SageSTEP Publications

Following is a complete list of publications that have been published as a result of the SageSTEP research. Publications are categorized by topic.

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Economics
GIS/Remote Sensing
Hydrology
Other
SageSTEP General
Sociopolitical
Soils
Vegetation and Fuels
Wildlife

Economics

Evans, M.D.R. and K. Rollins. 2008. Rangeland Fires and Cheatgrass: Values at Risk and Support for Preservation. Western Rural Development Center Rural Connections. Spring 2008, Vol. 2, Issue 3. P. 7-8. Available here.

Kobayashi, M., K. Rollins and M.D.R. Evans. 2010. Sensitivity of WTP Estimates to Definition of 'Yes': Reinterpreting Expressed Response Intensity. Agricultural and Resource Economics Review 39(1): 37-55. Available here.

Kobayashi, M., K. Rollins, and M.H. Taylor (2010). Ranching, Invasive Annual Grasses, and the External Costs of Wildfire in the Great Basin: A Stochastic Dynamic Programming Approach. Selected Paper prepared for presentation at the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association’s 2010 AAEA, CAES & WAEA Joint Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado, July 25-27, 2010. Available here.

Maher, A. 2007. The Economic Impacts of Sagebrush Steppe Wildfires on an Eastern Oregon Ranch. M.S. Thesis, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon. Available here.

Rollins, K., A. Castledine, S. Swanson, M. Evans, K. McAdoo, B. Schultz, M. Havercamp and R. Wilson. 2007. The 2005 Nevada Rangeland Vegetation Survey General Public Questionnaire and Survey of Responses. University of Nevada Cooperative Extension Special Publication 07-11. Available here.

Rollins, K., M.D.R. Evans, M. Kobyashi and A. Castledine. 2010. Willingness to Pay Estimation When Protest Beliefs are not Separable from the Public Good Definition. University of Nevada Reno Joint Economics Working Paper No. 10-002. Available here.

GIS/Remote Sensing

Hulet, A., B. Roundy, S. Petersen and S. Bunting. 2010. Applying Remote Sensing and Definiens eCognition Developer 8 to Estimate Tree, Shrub, and Intercanopy Begetation Cover of Pinyon-Juniper Woodlands in the Great Basin. 63rd SRM and 50th WSSA Annual Meeting: Working Landscapes, Denver, CO, February 7-11, 2010. Poster available here.

Hydrology

Cline, N. 2008. First-year hydrologic response to mechanical mastication in juniper woodlands. M.S. Thesis, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah. Available here.

Cline, N.L., B.A. Roundy, F.B. Pierson, P. Kormos and C.J. Williams. 2010. Hydrologic response to mechanical shredding in a juniper woodland. Rangeland Ecology and Management 63:467-477. Available here.

Pierson, F.B., Kormos, P.R., and Williams, C.J. 2008. Hydrologic and erosional impacts of pinyon and juniper encroachment into sagebrush steppe communities of the Great Basin, USA. In: 15th International Congress of ISCO Proceedings Volume, 18-23 May 2008, Budapest. Geographical Research Institute, Hungary, CD-ROM. Available here.

Other

Scherpenisse, D.S. 2009. Mycorrhizae in sagebrush-steppe community restoration: mycorrhizal dependency of invasive and native grasses with intraspecific and interspecific competition. M.S. Thesis, Utah State University, Logan, Utah. Available here.

SageSTEP General

McIver, J., H. Barrett, M. Brunson, S. Bunting, J. Chambers, C. D'Antonio, P. Doescher, S. Karl, S. Knick, R. Miller, M. Pellant, F. Pierson, D. Pyke, K. Rollins, B. Roundy, G. Schupp, R. Tausch, D. Turner, and M. Wisdom. 2005. A Regional Experiment to Evaluate Effects of Fire and Fire Surrogate Treatments in the Sagebrush Biome. February 16, 2005. Available here (original project proposal).

McIver, J.D., M. Brunson, S. Bunting, J. Chambers, N. Devoe, P. Doescher, J. Grace, D. Johnson, S. Knick, R. Miller, M. Pellant, F. Pierson, D. Pyke, K. Rollins, B. Roundy, G. Schupp, R. Tausch, D. Turner. 2010. The Sagebrush Steppe Treatment Evaluation Project (SageSTEP): A Test of State-and-Transition Theory. RMRS-GTR-237. USDA Forest Service General Technical Report, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Ft. Collins, CO. Available here.

McIver, J. and S. Olsen. 2009. Sagebrush Steppe Treatment Evaluation Project (SageSTEP): A Long-Term Monitoring and Ecological Network. Poster availble here.

