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Resilient Landscapes Resource List
Find More Sagebrush Conservation Resources Below Guiding Strategies and Frameworks The resources below are valuable assets for the Intermountain West Joint Venture, used to advance sagebrush conservation goals and guide our work with stakeholders throughout the Intermountain West. These resources will be updated to reflect the latest version of each strategy or framework. Fact Sheets…
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Frequently Asked Questions and Answers about Outcome-based Grazing
In 2017, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announced that it was beginning a collaborative approach to issuing grazing authorizations, which is the permitting system through which private livestock operators (known as permittees) utilize federal lands. In March 2018, BLM selected 11 demonstration projects in six states, with a variety of conditions and circumstances. The…
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Community Partnerships in Action: The Bi-State, California/Nevada
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 Along the central California-Nevada border a biologically distinct population of Greater Sage-grouse roams through this…
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Outcome-based Grazing: Meet the Participating Ranches
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is implementing a relatively new initiative known as Outcome-Based Grazing Authorizations (OBGA). It is designed to offer a more collaborative approach between the BLM and its partners within the livestock grazing community when issuing authorizations to permit grazing on public lands. A handful of demonstration projects testing out outcome-based…
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A Brief History of Three Nevada Conservation Collaboratives
The following is a guest article written by Robin Boies, a rancher and member of multiple collaborative conservation groups in Nevada. Hardline stances and high profile public land issues in the West often capture national and regional media attention. In contrast, or perhaps in answer to the divisiveness and controversy over the shared use of…
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High Noon for Low-stress Livestock Handling
Time and Money Saving Approaches to Managing Cattle and Maintaining Functioning Ecosystems Guest article and photos by Julia Babcock, National Policy Consensus Center Low Stress, High Returns A cadre of cowboys driving steers and spooking the herd with raucous fanfare and whips cracking is a familiar scene in old westerns. The dated profiles of cowboys…
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Putting the Science to Work
In the following essay you hear from the lead editor of the Science Framework for Conservation and Restoration of the Sagebrush Biome, Part Two: Management Applications. This story summarizes the recently released framework that provides management approaches for applying science and prioritization to sagebrush habitats. By Michele Crist, Landscape Ecologist for the Bureau of Land…
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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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School Teaches Stockmanship with a Light Touch
By Hannah Nikonow, Intermountain West Joint Venture We don’t always give cattle the credit they deserve. They are quite trainable animals and there’s a school where people can learn how to implement practices that take advantage of the predictable behavior of cattle. The Nevada Stockmanship School is an annual event that teaches livestock and rangeland…
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Outcome-based Grazing at the Winecup-Gamble Ranch
Story and photos by Sarah Keller for the Intermountain West Joint Venture originally published in the Nevada Rancher magazine. On a sunny early summer day, James Rogers stood next to a projector screen in the Winecup-Gamble Ranch’s horse barn to present his objectives for the northeastern Nevada ranch. Rogers is the manager charged with overseeing Winecup-Gamble’s…
