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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

The Public Lands Council has agreed to a study of cattle numbers and feed sources in the Basin and Range Region. The grant is for approximately $105K for conducting the analysis, providing the data to the Public Lands Council and writing a final report. The start date is October 1, 2017 with a conclusion of the project one year later. The analysis will start with budgets from the land grant institutions in the Region and then involve leveraging these budgets and to the larger Basin and Range Region selected for the study. In the process of our analysis we will investigate the economic impacts for the local communities, implications for fuel load reduction of and wildfires, adjusting the cattle numbers for grazing conditions reflecting cheatgrass or annual grasses in addition to perennials, and scoring for investments in cattle and ranchers benefits compared to fire loss. Read more.

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An At-Risk Ecosystem

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Focus: Invasive Plant Species

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