Sarah C. Barga, PhD

Treesearch Publications

• Jeanne C. Chambers, Jessi L. Brown, Sofia Koutzoukis, Richard F. Miller, Sarah C. Barga, Rhett Boswell, Robert W. Heckman, Mark Madsen, Matt C. Reeves, Vaughn Thacker, Stephanie Yelenik. 2025. Major changes in climate, vegetation, and ecological resilience in recent decades suggest climate smart management strategies for western US dryland shrublands and woodlands
• Sue Miller, Anthony D. Vaudo, Bryce A. Richardson, Sarah C. Barga, Justin B. Runyon. 2025. Bee nourished: How pollen nutrition shapes bee foraging habits and what it means for restoration
• Stella Copeland, Vanessa Schroeder, Alison Agneray, Sarah C. Barga, Corey Gucker, Sarah Kulpa, Eugenie MontBlanc. 2024. Sagebrush wildflowers: From bloom to seed
• Cameron H. Amos, Bryce A. Richardson, Sarah C. Barga, Francis F. Kilkenny, Kas Dumroese. 2024. Annual‐perennial lifespan variation in Chaenactis douglasii suggests a drought escape strategy in warm‐arid environments
• Jeanne C. Chambers, Richard F. Miller, Jessi L. Brown, Sarah C. Barga, Rhett Boswell, Mark Madsen, Matt C. Reeves, Vaughn Thacker, Alexandra K. Urza. 2024. Selecting appropriate vegetation treatments in shrubland and pinyon-juniper ecosystems in a USDA Forest Service wildfire crisis landscape: Evaluating resilience to disturbance and resistance to invasive annual grasses and predicting vegetation response
• Francis F. Kilkenny, Jeffrey E. Ott, Sarah C. Barga, Jessica Irwin, Kimberly Rizkowsky, Nyika Campbell, Bryce A. Richardson, Elizabeth R. Milano, Corey Gucker. 2023. Great Basin Native Plant Project: 2022 Progress Report
• Sarah C. Barga, Francis F. Kilkenny, Scott L. Jensen, Sarah M. Kulpa, Alison C. Agneray, Elizabeth A. Leger. 2023. Not all seed transfer zones are created equal: Using fire history to identify seed needs in the Cold Deserts of the western United States
• Corey L. Gucker, Nancy L. Shaw, Sarah C. Barga. 2023. A field guide companion to western forbs: Biology, ecology, and use in restoration
• Elizabeth A. Leger, Sarah C. Barga, Alison C. Agneray, Owen Baughman, Robert Burton, Mark Williams. 2020. Selecting native plants for restoration using rapid screening for adaptive traits: Methods and outcomes in a Great Basin case study
• Sarah C. Barga, Peggy Olwell, Fred Edwards, Leah Prescott, Elizabeth A. Leger. 2020. Seeds of Success: A conservation and restoration investment in the future of U.S. lands
• Francis F. Kilkenny, Fred Edwards, Jessica Irwin, Sarah C. Barga. 2018. Great Basin Native Plant Project: 2017 Progress Report
• Sarah C. Barga, Thomas E. Dilts, Elizabeth A. Leger. 2018. Contrasting climate niches among co-occurring subdominant forbs of the sagebrush steppe
• Sarah C. Barga, Elizabeth A. Leger. 2018. Shrub cover and fire history predict seed bank composition in Great Basin shrublands
• Francis F. Kilkenny, Fred Edwards, Jessica Irwin, Sarah C. Barga. 2017. Great Basin Native Plant Project: 2016 Progress Report
• Sarah C. Barga, Thomas E. Dilts, Elizabeth A. Leger. 2017. Climate variability affects the germination strategies exhibited by arid land plants

• Project
  

  Seeding Evaluation and Experimental Design Strategies (SEEDS) partnership: Co-producing landscape- scale revegetation experiments embedded into post-fire seedings in the Great Basin and Intermountain West

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/rmrs/projects/bil-seeding-evaluation-and-experimental-design-strategies-seeds-partnership
  Station

  Rocky Mountain Research Station
• Experimental Forest or Range
  

  Desert Experimental Range

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/rmrs/forestsandranges/locations/der
  Station

  Rocky Mountain Research Station
• Project
  

  Research supporting the Dixie National Forest Pine Valley high-risk landscape

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/rmrs/projects/bilresearch-supporting-wildlife-habitat-and-ecological-resiliency-improvement-project
  Station

  Rocky Mountain Research Station
• Program
  

  Maintaining Resilient Dryland Ecosystems

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/rmrs/programs/drylandecosystems
  Station

  Rocky Mountain Research Station
• Project
  

  Building common garden arrays and developing climate-smart seed transfer zones to guide revegetation of priority habitats in high fire risk landscapes in the Great Basin and Intermountain West

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/rmrs/projects/bil-building-common-garden-arrays
  Station

  Rocky Mountain Research Station
• Project
  

  Population-level variation in germination cues and possible relationships to source climate for native forb species used in restoration

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/rmrs/projects/nativeforb
  Station

  Rocky Mountain Research Station

Articles

• Article
  

  Climate smart management strategies for dryland shrublands and woodlands

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/rmrs/articles/climate-smart-management-strategies-dryland-shrublands-and-woodlands
• Article
  

  Selecting appropriate vegetation treatments in shrubland and pinyon-juniper ecosystems

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/rmrs/articles/selecting-appropriate-vegetation-treatments-shrubland-and-pinyon-juniper-ecosystems
• Article
  

  Identifying future seed needs using fire history

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/rmrs/articles/identifying-future-seed-needs-using-fire-history

Multimedia

• Video

  Meet Sarah Barga

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/rmrs/products/multimedia/videos/meet-sarah-barga

• University of Nevada, Reno, Ph.D Ecology, Evolution, And Conservation Biology, Plant responses to environmental variation in arid landscapes, 2017
• University of Nevada, Reno, M.S. Biology, Plant-Animal Interactions - Seed Dispersal, 2011
• University of Washington, Seattle, B.S. Zoology, Ecology and Biogeography, 2002