The 2012 EBIPM Calendar focuses on ecological principles, the science behind EBIPM which can help land managers be more successful in their efforts to manage invasive species. The principles are general rules of ecology and are the foundation of the EBIPM program. A better understanding of these principles and how they affect ecological processes will help in developing integrated management programs for invasive plants. Please let us know if we can provide further information as you plan your EBIPM program.

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Researching Cultivation History A Step-by-Step Guide to Obtaining Historical Records highlights how cultivation history can have surprisingly long-lasting impacts on vegetation, soils, and hydrology after crop production ends. These changes can influence the management decisions and treatments that are being considered. This guide is designed to help land owners, land managers, and scientists with step-by-step instructions for researching valuable cultivation history of the land on which they work.

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'Establishing a Weed Prevention Area A step-by-step user's guide' shifts the focus of weed management from reacting with expensive restoration to taking a proactive approach and more economical, prevention. This guide provides groups interested in setting up a viable prevention program in their area with the steps and resources to initiate and develop a weed prevention area.

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'A Working Ranch with an effective medusahead management program' follows the science-based management plan developed to treat an increasing infestation of medusahead, and other annual grasses, at the Circle Bar Ranch in Mitchell, Oregon

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'Ecological Principles for Invasive Plant Management' guides you through the basic, scientific principles of dealing with invasive plants so you can stop treating symptoms and start treating the true causes of invasion.

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'Applying Ecologically-Based Invasive Plant Management: An Introduction and Overview' provides a look at the step-by-step method of managing invasive weeds using science-based solutions.

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For the additional Assessment Worksheets mentioned on page 10 of Applying EBIPM, click here

Adaptive Management for Invasive Annual Grasses guides you through the necessary steps to implement adaptive management on your land.

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For the additional data sheets mentioned on page 24 of Adaptive Management, click here.

Revegetation Guidelines for the Great Basin: Considering Invasive Weeds provides an in-depth, step-by-step guide to the processes and procedures of establishing desired plant species in the Great Basin Ecosystem.

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The Weed Wheel
Start preventing the dispersal of invasive plants today!

Follow these simple instructions to create your own Weed Wheel now.
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The Weed Wheel is adapted from Fig. 2 of "A Conceptual Framework for Preventing the Spatial Dispersal of Invasive Plants" by Kirk Davies and Roger Sheley. 2007 Weed Science 55:178-184

EBIPM Resource Handbook

Contains all of our products and an additional "Supplemental Reading" CD that includes the scientific journal articles that provide the basis for the EBIPM framework, principles and management guidelines.

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The Area-wide Project Informational Brochure 

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Economics Research Bulletin:

Ranching, Invasive Annual Grasses, and the Economics of Wildfire in the Great Basin

Mimako (Mimi) Kobayashi (mkobayashi@cabnr.unr.edu)

Kimberly Rollins (krollins@cabnr.unr.edu)

Michael H. Taylor (mtaylor@cabnr.unr.edu)

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The full publication, available through the AgEcon Research in Agricultural and Applied Economics site (www.ageconsearch.umn.edu), is available here.

Module Outline (pdf)

Pre-Test & Post-Test (pdf)

STBL (species to be learned) (pdf)

1.  Wanted Poster (pdf)
2.  Field ID Cards (pdf)
3.  Herbarium (pdf)

SSR (suggested scientific reading)

1.  Augmentative Restoration: Repairing Damaged Ecological Processes During Restoration of Heterogeneous Environments - Sheley et al. (pdf)

2.  Adaptive Management of Prairie Grouse: How Do We Get There? - Aldridge et al. (pdf)

3.  Exotic Plant Management in California Annual Grasslands - DiTomaso et al. (pdf)

Reading Guide (pdf)

Reading Guide Key (pdf)

Case Study - Ditto Creek Ranch

1.  Presentation (pdf)
2.  Town Hall (pdf)
3.  Q & A Letter (pdf)
4.  Ranch ESDs (pdf)
5.  Ranch Inventory Summary (pdf)
6.  Ranch NRCS Conservation Plan (pdf)
7.  Ranch Lands Map (pdf)
8.  Ranch Sage Grouse Incentive Practice Map (pdf)

Adaptive Management is a repeating cycle of planning, doing, and learning that allows managers to treat their management as an experiement so they can collect data and learn what works best on their land.

