Moses Coulee Site
| Location: | Near Wenatchee, WA |
| Land Management Agency: | The Nature Conservancy, Moses Coulee Preserve |
| SageSTEP Site Manager: | Scott Shaff |
| Plots: | Four 50-acre core plots (Control, Burn, Mechanical, Herbicide) |
| Elevation: | 1700 ft |
| Topography: | 0–10 % slope with a Southern aspect |
| Common Vegetation: | Bluebunch wheatgrass, Wyoming big sagebrush, Needle and Thread, Sandberg’s bluegrass |
| Soils: | Strat-Tubspring-Skaha complex |
| Fire Regime: | The Wyoming big sagebrush type is the driest of the sagebrush steppe communities and historically had a fire return interval of approximately 50-100 years The introduction of cheatgrass into the sagebrush grassland communities has increased fine fuels and reduced the fire return interval to less than 10 years. |
| Representative Land Base: | This site is representative of sage steppe ecosystem of eastern Washington. |
| Grazing: | This site is actively grazed and will be fenced for the duration of the study to exclude livestock. |
| Treatment Schedule: | Treatments were implemented in fall 2008 except for the burn, which is planned for 2009. For more information about treatments, click here. |
Click here to download the Moses Coulee Site Fact Sheet (PDF, 248KB).
Click on the links below to view images from select subplots
