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

Associated Climate Resilience Actions:
Shoshone Paiute Tribes

Update Rangeland Management Plan to include policies that reduce grazing pressure on recently restored (or replanted) landscapes.

Ecosystems Food
Shoshone Paiute Tribes

Adopt a tribal ordinance to enforce Rangeland Management Plan.

Ecosystems
Shoshone Paiute Tribes

Explore opportunities to install additional stock ponds on rangelands that use sustainable technologies (i.e. solar pumps, wind turbines, and windmills).

Ecosystems Food Infrastructure
Shoshone Paiute Tribes

Update Hazard Mitigation Plan to include climate change projections to better access funding for drought protection measures.

Infrastructure Water
Shoshone Paiute Tribes

Fund additional stock ponds on rangelands that use sustainable technologies (i.e. solar pumps, wind turbines, and windmills).

Ecosystems Food Infrastructure
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