Efforts Wrap Up on Sage Brush Ecosystem and Sage Grouse Project

Pacific Northwest Information Node

The Cooperative Agreement with Utah State University (USU) that focused on work related to the sage brush ecosystem and sage grouse ended on January 31, 2009. Primary financial support for the agreement came from the Pacific Northwest Information Node. The projects were integrated with work being done by the Great Basin Information Project (GBIP) to achieve the objectives. USU worked across the Great Basin region and provided support for content and map development for the Local Working Group (LWG)Locator and database development for the Livestock Grazing best management practices bibliography in collaboration with the Bureau of Land Management. Both the LWG and Grazing Best Management Practices continue to be hosted by NBII’s GBIP. USU also worked directly with the Western Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies to develop maps and other visualization tools (see article on Sage Brush Ecosystems under NBII-Cross Node Collaboration in this issue for more information about this effort).