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What Are Integrated Population Models?
This article breaks down population dynamics and how this tool informs conservation management action for the Bi-State Sage-grouse. By Amy Sturgill, Bi-State Sage-Grouse Data and Communications Coordinator Bi-State Sage-grouse are a geographically isolated and genetically distinct population of Greater Sage-grouse, found along the California-Nevada border in the southwestern extent of the species’ range. Known as…
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Pacific Flyway Integrated Landscape Conservation
This report details the development of new science to support cross IWJV and Central Valley Joint Venture conservation planning and implementation. Work will identify emerging ecological bottlenecks by examining long term effects of climate change and land use practices influencing patterns of wetland resiliency and waterbird habitat availability supporting populations in the Pacific Flyway. This science project…
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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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Completing the Puzzle for Pacific Flyway Waterbird Habitat Conservation
Photo by Leslie Morris. As the weather warms and days grow longer each spring, the Northern pintails of the Pacific Flyway stretch their wings and heed their names. Leaving their wintering grounds in the rice fields of California’s Central Valley, the pintails fly north to take advantage of the wet meadows in the Southern…
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Working Lands and Habitat Get Boost from RCPP
After the crew at the Holiday Ranch heard about the opportunity to increase irrigation efficiency through the Natural Resources Conservation Service’s (NRCS) Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) from others in California’s ranching community, they were interested in getting involved. Even though the ranch is based in Cottonwood, California, ranch crew member Justin Zacharias said it…
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Telling the Story of the Klamath Basin
The Klamath Basin provides a disproportionately high abundance of important habitat for waterfowl and waterbirds during spring and fall migration and the breeding season. The Basin is characterized by a complex set of water-related challenges that require sensitivity to partner readiness and timing. In 2018, the IWJV launched the Water 4 program to bring diverse…
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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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Woven Together by Water: Ecosystems, Communities, and Irrigation in the Klamath Basin
“If we have an adequate water supply in the Basin, we can make a lot of habitat available for wildlife.” Luther Horsley, Klamath Basin farmer Growing cereal grains, like growing any other crop, takes time, patience, and hard work. For generations, farmers in the Klamath Basin have produced grains like barley that are used for…
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Farming and Wetlands Coexist in the Klamath Basin
From the top of Wild Horse Butte in southeastern Oregon, the Klamath River snakes through tule bulrush and cattails on Furber Marsh to the north. In the opposite direction, Lower Klamath National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) stretches out to the mountains on the southern horizon, its flooded parcels glinting in the afternoon sunlight. This vantage makes…
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Back from the Brink
A microcosm of sage grouse conservation on Clear Lake National Wildlife Refuge Imagine a once-booming frontier town bustling with activity. Then, the railroad moved on or the gold seam dried up and only a few lonely residents remained on the dusty streets. A similar scene played out in 2005 at the Clear Lake National Wildlife…
