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Haffey, Stortz
The East Jemez Landscape Futures (EJLF) project is a collaborative, landscape-scale approach to help guide future planning and research efforts in the severely altered landscapes of the eastern Jemez Mountains. EJLF seeks to address uncertainty by…
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Reemts, Neill, Neill
Solarization (covering soil and vegetation with plastic) has long been used in agriculture to control undesirable plants, but solarization of invasive plants in rangelands has shown mixed and species-specific results. Yellow bluestem (Bothriochloa…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Gottfried, Turner, Bemis, Neary, Sundt, Traphagen, Edminster, Decker
The density of mesquite (Prosopis spp.) and other woody species has increased on desert and semidesert grasslands in the southwestern United States. This increase in woody species has been associated with the decline of native herbaceous plants and…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Kerns, Tortorelli, Day, Nietupski, Barros, Kim, Krawchuk
Exotic grasses are a widespread set of invasive species that are notable for their ability to significantly alter key aspects of ecosystem function. Understanding the role and importance of these invaders in forested landscapes has been limited but…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Alexander, Williams, Gillespie, Contreras-Martínez, Finch
To inform future restoration efforts, we reviewed the known effects of fire and habitat management and restoration on hummingbirds in four key habitat types in North America. We examined seven species that most commonly occur west of the Rocky…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Piñon-juniper vegetation types, including juniper woodland and savannah, piñon-juniper, and piñon woodland, cover approximately 40 million ha in the western United States, where they provide ecosystem services, wildlife habitat, and cultural and…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Mueller, Thode, Margolis, Yocom, Young, Iniguez
Over the last several decades in forest and woodland ecosystems of the southwestern United States, wildfire size and severity have increased, thereby increasing the vulnerability of these systems to type conversions, invasive species, and other…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Garner, Maestas, Mealor, Rutledge
The Western Governors’ Association hosted a webinar to launch a new Toolkit for Invasive Annual Grass Management in the West on Thursday, July 23. WGA and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), under a Shared Stewardship Memorandum of…
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Owen, Sieg, Fulé, Gehring, Baggett, Iniguez, Fornwalt, Battaglia
Several recent studies have documented how fire severity affects the density and spatial patterns of tree regeneration in western North American ponderosa pine forests. However, less is known about the effects of fire severity on fine-scale tree…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Huffman, Roccaforte, Springer, Crouse
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Frequent-fire forests of the western United States have undergone remarkable changes in structure, composition, and function due to historical exclusion of naturally occurring fire. Mechanized tree thinning to reduce forest density and…
Year: 2020
Type: Document