Roberts Site

Location: Jefferson County, northwest of Rogers, ID
Land Management Agency: Bureau of Land Management Upper Snake River Field Office
SageSTEP Site Manager: Jeff Burnham
Plots: Four 200-acre core plots (Control, Burn, Mechanical, Herbicide)
Elevation: 4800-4860 ft.
Topography: 0-10% slopes of all aspects
Common Vegetation: Wyoming big sagebrush, Sandberg bluegrass, Indian ricegrass, bluebunch wheatgrass, and cheatgrass.
Soils: fine- to coarse-loamy, mixed
Fire Regime: Historically, several decades. Many of these communities experienced an increased fire return interval with settlement and overgrazing. Cheatgrass invasion can cause larger fires and reduce this interval to 10 years or less.
Representative Land Base: Several million acres in western and central Utah, southern Idaho, northern Nevada, and eastern Oregon.
Grazing: Plots are located on an active grazing allotment, and will be fenced for the duration of the study to exclude livestock.
Treatments Implemented: Fall 2007. For more information, click here.

Click here to download the Roberts Site Fact Sheet (PDF, 1017KB).