Presentations from Past Events

SageSTEP Webinar Series hosted by the Great Basin Science Delivery Project
December 2011-April 2011
For more information contact Genie Montblance (emb@cabnr.unr.edu) or visit the Science Delivery Project website.

  • January 25, 2012, 11:30am-12:30pm PST (12:30-1:30pm MST)
    Do Wyoming big sagebrush communities respond similarly to fuel reduction treatments across the northern Great Basin? Patterns of native and exotic understory growth during the first three years following prescribed fire, mechanical, tebuthiuron, and imazipic treatments, Dr. Gene Schupp, Utah State University. Registration link will be sent after the first of the year.
  • February: Characterizing pinyon-juniper woodlands using high resolution imagery, April Hulet, Ph.D. candidate and Dr. Bruce Roundy
  • March: Short-term vegetation responses to pinyon-juniper fuel control treatments: How does tree dominance at implementation affect understory responses, Dr. Bruce Roundy
  • April: SageSTEP Hydrology, Dr. Fred Pierson and Jason Williams

Society for Range Management 65th Annual Meeting
Lessons from the Past, Strategies for the Future
January 29-February 3, 2012
Spokane, Washington
Click here for more information.

SageSTEP Symposium, February 2, 2012, 8am-noon
Disturbance, Resilience and Thresholds in Sagebrush Ecosystems

  • Introduction (Jim McIver)
  • Understanding the importance of resilience and resistance to restoration of sagebrush rangelands (Jeanne Chambers)
  • Human behavior as a factor in ecosystem resilience (Mark Brunson)
  • Soil moisture-temperature regimes: Influence on ecological resilience, resistance, and site response following piñon-juniper removal (Rick Miller)
  • Resistance and resilience of bird communities to pinyon-juniper removal by prescribed fire (Steve Hanser)
  • Resilience as an ecological concept: Do our results reflect the experience of other professionals? (Discussion)
  • Effects of fuel treatment disturbances on soil water availability and potential resilience and resistance to weed invasion of sagebrush communities (Bruce Roundy)
  • Assessing Resilience: What is the potential for a state change and how might we assess it? (Dave Pyke)
  • Bunchgrass community structure as a factor influencing resilience of sagebrush steppe ecosystems (Michael Reisner)
  • Hydrologic response of sagebrush steppe to woodland encroachment and subsequent tree removal: implications for assessing sagebrush steppe hydrologic stability and resiliency (Fred Pierson)
  • SageSTEP as an integrative study of resilience and thresholds: Challenges, application, and next steps (Jim McIver)

Great Basin Native Plant Selection and Increase Project Annual Meeting
February 21-22, 2012
Salt Lake City, Utah

Landscape Conservation Cooperative National Workshop: Defining conservation for th 21st century
March 27-28, 2012
Denver, Colorado
Click here for more information.

17th Wildland Shrub Symposium: Humans in Changing Landscapes
May 22-24, 2012
Las Cruces, New Mexico
Click here for more information.

SageSTEP 2012 Field Days
May and June 2012
Idaho Falls Area and Northern California
More information coming soon!

Eastern Nevada Landscape Coalition Annual Meeting
June 2012
Ely, Nevada
Click here for more information.

Click here for online presentations available from past events.