Big sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata) has been seeded on rangeland treatments and wildfires throughout Utah for the enhancement of watersheds and wildlife habitat.…
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Conference ProceedingsPublished: 2018
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Conference ProceedingsPublished: 2018
MULTISAR is a multi-partner program that collaborates to conserve species at risk through voluntary habitat stewardship, while maintaining viable ranching operations in…
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Conference ProceedingsPublished: 2018
The greatest threat to eastern North American biodiversity is the loss of eastern grasslands, especially those found in the southern states. Prior to European settlement,…
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Conference ProceedingsPublished: 2018
The Colorado River is a vital resource in the United States and Mexico but is susceptible to detrimental salinity levels with salinity-related damages estimated at $385…
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Conference ProceedingsPublished: 2018
Wilman love grass (Eragrostis superba) is a species used worldwide to rehabilitate degraded grasslands. Although this species could present lower nutritional quality and…
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Conference ProceedingsPublished: 2018
Tall Forb communities have a complex history of grazing within the Intermountain West.� This complex history of grazing in conjunction with current plant community and…
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Conference ProceedingsPublished: 2018
We conducted three germination experiments to develop propagation protocols for Yucca elata (Engelm.) Engelm. and Menodora scabra A. Gray. Experiments were: seed…
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Conference ProceedingsPublished: 2018
In California, some of the most valued landscapes are the ones that humans have actively managed with fire: grasslands, woodlands, pine forests. Unfortunately, across much…
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Conference ProceedingsPublished: 2018
To borrow from the legal profession, an �examination for discovery� is a process which is partially undertaken to discover relevant facts and areas of agreement prior…
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Conference ProceedingsPublished: 2018
The Taylor ranch, of Edgar, Montana, has followed a 7 pasture deferred-rest rotation grazing system for�21 years. The change on the landscape has been remarkable. One…
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Conference ProceedingsPublished: 2018
Accurate mapping of rangeland vegetation is critical in studies of livestock spatial distribution. Our objective was to develop a detailed vegetation map to help model the…
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Conference ProceedingsPublished: 2018
Unprecedented wildfires are burning on federal lands used for summer grazing by livestock across California. As a result, ranchers and other stakeholders have concerns…
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Conference ProceedingsPublished: 2018
In Montana, economic efficiency of cattle production is threatened by high feed and input costs. Dormant season livestock grazing reduces reliance on harvested feeds, but…
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Conference ProceedingsPublished: 2018
Agricultural producers and land managers have decision and operational implementation calendars � some of which are written; however, many of these calendars are…
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Conference ProceedingsPublished: 2018
Although biological soil crusts (biocrusts) are known to occur globally in arid and semi-arid environments, the question arises as to if they occur in the Great Basin…
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Conference ProceedingsPublished: 2018
The degree of difficulty of the Range Plant Identification Contest has varied over time. To show its evolution a scatter plot with the scores of the first three places per…
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Conference ProceedingsPublished: 2018
The northern bobwhite is an iconic species of the southeastern United States. Southern rangelands are considered important for nearly one third of the range-wide…
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Conference ProceedingsPublished: 2018
Despite the complex nature of biophysical systems, ranchers need ways to assess ecological progress, and grazing management practices must be science-based to be broadly…
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Conference ProceedingsPublished: 2018
This research project discusses and illustrates the dynamics of managing cowherds in common-pool forage resource systems characterized by poor forage quality and…
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Conference ProceedingsPublished: 2018
Beaked sedge (Carex utriculata) is a dominant species within montane riparian meadow communities in northern Arizona and is utilized by both livestock and wild ungulates…
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Conference ProceedingsPublished: 2018
Grazing by domestic livestock is the most common and economical use of grasslands. Plants adopt different reproduction tactics in response to herbivory disturbances under…
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Conference ProceedingsPublished: 2018
Disturbed rangelands present significant challenges to resource managers and land owners.� In the Great Basin, exotic annual grasses have truncated secondary succession…
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Conference ProceedingsPublished: 2018
�Soil degradation is a critical issue in agriculture, and restoration is necessary to reach global food security and production goals. There has been substantial debate…
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Conference ProceedingsPublished: 2018
Successful ranching families maintain flexibility in their operations over decades to multi-generational time spans. Interviews and focus groups with ranchers in the…
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Conference ProceedingsPublished: 2018
Sagebrush ecosystems and the species that depend upon them are at risk due to a suite of persistent ecosystem and anthropogenic threats, and managers and policy makers are…
