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A Southwest Success Story at Watershed Scale
If a person were to park on the border of Arizona and Nevada, step out of their vehicle, and start walking east across the Bureau of Land Management’s Arizona Strip District, it would be many days, perhaps even weeks, before they reached the other side. The scale of the landscape is nearly incomprehensible. There is…
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A Duck Hunter’s Legacy Soars at the Island Ranch
This article was produced in partnership with California USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service. The closer you get to the Island Ranch, the louder the cacophony of birdsong. When visitors to California’s Sierra Valley start seeing birds gathered in the hundreds, they can safely assume they’ve hit Dean and Sharon Cook’s property line. “Wouldn’t you want…
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From the Inside Out: Local Cheatgrass Treatment Aids in Landscape-Scale Habitat Resiliency
“Proactive, not Reactive.” This is the mantra of partners in Lemhi and Custer County, Idaho who are working to address cheatgrass and other non-native plants in sagebrush rangelands. These remote central Idaho counties contain some of the most intact, high-quality sagebrush habitat remaining in the state, often referred to as “core” habitat. Central Idaho’s core…
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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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The Dodo of the Desert
The following story is by Julia Babcock with the Oregon Sage-grouse Conservation Partnership. My father worked in the genetics lab in the 1970’s. It gave him the sense that anything was possible; that humans and nature could collaborate to shape both DNA and destiny. Growing up, my father told me that my life’s work was…
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What is NAWCA? And is it Right for Your Project?
If you have questions about the North American Wetlands Conservation Act (NAWCA) and its Standard and Small Grants programs, here’s a decision-making tool that will help you learn a little more. NAWCA was signed into law in December of 1989 as a new continental conservation funding mechanism and has played a critically important role in…
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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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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…
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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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IWJV Science: Helping our Pacific Flyway Partners
Birds that migrate along the Pacific Flyway from Alaska to Patagonia don’t observe geopolitical boundaries. The science that drives effective management and conservation for these birds doesn’t acknowledge these boundaries either. That’s why the IWJV is helping to deliver science that blurs the boundaries for our partners in the Pacific Flyway. U.S. members of this…
