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Protected: How Changing Landscapes Drive Mule Deer Declines—And What We Can Do About It
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
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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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Channeled Scablands Spring Waterfowl Surveys, Study Report Published in 2025
The Channeled Scablands of Eastern Washington (CSEWA) contain one of the Pacific Flyway’s most undervalued and understudied wetland complexes. This landscape was created thousands of years ago by repeated catastrophic floods from Glacial Lake Missoula, leaving behind an intricate network of tens of thousands of basins. Today, these wetlands provide vital staging and foraging habitats…
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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…
