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- Library Collection RecordAn unlikely alliance of ranchers, Indigenous communities and environmentalists is trying to save the Owyhee Canyonlands.Publication Date Mar 30, 2021
- sagebrush
- Oregon
- Library Collection RecordHuman enterprise has led to large-scale changes in landscapes and altered wildlife population distribution and abundance, necessitating efficient and effective conservation strategies for impacted…Publication Date 2021
- Galliformes
- greater sage-grouse
- Centrocercus urophasianus
- sagebrush
- Artemisia spp.
- Land cover change
- resource selection function
- Translocation
- Library Collection RecordSUMMARY The two-part Science Framework for Conservation and Restoration of the Sagebrush Biome published by the U.S. Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station is a new, multi-scale approach to…Publication Date 2019
- Sage
- grouse
- sagebrush
- management
- conservation (storage)
- planning
- conservation
- Library Collection RecordNative plant abundances within the grasslands and sagebrush steppe of the Northern Range decreased substantially during the 20th century and the degradation has continued during the 21st century.…Publication Date 2018-12
- grasslands
- Northern Range
- rangeland health
- sagebrush
- similarity index
- Yellowstone
- Library Collection RecordManagement of conservation-reliant species can be complicated by the need to manage ecosystem processes that operate at extended temporal horizons. One such process is the role of fire in regulating…Publication Date 2017
- cutting
- fire
- juniper
- pinyon
- prescribed burning
- sagebrush
- Library Collection RecordWestern Juniper (Juniperus occidentalis Hook.) has greatly expanded in the past 150+years and now dominates over 3.6 million ha of rangeland in the Intermountain Western United States. The impacts of…Publication Date 2017
- iSnobal
- juniper
- sage grouse
- sagebrush
- snow
- streamflow
- Library Collection RecordJuniper and piñon coniferous woodlands have increased 2- to 10-fold in nine ecoregions spanning the Intermountain Region of the western United States. Control of piñon-juniper woodlands by mechanical…Publication Date 2017
- conifer woodland
- fuel reduction
- juniper
- prescribed fire
- sagebrush
- Library Collection RecordPurpose: To outline important considerations and options for post-fire seeding, including the selection of seed mixes and seeding equipment for restoring sagebrush communities following fire. The…Publication Date 2016
- Seeding (seed)
- sagebrush
- Rehabilitation of natural resources
- Sagebrush community
- Great Basin
- Library Collection RecordLand managers are responsible for developing effective strategies for conserving and restoring Great Basin ecosystems in the face of invasive species, conifer expansion, and altered fire regimes. A…Publication Date 2016
- invasive species
- Annual Plants
- conifers
- wildfires
- grazing management
- fuels
- Seeding (seed)
- sagebrush
- aspen (tree)
- Great Basin
- Library Collection RecordPlant Materials Technical Note No. 66. This technical note is a useful summary of information about rangeland fuel breaks based on current science and lessons learned in practice. Written for…Publication Date 2016
- wildfires
- fuels
- sagebrush
- greenstrip
- plant materials
- fuel break
- Great Basin
- Library Collection RecordCrested wheatgrass (Agropyron cristatum [L] Gaertm. and Agropyron desertorum [Fisch.] Schult.) has been seeded across millions of hectares of the sagebrush steppe and is often associated with native…Publication Date 2016
- Agropyron cristatum
- burning
- grazing
- legacy effects
- sagebrush
- Seedbed
- Library Collection RecordPiñon (Pinus spp.) and juniper (Juniperus spp.) expansion and infilling in sagebrush (Artemisia L.) steppe communities can lead to high-severity fire and annual weed dominance. To determine…Publication Date 2016
- encroachment
- Expansion
- fuel control
- Infilling
- mastication
- resilience
- resistance
- sagebrush
