Invasive Species
Many inventory and assessment projects spanning large landscapes, the entire Great Basin, or the western US, have been completed recently or are underway for key natural resources. This special session of the 4th Great Basin Consortium Conference brought together leaders of these efforts to compare/contrast their efforts and create a synthesis product or “table of contents” for geospatial data users.
Geospatial presentations in pdf format are provided below:
- Landscape conservation management and analysis portal, Sean Finn USFS, GNLCC
- Rapid ecological assessment of the Northern and Central Basin and Range, Nika Lepak, BLM
- Fire and Invasives Tool, Mike Pellant, BLM
- Land Treatment Digital Library, David Pilliod, USGS
- Conservation Efforts Database, Justin Welty, USGS
- Landscape Toolbox and JournalMap, Bob Unnasch, TNC
- Remote sensing characterization of GB shrub and grasslands for monitoring, Collin Homer
- BLM Riparian Toolbar, Ken McGwire, DRI
- Geospatial weather sources, Stuart Hardegree, ARS
- Development and use of seed zones in native plant restoration, Francis Kilkenny, RMRS
- NorWEST Stream Temperature, Dan Isaak, RMRS
- Forest Inventory and Analysis, Chris Witt, FS
- Assessment, Inventory, and Monitoring Strategy, Nika Lepak, BLM
- Sagebrush ecosystem response to changing climate and disturbance: an ecohydrological perspective, John Bradford, USGS
- Small mammal thermal mapping, Erik Beever, USGS
In this webinar, Jeanne Chambers, USDA Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station, discusses the importance of resistance to invasion and resilience to disturbance in restoration and management of Great Basin rangelands.
In this webinar, Stephen Boyte, Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies, Inc., and Susan Meyer, USFS RMRS Shrub Sciences Lab discuss: 1) Mapping inter-annual cheatgrass production and dieoff in the Great Basin using remote sensing data and ecological models, and 2) If cheatgrass die-offs in the Great Basin provide an opportunity for long-term control?
In this webinar, Stuart Hardegree, Plant Physiologist, USDA-ARS, Northwest Watershed Research Center discusses weather impacts on the restoration planning cycle, and describes a weather-centric approach for adaptive management planning on rangelands with invasive annual weeds. This webinar was co-sponsored by the Great Basin Research and Management Partnership.
This webinar, presented by Jim McIver, Research Ecologist at Oregon State University, is a compilation of some of the more important short-term results of SageSTEP experiments through the third year after treatment. The results come from evaluations made at 18 study sites, measuring ecosystem response to prescribed fire, clearcutting, tree shredding, mowing, and herbicides.
In this webinar, Mark Williams, BLM, Salt Lake City, UT, discusses the advantages and disadvantages of using native and non-native plants for fuel breaks, which are common treatments in rangelands where the spread of invasive annuals and subsequent wildfire threaten sagebrush ecosystems.
In this webinar, Gene Schupp, Professor of Plant Population Ecology and Restoration Ecology at Utah State University, presented preliminary research findings on plant responses to imazapic and other treatments four years after treatments.
In this webinar, Dave Pyke, USGS Forest and Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center, discusses results of a study looking at 20 years of post-fire rehabilitation seeding in the Great Basin. See also the article on this topic.
In this webinar, Bruce Roundy, Plant Ecologist at Brigham Young University, discusses vegetation restoration in response to piñon and juniper control treatments.
In this webinar, Kent McAdoo, Rangeland Resources Specialist, University of Nevada Cooperative Extension, discusses strategies for increasing native plant diversity in crested wheatgrass seedings.