South Snake Range Landscape Conservation Forecasting
Report to the National Park Service Great Basin National Park for Landscape Conservation Forecasting for the South Snake Range in Nevada. This project focused on fire management and bighorn sheep habitat improvement on almost 400,000 acres of National Park Service, Bureau of Land Management, US Forest Service and private lands.
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Subject Tags
- Conservation Planning
- Fire management
- Climate resilience
Description
In this project, The Nature Conservancy updated the original 2010 map of Great Basin National Park and the Keyhole property with change detection remote sensing and conducted new mapping of 316,413 acres of Bureau of Land Management (BLM), US Forest Service and private lands. The goals of the project were to simulate National Park Service and BLM vegetation management scenarios that would benefit Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep management, fire management, improve ecological condition of ecological systems, and measure the effects of future vegetation management on runoff and recharge using the US Geological Survey's Basin Characterization Model.
Citation
Provencher L, Badik KJ, Byer S, Saito L, McHugh D, Clifford M. 2024. South Snake Range NV Landscape Conservation Forecasting. Final Report to the National Park Service Great Basin National Park for Cooperative Agreement P22AC00266-0. Reno: The Nature Conservancy.
TNC Authors
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Louis Provencher
Nevada Director of Science
The Nature Conservancy -
Kevin Badik
Nevada Rangeland Ecologist
The Nature Conservancy
Email: kevin.badik@tnc.org -
Sarah Byer
Nevada Spatial / GIS Analyst
The Nature Conservancy
Email: sarah.byer@tnc.org -
Laurel Saito
Nevada Water Strategy Director
The Nature Conservancy
Email: laurel.saito@tnc.org -
Devin McHugh
Nevada and Utah Spatial Analyst
The Nature Conservancy
Email: devin.mchugh@tnc.org -
Michael Clifford
Nevada Conservation Scientist
The Nature Conservancy
Email: michael.clifford@tnc.org