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Creating Miracles in the Desert: Restoring Dixie Creek Film
For decades, cattle grazed the vegetation growing alongside Dixie Creek continuously throughout the summer. A stream that once supported Nevada’s native cutthroat trout, was reduced to a trickle in the bottom of a deep gully. In 1991, the Elko District of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) built some fences around Dixie Creek so the…
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Embark on a Virtual Tour of Eastern Nevada
Are you missing the times when partners from across the West would spend a lot more time in the field checking out projects and hearing about successes and challenges in conservation? We sure are at the Intermountain West Joint Venture (IWJV) and Partnering to Conserve Sagebrush Rangelands! To get a little taste of that field…
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A Hub for Conservation and Ranching on Montana’s North-Central Grasslands
Providing livestock with consistent water is often one of the biggest challenges faced by ranchers in the West. Opportunities to do so are thin on the ground and become even thinner throughout the summer, especially in a drought year like the one experienced in north-central Montana in 2021. Tyrel Obrecht, who operates the Louie Petrie…
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The People Component of Land Management
By Katlyn Uhart, Coordinator, Results Oriented Grazing for Ecological Resilience Group Recreation, public lands, natural resources, and livestock grazing are a few of the key components discussed when regarding the health of sagebrush ecosystems in the West. It is no secret that these are some of the hot topics constantly bouncing between stakeholders with a…
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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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Strengthening Collaboration Through a Changing Environment
Last month, Partnering to Conserve Sagebrush Rangelands convened virtually for the 2nd Annual Collaborative Forum to empower cross-boundary sagebrush collaboration. This year’s theme was strengthening collaboration through a changing environment. The event aimed to strengthen the toolkit for the Sage Capacity Team (SCT), the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), and the community of partners they…
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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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Oregon Local Implementation Teams Bolstered
The following story is by Julie Unfried, Sage-grouse Local Implementation Team Coordinator in Oregon. Her position is supported in part by the Partnering to Conserve Sagebrush Rangelands effort, see other community-based capacity positions like her job here. I recently returned to work in the arid landscapes of central and eastern Oregon in April of 2019.…