Olsen, S. 2008. Sagebrush Steppe Treatment Evaluation Project (SageSTEP): Restoration Research with Practical Applications. Western Rural Development Center Rural Connections. Spring 2008, Vol. 2, Issue 3. P. 9. Available here.

Restoring Sagebrush Rangelands in the Great Basin: An Introduction to Alternative Land Management Strategies. DVD. Utah State University and the Sagebrush Steppe Treatment Evaluation Project (SageSTEP), 2008. More information available here.

SageSTEP general poster (PDF format, 2.53MB, updated Feb 08)

Sociopolitical

Brunson, M. 2008. Gauging the Acceptability of Fuels Management: A Matter of Trust. Western Rural Development Center Rural Connections. Spring 2008, Vol. 2, Issue 3. Pp. 2-4. Available here.

Olsen, S. and M. Brunson. 2010. Communication Across Boundaries: Sharing Bioregional Knowledge Via Pathways Defined by Administrative Region. Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, April 13-18, 2010, Washington, DC. Poster available here.

Shindler, B., R. Gordon, and M. Brunson. 2007. Public Priorities for Rangeland Management: A Regional Survey of Citizens in the Great Basin. SageSTEP Independent Publication. Available here.

Soils

Rau, B.M., R.R. Blank, J.C. Chambers and D.W. Johnson. 2007. Prescribed fire in a Great Basin sagebrush ecosystem: dynamics of soil extractable nitrogen and phosphorus. Journal of Arid Environments 71:362-375. Available here.

Rau, B.M., R.R. Blank and T. Morgan. 2008. Microsite and time since prescribed fire’s influence on soil microbiology in a Pinyon woodland. In: Kitchen, Stanley G.; Pendleton, Rosemary L.; Monaco, Thomas A.; Vernon, Jason, comps. 2008. Proceedings - Shrublands under fire: disturbance and recovery in a changing world; 2006 June 6-8; Cedar City, UT. Proceedings RMRS-P-X. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. p. 175-178. Available here.

Rau, B.M., Chambers, J.C., Blank, R.R. and D.W. Johnson. 2008. Prescribed fire, soil, and plants: Burn effects and interactions in the central Great Basin. Rangeland Ecology and Management. 61:169-181. Available here.

Rau, B.M., R. Tausch, A. Reiner, D.W. Johnson, J.C. Chambers, R.R. Blank and A. Lucchesi. 2010. Influence of Prescribed Fire on Ecosystem Biomass, Carbon, and Nitrogen in a Pinyon Juniper Woodland. Rangeland Ecology and Management 63:197-202. Available here.

Vegetation and Fuels

Duncan, C.M. 2008. Seed Bank Response to Juniper Expansion in the Semi-arid Lands of Oregon, USA. M.S. Thesis, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon. Available here.

Duncan, C.M., R.F. Miller and D.A. Pyke. 2009. An Investigation into the Relationship between Seed Bank Density and Juniper Abundance in Oregon’s sagebrush steppe. Special Report 1092, Range Field Day 2000 Progress Report, Eastern Oregon Agricultural Research Center, Oregon State University. P. 68-73. Available here.

Miller, R.F., J.D. Bates, T.J. Svejcar, F.B. Pierson, and L.E. Eddleman. 2008. Western Juniper Field Guide: Asking the Right Questions to Select Appropriate Management Actions: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1321, 61p. More information available here.

Pyke, D.A., M.L. Brooks and C. D'Antonio. 2010. Fire as a restoration tool: a decision framework for predicting the control or enhancement of plants using fire. Restoration Ecology doi: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2010.00658.x 11p. Available here.

Stebleton, A. and S. Bunting. 2009. Guide for Quantifying Fuels in the Sagebrush Steppe and Juniper Woodlands of the Great Basin. Technical Note 430. Bureau of Land Management, Denver, CO, BLM/ID/PT-09/002+2824 81p. More information available here.

Tausch, R., N.O. Frakes, R.F. Miller and B. Roundy. 2010. Geographic Variation in Crown Structure and Foliage Biomass of Woodland Trees Across the Great Basin. UDSA Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station All Scientist Meeting, March 24, 2010, Fort Collins, Colorado. Poster available here.

Tausch, R.J., R.F. Miller, B.A. Roundy and J.C. Chambers. 2009. Piñon and Juniper Field Guide: Asking the Right Questions to Select Appropriate Management Actions. U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1335, 96p. More information available here.

Wildlife

McIver, J. 2008. Woodland Encroachment and Ants in the Central Great Basin. Annual National Meeting, Entomological Society of America, Reno, Nevada, November 19, 2008. Poster available here.

Pitkin, M. and L. Quattrini. 2010. Pocket Guide to Sagebrush Birds. Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory and PRBO Conservation Science Independent Publication, 68 p. More information available here.