Post-fire recovery of Wyoming big sagebrush shrub-steppe in centeral and southeast Montana

by Stephen V. Cooper

2007 eng

Sagebrush is a widespread habitat throughout our study area and a number of species including Greater Sage-grouse, pronghorn, Brewers Sparrow, Sage Sparrow, Sage Thrasher and sagebrush vole are sagebrush dependent, at least at some stage of their life cycles. Fire constitutes an important driver in …