Partners

The SER Great Basin Chapter is dedicated to fostering collaboration and knowledge exchange among practitioners, researchers, students, policy makers and the general public to promote the science and application of restoration ecology. The Chapter focuses on repairing and managing Great Basin ecosystems in Oregon, Idaho, California, Nevada and Utah.

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This multi-state, collaborative research project was initiated in 2001 by the U.S. Department of Interior-Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Department of Agriculture-Forest Service’s Grassland, Shrubland, and Desert Ecosystem Research Program. Major objectives are to improve the availability of native plant materials and to provide the knowledge and technology required for their use in restoring diverse native plant communities across the Great Basin. More than 20 federal, state, and private cooperators are involved in this project.                                    

Project Objectives

• Increase the availability of native plant materials, particularly forbs, for restoring disturbed Great Basin rangelands.
  
• Provide an understanding of species variability and potential response to climate change; develop seed transfer guidelines.
• Develop seed technology and cultural practices for producing native seed in agricultural settings.
• Collaborate with seed regulatory agencies and the private seed industry to improve native seed supplies.
• Examine interactions of native restoration species and exotic invasives to aid in formulating seeding prescriptions.
• Develop application strategies and technologies to improve the establishment of native seedings.
• Develop demonstration areas, manuals, popular publications, and websites to facilitate application of research results.

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The Great Basin Landscape Conservation Cooperative (LCC) enhanced the understanding of the effects of changing climate and other natural and human impacts across the region and promoted the coordination of science-based actions to enable human and natural communities to respond and adapt to those conditions.

This cooperative was dissolved in 2019, but an archived version of the website may still be viewed here: https://greatbasinconsortium.org/gblcc-archive/.

The Great Basin Fire Science Exchange Project serves to: 1) provide a forum where Great
Basin land managers can identify their technical needs with respect to fire, fuels, and post-fire vegetation
management; 2) develop/synthesize the necessary information and technical tools to meet these needs; and 3)
provide the necessary information and tools through venues most preferred by field staff, field office managers
and higher administrative levels, respectively.

Unique Role: The Great Basin Fire Science Exchange Project is the Joint Fire Science Program’s Regional
Knowledge Exchange Consortium for the Great Basin.  Our unique role is to provide Great Basin land managers
with faster access to applicable fire and fuels science information and to develop direct knowledge exchange
between managers and scientists in the Great Basin.

Partners: Federal, State, Tribal, NGO, and Private fire and fuels land managers.

Initiating Organization: The Joint Fire Science Program implemented this project in 2010.  The Joint Fire Science
Program is funded by the Departments of Interior and Agriculture and was initiated in 1998.

Funding/Support: This project is funded by the Joint Fire Science Program through a Great Basin Cooperative
Ecosystem Studies Unit agreement with the Nevada State Bureau of Land Management.

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The Great Basin Environmental Program develops funding for on-the-ground projects and related research and outreach education to improve the Great Basin environment.

Unique Role: Develop funding from public and private sources to facilitate landscape-scale, on-the-ground projects by engaging NGOs, state agencies and their coalitions, and the private sector in collaboration with universities and federal agency partners 

Partners/Collaborators: universities, federal agencies, state agencies and coalitions, and NGOs

Initiating Organization: land grant universities in the Great Basin

Funding/Support: federal, state and private

Staffing: coordinators, students, and in-kind contributions by participating institutions

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The GB-CESU is a partnership for research, technical assistance and education to enhance understanding and management of natural and cultural resources of the Great Basin. 

Unique Role: Part of a national program that provides a funding mechanism for transferring funds from federal partners to universities to conduct projects

Partners/Collaborators: Universities and federal agencies

Initiating Organization: Department of the Interior

Funding/Support: Projects funded with federal agency funds through a cooperative agreement

Staffing: In-kind contributions by participating institutions

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