College of Agricultural Sciences

B. M. Rau, Johnson, D. W., Blank, R. R., Tausch, R. J., Roundy, B. A., Miller, R. F., Caldwell, T. G., and Lucchesi, A., “Woodland expansion’s influence on belowground carbon and nitrogen in the Great Basin U.S.”, Journal of Arid Environments, vol. 75, no. 9, pp. 827 - 835, 2011.

D. D. Johnson, Davies, K. W., and Nafus, A. M., “Are early summer wildfires an opportunity to revegetate medusahead-invaded rangelands”, in Society for Range Management 66th Annual International Meeting, 2012.

C. S. Boyd and Davies, K. W., “Differential seedling performance and environmental correlates in shrub canopy vs. interspace microsites”, Journal of Arid Environments, vol. 87, pp. 50 - 57, 2012.

K. W. Davies, Nafus, A. M., and Johnson, D. D., “Are Early Summer Wildfires an Opportunity to Revegetate Exotic Annual Grass–Invaded Plant Communities?”, Rangeland Ecology & Management, vol. 66, no. 2, pp. 234 - 240, 2013.

K. W. Davies, Boyd, C. S., and Nafus, A. M., “Restoring the Sagebrush Component in Crested Wheatgrass–Dominated Communities”, Rangeland Ecology & Management, vol. 66, no. 4, pp. 472 - 478, 2013.

K. W. Davies, Madsen, M. D., Nafus, A. M., Boyd, C. S., and Johnson, D. D., “Can Imazapic and Seeding Be Applied Simultaneously to Rehabilitate Medusahead-Invaded Rangeland? Single vs. Multiple Entry”, Rangeland Ecology & Management, vol. 67, no. 6, pp. 650 - 656, 2014.

K. W. Davies, Vavra, M., Schultz, B., and Rimbey, N. R., “Implications of Longer Term Rest From Grazing in the Sagebrush Steppe”, Journal of Rangeland Applications, vol. 1, pp. 14–34, 2014.

C. S. Boyd, Johnson, D. D., Kerby, J. D., Svejcar, T., and Davies, K. W., “Of Grouse and Golden Eggs: Can Ecosystems Be Managed Within a Species-Based Regulatory Framework?”, Rangeland Ecology & Management, vol. 67, no. 4, pp. 358 - 368, 2014.

C. S. Boyd and Obradovich, M., “Is Pile Seeding Wyoming Big Sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata subsp. wyomingensis) an Effective Alternative to Broadcast Seeding?”, Rangeland Ecology & Management, vol. 67, no. 3, pp. 292 - 297, 2014.

R. F. Miller, Ratchford, J., Roundy, B. A., Tausch, R. J., Hulet, A., and Chambers, J., “Response of Conifer-Encroached Shrublands in the Great Basin to Prescribed Fire and Mechanical Treatments”, Rangeland Ecology & Management, vol. 67, no. 5, pp. 468 - 481, 2014.

J. McIver, Brunson, M., Bunting, S. C., Chambers, J., Doescher, P. S., Grace, J., Hulet, A., Johnson, D., Knick, S., Miller, R. F., Pellant, M. L., Pierson, F. B., Pyke, D., Rau, B. M., Rollins, K. S., Roundy, B. A., Schupp, E. W., Tausch, R. J., and Williams, J., “A Synopsis of Short-Term Response to Alternative Restoration Treatments in Sagebrush-Steppe: The SageSTEP Project”, Rangeland Ecology & Management, vol. 67, no. 5, pp. 584 - 598, 2014.

J. D. Bates, O'Connor, R., and Davies, K. W., “Vegetation Recovery and Fuel Reduction after Seasonal Burning of Western Juniper”, Fire Ecology, vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 27 - 48, 2014.

K. W. Davies, Boyd, C. S., Bates, J. D., and Hulet, A., “Dormant season grazing may decrease wildfire probability by increasing fuel moisture and reducing fuel amount and continuity”, International Journal of Wildland Fire, vol. 24, no. 6, p. 849, 2015.

J. D. Bates, Gicklhorn, J., LaMalfa, E., Newingham, B. A., and Veblen, K. E., “Great Basin Fact Sheet – Post-Fire Grazing Management in the Great Basin”, USDA-FS, 7, 2015.

C. S. Boyd, “Predicting Fire-Based Perennial Bunchgrass Mortality in Big Sagebrush Plant Communities”, International Journal of Wildland Fire , p. A-G, 2015.

K. W. Davies, Boyd, C. S., Bates, J. D., and Hulet, A., “Winter grazing can reduce wildfire size, intensity and behaviour in a shrub-grassland”, International Journal of Wildland Fire, vol. 25, no. 2, p. 191, 2015.

A. M. Nafus, Svejcar, T., and Davies, K. W., “Disturbance History, Management, and Seeding Year Precipitation Influences Vegetation Characteristics of Crested Wheatgrass Stands”, Rangeland Ecology & Management, vol. 69, no. 4, pp. 248 - 256, 2016.

K. W. Davies, Gearhart, A., Vavra, M., Shultz, B., and Rimbey, N. R., “Longer Term Rest from Grazing: A Response to Jones & Carter”, Journal of Rangeland Applications, vol. 3, pp. 9–15, 2016.

K. W. Davies, Bates, J. D., Boyd, C. S., and Svejcar, T., “Prefire grazing by cattle increases postfire resistance to exotic annual grass ( Bromus tectorum ) invasion and dominance for decades”, Ecology and Evolution, no. 10, pp. 3356 - 3366, 2016.

J. D. Bates and Davies, K. W., “Seasonal burning of juniper woodlands and spatial recovery of herbaceous vegetation”, Forest Ecology and Management, vol. 361, pp. 117 - 130, 2016.

P. R. Kormos, Marks, D., Pierson, F. B., C. Williams, J., Hardegree, S. P., Havens, S., Hedrick, A., Bates, J. D., and Svejcar, T., “Ecosystem Water Availability in Juniper versus Sagebrush Snow-Dominated Rangelands”, Rangeland Ecology & Management, vol. 70, no. 1, pp. 116 - 128, 2017.

K. W. Davies, Gearhart, A., Boyd, C. S., and Bates, J. D., “Fall and Spring Grazing Influence Fire Ignitability and Initial Spread in Shrub Steppe Communities”, International Journal of Wildland Fire, vol. 26, no. 6, p. 485, 2017.

J. D. Bates, Davies, K. W., Hulet, A., Miller, R. F., and Roundy, B. A., “Sage Grouse Groceries: Forb Response to Piñon-Juniper Treatments”, Rangeland Ecology & Management, vol. 70, no. 1, pp. 106 - 115, 2017.

C. S. Boyd, Kerby, J. D., Svejcar, T., Bates, J. D., Johnson, D. D., and Davies, K. W., “The Sage-Grouse Habitat Mortgage: Effective Conifer Management in Space and Time”, Rangeland Ecology & Management, vol. 70, no. 1, pp. 141 - 148, 2017.

D. D. Johnson and Schroeder, V., “Western Roots Diving into a Sagebrush Sea of Diversity”. 2018.