Webinar
This webinar covers basic quality assurance and quality control for Bureau of Land Management Assessment, Inventory, and Monitoring (AIM) projects using the Database for Inventory Monitoring and Assessment (DIMA).
Erik Beever, USGS, presented this webinar to the Great Basin LCC on his results on pika distribution and climate change using historical surveys, more-systematic and more-comprehensive recent surveys, and a diversity of technological and modeling advances. The information will help tackle numerous questions at the interface of how Great Basin systems work and how Basin resources may be managed and conserved, amidst contemporary climate change and other influences.
This webinar presents findings from SageSTEP scientists, who have collected 6 years of post-treatment data from 20 sites throughout the Great Basin, and now have a fairly certain understanding of short-term vegetation response to fire and mechanical treatments on about half of those sites. While post-treatment recovery to a more desirable condition is evident at some sites (i.e. more bunchgrasses), the warmer and drier sites continue to be dominated by exotic annual grasses.
This webinar focuses on the Target Plant Concept, which incorporates five variables:
- Objectives and constraints
- Limiting factors on the outplanting site
- Stock type
- Source of plant material
- Outplanting and follow-up practices
All of the above variables should be considered determining factors for how, where, and when nursery stock are produced for restoration projects. This webinar was presented by Anthony S. Davis, Director, Center for Forest Nursery and Seedling Research, University of Idaho and Jeremy Pinto, Research Plant Physiologist, USFS RMRS.
This webinar with Clark Fleege, Nursery Manager at the USFS Lucky Peak Nursery, discusses all aspects of seedling production from seed collection to outplanting. The Lucky Peak Nursery has been producing dryland shrubs for restoration plantings on public lands throughout the Great Basin for almost 60 years.
This webinar discusses the Upper Snake Sagebrush Seed Collection Contract and Shoshone Native Plant Material Development, which is important to the production of local native seed and rehabilitation treatment resiliency in the face of extreme weather events, increasing fire frequency and severity, and for restoring and improving habitat for sagebrush-obligate wildlife species. Webinar presenters were Ben Dyer, Fire Ecologist, Upper Snake Field Office, and Danelle Nance, Natural Resource Specialist, Shoshone Field Office BLM.
In this webinar, Bryce Richardson, Research Geneticist, USFS RMRS, discusses the climatic considerations for sagebrush subspecies and what native plants could potentially fill the void left by sagebrush in the upcoming decades as parts of the Great Basin transition to Mojave desert. He also discusses how understanding the subspecies composition of seed used in restoration could aid in improving restoration outcomes.
This webinar presented by Holly Prendeville, Research Geneticist, USFS PNW, explains provisional and empirical seed zones using and discussing tools available that allow us to use seed zones to select genetically appropriate plant materials for restoration, which is goal one of the National Seed Strategy.
Producing native plant materials for restoration: 10 rules to collect and maintain genetic diversity
In this webinar, Andrea Kramer, Conservation Scientist with the Chicago Botanic Garden, describes each potential production step where genetic diversity can be lost and outline 10 rules to assist in the collection and production of native plant material for restoration, providing justification for, and examples of why, each rule is important.
Sagebrushes are champion chemists and famous for their abundant and complex volatile bouquets. The chemical make-up of sagebrushes plays important roles in plant fitness and survival and is an unseen but fundamental component of sagebrush habitats. In this webinar, Justin Runyon, Research Entomologist, USFS RMRS, discusses the diversity, distribution, possible functions, and potential restoration use of sagebrush chemistry, focusing on volatiles.