Showing papers in "Rangelands in 2022"

TL;DR: This paper identified and proactively defending intact rangeland cores from annual grass invasion is a top priority for management and proposed new geographic strategies for effective management of invasive annual grasses in sagebrush country.

TL;DR: Grazing, through its modification of fuels, can improve fire suppression efforts by decreasing flame lengths, rate of fire spread, and fire severity as discussed by the authors . But, the benefits of grazing are limited.

TL;DR: Invasive annual grasses pose a widespread threat to western rangelands, and a strategic and proactive approach is needed to tackle this problem as mentioned in this paper , and a conceptual framework for proactive management, building upon similar work recently begun across the Great Basin, is proposed.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors present the practice of using satellite-derived maps with four guiding principles designed to increase end user confidence and thereby accessibility of these data for decision-making.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors propose an integrated fire management approach in which all management activities before, during, and after wildfire are synergistic and improve long-term ecosystem response to fire.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors proposed a management system must be resilient if we hope to promote ecosystem resilience in an ever-changing risk, seedling recruitment, and recovery environment, and a shift in paradigm from random acts of opportunistic restoration to a sustained, organized, process-based approach for promoting ecosystem resilience.

TL;DR: In this paper , effective wildland fire response and suppression are critical for reducing the size of frequent and severe wildfires, thereby reducing the risk of post-fire conversion to invasive annual grass-dominated plant communities.

TL;DR: In 2019, a diverse group of managers, scientists, and government officials held a symposium to discuss existing and emerging options for ameliorating the annual grass threat and associated impacts in the Northern Great Basin region as mentioned in this paper .

TL;DR: Using native species in seed-based restoration efforts is critical for recreating or maintaining healthy, resistant, and resilient ecosystems and communities in the Intermountain Western United States as mentioned in this paper .

TL;DR: In this article , the authors present 10 guiding data quality questions to help managers and scientists identify appropriate workflows to improve data quality by describing the data ecosystem, creating a data quality plan, identifying roles and responsibilities, building data collection and data management workflows, training and calibrating data collectors, detecting and correcting errors, and describing sources of variability.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors describe the challenges of keeping stakeholders and partners involved in the planning stage of restoration projects, particularly when tracking past projects and finding continued funding to maintain the projects implemented years earlier takes effort usually on behalf of the convening organization.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors propose a four-step framework for the LTAR Network to evolve a cohesive human dimensions strategy that brings together the social and ecological dimensions of the network, which will support stakeholder co-developed science that facilitates agroecosystem transformations benefiting society.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors present a monitoring for adaptive management of the 2015 Soda Megafire area (113,000 Ha) sampled up to 2000 observation plots in each of five post fire years, and provided important insights on challenges, solutions, and insights that can be applied to monitoring future burned areas.

TL;DR: The Long-Term Agroecosystem Research Network (LTAR) developed a framework to evaluate how agricultural innovations perform relative to sustainable intensification goals in five domains: Environment, Productivity, Economic, Human Condition, and Social as discussed by the authors .

TL;DR: The continued expansion of invasive annual grasses is a complex ecosystem management problem requiring a shift in focus from a discrete, single treatment approach to one of adaptive management with sustained investment as discussed by the authors .

TL;DR: In this article , an ethogram was developed to classify and record horse behaviors and changes in response to disturbance using a DJI Phantom 4 Pro sUAS by monitoring horse behavior at 5 second intervals from 3 m, 15 m, and 33 m above ground level (AGL).

TL;DR: This paper examined cross-boundary collaboration after the Soda Fire that burned approximately 113,312 ha (280,000 acres) of southwestern Idaho and southeastern Oregon, and found relationships established in other management contexts were activated by individuals within agencies to share funding and resources to rehabilitate the landscape after the soda Fire.

TL;DR: The Defend the Core framework as mentioned in this paper is based on a December 2020 symposium focused on the impacts of wildfire and invasive annual grasses in Oregon, the Northern Great Basin, and sagebrush ecosystems across the West.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors aim to stimulate use of and inspire ideas about rangeland monitoring data in the context of wildlife habitat modeling and species conservation, and provide much needed information for mapping and modeling wildlife habitats.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors focus on a core, and often underrepresented example, Communal processes, which include social interactions for a common interest or purpose, or for deliberation and decision-making about a shared locality.

TL;DR: In this paper , a regression tree analysis of mail survey responses from landowners in the US Edwards Plateau, Central Great Plains, and Flint Hills was conducted to find diverse senses of place based on a variety of place meanings and differing levels of place attachment.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors propose that adaptive management should explicitly involve stakeholders, emphasize multiple iterations of identifying and prioritizing outcomes, and tightly link science-informed monitoring to decision-making benchmarks for effective feedback loops.

TL;DR: In this paper , a combination of stocking rate and marketing date that maximizes average net return per head will not necessarily maximize average net returns per hectare, as the authors point out.

TL;DR: The use of pre-emergent herbicide, Imazapic, decreased cheatgrass densities >95% during the fallow year and before sowing seed the following fall during this study, which significantly reduced the cheatgrass competition for seedlings of seeded species as discussed by the authors .

TL;DR: In this article , the authors discuss the benefits of avoiding conversion of grasslands to other uses, such as row crops, to quantify the amount of stored carbon and sell credits, but high costs of developing carbon credit projects price many landowners out of the carbon market.

TL;DR: In this paper , a mix-and-match approach for grazing management in the shortgrass steppe can result in reduced drought risk, enhanced breeding habitat availability for grassland bird species of concern, and sustained livestock production.

TL;DR: Early seral species evolved to establish quickly and occupy disturbed soils, reduce erosion, and provide a food source for wildlife, and they alter soil chemistry and biology dynamics that favor transition to later seral phases as mentioned in this paper .