Events

National Native Seed Conference 2025

Conference website. February 24-27, 2025 | Tucson, AZ Seeds for Change: Seeding the Future Together The National Native Seed Conference connects Research, Industry, Land Management, and Restoration professionals, providing the…

Treatment tracking events with LANDFIRE

Webinar recording. LANDFIRE is one of several programs that tracks treatment events on the landscape. Join TNC Fire Ecologist, Kori Blankenship as she discusses the importance of knowing when and…

Climate, vegetation trends, big game topics 3/6: 2025 USGS 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 3/6/2025, USGS researchers, Matt Rigge, Martin Holdrege, and Shawn O'Neil shared research on vegetation trends and their relationships to climate, invasion, and disturbance, Gregor Siegmund, Alice…

Defend and Grow the Core: Implementing the Sagebrush Conservation Design

Webinar recording (1:00:34) The Sagebrush Conservation Design (SCD) is a tool to identify intact sagebrush areas and address the largest threats to the ecosystem. The SCD focuses on first protecting intact and functioning sagebrush ecosystems, called Core Sagebrush Areas, then works outward toward more degraded areas (i.e., “Defend the Core”). The premise behind the Defend…

Sage-grouse, carbon topics 1/30: 2025 USGS 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 1/30/2025, USGS researchers, Pete Coates, Cali Weise, Greg Wann, and Shawna Zimmerman shared their latest on sage-grouse research and tool, and Seren Bagcilar shared research findings…

IMAGINE 2025 virtual workshop

Workshop resources, recordings. Invasive annual grasses (IAG) - including cheatgrass, medusahead, ventanata, and others - continue to be a primary cause of rangeland degradation in the western US. In this workshop, we build upon concepts presented in previous events (see https://www.invasivegrasses.com/virtual-workshop) and focus specifically on turning strategies into action for managing IAG. Not only will…