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Post-fire seeding in the Great Basin: Is more better? Depends on the weather

Post-fire seeding in the Great Basin: Is more better? Depends on the weather4 May5 min

Hostile winds yanked at the yellow transect tapes. Stephanie Yelenik and fellow researchers plodded on, endeavoring to place tapes in an organized grid. Their field site stretched across the fire-scorched sagebrush steppe of Peavine Mountain in the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest near Reno, Nevada. The team of Forest Service and University of Nevada scientists were setting up experimental plots to test native seeding strategies. Music courtesy of Souvenir Thread. Read the Science You Can Use and access the related content on Treesearch