Growing the Core: Restoring Sagebrush Steppe Habitats with Innovative Restoration Technologies 

Funding Year

Amount

Location

FY24

$100,000

Rangewide

Project Description

The purpose of this project is to use technologies to improve the restoration success of sagebrush sagebrush
The western United States’ sagebrush country encompasses over 175 million acres of public and private lands. The sagebrush landscape provides many benefits to our rural economies and communities, and it serves as crucial habitat for a diversity of wildlife, including the iconic greater sage-grouse and over 350 other species.

Learn more about sagebrush -steppe habitats impacted by wildfire and invasive annual grasses. Work will develop and test herbicide resistance and germination delay technologies to facilitate restoration in the sagebrush biome, especially in areas important to the "Defend and Grow the Core" approach.

Partners

The Nature Conservancy

Contact Information

Programs

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The western United States’ sagebrush country encompasses over 175 million acres of public and private lands. Sagebrush country contains biological, cultural and economic resources of national significance. America’s sagebrush ecosystem is the largest contiguous ecotype in the continental...
Program