Contents
Introduction and Overview...................................................................................... 1
Shrublands Under Fire: Disturbance and Recovery in a Changing World................................... 3
Stanley G. Kitchen
Shah-Kan-Daw: Anthropogenic Simplification of Semi-arid Vegetation Structure....................... 5
David A. Charlet
Invasive Species and Shrublands........................................................................ 25
Cheatgrass and Red Brome; the History and Biology of Two Invaders..................................... 27
Chad R. Reid, Sherel Goodrich, and James E. Bowns
Invasion of the Exotic Grasses: Mapping their Progression via Satellite................................... 33
Eric B. Peterson
The Indirect Effects of Cheatgrass Invasion: Grasshopper Herbivory on Native Grasses
Determined by Neighboring Cheatgrass Abundance................................................................. 41
Julie Beckstead, Susan E. Meyer, and Carol K. Augsperger
Effects of Herbaceous Species Removal, Fire and Cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum)
on Soil Water Availability in Sagebrush Steppe......................................................................... 49
Alison Whittaker, Bruce Roundy, Jeanne Chambers, Susan Meyer, Robert Blank,
Stanley Kitchen, and John Korfmacher
Controlling Cheatgrass in Winter Range to Restore Habitat and Endemic Fire........................ 57
Jennifer L. Vollmer and Joseph G. Vollmer
Cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum) Biocontrol Using Indigenous Fungal Pathogens...................... 61
Susan E. Meyer, David L. Nelson, Suzette Clement, and Julie Beckstead
Spatial and Temporal Seed Dispersal of Squarrose Knapweed (Centaurea
virgata Lam. ssp. squarrosa (Willd.) Gugler) in West Central Utah, a Case Study................... 69
Scott L. Jensen, Stephen B. Monsen, and Pat Fosse
Medusahead: Available Soil N and Microbial Communities in Native and Invasive Soils.......... 73
Robert R. Blank, René Sforza, and Tye Morgan
Effects of Fire and Restoration Seeding on Establishment of Squarrose Knapweed
(Centaurea virgata var. squarrosa)............................................................................................ 77
Alison Whittaker and Scott L. Jensen
Shrubland Community Dynamics and Restoration............................................. 81
Symbiotic Fungi that Influence Vigor, Biomass and Reproductive Potential of Native
Bunch Grasses for Remediation of Degraded Semiarid Rangelands........................................ 83
Jerry R. Barrow, Mary E. Lucero, and Isaac Reyes-Vera
Genetic Characterization of Uncultured Fungal Endophytes from Bouteloua eriopoda
and Atriplex canescens.............................................................................................................. 87
Mary E. Lucero, Jerry R. Barrow, Ruth Sedillo, Pedro Osuna-Avila, Isaac Reyes-Vera
Wildfire Rehabilitation Success with and without Chaining on the Henry Mountains, Utah....... 91
Cristina Juran, Bruce A. Roundy, and James N. Davis
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Vole-Driven Restoration of a Parariparian Meadow Complex on the Colorado Plateau
(South-Central Utah)................................................................................................................ 107
Dennis M. Bramble and Jean C. Bramble
Browse Evaluation of Tall Shrubs Based on the Direct Measurement of a
Management Objective............................................................................................................ 115
Richard B. Keigley and Michael R. Frisina
Mule Deer and Elk Winter Diet as an Indicator of Habitat Competition................................... 123
Michael R. Frisina, Carl L. Wambolt, W. Wyatt Fraas, and Glen Guenther
Radial Symmetry in the White Bursage (Ambrosia dumosa) in the Mojave Desert................. 127
Steven A. Lei and Simon A. Lei
Reproductive Biology of Larrea tridentata: A Comparison Between Core Shrubland and
Isolated Grassland Plants at the Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge, New Mexico.................. 131
Rosemary L. Pendleton, Burton K. Pendleton, Karen R. Wetherill, and Terry Griswold
Fire Recovery in Shrublands . ............................................................................ 137
A Survey of Vegetation and Wildland Fire Hazards on the Nevada Test Site.......................... 139
Dennis J. Hansen and W. Kent Ostler
Trout Creek 1999 Burn............................................................................................................ 147
Sherel Goodrich
Trend of Mountain Big Sagebrush Crown Cover and Ground Cover on Burned Sites,
Uinta Mountains and West Tavaputs Plateau, Utah................................................................ 151
Sherel Goodrich, Allen Huber, and Brian Monroe
Very Large Scale Aerial (VLSA) Imagery for Assessing Postfire Bitterbrush Recovery........... 161
Corey A. Moffet, J. Bret Taylor, and D. Terrance Booth
20 Years of Natural Recovery after Wildfire on Northern Nevada Rangelands....................... 169
Ann P. Bollinger and Barry L. Perryman
Microsite and Time Since Prescribed Fire’s Influence on Soil Microbiology in a
Pinyon Woodland..................................................................................................................... 175
Benjamin M. Rau, Robert R. Blank, and Tye Morgan
Field Trips............................................................................................................. 179
Great Basin Cold Desert Shrublands and the Desert Experimental Range............................ 181
Stanley G. Kitchen and Stephanie L. Carlson
Disturbance and Rehabilitation of Cold to Warm Desert Transitional Shrublands in
Southwestern Utah.................................................................................................................. 187
Chad Reid and James Bowns
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