College of Agricultural Sciences

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.

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. Chambers, “Using Resilience and Resistance Concepts to Manage Persistent Threats to Sagebrush Ecosystems and Greater Sage-grouse”, Rangeland Ecology & Management, vol. 70, no. 2, pp. 149-164, 2017.

R. Sheley, Boyd, C. S., Dobrowolski, J., Hardegree, S. P., James, J. J., and Mangold, J., “Editorial: A Scientifically Rigorous and User-Friendly Rangeland Ecology & Management”, Rangeland Ecology & Management, vol. 69, no. 1, pp. 1 - 3, 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.

M. D. Madsen, Davies, K. W., Boyd, C. S., Kerby, J. D., and Svejcar, T., “Emerging seed enhancement technologies for overcoming barriers to restoration”, Restoration Ecology, vol. 24, pp. S77 - S84, 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.

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, 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.

C. S. Boyd and Lemos, J. A., “Evaluating Winter/Spring Seeding of a Native Perennial Bunchgrass in the Sagebrush Steppe”, Rangeland Ecology & Management, vol. 68, no. 6, pp. 494 - 500, 2015.

C. S. Boyd, Green, S., and Schupp, E. W., “Great Basin Fact Sheet – Woody Fuels Reduction in Wyoming Big Sagebrush Communities”, USDA-FS, 13, 2015.

C. S. Boyd, “Predicting Fire-Based Perennial Bunchgrass Mortality in Big Sagebrush Plant Communities”, International Journal of Wildland Fire , p. A-G, 2015.

A. Hulet, Boyd, C. S., Davies, K. W., and Svejcar, T., “Prefire (Preemptive) Management to Decrease Fire-Induced Bunchgrass Mortality and Reduce Reliance on Postfire Seeding”, Rangeland Ecology & Management, vol. 68, no. 6, pp. 437 - 444, 2015.

K. W. Davies, Boyd, C. S., Johnson, D. D., Nafus, A. M., and Madsen, M. D., “Success of Seeding Native Compared with Introduced Perennial Vegetation for Revegetating Medusahead-Invaded Sagebrush Rangeland”, Rangeland Ecology & Management, vol. 68, no. 3, pp. 224 - 230, 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.

K. W. Davies, Madsen, M. D., Nafus, A. M., Boyd, C. S., and Johnson, D. D., “Can Imazapic and Seeding Be Applied Simultaneously to Rehabilitate Medusahead-Invaded Rangeland? Single vs. Multiple Entry”, Rangeland Ecology & Management, vol. 67, no. 6, pp. 650 - 656, 2014.

K. W. Davies, Collins, G. H., and Boyd, C. S., “Effects of feral free-roaming horses on semi-arid rangeland ecosystems: an example from the sagebrush steppe”, Ecosphere, vol. 5, no. 10, p. art127, 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.

C. S. Boyd, Beck, J. L., and Tanaka, J. A., “Livestock grazing and sage-grouse habitat: impacts and opportunities”, Journal of Rangeland Applications, vol. 1, p. 58, 2014.

C. S. Boyd, Johnson, D. D., Kerby, J. D., Svejcar, T., and Davies, K. W., “Of Grouse and Golden Eggs: Can Ecosystems Be Managed Within a Species-Based Regulatory Framework?”, Rangeland Ecology & Management, vol. 67, no. 4, pp. 358 - 368, 2014.

C. S. Boyd and Obradovich, M., “Is Pile Seeding Wyoming Big Sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata subsp. wyomingensis) an Effective Alternative to Broadcast Seeding?”, Rangeland Ecology & Management, vol. 67, no. 3, pp. 292 - 297, 2014.

D. D. Johnson and Boyd, C. S., “Pre-emptive conservation of sage-grouse habitat: The Harney County Experience”, in Society for Range Management 68th Annual International Meeting, 2014.

J. C. Chambers, Pyke, D. A., Maestas, J. D., Pellant, M. L., Boyd, C. S., Campbell, S. B., Espinosa, S., Havlina, D. W., Mayer, K. E., and Wuenschel, A., “Using resistance and resilience concepts to reduce impacts of invasive annual grasses and altered fire regimes on the sagebrush ecosystem and greater sage-grouse: A strategic multi-scale approach”, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Ft. Collins, CO, 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.