College of Agricultural Sciences

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.

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.

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. D. Bates and Davies, K. W., “Attempting to Restore Herbaceous Understories in Wyoming Big Sagebrush Communities with Mowing and Seeding”, Restoration Ecology, vol. 22716465201507564773910774733061636359604865651448894218204757787121562028310411050793013712350231, no. 5, pp. 608 - 615, 2014.

J. D. Bates and Davies, K. W., “Cattle Grazing and Vegetation Succession on Burned Sagebrush Steppe”, Rangeland Ecology & Management, vol. 67, no. 4, pp. 412 - 422, 2014.

K. W. Davies, Bates, J. D., Boyd, C. S., and Nafus, A. M., “Is fire exclusion in mountain big sagebrush communities prudent? Soil nutrient, plant diversity and arthropod response to burning”, International Journal of Wildland Fire, vol. 23, no. 3, p. 417, 2014.

K. W. Davies, Bates, J. D., Madsen, M. D., and Nafus, A. M., “Restoration of Mountain Big Sagebrush Steppe Following Prescribed Burning to Control Western Juniper”, Environmental Management, vol. 531434275847782239473281657616314466229105585553602910656423037, no. 5, pp. 1015 - 1022, 2014.

J. D. Bates, Sharp, R. N., and Davies, K. W., “Sagebrush steppe recovery after fire varies by development phase of Juniperus occidentalis woodland”, International Journal of Wildland Fire, vol. 23, no. 1, p. 117, 2014.

J. D. Bates, O'Connor, R., and Davies, K. W., “Vegetation Recovery and Fuel Reduction after Seasonal Burning of Western Juniper”, Fire Ecology, vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 27 - 48, 2014.

T. Svejcar, Boyd, C. S., Davies, K. W., Madsen, M. D., Bates, J. D., Sheley, R., Marlow, C., Bohnert, D. W., Borman, M. M., Mata-González, R., Buckhouse, J., Stringham, T., Perryman, B., Swanson, S., Tate, K., George, M., Ruyle, G., Roundy, B. A., Call, C., Jensen, K., Launchbaugh, K., Gearhart, A., Vermeire, L., Tanaka, J. A., Derner, J., Frasier, G., and Havstad, K. M., “Western land managers will need all available tools for adapting to climate change, including grazing: a critique of Beschta et al.”, Environmental Management, vol. 53, no. 6, pp. 1035 - 1038, 2014.

C. ’ Connor, Miller, R., and Bates, J. D., “Vegetation Response to Western Juniper Slash Treatments”, Environmental Management, vol. 5239695853585967473920336114448416043175253122666071685256642726105303369, no. 3, pp. 553 - 566, 2013.

J. D. Bates, Nafus, A. M., and Davies, K. W., “Comparing Burned and Mowed Treatments in Mountain Big Sagebrush Steppe”, Environmental Management, vol. 502469584728176375397710828195734616346601591948651826473667156213354441752115366103222344971742925302933639613811114369, no. 3, pp. 451 - 461, 2012.

J. D. Bates, Nafus, A. M., and Davies, K. W., “Mowing Wyoming Big Sagebrush Communities With Degraded Herbaceous Understories: Has a Threshold Been Crossed?”, Rangeland Ecology & Management, vol. 65, no. 5, pp. 498 - 505, 2012.