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Evaluating Species Management Guidance and Monitoring Programs for the Great Basin in Nevada FY2013The proposed project’s objective is to provide a scientific review of(1) current priority species management practices in Nevada, (2) status of our combined scientific knowledge of priority species’ needs and gaps in that knowledge, and(3) adequacy of current monitoring programs of priority species.The project builds on recent, well-researched species conservation plans for Nevada (GBBO 2010, NWPT 2012), and it will leverage funds that are already obligated to research on scientifically based disturbance buffer recommendations and to evaluate GBBO’s statewide landbird monitoring program, the Nevada Bird Count.The outcome of the proposed work will be an online open-source compendium document that summarizes... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Birds, Birds, Birds, Conservation Design, Federal resource managers, All tags... Great Basin, Great Basin, Great Basin Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Informing Conservation Delivery, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Nevada, Nevada, Nevada, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Project, Report, State agencies, Training/Outreach/Workshop, onGoing, species management, species management, species management, Fewer tags Current Versus Historical Trends in Habitat Use by Wintering Raptors in the Snake River Birds of Prey National Conservation Area FY2011Research is showing that populations of wintering raptors, including Northern Harriers, Rough-Legged Hawks, Prairie Falcons, American Kestrels. Red-Tailed Hawks and Golden Eagles, have stayed relatively constant in the last 20 years are being used by the Bureau of Land Management and Idaho Army National Guard in developing raptor conservation management practices. The American Wind and WildlifeInstitute will also use the results for their wind energy siting support tools. Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Data Acquisition and Development, Federal resource managers, LCC Network Science Catalog, Monitoring, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, All tags... Project, Publication, State agencies, american kestrel, american kestrel, american kestrel, birds of prey nca, birds of prey nca, birds of prey nca, climate change, climate change, climate change, completed, distribution, distribution, distribution, golden eagle, golden eagle, golden eagle, idaho, idaho, idaho, northern great basin, northern great basin, northern great basin, northern harrier, prairie falcon, prairie falcon, prairie falcon, red-tailed hawk, red-tailed hawk, red-tailed hawk, rough-legged hawk, rough-legged hawk, rough-legged hawk, snake river, winter, winter, winter, Fewer tags Using Narrative Stories to Understand Traditional Ecological Knowledge in the Great Basin FY2014One of the primary challenges facing public land managers in the Great Basin is identifying adaptation strategies to increase resiliency to climate change in an area that is already struggling with profound environmental challenges. Recent efforts to understand how the Great Basin weathered past droughts and climate variability may offer insight into approaches that could work in future decades. One approach to gather this information is to understand Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK). Gathering this information is challenging and requires an acknowledgment that much of this information is highly sensitive and proprietary. Translating this information into actionable management plans is even more challenging.This... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Conservation Planning, Federal resource managers, Great Basin, Great Basin, Great Basin, All tags... LCC Network Science Catalog, Nevada, Nevada, Nevada, Presentation, Project, Pyramid Lake, Pyramid Lake, Pyramid Lake, Pyramid Lake, Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe, Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe, Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe, Reno, Reno, Reno, Report, State agencies, TEK, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Training/Outreach/Workshop, Tribes, Truckee River, Truckee River, Truckee River, completed, culture, culture, culture, elders, elders, elders, storytelling, storytelling, storytelling, Fewer tags Walker River Paiute Tribe TEK Project FY2014The goals for the project are1) Develop a Walker River Vision document which will include Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) of the traditional plants, wildlife, fish and water located on the reservation and traditional hunting/ gathering areas of the Agai Dicutta Numa (Walker River Paiutes) for use in future resource management planning and cultural sustainability..2) Develop a pilot project along the Walker River on the reservation by planting willows and other traditional plants to determine best practices for re-vegetation.This project will focus on GBLCC Goal 2: Focus science and management actions to sustain natural resources in the context of changing environmental conditions.The proposed project... