Community engagement and collaboration, Research

Incorporating Connectivity and Wildland Fire Risk into the WAFWA Sagebrush Conservation Design

Funding Year

Amount

Location

FY22

$150,000

Rangewide

Project Description

We will incorporate both connectivity among core 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
areas and wildfire threat to core sagebrush areas into the WAFWA Sagebrush Conservation Design. For Connectivity we will create spatial action maps that identify areas of greatest functional connectivity between sagebrush core areas and priority riparian riparian
Definition of riparian habitat or riparian areas.

Learn more about riparian
areas.  We will also evaluate the connectivity of the sagebrush conservation design for Greater Sage-grouse and ungulates that utilize the sagebrush biome. 

Partners

Crosswinds Ecological Consulting, LLC, U.S. Forest Service, Conservation Planning Technologies, University of Waterloo, University of Montana

Contact

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...