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Pinyon-Juniper Extent Maps
Pinyon-juniper extent maps (Draft v1 | July 2026) The Pinyon-Juniper Mapping Project (PJMap) is developing a suite of spatial products to improve our understanding of pinyon-juniper (PJ) woodlands and support management across the western United States. As an initial step, the PJMap science team developed three complementary maps describing the current, potential, and historical distribution…
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Pinyon-Juniper Mapping Project
The Pinyon-Juniper Mapping Project is a collaborative effort to develop science-based spatial tools that support restoration, wildfire resilience, and management across the western United States. SUPPORTING ACTIVE MANAGEMENT AND RESTORATION Pinyon-juniper woodlands are among the most extensive and rapidly changing ecosystems in the West. Increasing wildfire activity, invasive species, insect and disease outbreaks, changing climate…
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Fuels Reduction Evaluation Tool
Forested landscapes in much of the West are increasingly threatened by wildfire and are decreasing in bird and wildlife abundance. The Fuels Reduction Evaluation Tool (FRET) helps landowners and forest managers make decisions about forest thinning projects that can reduce wildfire risk and improve wildlife habitat—and evaluate the reduction of fire risk in previous treatments.…
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5 Ways to Engage with Your Technical Transfer Audience
Written by Mariah McIntosh and Megan Creutzburg for the Sagebrush Technical Transfer Network The Sagebrush Technical Transfer Network hosted a virtual panel on effective engagement with those working with technical information related to the conservation of land and wildlife habitat. This panel focused on the “how” of connecting with people who apply management best practices,…
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IWJV Strategic Plan
Our Guide in Conservation IWJV’s Strategic Plan The Intermountain West Joint Venture’s (IWJV) Strategic Plan guides our long-term work. The Plan is written to ensure quick adaptation to unanticipated challenges and meet opportunities as they arise while maintaining mission focus. The Plan reflects the complex nature of social and ecological systems within the IWJV landscape…
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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…
