Field Tour / Workshop
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More than 135 conservation partners recently met in Boise, Idaho during the Sage Grouse Initiative’s 8th annual workshop. This year’s workshop focused on wildfire, weeds and rangeland restoration.
Over the course of two days we heard from ranchers, firefighters, researchers, local non-profits and public land managers about the amazing results that come from working together locally to achieve a shared vision: healthy sagebrush rangelands for people and wildlife.
View Part 1 (2:12) and Part II (2:08) recordings of this symposium.
This special half-day webinar symposium provides an in-depth review of three invasive grasses (cheatgrass, medusahead, ventenata) in the Western US.
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The Conservation Biology Institute, the Great Basin LCC, Oregon State University, and EcoAdapt hosted a workshop to present a series of decision support tools for land managers in the PNW. You can access the tools discussed at the workshop, from this webpage.
View the Ted Talk.
The Era of Megafires is a 70-minute, multi-media presentation hosted by Dr. Paul Hessburg, who has conducted fire and landscape ecology research for more than 27 years. The presented material comes in the form of fast-moving, short, topic-based talks interspersed with compelling video vignettes and features the work of wildfire photographer, John Marshall. Think Ted X mixed with snappy documentary shorts and compelling photography. The videos are produced by award-winning documentary film company, North 40 Productions, of Wenatchee, WA.
The presentation is designed to educate audiences across the West so that they may better participate in the conversation and solutions surrounding the Megafire issue.
Sponsors for this event include U.S. Forest Service Intermountain Region, Salmon-Challis National Forest and the Northern Rockies Fire Science Network.
The presentation will take place at the Sacajawea Center in Salmon, Idaho. Doors will open at 6:30PM, and the presentation will begin at 7:00PM.
This two day field tour discussed conservation and restoration issues in watersheds, riparian ecosystems, and meadows on day one, and piñon-juniper expansion, cheatgrass invasion, and fire on day two. Presenters were from federal and state agencies and the University of Nevada, Reno.
View the flyer and the agenda.
The BLM Targeted Grazing Stakeholder Workshop took place on October 6, 2016 at the Nugget Hotel in Sparks, NV. The following videos and documents are available from the workshop:
Meeting presentations (pdfs)
- Elko District targeted grazing demonstration plots, Kathryn Dyer, BLM
- Targeted grazing demonstration areas, Mike Pellant, BLM
- Secretarial Order 3336: an integrated rangeland fire management strategy, Mike Haske, BLM
- Targeted grazing and SO 3336, Jeff Rose, BLM
- Grazing for fire management, Gregg Simonds, Open Range Consulting
- Livestock fuels reduction, Mike Pellant, BLM
- Standardized monitoring and assessment protocols, Patrick Clark, USDA ARS
This workshop hosted by the Nevada Section of the Society for Range Management and included presentations on the PJ mapping and treatment assessment tool, the conservation credit system, fire and mowing in sagebrush ecosystems, tools and applications from the Sage-grouse Initiative Projects, and more.
Some workshop materials are available:
- Workshop agenda and notes
- Conservation planning tool presentation slides
Workshop Resources:Orchard experimental site summary
Display nursery plantings of NRCS Aberdeen Plant Materials Center
Rush skeletonweed in the northern Great Basin
USDA plant guides
The Great Basin Fire Science Exchange and the BLM’s Great Basin Restoration Initiative conducted a field workshop at the Orchard Experimental Restoration Site, between Boise and Mountain Home, ID. Discussed was: experimental site background, experimental plantings, cheatgrass die-off, and sagebrush recovery.
Workshop presentations in pdf format are available:Connectivity Analysis Toolkit 1 – Carlos Carroll, Klamath Center for Conservation Research
Connectivity Analysis Toolkit 2 – Carlos Carroll, Klamath Center for Conservation Research
Circuitscape – Brett Dickson, Northern Arizona University
Circuitscape Tutorial – Brett Dickson, Northern Arizona University
HexSim – Nathan Schumaker, Environmental Protection Agency
A multidisciplinary team of agency and university researchers presented assessments of current connectivity of riparian vegetation and wildlife habitat including sage-grouse and projections of connectivity for multiple species of animals and plants under different scenarios of environmental change.
Workshop presentations in pdf format:
Great Basin Fire Science Delivery Project– Eugénie MontBlanc
Great Basin Research and Management Partnership – Jeanne Chambers
Great Basin Landscape Conservation Cooperative – Mike Pellant
Great Basin Environmental Program website – Bob Alverts
Connectivity for greater sage-grouse – Steve Knick
Projecting Current and Future Connectivity– Erica Fleishman
Connectivity Analysis Toolkit – Carlos Carroll
Data Basin – Tosha Comendant
This workshop was a collaborative effort of the Great Basin Fire Science Exchange and the Great Basin Connectivity Working Group.