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Journal Article: Genetically distinct populations of the pygmy rabbit (Brachylagus idahoensis) in the Mono Basin of California We examined patterns of genetic variation and diversity of extant pygmy rabbit (Brachylagus idahoensis) populations across the species’ current range in Nevada and California. Our aims were to determine population genetic structure and levels of diversity across the southern portion of the species’ range. We genotyped 13 microsatellite loci from 194 fecal samples collected across 14 localities. Our Bayesian cluster analyses found 2 genetically distinct groups: 1 in the Mono Basin of California and the other encompassing all remaining Nevada Great Basin populations. Considering only the Nevada Great Basin group, we found 4 minimally divergent groups that overlap spatially with many individuals maintaining composite... Categories: Data, Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: Academics & scientific researchers, Completed, EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE, Federal resource managers, Great Basin, All tags... Great Basin, LCC Network Science Catalog, Nevada, Report, State agencies, biota, climate change, connectivity, corridor, environment, location, modeling, pygmy rabbit, Fewer tags User Guide: Climate-informed reserve design With HCPs, reserves are created as one means of mitigating take. This means they are designed to provide a target level of benefits for a particular species or set of species. This quick guide reviews approaches for designing and implementing reserves that address climate change impacts, vulnerabilities, and uncertainty. Examples are provided. Categories: Data; Tags: Completed, Conservation NGOs, EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE, Federal resource managers, Great Basin, All tags... LCC Network Science Catalog, State agencies, adaptation, biota, climate, decision support, environment, habitat, planningCadastre, userGuide, Fewer tags 04) Groundwater-level contours for Smith Valley and Mason Valley, Nevada, 2020 These contours represent static groundwater levels based on depth-to-water measurements made at 165 monitoring wells during water years 2016-2020 in Smith Valley and Mason Valley, Nevada. For each monitoring well, the median groundwater-level altitude during the five-year period (2016-2020) was used for developing the groundwater-level contours. Depth-to-water measurements were collected by the USGS and the Nevada Division of Water Resources (NDWR). Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Great Basin, Groundwater, Lyon County, Mason Valley, Nevada, All tags... Smith, Smith Valley, Water-level altitude, Yerington, geoscientificInformation, groundwater, inlandWaters, Fewer tags Seepage site data for the upper Humboldt River Basin, October 2008 and November 2009 This dataset consists of points representing seepage site locations and discharge measurements as published in appendices 1-3 of the 2013 publication: Plume, R.W., and Smith, J.L., 2013, Properties of basin-fill deposits, a 1971–2000 water budget, and surface-water-groundwater interactions in the upper Humboldt River basin, northeastern Nevada: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2013-5077, https://doi.org/10.3133/sir20135077. Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Dixie Creek Area-Tenmile Creek Area, Elko Segment, Great Basin, Humboldt River Basin, Humboldt River Region, All tags... Huntington Valley, Lamoille Valley, Marys River Area, Nevada, North Fork Area, South Fork Area, Starr Valley, hydrology, inlandWaters, stream discharge, surface water (non-marine), Fewer tags Forecasting Changes in Sagebrush Distribution and Abundance Under Climate Change: Integration of Spatial, Temporal, and Mechanistic Models FY2014Although the future of sage grouse depends on the future of sagebrush, we have limited ability to anticipate impacts of climate change on sagebrush populations. Current efforts to forecast sagebrush habitat typically rely on species distribution models (SDMs), which suffer from a variety of well-known weaknesses. However, by integrating SDMs with complementary research approaches, such as historical data analysis and mechanistic models, we can provide increased confidence in projections of habitat change. Our goal is to forecast the effect of climate change on the distribution and abundance of big sagebrush in order to inform conservation planning, and sage grouse management in particular, across the Intermountain... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Academics & scientific researchers, Conservation Planning, Datasets/Database, Federal resource managers, Great Basin, All tags... Great Basin, Great Basin, Great Basin, Great Basin, LCC Network Science Catalog, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Project, Publication, State agencies, Vulnerability Assessment, big sagebrush, big sagebrush, big sagebrush, big sagebrush, climate change, climate change, climate change, climate change, completed, modeling, modeling, modeling, modeling, sagebrush, Fewer tags Matching support to JFSP projects on post-fire recovery of sagebrush and perennial grasses FY2017Increasing effectiveness of post-fire treatments is a management priority, such as is emphasized in Secretarial Order #3336 on rangeland fire and restoration, which prescribes a programmatic, longer-term approach that accommodates the layering of different treatments in sagebrush-steppe rangelands. The phasing of treatments by applying them in different post-fire years is an important part of wildfire response that, along with timing of livestock grazing resumption, likely affects overall project success - but is yet under studied. This projects objective is to determine the incremental gains in increasing desirable perennials and decreasing exotic annual grasses with the phasing of land management actions... