The BLM Carson City District is in the implementation phase of a landscape level habitat resiliency, health and restoration project in the Desatoya mountain range in both Churchill and Lander counties, Nevada.� Within the project area, up to 32,000 acres of vegetation treatments will be implemented over a 10 year period.� The purpose of the project is to improve availability, quantity, and quality of sagebrush, woodland, and wet meadow/riparian habitats that multiple wildlife species, wild horses, and livestock depend on.� How do you establish a base line vegetation community layer, adaptively manage treatment implementation over the life of the project, and define success after project completion?� This presentation will identify the process used to develop treatment specifications and prioritize areas for treatment based on the existing vegetation communities using current ecological site descriptions and the development of disturbance response groups for the project area.
Oral presentation and poster titles, abstracts, and authors from the Society for Range Management (SRM) Annual Meetings and Tradeshows, from 2013 forward.