Abstract
For many years, land managers and scientists have been applying a variety of land treatments to improve or protect rangeland ecosystems. Collectively, we have studied the response of these treatments and wildfire events to identify opportunities for maintaining or improving Nevada sagebrush ecosystem health and functionality. In partnership with collaborators, we initiated a State-wide effort to capture, consolidate, and summarize implementation, monitoring, and research information for these events. We are conducting field studies to identify and fill information gaps. We seek a new and expanded information base that is available to Nevada land managers, scientists, and others interested in healthy and resilient sagebrush sites. We plan to identify the consequences of passive and active management; develop predictive tools for adaptive management; identify research needs; and increase accessibility to location, implementation and monitoring information for these events. Through the collaborative integration of our field study results with historic and current research and monitoring information, we seek to increase knowledge of landscape-level and site-specific ecological processes. This will further develop our ability to manage and predict rangeland health, integrity, resilience (after disturbance), and resistance (to undesired change under significant disturbance regimes) in the context of multiple-use management.
Recommended Citation
Swanson, John C.; Swanson, Sherman R.; McAdoo, J. Kent; Schultz, Brad W.; and McCuin, Gary L.
(2011)
"Synergistic Monitoring – Addressing the Threats and Identifying Opportunities,"
Natural Resources and Environmental Issues: Vol. 17, Article 22.
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/nrei/vol17/iss1/22
