Educational Resources for Sagebrush Landscapes

Ecology of Sagebrush Systems

Bibliographies

Sagebrush Ecosystems

The Great Basin

Pinyon and Juniper Woodlands

Cheatgrass Invasion

Wildlife in Sagebrush Ecosystems

Hydrology

Wild and Prescribed Fire

Sociopolitical and Economics

Data Analysis

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Bibliography: Hydrology in the Great Basin

Pierson, F.B., J.D. Bates, T.J. Svejcar, and S.P. Hardegree. 2007. Runoff and erosion after cutting western juniper. Rangeland Ecology and Management 60:285-292. Available here.

Pierson, F.B., W.H. Blackburn, and S.S. Van Vactor. 2007. Hydrologic Impacts of Mechanical Seeding Treatments on Sagebrush Rangelands. Rangeland Ecology and Managment 60:666-674. Available here.

Pierson, F.B., D.H. Carlson, and K.E. Spaeth. 2002. Impacts of wildfire on soil hydrological properties of steep sagebrush-steppe rangeland. International Journal of Wildland Fire 11(2):145-151. Available here.

Pierson, F.B., Moffet, C.A., Williams, C.J., Hardegree, S.P., and Clark, P.E. 2009. Prescribed-fire effects on rill and interrill runoff and erosion in a mountainous sagebrush landscape. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 34(2):193-203. Available here.

Pierson, F.B., P.R. Robichaud, C.A. Moffet, K.E. Spaeth, S.P. Hardegree, P.E. Clark, and C.J. Williams. 2008. Fire effects on rangeland hydrology and erosion in a steep sagebrush-dominated landscape. Hydrological Processes 22:2916-2929. Available here.

Pierson, F.B., P.R. Robichaud, and K.E. Spaeth. 2001. Spatial and temporal effects of wildfire on the hydrology of a steep rangeland watershed. Hydrological Processes 15:2905-2916. Available here.

Pierson, F.B., P.R. Robichaud, K.E. Spaeth, and C.A. Moffet. 2003. Impacts of fire on hydrology and erosion in steep mountain big sagebrush communities. Pages 625-630. In Renard, K.E., S.A. McElroy, S.A. Gburek, W.J. Canfield, H. Evan, and R.L. Scott, editors. Proceedings of the First Interagency Conference on Research in the Watersheds. Benson, Arizona. USDA Agricultural Research Service. Available here.

Pierson, F.B., K.E. Spaeth, M.E. Weltz, and D.H. Carlson. 2002. Hydrologic response of diverse western rangelands. Journal of Range Management 55:558-570. Available here.

Rau, B.M., J.C. Chambers, R.R. Blank, and W.W. Miller. 2005. Hydrologic response to prescribed fire in central Nevada pinyon-juniper (Pinus monophylla-Juniperus osteosperma) woodland. Journal of Range Management 58:614-622. Available here.

Wilcox, B.P. 2002. Shrub control and streamflow on rangelands: A process based viewpoint. Journal of Range Management 55:318-326. Available here.