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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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Public Lands and Private Waters
Plan of work outlines the implementation of spatially explicit inventory and monitoring project to map summer habitats for greater (Centrocercus urophasianus) and Gunnison sage-grouse (C.u. minimus; herein sage-grouse) across occupied habitat (Schroeder et al. 2004), to include Priority Areas for Conservation (PAC) identified by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Conservation Objectives Team (2013 COT…
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Bi-State Local Area Working Group Collaborates for Conservation
East of the Sierra Nevada mountain range, along the Nevada-California state border, exists a wide expanse of sagebrush sea that is home to a geographically isolated and genetically distinct population of sage-grouse known as the Bi-State sage-grouse. Nearly two decades ago, concerned stakeholders realized this population’s isolation from other Greater sage-grouse populations could leave them…
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Low-Tech Wet Meadow Restoration: Reading the Landscape
Webinar Co-presenters: Shawn Conner, Restoration Ecologist, BIO-Logic, Inc., Montrose, CO Jeremy Maestas, Ecologist, USDA-NRCS, Portland, OR Host: Mandi Hirsch, Sagebrush Collaborative Conservation Specialist, Intermountain West Joint Venture, Lander, WY Wet or mesic meadows are rare but disproportionately important habitats within western rangelands. Gully erosion and channel incision are widespread problems reducing natural resiliency and water…
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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: The Gunnison Basin, Colorado
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 southwestern Colorado, the Gunnison Basin stretches over 2.5 million acres of gorgeous montane sagebrush country.…
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It Takes a Community: Lemhi Basin Stream Restoration
Article by Lucy Littlejohn (Fish Biologist, BLM Salmon Field Office), Ethan Ellsworth (Wildlife Biologist, BLM Idaho State Office), Dave Hu (Fish Biologist, BLM Washington Office), and Hannah Nikonow (Intermountain West Joint Venture) Snowmelt from the looming Beaverhead and Lemhi Mountains flows into wooded mountain valleys and across open sagebrush flats tilting toward Idaho’s Lemhi River.…
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Gambling Grouse: Private Wet-Meadows or Public Mesic Rangelands
Article by John Carlson, Sage-Grouse Implementation Lead for the Montana/Dakotas Bureau of Land Management; Patrick Donnelly, IWJV Spatial Ecologist, and Hannah Nikonow, IWJV Sagebrush Communications Specialist The perils of sagebrush country are extreme for young sage-grouse chicks. After hatching, the hen quickly marches her brood of four-inch-tall camouflaged fluffballs with toothpick legs away from the…
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Greater Sandhill Crane Habitat Initiative
This plan is a continuation of 2012 science planning, characterizing the scope and context of the Intermountain West Joint Venture’s (IWJV) science investments. This initiative is intended to serve as an important catalyst and complement to partner efforts in filling critical, broad-scale information needs for wetland birds throughout the Intermountain West. Access this document here.
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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.…
