Sage-Grouse Conservation Forecasting in support of the Bank Enabling Agreement
Report to Nevada Gold Mines, Bureau of Land Management, and US Fish and Wildlife Service for sage-grouse conservation forecasting for additional conservation actions in support of the Bank Enabling Agreement. The Nature Conservancy completed simulations to identify additional conservation actions and estimated their habitat value in terms of functional acres for greater sage-grouse.
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Subject Tags
- Conservation Planning
- Ecosystem management
- Habitat restoration
Description
The Nature Conservancy completed simulations for the purposes of identifying additional conservation actions that could be implemented as part of the Bank Enabling Agreement and estimating their habitat value in terms of functional acres for greater sage-grouse. This analysis should provide managers the information they need not only to plan restoration for the benefit of greater sage-grouse, but to account for the effects of those actions administratively. The full landscape modeled for this simulation is 905,914 acres centered on the Cortez Range in central Nevada and including portions of the Shoshone Range in the west and Roberts Mountains in the southeast.
Citation
Provencher L, Byer S, Munn L, Badik K. 2024. Sage-Grouse Conservation Forecasting for Additional Conservation Actions in Support of the Bank Enabling Agreement. Report to Nevada Gold Mines, the Bureau of Land Management, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Reno: The Nature Conservancy.
TNC Authors
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Louis Provencher
Nevada Director of Science
The Nature Conservancy -
Sarah Byer
Nevada Spatial / GIS Analyst
The Nature Conservancy
Email: sarah.byer@tnc.org -
Liz Munn
Nevada Strategy Director Public Lands
The Nature Conservancy
Email: liz.munn@tnc.org -
Kevin Badik
Nevada Rangeland Ecologist
The Nature Conservancy
Email: kevin.badik@tnc.org