Baker Sage-Grouse Landscape Implementation Team Initiative to Enhance Greater Sage-Grouse Habitat in Northeastern Oregon
Funding Year | Amount | Location |
FY24 | $ 100,000 | Baker County, Oregon |
Project Description
Baker Local Implementation Team will strategically implement conservation actions to increase the quantity and quality of sagebrush sagebrush
The western United States’ sagebrush country encompasses over 175 million acres of public and private lands. The sagebrush landscape provides many benefits to our rural economies and communities, and it serves as crucial habitat for a diversity of wildlife, including the iconic greater sage-grouse and over 350 other species.
Learn more about sagebrush habitat and reverse the sage-grouse declining population trend. Actions will include protecting and enhancing mesic areas to expand late brood-rearing habitat for sage-grouse, with additional actions to treat invasive annual grasses and noxious weeds, connect fragmented habitat, remove encroaching conifers, and reduce wildfire risk. These efforts will focus in areas where restoration is still manageable and growth opportunity areas are priority vulnerable sage-grouse population areas.
Partners
Baker Local Implementation Team and Powder Basin Watershed Council
