Twin Falls District Sagebrush Restoration

Background information. The Twin Falls District of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has experienced an incredible increase in large-scale fires that have completely altered the fire regime across the landscape. These areas were historically a Wyoming sagebrush steppe ecosystem, but are now dominated by large areas of grasses devoid of a shrub component. This vegetation change has resulted in significant loss of sage-grouse habitat and has altered the fire return interval so the area now burns every few years rather than the historic 50- to 75- year interval (Barret and others, 2010). In response to these landscape changes, the BLM has partnered with the Idaho Department of Fish and Game (DFG) in an effort to...

Categories: Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: BLM, Bureau of Land Management, Fire, Habitat-based, Herbaceous (grass, sedge, forb), All tags... Herbaceous fuels management, Idaho, Idaho Fish and Game, Other U.S. Government Land, Planting, Sagebrush restoration, Terrestrial, Vegetation management, Woody fuels management, Fewer tags