Learning from the land: Extending state-and-transition models for adaptive management of western rangelands

The purpose of this project is to streamline, test and evaluate the participatory development of state-and- transition models (STMs) that incorporate sage-grouse Habitat conditions. This project will demonstrate their utility for adaptive management of sage-grouse Habitat and livestock production, and thereby to increase awareness and adoption of STMs by ranchers while contributing to NRCS objectives of revising ecological site descriptions and promoting adaptive management and monitoring of sage-grouse Habitat through the Sage-grouse Initiative.