GeomorphIS Awarded BLM-ID Tristate Fuel Breaks Botanical Survey

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management has awarded the GeomorphIS/Pyramid Botanical Consultants team a task order to conduct field surveys/clearances for special status plant and noxious weed species 0n about 12,000 acres within the Boise District area. The convergent area (Tri-state) of southwestern Idaho, southeastern Oregon, and northern Nevada is one of the largest intact strongholds of greater sage-grouse (GRSG) habitat in the Northern Great Basin (Knick and Hanser 2011). A project to develop a network of fuel breaks is underway to protect sage-grouse habitat from future catastrophic wildfires. The project area consists of 3.6 million acres of sagebrush steppe and working landscapes spanning southeastern Oregon and southwestern Idaho.