Location: Wenatchee, WA
Land Management Agency: The Nature Conservancy, Moses Coulee Preserve
Elevation: 1700 ft
Location: Wenatchee, WA
Topography: 0–10 % slope with a Southern aspect
Common Vegetation:
Bluebunch wheatgrass, Wyoming big sagebrush, needle-and-thread, and Sandberg bluegrass
Soils:
Strat-Tubspring-Skaha complex
Fire Regime:
The Wyoming big sagebrush type is the driest of the sagebrush steppe communities and historically had a fire return interval of approximately 50-100 years The introduction of cheatgrass into the sagebrush grassland communities has increased fine fuels and reduced the fire return interval to less than 10 years.
Representative Land Base:
This site is representative of sage steppe ecosystem of eastern Washington.
Grazing:
Plots are located within active grazing allottment and will be fenced for duration of the study.
