News

This season's edition of the Restoration Assessment and Monitoring Program for the Southwest Newsletter contains recent program highlights including...

Moisture deficit affects ecological processes and land management interventions, such as restoration of native vegetation. 

A USGS press release was published today highlighting a paper describing possible limitations of big sagebrush restoration in the American West after...

Big sagebrush ecosystems are particularly sensitive to wildfires and life history information on big sagebrush is scarce and vital for restoration...

The Ecological Society of America put out a press release on a paper that investigated the relative importance of barred owl competition and habitat...

Recovery of vegetation on plugged and abandoned oil and gas well sites on the Colorado Plateau is influenced by time, moisture, nonnative plants and...

A recently published paper on the global status of turtles and their ecological roles generated quite a bit of media interest.

Amphibian species and community richness has been declining in North America and climate change may play a role in these declines. Global climate...

Future high temperature extremes and soil moisture conditions may cause some regions to become more suitable for rainfed, or non-irrigated...

A growing number of wildfire-burned areas throughout the western United States are expected to increase soil erosion rates within watersheds, causing...