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Type: Journal Article
Author(s): Douglas B. Rideout; Yu Wei; Joe-Riley Epps; David Mueller; Nicole J. Kernohan
Publication Date: 2017

The invasion of non-native grasses, pinyon-juniper encroachment, drought and climate change have resulted in larger, more intense fires in the western United States’ sagebrush-steppe ecosystem. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service identified these factors as the primary threat to sagebrush obligate species, particularly the endemic greater sage-grouse. A large portion of primary sage-grouse conservation areas reside on the U.S. Department of the Interior federal lands. In 2015, the DOI issued Secretarial Order 3336 that directed the development of a comprehensive science-based strategy to reduce the threat of large-scale rangeland fires to greater sage-grouse habitat and the sage-steppe ecosystem. This study reports the results of using the STARFire planning and budgeting system to respond to Section 7(b) iii-Fuels, Action Item #4 of the secretarial order. This study demonstrates the capabilities of STARFire to apply the latest science and technology using a risk-based approach to conduct a wildfire risk analysis and improve the targeting of fuels reduction programs on a landscape-scale study across the Northern Great Basin of the United States.

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Citation: Rideout, Douglas B.; Wei, Yu; Epps, Joe-Riley; Mueller, David; Kernohan, Niki. 2017. Sustainable development and the great sage-grouse. International Journal of Safety and Security Engineering 7(1):31-40.

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Keywords:
  • Centrocercus urophasianus
  • fuel treatment
  • greater sage-grouse
  • landscape analysis
  • rangeland
  • spatial analysis
  • STARFire
  • wildfire
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FRAMES Record Number: 56566