College of Agricultural Sciences

J. D. Maestas, Roundy, B. A., and Bates, J. D., “Conifer removal in the sagebrush steppe: the why, when, where, and how”, in Great Basin Fact Sheet Series, no. 4, Sage-Grouse Initiative, 2015.

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.

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.

J. D. Bates and Davies, K. W., “Wyoming big sagebrush Associations of Eastern Oregon; Vegetation Attributes”, Eastern Oregon Agricultural Research Center, 2015.

J. C. Williams, Pierson, F. B., Spaeth, K. E., Brown, J. R., Al-Hamdan, O. Z., Weltz, M. A., Nearing, M. A., Herrick, J. E., Boll, J., Robichaud, P. R., Goodrich, D. C., Heilman, P., D. Guertin, P., Hernandez, M., Wei, H., Polyakov, V. O., Armendariz, G., Nouwakpo, S. K., Hardegree, S. P., Clark, P. E., Strand, E. K., Bates, J. D., Metz, L. J., and Nichols, M. H., “Application of Ecological Site Information to Transformative Changes on Great Basin Sagebrush Rangelands”, Rangelands, vol. 38, no. 6, pp. 379 - 388, 2016.

K. W. Davies, Bates, J. D., and Boyd, C. S., “Effects of Intermediate-Term Grazing Rest on Sagebrush Communities with Depleted Understories: Evidence of a Threshold”, Rangeland Ecology & Management, vol. 69, no. 3, pp. 173 - 178, 2016.

K. W. Davies, Nafus, A. M., Boyd, C. S., Hulet, A., and Bates, J. D., “Effects of Using Winter Grazing as a Fuel Treatment on Wyoming Big Sagebrush Plant Communities”, Rangeland Ecology & Management, vol. 69, no. 3, pp. 179 - 184, 2016.

J. C. Williams, Pierson, F. B., Spaeth, K. E., Brown, J. R., Al-Hamdan, O. Z., Weltz, M. A., Nearing, M. A., Herrick, J. E., Boll, J., Robichaud, P. R., Goodrich, D. C., Heilman, P., D. Guertin, P., Hernandez, M., Wei, H., Hardegree, S. P., Strand, E. K., Bates, J. D., Metz, L. J., and Nichols, M. H., “Incorporating Hydrologic Data and Ecohydrologic Relationships into Ecological Site Descriptions”, Rangeland Ecology & Management, vol. 69, no. 1, pp. 4 - 19, 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.

K. W. Davies, Boyd, C. S., Bates, J. D., and Hulet, A., “Winter grazing decreases the probability of fire-induced mortality of bunchgrasses and may reduce wildfire size: a response to Smith et al. (this issue)”, International Journal of Wildland Fire, 2016.

K. W. Davies, Bates, J. D., and Hulet, A., “Attempting to restore mountain big sagebrush ( Artemisia tridentata ssp. vaseyana) four years after fire”, Restoration Ecology, no. 5, pp. 717 - 722, 2017.

J. D. Bates and Davies, K. W., “Data set on the effects of conifer control and slash burning on soil carbon, total N, organic matter and extractable micro-nutrients”, Data in Brief, vol. 14, pp. 515 - 523, 2017.

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.

J. D. Bates and Davies, K. W., “Effects of conifer treatments on soil nutrient availability and plant composition in sagebrush steppe”, Forest Ecology and Management, vol. 400, pp. 631 - 644, 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.

K. W. Davies, Boyd, C. S., Bates, J. D., and Gearhart, A., “Legacy microsite effect on the survival of bitterbrush outplantings after prescribed fire: capitalizing on spatial variability to improve restoration”, Restoration Ecology, vol. 25, no. 5, pp. 723 - 730, 2017.

J. D. Bates, Svejcar, T., Miller, R., and Davies, K. W., “Plant Community Dynamics 25 Years After Juniper Control”, Rangeland Ecology & Management, vol. 70, no. 3, pp. 356 - 362, 2017.

K. W. Davies and Bates, J. D., “Restoring big sagebrush after controlling encroaching western juniper with fire: aspect and subspecies effects”, Restoration Ecology, vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 33 - 41, 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.

K. W. Davies, Boyd, C. S., and Bates, J. D., “Eighty Years of Grazing by Cattle Modifies Sagebrush and Bunchgrass Structure”, Rangeland Ecology & Management, vol. 71, no. 3, pp. 275 - 280, 2018.

J. D. Bates and Davies, K. W., “Quaking aspen woodland after conifer control: Herbaceous dynamics”, Forest Ecology and Management, vol. 409, pp. 307 - 316, 2018.

J. D. Bates and Davies, K. W., “Quaking aspen woodland after conifer control: Tree and shrub dynamics”, Forest Ecology and Management, vol. 409, pp. 233 - 240, 2018.