- Library Collection RecordAlthough fire is becoming frequent in arid lands throughout the world, little is known about the recruitment pattern of many arid land shrub species after fire. We explored topographic and edaphic…Publication Date 2016
- bitterbrush
- functional traits
- Great Basin
- plant reproduction strategy
- postfire succession
- sagebrush
- Library Collection RecordCrested wheatgrass (Agropyron cristatum [L] Gaertm. and Agropyron desertorum [Fisch.] Schult.) has been seeded across millions of hectares of the sagebrush steppe and is often associated with native…Publication Date 2016
- Agropyron cristatum
- burning
- grazing
- legacy effects
- sagebrush
- Seedbed
- Library Collection RecordPiñon (Pinus spp.) and juniper (Juniperus spp.) expansion and infilling in sagebrush (Artemisia L.) steppe communities can lead to high-severity fire and annual weed dominance. To determine…Publication Date 2016
- encroachment
- Expansion
- fuel control
- Infilling
- mastication
- resilience
- resistance
- sagebrush
- Library Collection RecordAlthough fire is becoming frequent in arid lands throughout the world, little is known about the recruitment pattern of many arid land shrub species after fire. We explored topographic and edaphic…Publication Date 2016
- bitterbrush
- functional traits
- Great Basin
- plant reproduction strategy
- postfire succession
- sagebrush
- Library Collection RecordTo provide managers with tools and strategies to reestablish perennial-dominated plant communities in medusahead-invaded sagebrush rangelands.Publication Date 2015
- reseeding
- perennials
- invasive species
- Rehabilitation of natural resources
- sagebrush
- medusahead
- Library Collection RecordPurpose: To provide land managers with a brief summary of the effects of conifer expansion and infill in sagebrush ecosystems and of potential management strategies.Publication Date 2015
- sagebrush
- Rehabilitation of natural resources
- conifers
- Brush Removal
- Library Collection RecordPurpose: To provide a framework for the placement, use, and effectiveness of established fuel breaks for protecting sagebrush ecosystems.Publication Date 2015
- Fire Prevention
- sagebrush
- fuel break
- Great Basin
- Library Collection RecordPurpose: Wind erosion is a problem in Great Basin shrublands, particularly following large wildfires or other disturbances that remove the protective cover plants provide to soil. This fact sheet…Publication Date 2015
- wind erosion
- wildfires
- sagebrush
- Great Basin
- Library Collection RecordPurpose: To define wildland fuels and review some of the approaches used to assess fuel loads in Great Basin ecosystems. Assessing wildland fuel loading is important for quantifying potential fire…Publication Date 2015
- fuels
- sagebrush
- juniper
- wildfires
- Great Basin
- PJ
- pinyon-juniper
- Library Collection RecordPurpose: To provide land managers with state-of-the-art information on the establishment of big sagebrush through direct seeding.Publication Date 2015
- Seeding (seed)
- sagebrush
- Great Basin
- Intermountain West
- Library Collection RecordPurpose: To provide an overview of the immediate and short-term hydrologic impacts of fire on infiltration, runoff, and erosion by water, and of the effectiveness of various mitigation treatments in…Publication Date 2015
- erosion
- wildfires
- sagebrush
- runoff
- Great Basin
- Library Collection RecordPurpose: To discuss consequences and options for woody plant fuel reduction in Wyoming big sagebrush plant communities of the Intermountain West.Publication Date 2015
- fuels
- woody plants
- wildfires
- sagebrush
- Great Basin
- Wyoming big sagebrush
- Library Collection RecordIt has recently been proposed that the cost of rehabilitating medusahead (Taeniatherum caput-medusae [L.] Nevski)–invaded rangelands may be reduced by concurrently seeding desired vegetation and…Publication Date 2014-11
- annual grass control
- invasive plants
- preemergent herbicide
- revegetation
- sagebrush
- Taeniatherum caput-medusae
- Library Collection RecordIt has recently been proposed that the cost of rehabilitating medusahead (Taeniatherum caput-medusae [L.] Nevski)–invaded rangelands may be reduced by concurrently seeding desired vegetation and…Publication Date 2014-11
