Sagebrush Conservation Strategy — Challenges to Sagebrush Conservation

USGS | Sagebrush Conservation Strategy – Challenges to Sagebrush Conservation | Open-File Report 2020–1125 Preface The sagebrush (Artemisia spp.) biome, its wildlife, and the services and benefits it provides people and local communities are at risk. Development in the sagebrush biome, for many purposes, has resulted in multiple and often cumulative negative impacts. These impacts, ranging from simple […]

Climate Change & Sustainability

“If climate change means a warming earth with a temperate climate shifting north in the northern hemisphere, will there be less range forage and fewer irrigation water sources throughout the Great Basin?” Most of the readers of this and other similar publications are aware of the great contributions made by livestock grazing that is responsible, […]