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Community Partnerships in Action: Wyoming Landscape Conservation Initiative
An Initiative for Landscape Conservation on southwest Wyoming The following story is contributed by Erica Husse, Wyoming Landscape Conservation Initiative (WLCI) Coordinator for the Bureau of Land Management The Wyoming Landscape Conservation Initiative (WLCI) was established in 2007 as a long-term, science-based effort to conserve and enhance fish and wildlife habitats while facilitating responsible development…
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Community Partnerships in Action: Warner and Vya Regions, CA/NV/OR Borders
Collaboration in Sagebrush Country This story is brought to you by the partnership between the Intermountain West Joint Venture and the Bureau of Land Management as part of a series highlighting local success stories and what made them possible. The Place In the northern Great Basin, low sagebrush and mountain big sagebrush roll across the arid landscape,…
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Webinar Series: Pinyon-Juniper Woodlands and Management
Join us April 15 and May 27 for a Pinyon-Juniper Woodland Management Webinar Series. These communications represents a joint effort of the Great Basin Fire Science Exchange, Intermountain West Joint Venture, and the Society for Ecological Restoration, Great Basin Chapter. Find summaries of these talks below as well as links to register to participate. New tools…
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Outcome-based Evaluation of Conifer Removal in Lakeview, Oregon
The overall objective of a study conducted by Oregon State University and partners has been to expand the existing database and provide a longer-term assessment of the effects of juniper removal on sage grouse habitat use and demography. The specific objectives that have reached conclusion are: 1) modeling of sage grouse habitat selection during nesting…
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Featured Films
Creating Miracles in the DesertDixie Creek is a small stream near Elko, Nevada. Changes in livestock grazing practices resulted in the plants that naturally grow along streams to come back which eventually attracted beaver. The beaver built dams which captured and slowed stream flows, ultimately creating a landscape full of water and wildlife even during…
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Crossing Boundaries
Conifer removal projects in Idaho model successful partnership work across land ownerships. The follow article is contributed by Connor White, a partner biologist with the NRCS-led Sage Grouse Initiative and Pheasants Forever. Due to his cross-boundary work on both private and public lands, his position is supported in part by the Partnering to Conserve Sagebrush…
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Dancing Again — Sage Grouse Returns to Old Haunts
For almost 15 years on any given spring morning at Wyoming’s Rome Hill, you could hear every noise associated with daybreak in the sagebrush sea, except one: You wouldn’t hear that strange burbling sound the male greater sage-grouse makes during its mating rituals. The story was the same for many years. Every March and April…
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Making Room Out West
Did you know that some iconic western game birds hate trees? A long-time champion of habitat restoration and enhancement, Pheasants Forever is helping pioneer recovery of upland game bird habitat by removing woody shrubs and trees from places they don’t belong. Why? Because good habitat means more game and non-game birds, and better hunting. Cooperative…
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Wyoming Juniper Removal Helps to Bring Sage Grouse Back
Don Smurthwaite, a Bureau of Land Management Communications Specialist focused on all things sagebrush and sage grouse, contributed the following story. On a windswept butte in southern Wyoming, a change is taking place – one that will eventually make thousands of acres more suitable for Greater Sage-grouse, mule deer and other wildlife, and improve domestic…
