Kelly Creek Conifer Thinning - Phase I
Funding Year | Amount | Location |
FY22 | $7,660 | Eureka, Nevada |
Project Description
Along the slopes of the Monitor Range in central Nevada, pinyon-juniper woodlands have expanded into 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 rangelands along the valley floor. This encroachment is depleting understory vegetation and dewatering the landscape. We plan to thin the trees and follow their removal with reseeding and planting native understory plants. Noxious weeds will also be addressed with spot spraying with an herbicide. This project is intended to include adjacent public lands is in future years.
Partners
Private landowners
