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Western Ecological Research Center (WERC)

3020 State University Drive East 
Modoc Hall, Room 3006
Sacramento, CA 95819
Phone: 916-278-9485
Fax: 916-278-9475
http://www.werc.usgs.gov/

 

Samples of Invasives-related research at WERC:

  • Channel Islands National Park Weed Model - (Principal Investigator: Kathryn McEachern)

  • The Effects of Alien Plant Invasions and Fire on Native Plants and Animals in Mojave and Sonoran Desert Scrub Communities - (Principal Investigator: Todd Esque)

  • Evaluate Treatments to Reduce Hazardous Fine Fuels Created by Non-native Plants in Zion Canyon - (Principal Investigator: Matt Brooks)

  • Evaluating Options for Vegetation Recovery following Catastrophic Fire - Grand Canyon/Parashant - (Principal Investigator: Todd Esque)

  • Evaluating Postfire Seeding Treatments Designed to Suppress Cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum) in Ponderosa Pine Forests on the Colorado Plateau - (Principal Investigator: Matt Brooks)

  • Evaluating the Effects of Pinyon Juniper Thinning Treatments at a Wildland/Urban Interface - (Principal Investigator: Matt Brooks)

  • Evaluation of the Effect of Sterile Wheat (Triticale) Effects on the Native Plant Community When Used as a Post Fire Treatment on the Robber' Burn Site, in Clark County Nevada - (Principal Investigator: Todd Esque)

  • Experimental Treatments to Eradicate or Control Buffelgrass at Saguaro National Park - (Principal Investigator: Todd Esque)

  • Fire and Invasive Annual Grasses in Western Ecosystems - (Principal Investigator: Matt Brooks)

  • Fire and Invasive Species:  A NWRS Reference Guide to Policy, Best Management Practices, Monitoring, and Resources - (Principal Investigator: Matt Brooks)

  • Invasive Potential of Fountaingrass (Pennisetum setaceum) in Lake Mead National Recreation Area, Nevada - (Principal Investigator: Lesley Defalco)

  • Native and exotic vegetation monitoring and effectiveness evaluation for the Longstreet fire at Ash Meadows NWR - (Principal Investigator: Matt Brooks)

  • Post-fire Control of Cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum) at a Sagebrush Steppe Site - (Principal Investigator: Matt Brooks)

  • Post-Fire Treatment Impacts on Fine Fuels in Westside Sierra Nevada Forests (Principal Investigator - Jon Keeley, WERC)

  • Pre-fire Fuel Manipulation Impacts on Alien Plant Invasion of Wildlands - (Principal Investigator: Jon Keeley)

  • Rare Plant Research for DOI Client agencies:Channel Islands, California (NPS, USFWS); Great Lakes (NPS, USFWS); Mojave Desert (USFWS) - (Principal Investigator: Kathryn Mceachern)

  • Reducing Wildfire Risk by Integration of Prescribed Burning and Biological Control of Invasive Saltcedar (Tamarix spp.) - (Principal Investigator: Matt Brooks)

  • The Revegetation of Disturbed Areas Associated with Roads at Lake Mead National Recreation Area, Nevada - (Principal Investigator: Lesley Defalco)

  • Responses of Introduced and Native Vegetation in the Mojave Desert to Elevated Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide - (Principal Investigator: Lesley Defalco)

  • Sustainable Control of Italian Thistle (Carduus pycnocephalus) (Principal Investigator - Jon Keeley, WERC)

  • Using Fire to Manage Invasive Species - (Principal Investigator: Matt Brooks)

Project Highlight

italian Thistle Sustainable Control of Italian Thistle (Carduus pycnocephalus) (Principal Investigator - Jon Keeley) - The objective of this project is to determine the long-term consequences of several post fire treatments on fine fuels and provide land managers with this knowledge, so that they will be able to understand the risks and benefits of their policies.

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