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Channeled Scablands Spring Waterfowl Surveys, Study Report Published in 2025
The Channeled Scablands of Eastern Washington (CSEWA) contain one of the Pacific Flyway’s most undervalued and understudied wetland complexes. This landscape was created thousands of years ago by repeated catastrophic floods from Glacial Lake Missoula, leaving behind an intricate network of tens of thousands of basins. Today, these wetlands provide vital staging and foraging habitats…
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2025 IWJV Fact Sheets
2025 IWJV Fact Sheets The IWJV Fact Sheets provide an overview of the IWJV’s landscape-focused programs we work on in the West. They showcase the three priority habitats, highlight some key components that make each program successful in collaborative conservation, and provide a snapshot of the programs’ achievements from working with our dedicated partners to…
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Implementation Plan
Our Guide in Conservation 2025 Implementation Plan Over the past decade, the Intermountain West Joint Venture (IWJV) has significantly evolved in its approach to bird habitat conservation. While its core mission remains the conservation of bird habitats—a focus it has maintained since its founding in 1994—the IWJV has expanded its strategies to better support its…
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Water 4 Annual Report
The Water 4 program works with agricultural producers, federal and state land managers, private corporations, and non-governmental organizations to achieve wetlands conservation that is relevant to people. In 2024, the IWJV’s Water 4 program invested heavily in science, capacity, and communications to support wetlands conservation work across the region.
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Annual Operational Plan
Annual operational plan The Intermountain West Joint Venture’s Annual Operational Plan establishes the priorities, activities, and budget for the current federal fiscal year. This operational plan focuses our team on efforts that help us realize the highest possible return on investment as we support habitat conservation through partnerships across 486 million acres of the West.
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A Look at the Montana Groundwater Investigation Program
Q&A with Jenna Dohman, Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology Hydrogeologist Jenna Dohman’s work with the Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology’s Montana Ground Water Investigation Program includes a groundwater monitoring project on the Big Hole River, where most private land agricultural irrigation involves flood-irrigating grass hay. Dohman is measuring surface water at 16 sites…
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Learning more about how irrigation intensification impacts sustainability of streamflow in the Western United States
A Q&A with David Ketchum, USGS remote sensing and geospatial information specialist David Ketchum’s research with the University of Montana, Irrigation intensification impacts sustainability of streamflow in the Western United States, looks into the relationship between irrigation intensification and in-stream flows in watersheds across the western United States. As climate-change-induced drought impacts water availability for…
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Wetland Benefits of Flood-Irrigated Grass Hay
SUPPORTING SCIENCE & RESOURCES Wetland Evaluation Tool This spatial wetland analysis product enables users to track changes in surface water over space and time. Download the Data Access the data behind the Working Wetlands Explorer. Contact Teagan Hayes for more information. Read the Insights The Intermountain Insights provides an overview of the science and its…
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IWJV Science: Flood-Irrigated Grass Hay Sustains Western Wetlands
Flood irrigating grass hay meadows is a practice that has long enabled ranchers in the snowmelt-driven systems of the western United States to produce forage for livestock and sustain their operations. But as water scarcity increases throughout this semi-arid region, conversion to irrigation practices like center-pivot or other sprinkler systems, these irrigation systems are threatened—along…
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Sagebrush Annual Reports
For more information on the accomplishments of the Partnering to Conserve Sagebrush Rangelands effort, the intra-agency agreement between the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the Intermountain West Joint Venture (IWJV), please see our annual reports below. 2024 Annual Report For more information on the members of our Sage Capacity Team, click here. 2023 Annual…
