Onaqui Shrubland

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.