sage grouse initiative utah

As farmers and ranchers, you can help the NRCS and its conservation partners work to conserve the sage grouse. The sage grouse initiative Utah has to offer you will help you know how you can help. Together you, Great Basin Seed, and the NRCS Farm Bill conservation programs can help ranchers improve habitat for the sage-grouse. By helping with the sage grouse initiative Utah needs, you will also be affecting the sustainability of native grazing lands so important to Utah habitat.

The same factors that negatively affect sage-grouse also affect the sustainability of native grazing lands:

• Land fragmentation
• Invasive species
• Unsustainable grazing systems
• Sod-busting
• Conifer encroachment

The sage grouse initiative Utah is implementing, will keep sage-grouse off of the Endangered Species Act list. Financial and technical assistance is available to those those who plan to implement conservation practices on rangeland through the Environmental Quality Incentives Program. Some of the plans this program offers include

• Prescribed Grazing

• Brush Management

• Herbaceous Weed Control

• Firebreak

• Fencing

• Fence Marking

• Watering Facility

• Upland Wildlife Habitat Mgt.

Great Basin Seed is proud to be a part of the sage grouse initiative Utah has to offer. They can help with the necessary needs to keep sage-grouse off the Endangered Species Act list. Great Basin Seed is your place for Seed for Sage Grouse initiative Utah, seed for Sage Grouse Habitat, and seed mixes for sage grouse habitat. Contact Great Basin Seed today for more information on how they can help you help the cause. Or contact your local NRCS office to see what plans are available for you under the farm bill.