Location: Elko County, NV
Land Management Agency: Bureau of Land Management, Elko Field Office
Elevation: 5300-5400 ft
Location: Elko County, NV
Topography: 0-10% slopes of all aspects
Common Vegetation:
Wyoming big sagebrush, viscid rabbitbrush, Sandberg bluegrass, squirreltail, Indian ricegrass, bluebunch wheatgrass, basin wildrye, and cheatgrass
Soils:
Fine-silty to fine-loamy, mixed, mesic
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 on an active grazing allotment, and will be fenced for the duration of the study to exclude livestock.
Wildfire Activity:
All Owyhee plots burned completely in July 2018, but site will continue to be monitored for wildfire effects.
