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Helping Woodlands & Fighting Fire with the Dawson Project
The Dawson Project tests pinyon-juniper woodland silvicultural treatments in southwest Colorado In Southwest Colorado, fuels specialists and researchers have come together to experimentally evaluate different silvicultural treatments for enhancing pinyon-juniper ecosystem health and reducing fire risk. This interdisciplinary team has implemented replicated silvicultural treatments that vary in spatial complexity and amount of thinning in pinyon-juniper…
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Defend YOUR Core: An Invasive Annual Grasses Story
Imagine a landscape that is completely dominated by cheatgrass. Instead of native grasses, wildflowers, sagebrush, and the call of songbirds, picture a monoculture of dried non-native grasses, mostly devoid of life and ready to ignite from the smallest spark. If we do not act, this could be the future of much of our western rangelands.…
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2025 IWJV Fact Sheets
2025 IWJV Fact Sheets The IWJV Fact Sheets provide an overview of the IWJV’s landscape-focused programs we work on in the West. They showcase the three priority habitats, highlight some key components that make each program successful in collaborative conservation, and provide a snapshot of the programs’ achievements from working with our dedicated partners to…
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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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Implementation Plan
Our Guide in Conservation 2025 Implementation Plan Over the past decade, the Intermountain West Joint Venture (IWJV) has significantly evolved in its approach to bird habitat conservation. While its core mission remains the conservation of bird habitats—a focus it has maintained since its founding in 1994—the IWJV has expanded its strategies to better support its…
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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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Annual Operational Plan
Annual operational plan The Intermountain West Joint Venture’s Annual Operational Plan establishes the priorities, activities, and budget for the current federal fiscal year. This operational plan focuses our team on efforts that help us realize the highest possible return on investment as we support habitat conservation through partnerships across 486 million acres of the West.
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