Projects

Landscape Conservation Cooperatives use a collaborative approach to identify landscape-scale conservation solutions. LCCs work across jurisdictional and political boundaries to work with partners to: meet unfilled conservation needs, develop decision support tools, share data and knowledge and facilitate and foster partnerships.

As part of a shared science strategy, LCCs coordinate closely with the National Climate Change and Wildlife Center and the eight regional Climate Science Centers as well as Migratory Bird Joint Ventures and National Fish Habitat Partnerships across North America.

Using Alternative Futures Modeling to produce management-relevant scenarios in the Western Great Basin

  • Great Basin

FY2016

Wildfire, grazing and availability of water in sage steppe ecosystems

  • Great Basin

FY2017

Quantifying vulnerability of quaking aspen woodlands and associate bird communities to global climate change in the northern Great Basin

  • Great Basin

FY2011

Restoring Big Sagebrush

  • Great Basin

FY2013

Evaluation of Weed-Suppressive Bacteria for Control of Exotic Annual Grasses

  • Great Basin

FY2017

Matching support to JFSP projects on post-fire recovery of sagebrush and perennial grasses

  • Great Basin

FY2017

Climate Change Adaptation Training for Tribes

  • Great Basin

FY2014
Workshops that provide tribal representatives with an introduction to planning for climate change impacts.

Assessment of ACK55 as a Biocontrol of Invasive Annual Grasses in Nevada

  • Great Basin

FY2015

Invasive Species Management Contributions to Greater Sage-grouse Conservation West-wide.

  • Great Basin

FY2014

Understanding Effects of Juniper Removal in Support of Greater Sage-grouse on Sagebrush Steppe Bird and Small Mammal Communities at Multiple Spatial Scales

  • Great Basin

FY2015

Cheatgrass Stand Failure in the Great Basin: Fungal Pathogens, Carbon Dynamics, and Fungistasis

  • Great Basin

FY2014

Assessment of Impacts of Feral Horses and Livestock Grazing on Sage-grouse and their Habitats: Long-term trends in sage-grouse demography and habitats on the Sheldon-Hart Mountain NWRC and adjacent lands

  • Great Basin

FY2014

Walker River Paiute Tribe TEK Project

  • Great Basin

FY2014
The goals for the project are

Understanding Native Cultural Dimensions of Climate Change in the Great Basin

  • Great Basin

FY2014

Using Narrative Stories to Understand Traditional Ecological Knowledge in the Great Basin

  • Great Basin

FY2014

Effects of Genotype and Management Treatments of Native and Invasive Herbs on Success of Sagebrush Restoration

  • Great Basin

FY2013

Desatoya Mountains Project and Porter Canyon Experimental Watershed

  • Great Basin

FY2013
Pion (Pinus spp.) and juniper (Juniperus spp.) (PJ) currently occupy approximately 19 million hectars in the Intermountain West. Prior to 1860, approximately 66% of what is now woodland occurred as sagebrush plant communities.

This watershed scale project:

Using Soil Climate and Geospatial Environmental Characteristics to Determine Plant Community Resilience to Fire and Fire Surrogate Treatments

  • Great Basin

FY2014

Landscape Connectivity of a Sagebrush Obligate: Functional Continuity of Habitat for the Pygmy Rabbit

  • Great Basin

FY2014

Characterization of Montane Ecosystems, Their Microclimates, and Wildlife Distribution and Abundance Across the Hydrographic Great Basin

  • Great Basin

FY2013

Understanding the Causes and Consequences of Cheatgrass Die-offs in the Great Basin

  • Great Basin

FY2013
Cheatgrass die-offs are unexplained instances of stand failure observed in areas of Nevada and Utah, where cheatgrass fails to grow even though it has been a dominant component of plant communities in the past. The goals of this project are to:

Evaluating Species Management Guidance and Monitoring Programs for the Great Basin in Nevada

  • Great Basin

FY2013
The proposed project's objective is to provide a scientific review of