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firefighters stand in a forest after a prescribed burn. Ashes litter the forest floor. Firefighters huddle around a structure

Developing a series of fire science syntheses for wildland fire managers

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Colored map of Quaternary geology of Santa Cruz Island

GeoMapping for Integrated Science

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Map of study domain shown in blue and yellow

Climate Ready Vulnerability Assessment

Research
Oil well pad in the Bakken Formation in North Dakota

Potential effects of energy development on environmental resources of the Williston Basin in Montana, North Dakota, and South Dakota

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a hand with fingerless glove holds a small piece of biocrust

State of Knowledge of Biological Soil Crusts: A synthesis of work to inform land management.

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Aedes albopictus mosquito

Environmental Management of Vector-borne Diseases

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wind turbine

Evaluating the Possible Effects of Wind Power Development on Refuging Waterbirds in the Great Plains, Upper Midwest and East Front of Northern Rocky Mountains

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Dead ponderosa pine (P. ponderosa), Yosemite Nat'l Park.

Tree Mortality Patterns and Processes

Capability
Five mule deer stare at the camera as they stand in a field of dry sagebrush

Contributions to the development of the Western Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies Sagebrush Conservation Strategy

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Clearing snow from solar panels

Salmonid Population and Life History Research in Tributary Stream and River Habitats and Response to Dam Removal

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Leking Greater sage-grouse and pronghorn male, Twin Springs lek, NV

Greater Sage-Grouse Population Monitoring Framework: Cheat Sheet

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The backs of two scientists wearing USGS vests and hard hats, looking out at a drone in the sky, standing in a field, with a bur

Using Drone Imagery to Assess Impacts of the 2018 Carr Fire

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Desert bighorn sheep ram on a large rock along the banks of the Colorado River

Ecology and Conservation of Desert Bighorn Sheep

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Least Bell's Vireo WERC

Population Structure and Demography of the Least Bell’s Vireo and Southwestern Willow Flycatcher and Use of Restored Riparian Habitat

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Clark's Grebe at Thermalito Afterbay, CA

Monitoring Mercury's Risk to Wildlife in California Lakes

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sky with double rainbow above a plateau and field of sagebrush

Field of Sagebrush Dreams: Planting and Restoring Functional Sagebrush in Burned Landscapes

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Image Collage of Landsat, pollinator, and volcanologist

Upper Midwest Environmental Science Center Activity Reports

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Sagebrush after juniper removal in Utah

Economic assessment of addressing annual invasive grasses across the sagebrush biome

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Female and two cubs polar bears on the sea ice

Polar Bear Maternal Denning

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Fossil-rich sediment profile with hammer.

Geological Investigations of the Neogene

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Greater Sage-grouse in the sunlight

Investigating Impacts of Oil and Gas Development on Greater Sage-Grouse Using a Bayesian State-Space Model

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Sagebrush on fire in a controlled burn

Fuel Break Science in the Great Basin

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Shaded relief map of the Mojave Desert region, southern California, showing faults of the Eastern California Shear Zone.

Western Basin & Range - Eastern California Shear Zone

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fire burning in a small area of a forest

Fire Atlas

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green sagebrush shrubs with brown grass in between

Impacts of Exotic Annual Grass Invasion, Wildfire, and Restoration on Carbon Storage in the Sagebrush Steppe

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Photo of technicians measuring greenhouse gas flux from a wetland

Mechanisms, methods, models and management of soil biogeochemical processes in prairie-pothole wetlands

Research
Bison in Badlands National Park

Integrated conservation of bison and native prairie at Badlands National Park, South Dakota

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Joshua trees burning in the Bulldog Fire in Mojave Desert tortoise habitat of southwestern Utah

Aridlands Disturbances and Restoration Ecology

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Dryland agriculture in the Northwestern Great Plains ecoregion.

Importance of wetlands in intensively farmed landscapes to duck production

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This area needs to recover from fire damage to its trees.

Post-fire Recovery Patterns in Southwestern Forests

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