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Project ID: 07-1-3-12

Year: 2007

Date Started: 06/04/2007

Date Completed: 11/09/2011

Title: Equipment and Strategies to Enhance the Post-Wildfire Establishment and Persistence of Great Basin Native Plants

Project Proposal Abstract: The cycle of annual weed invasion and wildfire has altered large expanses of western shrublands, disrupted ecosystem functioning, and increased wildfire size, intensity and frequency. These impacts are costly in terms of losses to native species and ecosystems, and also in risks to human life and property and wildfire-associated expenditures. Post-fire rehabilitation provides an opportunity to stabilize and revegetate at-risk shrublands. The proposed research addresses Manager?s Request Task 3: Reestablishment of native vegetation after fires on arid lands. The USDI Bureau of Land Management treats more acres and expends more funds through the Emergency Stabilization and Rehabilitation Program (ES&R) than other agencies, and is required by Executive Orders and agency regulations to use native species where feasible. However, our ability to establish mixtures of grasses, forbs, and shrubs is limited. Our objectives are 1) Examine seeding techniques for Wyoming big sagebrush, 2) Test seeding technology for native species, particularly native forbs, 3) Compare the ability of a modified rangeland drill and an experimental minimum-till drill to plant native seeds of diverse size and shapes and to reduce surface disturbance, thereby conserving residual native species and biological soil crusts, while minimizing planting of annual grass seed, 4) Apply and examine use of USGS proposed ES&R monitoring protocols for gauging seeding success for both the short and long term, 5) Provide plantings for long-term examination of livestock grazing on diversity in native seedings. This research will provide both basic and applied results on native restoration species and technology for their use.

Principal Investigator: Nancy L. Shaw

Agency/Organization: Forest Service

Branch or Dept: RMRS-Aquatic Sciences Lab

Other Project Collaborators

Type	Name	Agency/Organization	Branch or Dept
Co-Principal Investigator	Robert D. Cox	Forest Service	RMRS-Aquatic Sciences Lab
Co-Principal Investigator	Amy C. Ganguli	Forest Service	RMRS-Aquatic Sciences Lab
Co-Principal Investigator	Beth A. Newingham	University of Idaho	College of Natural Resources
Co-Principal Investigator	Mike L. Pellant	BLM-Bureau of Land Management	Idaho State Office
Co-Principal Investigator	David A. Pyke	USGS-Geological Survey	FRESC-Forest & Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center
Federal Cooperator	Nancy L. Shaw	Forest Service	RMRS-Aquatic Sciences Lab
Federal Fiscal Representative	Susan T. Major	Forest Service	RMRS-Rocky Mountain Research Station

Project Locations

Consortium

Great Basin

Level	State	Agency	Unit
STATE	UT	BLM	Salt Lake Field Office
STATE	OR	BLM	Burns District
STATE	ID	BLM	Four Rivers Fiels Office

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
	7710	NonRefereed Publication	Calibrating the Truax Rough Rider Seed Drill for Restoration Plantings
	8964	Invited Paper/Presentation	Successful Restoration of Native Plant Communities in the Great Basin Depends on ... ?
	8236	Conference/Symposia/Workshop	The Effectiveness of Rangeland and Minimum-Till Seed Drills for Large-Scale Restoration of Sagebrush Wildlands
	9510	Photo	5. Researchers taking soil profile samples and collecting soil cores at the Scooby post-fire seeding site.
	9509	Photo	4. Monitoring seeded native vegetation at the Scooby post-fire seeding in the second growing season following planting.
	9508	Photo	3. Rangeland drill installing post-fire seeding plots at the Scooby location.
	9507	Photo	2. Rangeland drill (left) with aluminum drop tubes for delivery of broadcast seeds and minimum-till drill (right) with impacter units that firm broadcast seeds onto the soil surface. Lower photos illustrate soil disturbance created by each drill.
	9506	Photo	1. Hand broadcasting the sagebrush and other small-seeded species mix over treatment plots in winter at the Scooby seeding location.

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