange teamed up to bring you updates in sagebrush, fire, and wildlife related research. On 2/20/2025, USGS researchers, Rob Arkle, Doug Shinneman, and Michelle Jeffries, shared research on monitoring and planning, Adam Noel and Sarah Halperin shared their latest research on pinyon-juniper treatments and decision support. Below are the webinar recording and resources associated with each presentation.

To view a complete list of resources (completed and planned), please view the program for this slate of presentations.

2/20 – Monitoring, pinyon-juniper, and fuels management
Webinar recording

Planning for conservation delivery success: Linking biome-wide Sagebrush Conservation Design to local treatment planning by leveraging landscape restoration outcomes
Land Treatment Exploration Tool (LTET)

Technical transfer tools for the Nevada and Oregon rangeland monitoring project (NORMP)
Oregon rangeland monitoring program: SageCon 

Rapid and Other Assessment and Monitoring Methods (ROAM) project
ROAM project website

Pinyon-juniper treatments for minimizing climate and fire vulnerability
Project website
Most PJ woodland species distributions projected to shrink under climate change
Data of estimated environmental suitability of PJ species under various climate scenarios
Earth Engine App with PJ projected distributions

Synthesizing scientific information on treatment and natural disturbance effects on pinyon-juniper woodlands and associated wildlife habitat
Project website
Ecological effects of PJ removal in the western US: A synthesis (2014-2021)