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Cheating Wyoming’s Wildlife and People? Not if Nancy Has a Say
Understanding and applying two herbicides to control invasive annual grasses in Wyoming’s geography takes careful consideration and partnership. Story and photos by Hannah Nikonow, IWJV Communications and Marketing Coordinator Nancy Webb sees what Wyoming stands to lose if she and others don’t take action now. As the Invasive Annual Grass Coordinator for the BLM’s Wind…
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Linking Irrigation and Groundwater in the White River Basin
Q&A With hydrologist dr. Ryan Bailey Irrigators in northwestern Colorado’s White River Basin had a question: what, exactly, was happening to the water that seeped past the grass growing in their hay meadows and back into the watershed? For ages, they’d seen evidence of groundwater recharge, like springs staying wet long after the land dried…
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Welcome to the Sagebrush Technical Transfer Network
Building the Practice of Technical Transfer By Mariah McIntosh, IWJV Science to Implementation Specialist As IWJV’s Science to Implementation Specialist, I’m excited to share an effort we developed in partnership with the Institute for Natural Resources to help people develop skills for bridging science and management: The Sagebrush Technical Transfer Network. For an early-career tech…
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Patrick Donnelly’s Greatest Hits at the IWJV
Patrick Donnelly’s Greatest Hits at the IWJV Hired in 2011, Patrick Donnelly was one of the first few employees that Coordinator Dave Smith hired at the Intermountain West Joint Venture. At the time, spatial analysis of landscape change was still an emerging technology due to new access to satellite imagery. Thinking back across the past…
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Going, going, gone: Landscape drying reduces wetland function across the American West
Q&A Going, going, gone: Landscape drying reduces wetland function across the American West Q&A with Lead Author Patrick Donnelly In a paper published in the journal Ecological Indicators, IWJV and partner scientists take a regional look at a drying trend that is impairing wetland habitat across the West. Lead author and former IWJV Spatial Ecologist…
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At the Woodland’s Edge: Restoration and Complexity in Colorado’s Piceance Basin
At the Woodland’s Edge:Restoration and Complexity in Colorado’s Piceance Basin Between two ecosystems, a conservation partnership maintains balance for deer, birds, fire, and people By Megan McGrath – Intermountain West Joint VenturePhotos by Mariah McIntosh On a chilly April morning in the Piceance Basin region of northwest Colorado, two young women stand on an overlook…
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Video: Sustaining Wetlands & Watersheds with Flood-Irrigated Grass Hay
Riparian corridors are lifelines for the wildlife and communities of the Intermountain West. These corridors are home to many of the region’s wetlands and are sustained by seasonal water cycles. This means that the wildlife that depends on wetlands, from migratory waterbirds to big game animals, can often be found using riparian areas. Much of…
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Low-Tech Methods to Promote Healthy Streams and Meadows: A Factsheet
Learn about simple, low-tech methods that help promote healthy streams and meadows by slowing runoff, spreading water, and boosting productivity. Learn About Low-Tech Restoration Practices As low-tech methods to restore healthy streams and meadows are implemented across the West, more and more people are becoming aware of these approaches. We created a factsheet in online…
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High But Not Dry
An article in Western Confluence magazine explores the places where flood irrigation might be doing more good than harm. Every spring, Chris Williams looks forward to seeing the terns alight on the meadows of the southern Wyoming ranch that he manages. It’s a fleeting sight—the birds are there for one day and then they’re gone, off…
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IWJV Featured in “On the Ground” Podcast
The IWJV’s Partnering to Conserve Sagebrush Rangelands is featured in a new episode of the Bureau of Bureau of Land Management’s podcast, On the Ground. Listen here!: The episode interviews Grace Hershberg and Ethan Kalinowski. These two members of the IWJV’s Sage Capacity Team are stationed in different corners of Montana to facilitate ecological restoration…
