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Project ID: 01B-3-3-01

Year: 2002

Date Started: 05/16/2002

Date Completed: 05/23/2006

Title: Effects of Fire and Rehabilitation Seeding on Sage Grouse Habitat in the Pinyon-Juniper Zone

Project Proposal Abstract: This resubmission seeks funding through RFP 200 1-3, Task 3, which is to address local knowledge gaps that are significant to fire management plan development and implementation. Throughout much of the western U.S., expansion of pinyon and juniper species into sagebrush ecosystems is altering the structure and composition of sagebrush communities and resulting in increased fire frequency, severity, and size. Increased tree densities in combination with altered fire regimes are having negative effects on both sagebrush communities and sagebrush obligates, including sage grouse, a species under consideration for listing as threatened or endangered. Maintaining and restoring sage grouse habitat is becoming a management priority, and both local and regional fire management plans will need to consider the effects of proposed actions, including prescribed fire, on sage grouse habitat. The proposed study would use the existing Great Basin Demonstration Project to examine the effects of prescribed fire and rehabilitation seeding on sage grouse habitat within the pinyon-juniper zone. It addresses the following objectives: (1) Determine the effects of fire alone on soil erosion and vegetation composition and structure of sagebrush communities over the elevational and tree density gradient that typifies the pinyon-juniper zone in the Great Basin. (2) Determine the effects of rehabilitation seeding with mixtures dominated by introduced vs. native species on soil erosion and vegetation composition and structure of sagebrush communities over the elevational and tree density gradient that typifies the pinyon-juniper zone in the Great Basin. (3) Examine the effects of fire on the survival, seedling establishment, and nutritional value of plant species used by sage grouse within the sagebrush communities typically found in the pinyon-juniper zone of the Great Basin. (4) Determine the presence, abundance, and location of sagebrush obligate bird species over the tree density and elevational gradient that typifies the pinyon-juniper zone within the study drainages, and monitor any changes that occur in patterns of use following fire. Information from this new project will be used to develop guidelines for managing fire and determining appropriate rehabilitation procedures for sage grouse habitat within the pinyon-juniper zone.

Principal Investigator: Jeanne C. Chambers

Agency/Organization: Forest Service

Branch or Dept: RMRS-Forestry Sciences Lab-Reno

Other Project Collaborators

Type	Name	Agency/Organization	Branch or Dept
Co-Principal Investigator	Robert R. Blank	ARS-Agricultural Research Service	Great Basin Rangelands Research Unit
Co-Principal Investigator	Erica X. Fleishman	University of California-Davis	John Muir Institute of the Environment
Co-Principal Investigator	Robin J. Tausch	Forest Service	RMRS-Forestry Sciences Lab-Reno
Collaborator/Contributor	Laurence Crabtree	Forest Service	Humboldt-Toiyabe NF-Mountain City Ranger District
Collaborator/Contributor	Dave Hanley	Forest Service	Humboldt-Toiyabe NF-Mountain City Ranger District
Federal Cooperator	Jeanne C. Chambers	Forest Service	RMRS-Forestry Sciences Lab-Reno

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Project Deliverables

Final Report ("Results presented in JFSP Final Reports may not have been peer-reviewed and should be interpreted as tentative until published in a peer-reviewed source.")

	ID	Type	Title
	3941	Refereed Publication	Identification and Conservation Application of Signal, Noise, and Taxonomic Effects in Diversity Patterns
	3938	Refereed Publication	Comparative Influence of Spatial Scale on Beta Diversity Within Regional Assemblages of Birds and Butterflies
	3940	Refereed Publication	Cross-Taxonomic Potential and Spatial Transferability of an Umbrella Species Index
	3945	Refereed Publication	Spatial and Temporal Variation in Species Occurrence Rate Affect the Accuracy of Occurrence Models
	3944	Refereed Publication	Influence of the Temporal Resolution of Data on the Success of Indicator Species Models of Species Richness Across Multiple Taxonomic Groups
	3942	Refereed Publication	Challenges and Opportunities for Conserving Faunal Biodiversity in Arid Ecosystems
	3939	Refereed Publication	Linking Spatial Patterns of Butterfly and Bird Species Richness with Landsat TM derived NDVI
	9814	NonRefereed Publication	Hydrologic Response of a Central Nevada Pinyon-Juniper Woodland to Prescribed Fire
	9811	NonRefereed Publication	Using Indicator Species to Predict Species Richness of Multiple Taxonomic Groups
	9810	NonRefereed Publication	Linking Models of Species Occurrence and Landscape Reconstruction
	9809	NonRefereed Publication	Primary Productivity and Species Richness: Relationships Among Functional Guilds, Residency Groups and Vagility Classes at Multiple Spatial Scales
	9808	NonRefereed Publication	Patterns of Spatial Autocorrelation of Assemblages of Birds, Floristics, Physiognomy, and Primary Productivity in the Central Great Basin, USA
	9807	NonRefereed Publication	The Effect of Model Resolution in Predicting Meteorological Parameters Used in Fire Danger Rating
	3937	NonRefereed Publication	Fire Related Restoration Issues in Woodland and Rangeland Ecosystems
	3935	MS Thesis	The Effects of Elevation, Tree Cover, and Fire on Ant Populations in a Pinyon-Juniper Dominated Watershed (E. MontBlanc)

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