Habitat management, Habitat restoration
Stream and Meadow Restoration and Sagebrush Habitat Enhancement Project

States

Nevada

Stream and Meadow Restoration and Sagebrush Habitat Enhancement Project

Funding YearAmountLocation
FY24$ 71,913Washoe County, Nevada, Nevada 
FY25 $196,454Washoe County, Nevada, Nevada 

Project Description

This project will restore an ephemeral stream within core 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 that has serious erosion issues that have lowered the water table and created drying of adjacent streambank meadows. Taking into consideration channel dynamics, groundwater hydrology, and the riparian riparian
Definition of riparian habitat or riparian areas.

Learn more about riparian vegetative community, the stream will be designed to be self-sustaining.

Partners

Private Landowner, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service - Partners for Fish and Wildlife 

Contact

Programs

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The western United States’ sagebrush country encompasses over 175 million acres of public and private lands. Sagebrush country contains biological, cultural and economic resources of national significance. America’s sagebrush ecosystem is the largest contiguous ecotype in the continental...
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