Great Basin Environmental Program

A Multi-state Partnership to Improve Land Health and Ecosystem Productivity

Welcome

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

Lanscape Revegetation
Image: Demonstration project at UNR’s Gund Ranch. The photo shows the vegetation response after three years of late season livestock grazing of cheatgrass.
Porter Canyon Experiment on Pinion and Juniper Expansion in the Great Basin; a Diagram of the Fully Instrumented Watershed
Porter Canyon Experiment on Pinion and Juniper Expansion in the Great Basin; a Diagram of the Fully Instrumented Watershed

An At-Risk Ecosystem

The GBEP is the first program for a land-based area -- the Great Basin, one of the important at-risk ecosystems in the nation, comprising parts of Nevada, Utah, Idaho, Oregon and California. Seventy percent of the land in the Great Basin is publicly managed.

Funding Allocation

* 70% for on-the-ground projects
* 25% for research and education, including monitoring, mapping and metrics development
* 5% for administration and communication of metrics

Focus: Invasive Plant Species

* Wildfires
* Water Resources and Conservation
* Land Use and Health

* Urban, Rural Wildlands Mosaic
* Sustainable Communities and Their Cultures
* Biodiversity

Contact

Bill Payne, Dean
775-784-6237
College of Agriculture, Biotechnology & Natural Resources
University of Nevada / MS 222
Reno, NV 89557

Stan Johnson
775-784-1678
College of Agriculture, Biotechnology & Natural Resources
University of Nevada / MS 222
Reno, NV 89557

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