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Data Management and Integration, Decision Support, Great Basin, Great Basin, Great Basin, All tags... Great Basin, LCC Network Science Catalog, Project, Report, TEK, TEK, TEK, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Tribes, Walker River, Walker River, Walker River, Walker River, Walker River Paiute tribe, Walker River Paiute tribe, Walker River Paiute tribe, completed, culture, culture, culture, restoration, restoration, restoration, Fewer tags Assessing annual grass management effectiveness in the sagebrush biome Invasive annual grasses are a primary, severe, and challenging threat to habitat conservation and restoration for sage-dependent wildlife across federal, state and private lands. Successful management solutions for sagebrush rangelands are likely to be multiphasic, involving some sequence of interventions such as herbicides, seeding of competitive natives that also create habitat, and temporarily altering land use, in an adaptive-management approach. The proposed work tests different herbicides and options for applying them with different seeding and land uses, across a gradient of climate and soils in Interior Regions 5 and 7.This research will examine the efficacy of management options for controlling cheatgrass... Categories: Data, Project; Tags: CO, Decision Support, Federal resource managers, Project, SA Science Catalog, All tags... Sagebrush, Strategic Science - 1420, USFWS Science Applications Science Catalog, UT, UT, UT, annual grass, completed, environment, sagebrush biome, sagebrush biome, sagebrush biome, Fewer tags Evaluating patterns of long-term system change and demographic response for grassland nesting ducks in the US Prairie Pothole Region The US Prairie Pothole Region (PPR) has experienced some of the highest rates of grassland loss in North America over a time that coincides with dramatic declines in grassland songbird populations yet increasing abundance of most grassland-nesting duck species except for northern pintail. To provide more insight into this contradiction, we propose to capitalize on long-term databases to evaluate how a key population driver nest survival for North American ducks has responded to system changes in the region including landscape and climatic factors. Outcomes of these analyses will contribute to testing primary conservation planning assumptions for the PPJV a vital component of the PPJV Strategic Habitat Conservation... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Academics & scientific researchers, Federal resource managers, Grasslands, Project, SA Science Catalog, All tags... Strategic Science - 1420, USFWS Science Applications Science Catalog, duck, duck, environment, nest survival, nest survival, nesting, nesting, onGoing, prairie pothole, Fewer tags Assessing Traditional and Emerging Grazing Strategies for Creating a Mosaic of Diverse Habitat Patches for Grassland- and Sagebrush Associated Birds Using a solutions-oriented, multi-agency collaboration, we propose to pilot a large-scale assessment of an alternative (herding, electric- and virtual-fence) grazing strategy designed to mimic pre-colonial grazing patterns by bison, to ascertain their value for local- and regional-scale assemblages ofsagebrush- and grassland-associated birds in Montana. A fundamental goal of most wildlife-based grazing programs is to foster a mosaic of patches that represent the broadest possible spectrum of habitat types that benefits different sagebrush- and grassland-associated birds in different parts of the landscape (for example, western meadowlarks, vesper sparrows, and thick-billed longspur in open, heavily grazed areas;... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Federal resource managers, Grasslands, Project, SA Science Catalog, Sagebrush, All tags... Strategic Science - 1420, Strategic Science - BIL, USFWS Science Applications Science Catalog, abundance, abundance, abundance, abundance, abundance, alternative grazing, environment, onGoing, passive, passive, passive, passive, passive, Fewer tags Wetland Mask to Improve Woody Cover Mapping Grassland loss to woody encroachment is widespread and ongoing. Mechanical removal of Eastern Red Cedar (ERC) is the most cost-shared practice to address this threat. Cost-share is provided based on acres with different levels of infestation. Delineation of the different levels of infestation is time consuming butrequired to ensure the appropriate amount of cost-share is provided and contractors are not over/under compensated. The Rangeland Brush Estimation Toolbox(RaBET) is geospatial tool that can accurately automate this process. Unfortunately,wet-meadows and other wetland features cause the tool to overestimate woody cover. This project will provide funds to finish the National Wetlands Inventory (NWI). This... Categories: Data, Project; Tags: Federal resource managers, Grasslands, Project, SA Science Catalog, Strategic Science - 1420, All tags... USFWS