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Plant sagebrush in burned areas previously occupied by sage-grouse and measure sagebrush survival and regrowth (FRESC)." }, { "@type": "TextObject", "text": "Scientists from the Fort Collins Science Center (FORT), Forest and Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center (FRESC), Western Ecological Research Center (WERC), and Colorado State University (CSU) are collaborating to provide the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and other rangeland restoration practitioners empirical information on post-fire sagebrush restoration growth and recovery, sage-grouse response to sagebrush restoration and habitat recovery, and support tools that will facilitate management decisions focused on restoration and conservation of critical sagebrush habitats." }, { "@type": "TextObject", "text": "3. Assess the range of possible benefits to sage-grouse using revegetated habitat (FORT & CSU; see related Science tab above for specific project details)." }, { "@type": "TextObject", "text": "We aim to evaluate the efficacy and success of sagebrush restoration approaches creating functional sage-grouse habitat in post-fire landscapes." }, { "@type": "TextObject", "text": "By gauging potential benefits of restoration decisions, the products from this project will aid choices on where to invest time, money, and effort in sagebrush restoration and revegetation, how best to mitigate habitat losses, and a means to plan long-term habitat restoration and recovery in landscapes across the sagebrush biome." }, { "@type": "TextObject", "text": "2. Evaluate the use of burned and revegetated areas by sage-grouse (WERC)." }, { "@type": "TextObject", "text": "In collaboration with multiple USGS Science Centers (FORT, WERC, FRESC) and CSU, we developed a multi-year (2015 \u2013 present) project to:" }, { "@type": "TextObject", "text": "Increased wildfire-induced loss of sagebrush in North American shrublands are outpacing natural recovery and leading to substantial habitat loss for sagebrush-obligate species like sage-grouse. The products and information developed for this project will help restoration practitioners, biologists, and land managers evaluate the efficacy of sagebrush restoration approaches as well as their ability to successfully create functional sage-grouse habitat in post-fire landscapes." }, { "@type": "TextObject", "text": "Wildfires are increasingly modifying wildlife habitat across the Sagebrush (Artemisia species) biome of the western United States, reducing critical greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) habitat and potentially diminishing population sizes to levels that could result in local loss or regional fragmentation of populations. Managers considering sagebrush restoration strategies need ways to scope the degree to which post-fire actions can re-create habitat in dynamic landscapes. However, we lack approaches to evaluate the potential outcomes of intensive sagebrush revegetation or other restoration actions. Understanding how restoration approaches could jumpstart sagebrush recovery and the degree to which such approaches might directly benefit sage-grouse populations could help identify restoration actions with the greatest potential to increase long-term sage-grouse population persistence, especially for populations and habitats drastically altered by fire." } ], "funder": { "@type": "Organization", "name": "Fort Collins Science Center", "url": "https://www.usgs.gov/centers/fort-collins-science-center" }, "about": [ { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Management and Restoration of Priority Western Landscapes" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Other Decision-Support Tools" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Science Technology" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Priority Landscapes" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Fire and Other Disturbance Effects, Soil Erosion, and Restoration in Sagebrush Steppe" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Ecology" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Monitoring" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Landscape Ecology" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Sagebrush" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Geology" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Tools and Techniques" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Plant, Animal, and Ecosystem Effects" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Fire, Fuel Treatments, and Restoration Ecology" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Ecosystem Change and Disturbance" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Post-Fire Recovery" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Land Management" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Methods and Analyses" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Post-Fire Restoration" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "sagebrush restoration" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Fish and Wildlife" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Restoration and Recovery" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Environmental Stressors" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Management and Restoration" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Sage-grouse" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Terrestrial Vegetation Dynamics" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Quantitative modeling" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Landscape Science" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Water" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Ecosystem Restoration" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Restoration Effectiveness" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Rangeland Management and Restoration" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Habitat Mapping and Modeling" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Greater Sage-grouse" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "habitat management" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "sagebrush biome" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Information Systems" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Sage-Grouse" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Sagebrush Ecosystems" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Wildfire and Post-fire Management" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Tools and Techniques for Monitoring Wildlife Habitats, Communities, and Populations" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Habitat Management" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Sagebrush Steppe" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Ecosystems" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Sagebrush and Sage Grouse" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "sagebrush and sage grouse" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Restoration, Rehabilitation, or Reclamation" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Wildland Fire Research" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Management Tools" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Landscape Management Research Program" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Effects on Animals" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Effects on Ecosystems" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Methods and Analysis" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Birds" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Land management" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Aridlands" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Energy" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Fire" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Quantitative Modeling" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Role of Fire and Fuels in Ecological Restoration" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Biology" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Environmental Health" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "sage grouse" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Native Species Restoration" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Large-Scale Restoration Science" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Restoration of Shrub Steppe Ecosystems" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Large-Scale Ecology" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Tools for Landscape Assessment" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Habitat Disturbance, Loss, or Degradation" } ]
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