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: California, California, California, Conservation Planning, Federal resource managers, All tags... Fire, Great Basin, Idaho, Idaho, Idaho, LCC Network Science Catalog, Monitoring, Nevada, Nevada, Nevada, Oregon, Oregon, Oregon, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Private land owners, Project, Soda Fire, Soda Fire, Soda Fire, State agencies, desert, desert, desert, land management, land management, land management, native plants, native plants, native plants, onGoing, restoration, restoration, restoration, vegetation treatment, vegetation treatment, vegetation treatment, Fewer tags Environmental Characteristics of Great Basin and Mojave Desert Spring Systems FY2014This project builds upon the springs and seeps inventory funded by the Desert LCC.This project will: Fill a significant gap in aquatic habitat information for scenario planning. Create a publically available geospatial database of approximately 2,000+ known Great Basin springs. Create a summary report on the biotic and abiotic conditions of the known springs. Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Academics & scientific researchers, California, California, California, California, All tags... Federal resource managers, Great Basin, LCC Network Science Catalog, Mojave, Mojave, Mojave, Mojave, Monitoring, Nevada, Nevada, Nevada, Nevada, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Project, Report, State agencies, Utah, Utah, Utah, Utah, aquatic, aquatic, aquatic, aquatic, completed, freshwater, lentic, lentic, lentic, lentic, seeps, seeps, seeps, seeps, springs, springs, springs, springs, water, water, water, water, wetland, wetland, wetland, wetland, Fewer tags A Multi-scale Resilience-based Framework for Restoring and Conserving Great Basin Wet Meadows and Riparian Ecosystems FY2016This project will develop a strategic approach for conservation of wet meadows and riparian ecosystems and the species they support that focuses on threats caused by natural and anthropogenic disturbance. It uses information on (1) the factors that affect wet meadow and riparian ecosystem resilience to both natural and human-caused disturbances at the scale of the watershed and meadow or riparian ecosystem, and (2) the distributions and population abundances of at risk species to determine focal areas for management. Maps of the relative resilience of watersheds and wet meadows are overlaid with data on at risk species and the predominant threats to facilitate this process. Decision matrices are developed... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Conservation Design, Conservation Planning, Datasets/Database, Federal resource managers, Great Basin, All tags... LCC Network Science Catalog, Map, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Project, Report, State agencies, aquatic, aquatic, aquatic, aquatic, conservation, conservation, conservation, conservation, framework, framework, framework, framework, lentic, lentic, lentic, lentic, lotic, lotic, lotic, lotic, meadows, meadows, meadows, meadows, onGoing, resilience, restoration, restoration, restoration, restoration, riparian, riparian, riparian, riparian, wetland, wetland, wetland, wetland, Fewer tags Understanding the Causes and Consequences of Cheatgrass Die-offs in the Great Basin FY2013Cheatgrass 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:1) provide information on the size and extent of historic (1985 - 2012) die-offs in the Winnemucca area using satellite imagery, and 2) determine if die-offs are restoration opportunities by planting and monitoring local and commercially available native grasses in die-off areas.Support is requested to fund monitoring of the restoration project through a second growing season and to develop predictive spatial models of die-off from analysis of satellite imagery and GIS... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Academics & scientific researchers, Applications and Tools, California, California, California, All tags... California, Cheatgrass, Datasets/Database, Decision Support, Federal resource managers, Great Basin, LCC Network Science Catalog, Monitoring, Nevada, Nevada, Nevada, Nevada, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Presentation, Project, Report, State agencies, completed, fungistasis, fungistasis, fungistasis, fungistasis, invasives, invasives, invasives, invasives, restoration, restoration, restoration, restoration, Fewer tags Characterization of Montane Ecosystems, Their Microclimates, and Wildlife Distribution and Abundance Across the Hydrographic Great Basin FY2013This project retrieves four years of data from over 200 temperature sensors nested within 28 sites across ~40 million hectares of the hydrographic Great Basin. The sensors span all major aspects and up to 700 m of elevation within sites, and occur in numerous management jurisdictions in 18 mountain ranges plus other areas not in ranges. This project: Quantifies the variability of climate at micro-, meso-, and macroscales across the Basin, and across diel, seasonal, and interannual periods. Informs management and conservation efforts, in terms of helping calibrate and refine the climatic stage upon which all biological actors and efforts hinge (Beier and Brost 2010). Feeds into other bioclimatic and wildlife... