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Harney County Wildfire Collaborative and SageCon Partnership hosted a two day workshop last month, during which the barriers and opportunities for addressing invasive annual grasses in Oregon and beyond the state were explored. If you missed the workshop or want to revisit the information that was covered, please click here. On this page provided by High Desert Partnership, you can find recordings of the December 14 & 15th sessions, graphic notes, and more!
The Western Governors’ Association (WGA) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), under a Shared Stewardship Memorandum of Understanding, have been collaborating on efforts to meaningfully address the large-scale infestation of invasive annual grasses on western forests and rangelands. The result of this effort is a new toolkit for land managers to address the spread of invasive annual grasses in the West, including species such as cheatgrass, medusahead, and ventanata. WGA and USDA released the toolkit during a webinar, which featured presentations by members of the interagency committee that worked to develop the toolkit.
The toolkit is comprised of three elements:
A roadmap for invasive grass management in the West, with new best management practices for the identification and protection of relatively intact “core” areas;
Case studies highlighting the application of these practices in Idaho and Wyoming; and
A new geospatial data layer to help state and local officials manage invasive annual grasses at home, while also offering opportunities to identify new cross-boundary collaborative projects.
Deschampsia danthoniodes (native) and Ventenata dubia (invasive) grow in similar habitats, often right alongside each other and it can be very easy to confuse the two. Linked below is a one-page identification guide and a PowerPoint compilation of identification resources (Guide and Digital art by Bethany Reed, Malheur National Forest).