- annual grass control
- invasive plants
- preemergent herbicide
- revegetation
- sagebrush
- Taeniatherum caput-medusae
- Library Collection RecordIn response to the recent expansion of piñon and juniper woodlands into sagebrush-steppe communities in the northern Great Basin region, numerous conifer-removal projects have been implemented,…Publication Date 2014-09
- cheatgrass
- Nonnative species
- Pinon-juniper
- resilience
- restoration
- sagebrush
- Single-needle pinon
- Utah Juniper
- western juniper
- Library Collection RecordIn response to the recent expansion of piñon and juniper woodlands into sagebrush-steppe communities in the northern Great Basin region, numerous conifer-removal projects have been implemented,…Publication Date 2014-09
- cheatgrass
- Nonnative species
- Pinon-juniper
- resilience
- restoration
- sagebrush
- Single-needle pinon
- Utah Juniper
- western juniper
- Library Collection RecordDeclining greater sage-grouse populations are causing concern for the future of this species across the western United States. Major ecosystem issues, including exotic annual grass invasion and…Publication Date 2014-07
- Endangered Species Act
- sage-grouse
- sagebrush
- state-and-transition
- Library Collection RecordDeclining greater sage-grouse populations are causing concern for the future of this species across the western United States. Major ecosystem issues, including exotic annual grass invasion and…Publication Date 2014-07
- Endangered Species Act
- sage-grouse
- sagebrush
- state-and-transition
- Library Collection RecordLittle is known about how cultivation legacies affect the outcome of rehabilitation seedings in the Great Basin, even though both frequently co-occur on the same lands. Similarly, there is little…Publication Date 2014-05
- crested wheatgrass
- Exarable fields
- Land-use legacies
- old fields
- sagebrush
- site history
- Library Collection RecordLittle is known about how cultivation legacies affect the outcome of rehabilitation seedings in the Great Basin, even though both frequently co-occur on the same lands. Similarly, there is little…Publication Date 2014-05
- crested wheatgrass
- Exarable fields
- Land-use legacies
- old fields
- sagebrush
- site history
- Library Collection RecordSince 6000 years ago, modern steppe vegetation has contracted in some regions (e.g. southeastern Idaho) but expanded into other regions (e.g. eastern Oregon). These changes from the mid-Holocene to…Publication Date 2014
- steppes
- communities
- sagebrush
- Idaho
- Oregon
- Library Collection RecordThe primary goal of this project was to assess the effect of climate change on carbon cycling in mature sagebrush ecosystems. We used initial soil characteristics and carbon values for three location…Publication Date 2014
- Carbon cycle
- sagebrush
- climate change
- Library Collection RecordWe compiled long-term records on canopy cover from permanent vegetation plots across the western United States to examine how the cover of common grasses and sagebrush changes in response to yearly…Publication Date 2014
- climate change
- plants
- sagebrush
- Library Collection RecordIn the United States, the current distribution of big sagebrush ranges from Washington and California east to the Dakotas and Nebraska. In the future, areas where sagebrush will expand, the leading…Publication Date 2014
- drought
- sagebrush
- regeneration
- range management
- Library Collection RecordBig sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata) grows in arid and semiarid areas throughout the Intermountain West. It is a long-lived, slow-growing, evergreen shrub that typically grows 2 to 4 feet in height…Publication Date 2014
- sagebrush
- steppes
- livestock management
- Library Collection RecordOn the Ground • Between 2008 and 2010 a cultivated field of 57 ha within the mixed grass prairie of southeastern Alberta was restored with native grasses and silver sagebrush plugs. • Wildlife…Publication Date 2013-06-01
- sagebrush
- seed sowing
- species at risk
- Sprague's pipit