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2013, 2014, Academics & scientific researchers, California, California, All tags... California, California, California, Conservation NGOs, Conservation Plan/Design/Framework, Conservation Planning, Conservation Planning, Datasets/Database, Federal resource managers, Federal resource managers, Great Basin, Great Basin, Great Basin, Great Basin, Great Basin Landscape Conservation Cooperative, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Montane, Nevada, Nevada, Nevada, Nevada, Nevada, Pika, Pika, Pika, Pika, Pika, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Project, Publication, Report, State agencies, State agencies, Vulnerability Assessment, Vulnerability Assessment, alpine, alpine, alpine, alpine, completed, montane, montane, montane, montane, mountain, mountain, mountain, mountain, talus, talus, talus, talus, Fewer tags Vegetation and soil cover data for long-term monitoring plots within Browns Park National Wildlife Refuge, Colorado, USA Sixty-eight monitoring plots within the Browns Park National Wildlife refuge in Northwest Colorado were surveyed in the Summer of 2007 and 2021 for vegetation-community changes after grazing cessation in 1986. Surveys consisted of line-point intercept measurements at 0.5m intervals along three 15-m transects arranged in a spoke around plot center at each plot location. Categories: Data; Tags: Artemesia tridentata, Botany, Bromus tectorum, Colorado, Ecology, All tags... Great Basin, Land Use Change, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), biota, cheatgrass, community ecology, ecology, environment, land use and land cover, lichens, mosses, sagebrush, vegetation, Fewer tags Journal Article: Great Basin land managers provide detailed feedback about usefulness of two climate information web applications Land managers in the Great Basin are working to maintain or restore sagebrush ecosystems as climate change exacerbates existing threats. Web applications delivering climate change and climate impacts information have the potential to assist their efforts. Although many web applications containing climate information currently exist, few have been co-produced with land managers or have incorporated information specifically focused on land managers’ needs. Through surveys and interviews, we gathered detailed feedback from federal, state, and tribal sagebrush land managers in the Great Basin on climate information web applications targeting land management. We found that a) managers are searching for weather and climate... Categories: Data, Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: CMIP5, California, Completed, Coproduction, EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE, All tags... Federal resource managers, Great Basin, Idaho, LCC Network Science Catalog, Oregon, RCP 8.5, Report, State agencies, Web application, biota, climate, decision support, environment, geospatial, land managers, online, planningCadastre, tools, weather, Fewer tags Webinar: Desatoya Mountains project and the Porter Canyon experimental watershed Speaker: Dr. Keirith Snyder, USDA ARS, Great Basin Rangelands Research Unit, Reno, NV The opportunistic encroachment of native pinyon and juniper trees into areas formerly dominated by sagebrush has reduced the presence of shrubs and grasses, impacting critical habitat and forage availability. Pinyon and juniper currently occupy 19 million hectares in the Intermountain West. Prior to 1860, it is estimated that 2/3 of pinyon and juniper woodlands were sagebrush communities. This presentation will give an overview of the Porter Canyon Experimental Watershed, where tree-felling treatments are being studied. Porter Canyon is located in central Nevada in the Desatoya Mountains. A network of sensors has been installed... Categories: Data; Tags: Completed, Conservation NGOs, Desatoya Mountains, Desatoya Mountains, EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE, All tags... Federal resource managers, Great Basin, Great Basin, LCC Network Science Catalog, Nevada, State agencies, biota, conifer, encroachment, environment, hydrology, inlandWaters, juniper, presentation, Fewer tags Cheatgrass cover and covariate data in Great Basin USA, for model estimation and validation Cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum) cover data were derived from the Bureau of Land Management’s Assessment Inventory, and Monitoring data and paired with geospatial data representing climate, weather, and disturbances. We derived covariates to capture both the climatic averages (1981-2010) that underlie long-term suitability, hereafter referred to as climate, and conditions during the year of observation, hereafter referred to as weather, that can drive annual variation in invasive grass cover (e.g., fall germination conditions were matched to cheatgrass cover sampled the following spring). Custom variables reflected cheatgrass natural history. Covariates describing geological context (e.g., aspect, elevation, soils),... Categories: Data; Tags: Great Basin, biota, invasive species wind_approved_lease_points_blm This data set consists of approved wind energy development facilities locations in the western United States. The data set was created by converting facilities polygons to point locations,. Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Arizona, California, Colorado, Colorado Plateau, Columbia Plateau, All tags... Energy, Great Basin, Idaho, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North America, North Dakota, Oregon, Renewable Energy, Rocky Mountains, South Dakota, United States, Utah, Washington, Wind, Wyoming, Wyoming Basins, western Great Plains, western US, Fewer tags Northwest Basin and Range Synthesis Project FY2015The Northwestern Great Basin ecoregion is one of the most intact ecosystems in the west. It is also a biological hotspot for migratory birds, greater sage-grouse and a stronghold for pronghorn antelope. However, altered fire regimes, invasive species, water scarcity, development, and climate change threaten the integrity of this landscape. Several efforts are ongoing for individual species, specific threats or sub-geographies, and over 60 existing plans and assessments have been identified for the region. This project will pull the pieces together to create a holistic view of shared priorities on the landscape. Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Alford Desert, Alford Desert, Alford Desert, Alford Desert, Applications and Tools, All tags... California, California, California, California, Conservation Design, Conservation Planning, Federal resource managers, Great Basin, Great Basin, Great Basin, Great Basin, Idaho, Idaho, Idaho, Idaho, LCC Network Science Catalog, Nevada, Nevada, Nevada, Nevada, Oregon, Owyhee, Owyhee, Owyhee, Owyhee, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Project, Regional & county planners, Report, Sheldon-Hart NWR, Sheldon-Hart NWR, Sheldon-Hart NWR, Sheldon-Hart NWR, State agencies, Steens Mountain, Steens Mountain, Steens Mountain, Steens Mountain, collaborative planning, conservation, conservation, conservation, conservation, miradi, miradi, miradi, miradi, onGoing, open standards for conservation, open standards for conservation, open standards for conservation, open standards for conservation, scenario planning, scenario planning, scenario planning, scenario planning, spatial analysis, spatial analysis, spatial analysis, spatial analysis, Fewer tags Evaluating Riparian and Meadow Vegetation Change Relative to Climate, Restoration and Land Management FY2015Collaborators are investigating the effect of low rise dams water supply, ecosystem functions and health, and habitat for a wide range of organisms, including sage grouse. They are assessing the economic cost and attitudes of ranchers and managers towards both low-rise dams and proposed re-introductions of beavers. Remote sensing is used to identify locations of incised streams across the Great Basin. Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Conservation Planning, Federal resource managers, Great Basin, LCC Network Science Catalog, Monitoring, All tags... Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Project, Publication, Riparian, State agencies, aquatic, aquatic, aquatic, aquatic, climate change, climate change, climate change, climate change, management, management, management, management, onGoing, plants, plants, plants, plants, treatment, treatment, treatment, treatment, wetland, wetland, wetland, wetland, Fewer tags Early Estimates of Exotic Annual Grass (EAG) in the Sagebrush Biome, USA, 2023 (ver. 1.0, May 2023) These datasets provide early estimates of 2023 fractional cover for exotic annual grass (EAG) species and one native perennial grass species on a weekly basis from May to early July. The EAG estimates are developed typically within 7-13 days of the latest satellite observation used for that version. Each weekly release contains four fractional cover maps along with their corresponding confidence maps for: 1) a group of 16 species of EAGs, 2) cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum); 3) medusahead (Taeniatherum caput-medusae); and 4) Sandberg bluegrass (Poa secunda). These datasets were generated leveraging field observations from Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Assessment, Inventory, and Monitoring (AIM) data plots; Harmonized... Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: Arizona, California, Colorado, Great Basin, Harmonized Landsat Sentinel, All tags... Idaho, Kansas, Montana, NDVI, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Poa secunda, South Dakota, Texas, Texas brome, United States, Utah, Washington, Wyoming, annual grass, annual herbaceous, cheatgrass, exotic, invasive species, medusahead, nonindigenous species, noxious, perennial grass, red brome, remote sensing, rye brome, sagebrush, soft brome, western United States, Fewer tags Data to create and evaluate distribution models for invasive species for different geographic extents We developed habitat suitability models for invasive plant species selected by Department of Interior land management agencies. We applied the modeling workflow developed in Young et al. 2020 to species not included in the original case studies. Our methodology balanced trade-offs between developing highly customized models for a few species versus fitting non-specific and generic models for numerous species. We developed a national library of environmental variables known to physiologically limit plant distributions (Engelstad et al. 2022 Table S1: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0263056) and relied on human input based on natural history knowledge to further narrow the variable set for each species before... Categories: Data; Tags: Contiguous United States, Eastern sage, Ecology, Great Basin, Great Plains, All tags... Habitat suitability, Invasive, SAHM, Species Distribution Modeling, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, VisTrails, Fewer tags Detrital zircon U-Pb data for Upper Triassic sandstones of the Auld Lang Syne basin, northwest Nevada, USA This data release includes raw detrital zircon U-Pb data for isolated sandstones in Upper Triassic deposits of the Auld Lang Syne basin of northwest Nevada, USA. Detrital zircon U-Pb data for 11 sandstone samples (3269 zircon U-Pb dates) were acquired via LA-ICP-MS at the University of Arizona LaserChron Center for 11 sandstone samples. Primary insights from the data are twofold: 1) The data provide information about sediment provenance and indicate that sediment of the Auld Lang Syne basin was primarily derived from near the ancestral Ouachita orogen of Texas and Oklahoma. Sediment was transported to the Auld Lang Syne basin by a Late Triassic transcontinental river system, recorded today by the Upper Triassic... Categories: Data; Tags: Great Basin, Nevada, North America, Sedimentology, Stratigraphy, All tags... USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), geochronology, geology, sedimentology, stratigraphy, zircon, Fewer tags « 1 2 3 4 5 ... 18 »