Great Basin Consortium Conference, January 14-16, 2013
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MONDAY, JANUARY 14
Keynote
REFLECTIONS AFTER 30 YEARS OF TACKLING THE CHEATGRASS/WILDFIRE CYCLE IN THE GREAT BASINMike Pellant, Great Basin Restoration Initiative (GB-RI) Coordinator Bureau of Land Management, Boise, Idaho
Organizational Updates
Great Basin Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (GB-CESU), Mike Collopy
Great Basin Environmental Program (GB-EP), Stan Johnson
Great Basin Fire Science Delivery Project (GB-FSD), Eugènie MontBlanc
Great Basin Landscape Conservation Cooperative (GB-LCC), Linda Kelly
Great Basin Research and Management Partnership (GB-RMP), Carol Schuler
Great Basin Research and Management Partnership(GB-RI), Mike Pellant
Current and Emerging Issues
A SAGE-GROUSE’S EYE VIEW OF CURRENT AND FUTURE HABITAT QUALITY – NOT ALL SAGEBRUSH ARE CREATED EQUAL
Jennifer Forbey, Assistant Professor, Boise State University
DUST; AN EMERGING PROBLEM IN THE GREAT BASIN: INSIGHTS FROM 2012
Matt Germino, US Geological Survey
MANAGING FOR RESILIENT ECOSYSTEMS: EXAMINING THE OPTIONS
Jeanne Chambers,Research Ecologist, USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station
BLM’S LANDSCAPE APPROACH FOR MANAGING PUBLIC LANDS
John Wilson, Healthy Lands Coordinator, Bureau of Land Management
A COMPREHENSIVE VISION AND PLAN FOR THE GREAT BASINTodd Hopkins, Science Coordinator, Great Basin-LCC
Linda Kelly, Coordinator, Great Basin-LCC
TUESDAY, JANUARY 15
Project Highlights
RESULTS FROM THE CENTRAL BASIN AND RANGE RAPID ECOREGIONAL ASSESSMENT
Marion Reid, Senior Regional Ecologist, NatureServe
GREAT BASIN NATIVE PLANT SELECTION AND INCREASE PROJECT
Nancy Shaw,Research Botanist, USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station
GREAT BASIN NATIVE PLANT SELECTION AND INCREASE PROJECT
David Pilliod, Research Ecologist, USGS Forest and Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center
BLM INTEGRATED CHEATGRASS DIE-OFF PROJECT
Don Major, Fire and Landscape Ecologist, Bureau of Land Management
Monitoring for Change
EPSCoR OVERVIEW
Nancy Glenn, Research Professor, Idaho State University
WATER, ENERGY AND CO2 FLUX MONITORING IN SAGEBRUSH, INVASIVE CHEATGRASS AND LODGEPOLE PINE SYSTEMS
Rick Allen, Research Professor, University of Idaho
NEVADA INFRASTRUCTURE FOR CLIMATE CHANGE SCIENCE, EDUCATION AND OUTREACH
Mike Collopy, Assistant Vice President for Research, University of Nevada, Reno
NevCAN: MEASURING CLIMATE AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSE IN THE GREAT BASIN
Lynn Fenstermaker, Associate, Research Professor, Desert Research Institute, NV Climate Change Portal, WRCC Snake Range Transect
The Path Forward
THE PATH FORWARD
Todd Hopkins, Science Coordinator, GB-LCC
SAGE GROUSE AND CHEATGRASS IN THE GREAT BASIN
Ted Koch, State Supervisor, Nevada Fish and Wildlife Office
CAN WE IMPROVE RESTORATION SUCCESS IN THE GREAT BASIN?
Elizabeth Leger, Associate Professor, University of Nevada, Reno
NEPA-PHOBIA & THE “TRUST GAP”: IMPEDIMENTS TO RANGELAND RESILIENCE?
Mark Brunson, Professor, Utah State University