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New Video: Changing a Landscape to a Lifescape
The Humboldt Ranch encompasses more than 140 miles of streams and over 350,000 acres of mixed public lands administered by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and private lands owned by Nevada Gold Mines. Collectively, these lands support important habitat for an abundance of wildlife including Nevada’s native Lahontan cutthroat trout. Historically, cattle and sheep…
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Around the Ruby Mountains with the Nevada State Conservation Partnership
Northeast Nevada is remote and difficult to get to, a fact that most locals will tell you with a smile on their face. Like so much of the West, however, this landscape is not immune to the many challenges facing rangelands and communities that rely on them, whether that threat is invasive annual grass spread…
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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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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 built some fences around Dixie Creek so the livestock…
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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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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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Conifer Removal Restores Human and Wildlife Community Health
Shane Boren is a farmer and rancher in east-central Nevada from a small community near the town of Ely. He works for the region’s power company, volunteers with the area’s conservation district, and recently retired from the county game board after 20 years. He guided hunters and does some trapping. On top of that, he…
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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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Nevada Seed Strategy
Vision: Keep Nevada lands diverse and functioning by using the right seed in the right place at the right time. Mission: We are a partnership helping Nevada increase the availability of locally adapted seed to restore diverse plant communities and sustainable landscapes. The Nevada Seed Strategy (Strategy), prepared by the Nevada Native Seed Partnership, aims…
