Post-fire seeding in the Great Basin: Is more better? Depends on the weather

Annabelle Moore; Stephanie Yelenik

Treesearch

Post-fire seeding in the Great Basin: Is more better? Depends on the weather

Informally Refereed

Authors:

Annabelle Moore, Stephanie Yelenik

Year:

2026

Type:

Science Bulletins and Newsletters

Station:

Rocky Mountain Research Station

Source:

Science You Can Use (in 5 Minutes). Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station.

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Abstract

Hostile winds yanked at the yellow transect tapes. Stephanie Yelenik and fellow researchers plodded on, endeavoring to place tapes in an organized grid. Their field site stretched across the fire-scorched sagebrush steppe of Peavine Mountain in the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest near Reno, Nevada. The team of Forest Service and University of Nevada scientists were setting up experimental plots to test native seeding strategies.

Keywords

post-fire seeding, weather, restoration

Citation

Moore, Annabelle; Yelenik, Stephanie. 2026. Post-fire seeding in the Great Basin: Is more better? Depends on the weather. Science You Can Use (in 5 Minutes), May 2026. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 2 p.