Landscape Toolbox
The Idaho Chapter of The Nature Conservancy is working with both public and private land management partners to develop a set of analytical and monitoring tools, the Landscape Toolbox, which are designed to enable better rangeland management at landscape scales by integrating existing and emerging remote sensing and predictive modeling methods for assessment, monitoring, and planning.
High Desert Sagebrush Cooperative
A coalition of groups interested in landscape scale management of sagebrush steppe in southeastern Oregon and adjacent parts of Idaho and Nevada. The Sagebrush Cooperative provides data, references and contacts specific to High Desert ecosystems.
Get Involved
The Rangeland Assessment and Monitoring Methods Guide also relies on contributions of information about and reviews of the many rangeland assessment and monitoring methods. The abstracts in this wiki have been created by rangeland science and management professionals who have generously volunteered their time and expertise. We need your help to make the Methods Guide as complete and useful as possible. There are lots of ways that you can get involved:
- Author, review, and/or edit abstracts in the wiki.
- Be an expert to rate and comment on how different methods can be used to answer rangeland management questions.
- Submit examples of where and how you have used different methods and what your experience was.
- List your contact information in an abstract if you are a service-provider who can answer users’ questions and help them implement a method.
- Spread the word! Enlist your peers and friends to grow the community who are using and contributing to this system.
If you would like to participate in the Rangeland Assessment and Monitoring Methods Guide in any capacity please contact Jason Karl, Research Ecologist, Jornada Experimental Range, USDA Agricultural Research Service: .
The guide is in the early phases of development so the subjects addressed at this time are limited in scope. The current focus is on upland shrub steppe vegetation and topics include grazing management, vegetation mapping, weeds, juniper encroachment, seral stage and condition, and some limited treatment of wildlife habitat concerns. In the future we hope to expand the system to consider more topics and attributes of rangeland management.
For more information, see our Frequently Asked Questions page.