Putting Nevada Wildfires in Context

Posted by on Jul 17, 2009 in Conservation, Forestry, News | Comments Off [EDITOR'S NOTE: The following is reprinted from the University of Nevada's Great Basin Wildfire publication edited by Dr. Elwood Miller, Dr. Rang Narayanan and Bob Conrad.] The Great Basin is a high elevation, arid to semi-arid region with annual precipitation ranging from five inches in the most arid, lower-elevation locations to 30 inches in the upper elevations of mountain ranges. This region...
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Carson City’s Firefighting Sheep (video)

Posted by on Apr 23, 2008 in Conservation, News | Comments Off The sheep are back grazing cheatgrass in the hills of Carson City, Nevada. Ann Bollinger from Carson City Parks and Open Space discusses the grazing project and how targeted grazing can be used to help manage invasive weeds and protect homes from...
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Return of the non-natives

Posted by on Apr 3, 2008 in News | Comments Off Cheatgrass adds fuel to the fire  Soon the false promise of green will sweep through the brown hills of Reno and Sparks. Then it will all be gone, replaced by a vast yellow rug of creepy knee-high soldiers. This is the way of Bromus tectorum, a noxious weed more commonly known as cheatgrass. Cheatgrass is a non-native annual grass that was originally and accidentally introduced to the United...
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