Rangeland Sustainability Program Lead Institute for Natural Resources, Oregon State University Portland, Oregon, United States
Invasive annual grasses are a primary threat to the sagebrush ecosystem, with millions of acres significantly impacted by invasive grasses and accompanying wildfire risk. Both of these stressors are expected to increase with climate change, making managing for ecosystem resiliency increasingly important. Increasing drought impacts and limited management options for restoring degraded rangelands highlight the importance of landscape-scale, proactive strategies to defend and grow core sagebrush rangelands. Our collective ability to work together across boundaries, strategically prioritize management of threats at landscape scales, and communicate science in ways that is actionable at management-relevant scales will be key to success.
