Topic: Ensure that the Sagebrush Steppe and Forest Ecosystem is thriving, vibrant, and resilient.

Associated Climate Resilience Actions:
Shoshone Paiute Tribes

Evaluate livestock densities and grazing intensity, timing, and season, incorporating climate change projections.

Ecosystems Food
Shoshone Paiute Tribes

Identify current lands on Duck Valley (or purchase new parcels) that could serve as a place to expand, protect, and...

Building Cultural Resources Ecosystems
Shoshone Paiute Tribes

Develop a plan to protect Wyoming Sage and Big Sagebrush in appropriate locations when considering climate change projections.

Cultural Resources Ecosystems
Shoshone Paiute Tribes

Fund Wyoming Sage and Big Sagebrush protection pilot project.

Cultural Resources Ecosystems
Shoshone Paiute Tribes

Use climate-adaptive Wyoming Sage, Big Sagebrush, and Bitterbrush seedlings to stabilize gullies and eroded hillsides.

Cultural Resources Ecosystems
Shoshone Paiute Tribes

Conserve areas identified as sagebrush landscape climate refugia and linkages between other potential refugia within the basin. Work instead to...

Cultural Resources Ecosystems
Shoshone Paiute Tribes

Coordinate with state and federal partners to protect core habitat areas that promote large-scale, continuous sage grouse habitat from development.

Cultural Resources Ecosystems
Shoshone Paiute Tribes

Identify, maintain and restore corridors that span elevation gradients to facilitate the dispersal of shrub steppe species into cooler, higher...

Cultural Resources Ecosystems
Shoshone Paiute Tribes

Pilot study rotation for pastures from grazing during periods of fastest growth of dominant perennial grasses and forbs, as this...

Ecosystems Food
Shoshone Paiute Tribes

Understand how climate change will enhance vector-borne diseases in wildlife (e.g. West Nile in sage grouse) on Duck Valley.

Ecosystems People
Shoshone Paiute Tribes

Update management plans to include the potential impact of vector-borne diseases on wildlife due to climate change on Duck Valley.

Ecosystems People
Shoshone Paiute Tribes

Develop policies that reduces grazing pressure on recently restored (or replanted) landscapes.

Ecosystems Food