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Conference ProceedingsPublished: 2018
Rangelands in north Africa and the near east in general provide numerous goods and services that have great economic, social, cultural, and biological values. For…
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Conference ProceedingsPublished: 2018
Grazing lands across the Globe provide essential habitat for sensitive species. Balancing habitat conservation with the infrastructure needs of a growing population is a…
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Conference ProceedingsPublished: 2018
Shrub encroachment in southwestern grasslands has negatively impacted ranching, soil conservation, and grassland dependent species. Past research suggested that a complex…
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Conference ProceedingsPublished: 2018
Quaking aspen, Populus tremuloides, has experienced severe declines in recent years in part due to the effects of changing climate and drought. As the dominant deciduous…
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Conference ProceedingsPublished: 2018
Monitoring programs designed to track ecosystem changes in response to both stressors and disturbances can use repeated observations of ecosystem attributes. Such programs…
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Conference ProceedingsPublished: 2018
Precipitation is both highly spatially and temporally variable in Arizona, which adds a major challenge to decision-making for livestock allotments. MyRAINgeLog allows…
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Conference ProceedingsPublished: 2018
The southeastern U.S. is not known as a major grassland region. Its grasslands largely disappeared two centuries ago. Today�s remnant savannas, prairies, glades, barrens…
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Conference ProceedingsPublished: 2018
The gradient concept of landscape structure is a relatively new conceptual paradigm in landscape ecology that provides an additional framework to pattern-process…
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Conference ProceedingsPublished: 2018
Sustainable ranching operations have access to adequate forage reserves for grazing and means by which to market livestock profitably. These become even more relevant…
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Conference ProceedingsPublished: 2018
Adaptive management (AM) theory is a popular management and conservation tool favored by many land managers and scientists. Its influence is widely observed in the…
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Conference ProceedingsPublished: 2018
Soil salinity limits plant growth and crop production. More than 20% of cultivated land worldwide is affected by salinity, particularly in arid/semiarid regions. The…
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In Modoc County, located in northeastern California there is a unique rangeland area heavily populated by wild horses and managed primarily by US Forest Service known as…
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Granivorous heteromyid rodent species and Indian ricegrass (Achnatherum hymenoides), a perennial grass common on sandy soils, are both widely distributed throughout North…
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Conference ProceedingsPublished: 2018
In 2017, the Gunnison Climate Working Group Project Team (GCWG), a diverse public-private partnership, completed its sixth year of riparian and wet meadow restoration in…
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Conference ProceedingsPublished: 2018
Over 350 vertebrate species rely on sagebrush ecosystems for their existence within all or portions of their lifespans. The sagebrush ecosystem faces two types of threats…
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Conference ProceedingsPublished: 2018
The Great Basin Institute (GBI), in partnership with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), has implemented the Assessment, Inventory, and Monitoring (AIM) strategy to…
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The Great Basin of North America has been identified as an area that suffers from elevated levels of degradation, and is difficult to restore via seeding practices.…
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Conference ProceedingsPublished: 2018
In the western United States, direct seeding is a common practice that attempts to restore native plant communities and ecological function back into the ecosystem.…
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EVOLUTIONARY HISTORY OF HERBIVORY IN PATAGONIAN STEPPE: ALIGNING PRESENT GRAZING WITH PALEOHERBIVORY
Published: 2018Herbivory exerts a profound influence on ecosystem function and physiognomy.� How a plant community responds to grazing by domestic herbivores is to a large degree…
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To quantify rangeland fire behavior, thermocouple datalogger systems are used to measure flame temperature. Current systems are either small and operate few thermocouples…
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Locations with post-Reference vegetation occurring on a single Ecological Site presented here was collected over a 10 year period and in a prescribed manner. The data…
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Native plant species are not generally known to be weeds. Many even question whether native species can be invasive in the full extent of the definition. However, there…
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Conference ProceedingsPublished: 2018
In the United States, 36% of the land is rangeland with 25% of it privately owned and vulnerable to accelerated soil loss. Soil erosion from mismanagement, desertification…
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Land managers often apply straw mulch after wildfire to reduce soil erosion and potentially increase soil moisture. Increased soil moisture and reduced soil erosion may…
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Conference ProceedingsPublished: 2018
Objectives of this study conducted in a western juniper (Juniperus occidentalis) dominated system of central Oregon were to: (1) evaluate tree canopy cover effects on…
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