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