Field guide
Collaborating for healthy forests and communities: A guide for building partnerships among diverse interests
View guide. There are many reasons for building an alliance among agencies and citizens in forest and rangeland communities. In the big picture, the purpose is primarily to reach decisions that are objectively better. Essentially, the quality of decisions is improved by a multi-agency effort that includes a role for citizens and an environment in…
Read MoreWestern juniper field guide: Asking the right questions to select appropriate management actions
View field guide. This guide provides a set of tools that will help field biologists, land managers, and private landowners conduct rapid qualitative field assessments that address the kind of site and its current state. These tools include a list of questions to be addressed and a series of photographs, keys, tables, and figures to…
Read MorePinyon and juniper field guide: Asking the right questions to select appropriate management actions
View field guide. Pinyon-juniper woodlands are an important vegetation type in the Great Basin. Old-growth and open shrub savanna woodlands have been present over much of the last several hundred years. Strong evidence indicates these woodlands have experienced significant tree infilling and major expansion in their distribution since the late 1800s by encroaching into surrounding…
Read MoreGuide for quantifying fuels in the sagebrush steppe and juniper woodlands of the Great Basin
View guide. The ‘Guide for Quantifying Fuels in the Sagebrush Steppe and Juniper Woodlands of the Great Basin’ assimilates the SageSTEP pretreatment vegetation and fuels data into an assessment tool that will help users better estimate percent cover, stem density and fuel loadings for their site. Designed similarly to the Natural Fuels Photo Series, produced…
Read MorePocket guide to sagebrush birds
View or order the guide. This guide was written for anyone interested in learning about the most common bird species in sagebrush habitats, and it contains some general information about what people can do to help them survive. We focus on 40 of the most common species and organize them according to their relationships to…
Read MoreGuide to stakeholder groups for Great Basin sagebrush steppe restoration
View guide. This guide is intended to provide information on active stakeholder interest groups focused on restoration of sagebrush ecosystems in the Great Basin region. It is based on a comprehensive search of internet websites, recently filed litigation records, previous interviews, and discussions with land managers in the region. The information contained in the guide…
Read MoreGuide for quantifying post-treatment fuels in the sagebrush steppe and juniper woodlands of the Great Basin
View guide. This Guide for Quantifying Post-treatment Fuels in the Sagebrush Steppe and Juniper Woodlands of the Great Basin assimilates the SageSTEP post-treatment vegetation and fuels data into an assessment tool that will help users better estimate post-treatment percent cover, stem density and fuel loadings. Designed similarly to the Natural Fuels Photo Series, produced by…
Read MorePocket guide to sagebrush
View or order this guide. This guide is written for anyone interested in learning more about sagebrush species and habitats. The introduction provides descriptions of some of the remarkably diverse sagebrush sagebrush communities in western North America. The purpose of the guide is to give identifying characteristics and range maps for 18 species of sagebrush,…
Read MoreRestoration handbook for sagebrush steppe ecosystems with emphasis on greater sage-grouse habitat – Part 2: Landscape level restoration decisions
View guide. We present a landscape restoration decision tool intended to assist decision makers in determining landscape objectives, to identify and prioritize landscape areas where sites for priority restoration projects might be located, and to aid in ultimately selecting restoration sites guided by criteria used to define the landscape objectives. The landscape restoration decision tool…
Read MoreRestoration handbook for sagebrush steppe ecosystems with emphasis on greater sage-grouse habitat – Part 1
View guide. This restoration handbook is the first in a three-part series on restoration of sagebrush ecosystems. In Part 1, we discuss concepts surrounding landscape and restoration ecology of sagebrush ecosystems and greater sage-grouse that habitat managers and restoration practitioners need to know to make informed decisions regarding where and how to restore specific areas.…
Read More