Science Applications Science Catalog, eastern red cedar, eastern red cedar, environment, geospatial, geospatial, onGoing, removal, removal, woody encroachment, Fewer tags Webinar: Challenges and opportunities with shrub restoration in the Great Basin On August 25, 2015 speaker Matt Germino presented on his work restoring sagebrush in the Great Basin. Shrubs are ecosystem foundation species in most of the Great Basin’s landscapes. Most of the species, including sagebrush, are poorly adapted to the changes in fire and invasive pressures that are compounded by climate change. This presentation gives an overview of challenges and opportunities regarding restoration of sagebrush and blackbrush, focusing on climate adaptation, selection of seeds and achieving seeding and planting success. Results from Great Basin LCC supported research on seed selection and planting techniques are presented. Categories: Data; Tags: Academics & scientific researchers, Completed, EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE, Federal resource managers, Great Basin, All tags... Idaho, LCC Network Science Catalog, Nevada, biota, cheatgrass, environment, genotype, presentation, sage grouse, seed source, wildfire, Fewer tags Progress Report: Grouse and Grazing 2016 Report The distribution of the greater sage-grouse (hereafter sage-grouse; Centrocercus urophasianus) has declined to 56% of its pre-settlement distribution (Schroeder et al. 2004) and abundance of males attending leks has decreased substantially over the past 50 years throughout the species’ range (Garton et al. 2011, Garton et al. 2015, WAFWA 2015). Livestock grazing is a common land use within sage-grouse habitat, and livestock grazing has been implicated by some experts as one of numerous factors contributing to sage-grouse population declines (Beck and Mitchell 2000, Schroeder et al. 2004). However, there are also numerous mechanisms by which livestock grazing might benefit sage-grouse (Beck and Mitchell 2000, Crawford... Categories: Data; Tags: Academics & scientific researchers, Completed, EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE, Federal resource managers, Great Basin, All tags... Great Basin, Idaho, LCC Network Science Catalog, Report, biota, breeding behavior, environment, farming, grazing, insects, sagebrush, vegetation structure, Fewer tags Effects of Treatments on the Connectivity and Fragmentation of Wildlife Populations across the Great Basin FY2016This project will evaluate the effects of vegetation treatments on population connectivity, genetic diversity and gene flow of wildlife species across the full extent of the Great Basin LCC. The recently approved BLM and Forest Service Land Use Plan Amendments will implement millions of acres of treatments in support of greater sage-grouse conservation. It is essential to evaluate the potential benefits and risks of these treatments on the connectivity and fragmentation of the landscape for multiple non-target species. We will use a dynamic landscape model to simulate fire and treatments, allowing each to vary by type (e.g., juniper removal, prescribed fire), extent, and influence on vegetation and fuels.... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Academics & scientific researchers, Applications and Tools, CA1, CA1, CA1, All tags... CA1, CA4, CA4, CA4, CA4, CA8, CA8, CA8, CA8, Conservation Planning, Datasets/Database, Federal resource managers, Great Basin, Great Basin, Great Basin, Great Basin, Great Basin, ID1, ID1, ID1, ID1, ID2, ID2, ID2, ID2, LCC Network Science Catalog, NV2, NV2, NV2, NV2, NV4, NV4, NV4, NV4, OR1, OR2, OR2, OR2, OR2, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Project, Report, State agencies, UT1, UT1, UT1, UT1, UT2, UT2, UT2, UT2, UT4, UT4, UT4, UT4, conifer, conifer, conifer, conifer, connectivity, connectivity, connectivity, connectivity, juniper, onGoing, projections, projections, projections, projections, restoration, restoration, restoration, restoration, species impacts, species impacts, species impacts, species impacts, Fewer tags Effects of Genotype and Management Treatments of Native and Invasive Herbs on Success of Sagebrush Restoration FY2013The increase in large wildfires at a time when habitat for Greater Sage Grouse and other species dependent on big sagebrush has also increased has led to substantial needs for big sagebrush seeds. Significant decisions on which sagebrush seed to use and on management treatments that affect competing herb layers on the same restoration sites affect the trajectory of habitat.This project will evaluate how seed source, specifically genotype and climate-of-origin, interact with landscape-scale and replicated treatments (fencing, herbicide application, mowing, and seeding). Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2013, 2014, 2015, Academics & scientific researchers, Cheatgrass, All tags... Conservation Design, Decision Support, Decision Support, Federal resource managers, Federal resource managers, Great Basin, Great Basin, Great Basin Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Idaho, Idaho, Idaho, Idaho, Idaho, Informing Conservation Delivery, Informing Conservation Delivery, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Nevada, Nevada, Nevada, Nevada, Nevada, Project, Publication, Report, Training/Outreach/Workshop, Training/Outreach/Workshop, User Manual, cheatgrass, cheatgrass, cheatgrass, cheatgrass, completed, genotype, genotype, genotype, genotype, genotype, sage grouse, sage grouse, sage grouse, sage grouse, sage grouse, seed source, seed source, seed source, seed source, seed source, wildfire, wildfire, Fewer tags Stoney Nakoda Nation Cultural Awareness (grant never executed) The Stoney Nakoda Nation believe that it is important to provide cultural awareness to the Great North Landscape Conservation group so that the group can understand the First Nation history of the study area. This is particularly interesting given the early policy development of national parks within the United States of America, and Canada, and the impacts on the Stoney Nakoda. The cultural awareness and First Nation history of the Stoney Nakoda will provide background on traditional uses and knowledge of the study area, and provide insight to science based practitioners on the need for integrating western science with traditional environmental knowledge. To provide First Nation cultural awareness of the Rocky... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Alberta, Goal 5: Sustain local, place-based land use values, None Identified, Project, Report, All tags... Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Training/Outreach/Workshop, Tribes, completed, Fewer tags Adding Climate Smart Principles into Habitat Conservation Planning FY2014There is increasing interest in climate change adaptation, particularly since the release of the Presidents Executive Order on Climate Preparedness in November, 2013, yet many field staff remain uncertain how to put adaptation into practice. Our goal with this project is to bridge the gap between the wealth of high-level climate adaptation guidance and the field staff who carry out specific regulatory processes, specifically Habitat Conservation Plans. Following best practices from the literature on linking science and management, we will begin with a focus on what people do rather than on the climate science. We will map the current HCP development and approval process in Region 8, identify where and how... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Applications and Tools, Conservation NGOs, Conservation Planning, Decision Support, Federal resource managers, All tags... Great Basin, LCC Network Science Catalog, Project, State agencies, adaptation, climate, completed, decision support, habitat, Fewer tags User Guide: Creating Climate Smart HCPs Incorporating climate change into conservation and resource management planning is rapidly becoming a standard of practice, both because of mandates from above (e.g. court cases) and because planners and managers want to do a good job and avoid nasty surprises. There is much of guidance out there for climate smart conservation and planning, both generic and sector-specific. This quick guide is not intended to replicate those, nor to provide everything you need to do a climate smart HCP. The intent is to help users to:1. Understand why it’s important to “ask the climate question” when it comes to HCPs.2. Make users informed consumers of climate change information and expertise. 3. Provide a logic users can follow... 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 Partnerships Coordinator- Idaho 1 GS 12 employee to support existing BLM liaison position, providing a key leadership role in leading sage grouse conservation (post-fire restoration, invasive species control, and Land Use Plan amendments) for IFWO. Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Capacity, Capacity, Capacity - BIL, Other, Project, All tags... SA Science Catalog, Sagebrush, environment, idaho, onGoing, partnerships coordinator, Fewer tags Research and Publications Authored and Supported by GBLCC Staff FY2010In addition to regional Science and Traditional Ecological Knowledge projects that the Great Basin LCC (GBLCC) supports, GBLCC staff lend technical expertise to a range of projects and have contributed to important regional publications on a range of subjects. These publications range in type from textbooks, to management-oriented science and conservation plans, to scientific papers and have covered subjects like wind erosion following fire, soil microbiota response to drought, plant community resilience to invasive species, and alpine plant communities. In many cases these publications form foundations for scientifically-informed management strategies across the Great Basin. Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: California, Conservation Design, Conservation Planning, Data Acquisition and Development, Federal resource managers, All tags... Great Basin, Idaho, Interested public, LCC Network Science Catalog, Nevada, Oregon, Project, Publication, Report, Scientific Papers, State agencies, Utah, alpine communities, birds, climate change, completed, erosion, interagency, invasive species, peer-reviewed, precipitation, resilience, resistance, restoration, soil microbes, wildlife, Fewer tags Landscape Connectivity of a Sagebrush Obligate: Functional Continuity of Habitat for the Pygmy Rabbit FY2014Land management agencies seek to understand how organisms use the landscape in order to develop management strategies that maintain healthy, resilient communities that have the ecological and evolutionary potential to respond to climate change. An ideal approach to understanding how organisms move through the landscape is by inferring ongoing and historic movements from patterns of genetic continuity that characterize regional sets of populations. From patterns of genetic connectivity we can infer the habitat and landscape characteristics that facilitate animal movement and species range shifts over both short and long timescales. Knowing the spatial distribution of critical linkages or corridors allows conservation... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Academics & scientific researchers, Conservation Planning, Datasets/Database, Decision Support, Federal resource managers, All tags... Great Basin, Great Basin, LCC Network Science Catalog, NV2, NV4, NV4, NV4, NV4, Nevada, Nevada, Nevada, Nevada, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Project, Publication, State agencies, climate change, climate change, climate change, climate change, connectivity, connectivity, connectivity, connectivity, corridor, corridor, corridor, corridor, modeling, modeling, modeling, modeling, onGoing, pygmy rabbit, pygmy rabbit, pygmy rabbit, pygmy rabbit, Fewer tags Development of a Conservation Planning Atlas to Improve Regional GIS Data Integration, Collaboration, and Partner Engagement FY2014The Conservation Biology Institute (CBI) will work with the Great Basin to develop a Conservation Planning Atlas (also commonly called gateways) using Data Basin technology (www.databasin.org) to serve the data integration, collaboration and partner engagement needs.Conservation Planning Atlases (CPA) are a customized interface of the Data Basin platform that include special branding, curation of spatial content, direct links to selected sites (e.g., other LCC Conservation Planning Atlas (e.g., nplcc.databasin.org), additional upload capacity if needed, and access to premium analytical tools. The CPA will allow Great Basin LCC staff and stakeholders to integrate spatial information to coordinate and promote... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: California, California, California, California, California, All tags... Conservation NGOs, Data Management and Integration, Decision Support, Federal resource managers, Great Basin, Idaho, Idaho, Idaho, Idaho, Idaho, Informing Conservation Delivery, LCC Network Science Catalog, Nevada, Nevada, Nevada, Nevada, Nevada, Oregon, Oregon, Oregon, Oregon, Oregon, Presentation, Project, State agencies, Utah, Utah, Utah, Utah, Utah, Website, completed, data integration, data integration, data integration, data integration, data integration, decision support, decision support, decision support, decision support, decision support, partner collaboration, partner collaboration, partner collaboration, partner collaboration, partner collaboration, spatial analysis, spatial analysis, spatial analysis, spatial analysis, spatial analysis, web gis, web services, web services, web services, web services, web services, Fewer tags Measuring the Regional Impacts of Pinyon and Juniper Removal on Insect, Bat, and Reptile Communities FY2016Monitor the diversity and abundance of winged insects (including Lepidoptera, Hymenoptera, Coleoptera, Diptera, and Hemiptera), which include many key insect pollinators, using an array of passive and active trapping methods. Monitor bat diversity and relative densities using passive acoustic monitoring stations (we will use full-spectrum passive recording units). Monitor diversity and abundance of reptiles (lizards and snakes), using trap arrays (pitfall and coverboard) and time-constrained visual encounter surveys. Create empirically supported models of reptile, bat, and insect diversity and abundance as a function of vegetation structure and composition, microclimate, and other environmental variables,... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Academics & scientific researchers, Datasets/Database, Federal resource managers, Great Basin, Great Basin, All tags... Great Basin, Great Basin, Great Basin, LCC Network Science Catalog, Map, Monitoring, NV2, NV4, NV4, NV4, NV4, Nevada, Nevada, Nevada, Nevada, Nevada, Nevada, Nevada, Nevada, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Presentation, Project, bats, bats, bats, bats, conifer, conifer, conifer, conifer, insects, insects, insects, insects, juniper, onGoing, pygmy rabbits, pygmy rabbits, pygmy rabbits, pygmy rabbits, reptiles, reptiles, reptiles, reptiles, restoration, restoration, restoration, restoration, species impacts, species impacts, species impacts, species impacts, Fewer tags 1 2 3 4 »