Location: Tooele County, UT
Land Management Agency: Bureau of Land Management, Salt Lake City Field Office
Elevation: 5400-5500 ft
Location: Tooele County, UT
Topography: 3-4% slope, E aspect
Common Vegetation:
Wyoming big sagebrush, shadscale, viscid rabbitbrush, Sandberg bluegrass, squirreltail, Indian ricegrass, bluebunch wheatgrass, basin wildrye, and cheatgrass
Soils:
Fine-loamy
Fire Regime:
Historically, several decades. Many of these communities experienced an increased fire return interval with settlement and overgrazing. Cheatgrass invasion can cause larger fires and reduce this interval to 10 years or less.
Representative Land Base:
Several million acres in western and central Utah, southern Idaho, northern Nevada, and eastern Oregon.
Grazing:
Plots are located within active grazing allottment and will be fenced for duration of the study.
