Restoration
This webinar with Francis Kilkenny, Research Biologist with the USFS-RMRS, discusses seed zones as they relate to and become increasingly important with climate change.
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, 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.
In this webinar, Jeff Ott reports on experiments carried out by the U.S. Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station, testing the effectiveness of different rangeland drill techniques for seeding common native species of Wyoming sagebrush communities in the northern Great Basin.
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.
Access presentations.
Pdfs of the presentations from the 2012 RTEC Meeting: Sagebrush Re-establishment Practices.
Workshop presentations in pdf format from the Nevada Section of the Society for Range Management annual winter meeting:
Sage-grouse listing decision – Steve Abele
Sage-grouse habitat limitations due to cheatgrass and PJ – Shawn Espinosa
State and transition models and at risk phases– Erica Freeze
Disturbance Response Groups – Tamzen Stringham
Rehabilitating rangelands dominated by cheatgrass – Charlie Clements
PJ treatments and vegetation response– Bruce Roundy
Elko County sage-grouse restoration projects– Chris Jasmine
Presentation recordings from the Intermountain Native Plant Summit VII are being hosted on the Great Basin Fire Science Exchange YouTube channel:
Functional restoration – Kas Dumroese, RMRS
Exploring root-soil interactions to find new ways of controlling weeds – Andrew Kulmatiski, USU
Weed-suppressing bacteria from the outlook of a CWMA – Tom Yankey, Washington Co. Weed Board
New insights into the genetic relationships and adaptive variation of big sagebrush species – Bryce Richardson, RMRS
Big sagebrush demographics: is there an analogous foundation species? – Amy Forman, INL
Sagebrush responses to climate: experimental insight from the Snake River Plain – Lar Svenson and Matt Germino, USGS
Genecology of three native bunchgrasses: implications for management during climate change – Francis Kilkenny, RMRS
Ecological genetics and seed zones: home on the range – Richard Johnson, ARS
Local ecotypes for disturbed land restoration: ideals and realities – Val Anderson, BYU
Performance of bluebunch and Snake River wheatgrass populations in the eastern Great Basin – Tom Jones, ARS
Options for native plant material development – Steve Parr, UDWR
Utah trefoil (Lotus utahensis): a legume for the southern Great Basin – Doug Johnson, ARS
Eriogonum corymbosum in the landscape: a common garden study – Graham Hunter, USU
Agronomic production of native lupines – Jason Stettler
Ecologically appropriate plant materials for functional restoration – Tom Jones, ARS
Sixty-five years of cheatgrass control research: a model for the future emerges – Tom Monaco, ARS
Understanding disturbance response and restoration options: utilizing state and transition models – Erica Freese, UNR
Novel ecosystems: intervening in the new ecological world order – Tom Jones, ARS
Winter environmental conditions have large effects on grass recruitment – Jeremy James, UC
Plant material comparison from germination predictions in the Great Basin – Nathan Cline, BYU
Using a combination of short-term irrigation and native grasses to overcome restoration barriers – Lauren Porensky, ARS
Redefining recruitment strategies – Julie Larson, OSU
Direct seeding methods to establish wetlands – Derek Tilley, NRCS
Improving habitat management with ecological site classifications – Jamin Johanson, NRCS
Pollinator planting demonstration – Loren St. John, NRCS
Habitat restoration projects in Utah and the use of plant materials – Danny Summers, UDWR
Native seed in the BLM: status, trends, and what’s next – Paul Krabacher, BLM
Interaction between the American Seed Trade Association and the native seed industry – Mark Mustoe, CSC
Oil and gas restoration: challenges with native seed – Steven Paulsen, CSR
Restoring North America’s sagebrush-steppe ecosystem using seed enhancement technologies – Matt Madsen, ARS
This workshop was sponsored by the Boise State University Department of Biological Sciences and the USDA Agricultural Research Service.