
USGS Sagebrush Ecosystem and Rangeland Fire Science Webinar Series
The US Geological Survey Land Management Research Program and the Great Basin Fire Science Exchange are teaming up to bring you updates in sagebrush, fire, and wildlife related research. Each 90-minute webinar will be 10-11:30 PST/11-12:30 MST, and presentations and published resources will be made available here after the conclusion of the series.
Register for all five webinars at once (you don’t have to attend all five). Webinar flyer to share.
Dates, Topics, and Presentations:
1/30 – Greater sage-grouse
Greater sage-grouse hierarchical population monitoring framework: Range-wide application of an early warning systems for populations at risk – Pete Coates et al.
Evaluating the effectiveness of conservation actions directed for greater sage-grouse using hierarchical models and the conservation efforts database – Pete Coates et al.
Greater sage-grouse range-wide seasonal habitat maps: Identifying regional thresholds and relationships between trends and seasonal habitat use – Wann et al.
Characterizing the environmental drivers of range-wide gene flow for greater sage-grouse – Zimmerman et al.
Characterizing greater sage-grouse climate driven maladaptation – Zimmerman et al.
Quantifying carbon storage and greenhouse gas emissions in sagebrush rangelands to inform management for carbon resilience – Case et al.
2/6 – Invasive species, restoration effectiveness, and monitoring
Develop annual herbaceous percent cover maps in near-real time – Boyte et al.
Proliferation of fine fuels: Assessing under future climatic conditions – Heinrichs et al.
Optimizing sagebrush restoration and management actions to increase connectivity within the Sagebrush Conservation Design – Tarbox et al.
Assessing cheatgrass treatment efficacy across the sagebrush biome – Tarbox et al.
Simulating trends in land health components under treatment scenarios and Sagebrush Conservation Design – Monroe et al.
Biome-wide vegetation change monitoring and warning system – Aldridge
Vectors of annual grass invasion – Heinrichs et al.
Predicting reburn risk to restoration investments – Applestein and Germino
2/20 – Monitoring, pinyon-juniper, and fuels management
Planning for conservation delivery success: Linking biome-wide Sagebrush Conservation Design to local treatment planning by leveraging landscape restoration outcomes- Pilliod et al.
Technical transfer tools for the Nevada and Oregon rangeland monitoring project (NORMP) – Pilliod et al.
Rapid and Other Assessment and Monitoring Methods (ROAM) project – Pilliod et al.
Pinyon-juniper treatments for minimizing climate and fire vulnerability – Bradford
Synthesis and forecasts of pinyon-juniper woodland die-off – Wion
Synthesizing scientific information on treatment and natural disturbance effects on pinyon-juniper woodlands and associated wildlife habitat – Shinneman and Coates
Treatment and post-fire assessment tools for management of the sagebrush ecosystem – Duniway
2/27 – Fire, fuels management, invasive species
Effectiveness of layering treatments in the “multiple-intervention” response to wildfire in sagebrush steppe – Germino
A collaborative and iterative framework for delivering applied fuel break science: With a focus on sagebrush ecosystems and the Great Basin – Shinneman et al.
UAS survey of sagebrush fuel breaks – Shinneman and Kreitler
Invasive annual grass – Economic assessment – Meldrum et al.
Longevity of herbicides targeting exotic annual grasses in sagebrush-steppe soils – Germino and Lazarus
Synthesis of indaziflam outcomes for protecting sagebrush ecosystems – Roche et al.
Can ruderal components of biocrust be maintained under increasing threats of drought, grazing, and wild horses? Condon and Coates
3/6 – Climate, carbon, and more
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