- Library Collection RecordMedusahead (Taeniatherum caput-medusae [L.] Nevski) is an exotic annual grass invading western rangelands. Successful revegetation of invaded-plant communities can be prohibitively expensive because…Publication Date 2013-03-01
- invasive plants
- medusahead
- restoration
- sagebrush
- Taeniatherum caput-medusae
- Weeds
- Library Collection RecordMitigation of ecological damage caused by rangeland wildfires has historically been an issue restricted to the western United States. It has focused on conservation of ecosystem function through…Publication Date 2013
- Aerial seeding
- Bromus tectorum
- drill seeding
- erosion
- pinyon-juniper
- sagebrush
- fire ecology
- restoration ecology
- Alien invasive species
- seeds
- policy
- management
- Western United States
- Library Collection RecordPlant-soil variation related to perennial-plant resource islands (coppices) interspersed with relatively bare interspaces is a major source of heterogeneity in desert rangelands. Our objective was to…Publication Date 2012-03-01
- bluebunch wheatgrass
- cheatgrass
- coppice
- heterogeneity
- interspace
- sagebrush
- Library Collection RecordSome ecosystems in North America have been so radically transformed by human activity, that they have often been described as domesticated. Chris Call of Utah State University examines how cheatgrass…Publication Date 2012
- range management
- sagebrush
- juniper
- Bromus tectorum
- cheatgrass
- United States
- woody encroachment
- Library Collection RecordVegetation changes associated with climate shifts and anthropogenic disturbance have major impacts on biogeochemical cycling. Much of the interior western United States currently is dominated by…Publication Date 2011-03-01
- biogeochemical cycles
- carbon sequestration
- cheatgrass
- climate change
- invasive annual grass
- sagebrush
- soil organic carbon
- total nitrogen
- Library Collection RecordThe effect of plant age on growing season chemical compositions and rumen fermentation characteristics was determined for three subspecies of big sagebrush: basin (Artemisia tridentata [Nutt.] subsp…Publication Date 2011-01-01
- annual growth-rings
- Artemisia tridentata
- in vitro fermentation
- nutritional content
- sagebrush
- Library Collection RecordWestern juniper (Juniperus occidentalis subsp. occidentalis Hook.) woodlands are expanding from their historic range and causing significant declines of other plant communities. However, landscape-…Publication Date 2010-11-01
- aerial photography
- Juniperus occidentalis
- landscape ecology
- remote sensing
- restoration
- sagebrush
- woodland encroachment
- Library Collection RecordWoody plants can cause localized increases in resources (i.e., resource islands) that can persist after fire and create a heterogeneous environment for restoration. Others have found that subcanopies…Publication Date 2010-03-01
- heterogeneity
- interspace
- resource island
- revegetation
- sagebrush
- wildfire
- Library Collection RecordRanchers and researchers restore a high-desert watershed in an area experiencing juniper enroachment.Publication Date 2010
- sagebrush
- juniper
- range management
- United States
- woody encroachment
- Library Collection RecordWestern juniper (Juniperus occidentalis spp. occidentalis Hook.) has encroached on and now dominates millions of acres of sagebrush/bunchgrass rangeland in the Great Basin and interior Pacific…Publication Date 2007-05-01
- hydrology
- infiltration
- overland flow
- sagebrush
- Library Collection RecordFire plays a large role in structuring sagebrush ecosystems; however, we have little knowledge of how vegetation changes with time as succession proceeds from immediate postfire to mature stands. We…Publication Date 2007-05-01
- Artemisia tridentata
- Artemisia tripartita
- fire effects
- sagebrush
- succession
- Library Collection RecordWestern juniper (Juniperus occidentalis spp. occidentalis Hook.) expansion into sagebrush steppe plant communities in the northern Great Basin has diminished shrub-steppe productivity and diversity.…Publication Date 2005-09-01
- Bromus tectorum
- cheatgrass
- Juniperus occidentalis
- shrub steppe
- plant cover
- thresholds
- sagebrush
- standing crop