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Livestock grazing can degrade riparian vegetation, altering habitat for many species of declining migratory breeding birds. At Hart Mountain National...

Although biological soil crusts occur globally in arid and semi-arid environments, the occurrence of biocrusts has not previously been related to...

The Idaho Department of Environmental Quality hosts its 30th Annual Idaho Water Quality Workshop, February 11-13, at Boise State University.

Approaches and techniques for controlling exotic annual grasses are a high priority in rangelands including sagebrush steppe. 

From 2008-10, researchers translocated 90 fishers from British Columbia to Washington’s Olympic Peninsula. 

The ability to understand a given ecological process depends on the scale of observation.

The development of metrics derived from LiDAR to study forest structure has advanced wildlife-habitat modeling. 

Methods exist for estimating the size of a population of imperfectly detected individuals, yet problems arise when the detection probability and the...

Pacific salmon transport large amounts of marine nutrients to freshwater and forest ecosystems when they migrate from the ocean, spawn, and die. 

The exotic winter annual grass Bromus tectorum (downy brome or cheatgrass) infests large expanses of western rangelands.