A Multi-state Partnership to Improve Land Health and Ecosystem Productivity The proposed Great Basin Environmental Program is a bold and innovative environmental management initiative similar to 25 other estuarial environmental programs that have been operating in the United States since the approval of the Clean Water Act. It will be the first such program aimed at a terrestrial area, the Great Basin, designated as one of the most imperiled ecosystems in the...

Focus: Invasive Plant Species Wildfires Water Resources and Conservation Land Use and Health Urban, Rural Wildlands Mosaic Sustainable Communities and Their Cultures Biodiversity Funding Initiated by a coalition of land grant universities and state agencies of the Great Basin states and has been funded by these institutions and a special $200,000 grant from the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA), USDA. First stage additional funding is being...

The proposed Great Basin Environmental Program is a bold and innovative environmental management initiative similar to 25 other estuarial environmental programs that have been operating in the United States since the approval of the Clean Water Act. Read more. ...

Changing the Trends in the Environment The Great Basin is wedged between the Sierra Nevada Mountain range on the West, the Wasatch Branch of the Rocky Mountains on the East, and the Snake River on the North. The rough size of the Great Basin is about 900 miles North to South and 570 miles East to West. It includes the fast growing urban communities including Salt Lake City, Ogden-Layton, Provo-Orem, Reno-Sparks, Boise, Nampa, Logan, Idaho Falls, Pocatello,...