Location: Great Basin Rangelands Research
Project Number: 2060-21500-001-021-A
Project Type: Cooperative Agreement
Start Date: Sep 1, 2023
End Date: Nov 30, 2026
Objective:
Objective 1: Improve understanding of vegetation change and fuel accumulation following mechanical and prescribed fire fuel treatments across a gradient of site characteristics in sagebrush ecosystems.
Objective 2: Predict how fuel treatments affect long-term vegetation trajectories and fire behavior in sagebrush ecosystems under climate change.
Objective 3. Incorporate combustion data, potential fire behavior, and landscape change modeling to estimate retreatment intervals under a changing climate.
Approach:
We will accomplish this by:
1) Providing scientific data and analyses to the land management community.
2) Providing reports that will allow managers to understand how fuel treatments affect long-term vegetation trajectories and fire behavior in sagebrush ecosystems.
3) Providing outreach materials for stakeholders to interpret scientific results regarding treatment durability and retreatment intervals in current and future climates.