 Activities

• 1.  Using the Weed Wheel (pdf)


• 2.  Understanding Adaptive Management (pdf)


• 3.  Perform a T-Test (pdf)


• 4. Creating an Adaptive Management Plan (pdf)


• 5. Understanding the Weed Prevention Area (pdf)


• 6. Establishing a Weed Prevention Area (pdf)

Module Outline (pdf)

Pre-Test & Post-Test (pdf)

STBL (species to be learned) (pdf)

1.  Wanted Poster (pdf)
2.  Field ID Cards (pdf)
3.  Herbarium (pdf)

SSR (suggested scientific reading)

1.  A Conceptual Framework for Preventing the Spatial Dispersal of Invasive Plants - Davies & Sheley  (pdf)

2.  Evaluating Montana's Dyer's Woad (Isatis tinctoria) Cooperative Eradication Project - Pokorny & Krueger-Mangold. (pdf)

3.  Revegetating Russian Knapweed (Acroptilon repens) Infestations Using Morpholigically Diverse Species and Sedbed Preparation - Mangold et al. (pdf)

4.  Limitations to Postfire Seedling Establishment: The Role of Seeding Technology, Water Availability, and Invasive Plant Abundance - James & Svejcar. (pdf)

Reading Guide (pdf)

Reading Guide Key (pdf)

Case Study

1.  Presentation (pdf)
2.  Town Hall (pdf)
3.  Martin Basin (Winnemucca), Nevada Allotment Management Planning (NEPA) (pdf)
4.  Washoe County, Nevada EBIPM Step-by-step Plan (pdf)

The first three steps in the EBIPM process include:
Step 1 - Complete the Rangeland Health Assessment
Step 2 - Idenitify the Causes of Invasion and the Associated Ecological Processes not Functionaing
Step 3 - Use Ecological Principles to Guide your Decision Making as to what tools and strategies will be used (Step 4) as you implement Adaptive Management (Step 5).

 Activities

• 1.  Soil Types Maps (pdf)
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• 2.  Soil Texture by Feel (pdf)
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• 3.  Rangeland Health Assessment (pdf)
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• 4.  Ecological Principles for EBIPM (pdf)
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• 5.  Applying the Ecological Principles (pdf)

Module Outline (pdf)

Pre-Test & Post-Test (pdf)

STBL (species to be learned) (pdf)

1.  Wanted Poster (pdf)
2.  Field ID Cards (pdf)
3.  Herbarium (pdf)

SSR (suggested scientific reading)

1.  Designing Invasion-Resistant Plant Communities: The Role of Plant Functional Traits - James et al.  (pdf)

2.  Nitrogen acquisition by annual and perennial grass seedlings: testing the role of performance and plasticity to explain plant invasion - Leffler et al.  (pdf)

Reading Guide (pdf)

Reading Guide Key (pdf)

Case Study

1.  Presentation (pdf)
2.  Town Hall (pdf)  

The plants that make up rangeland in the Great Basin area of the west are primarily grasses. forbs, and shrubs.

 Activities

• 1.  Field Guide Book Review (pdf)
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• 2.  The Pot Boiled Over(pdf)


• 3.  Not All Just Plants (pdf)


• 4.  Plants at War (pdf)
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• 5. Plant Growth Lab (pdf)
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• 6. Field Visit  (pdf)

EBIPM Curriculum Home

"The Silent Invasion"

"Something troubling is taking hold in Oregon. Strange, exotic plants and animals are showing up in places where they don't belong. They are invasive species, and they're taking over landscapes, driving native wildlife away, and making everyone from ranchers to fishermen to wildlife managers nervous. What are these invaders? Where do they come from? And what can we do to stop them?"

View "The Silent Invasion" on OPB.org

"Hope on the Range"

This documentary examines the variety of pressures that threaten the health of western rangelands, including population growth and development and the interrelated effects of climate change, wildfires, and invasive species. The program takes viewers to locations around the West where ranchers, conservationists, and public land managers are turning to a legacy of the frontier -- livestock grazing -- to help conserve the rangeland ecosystems.

"Hope on the Range" must be ordered from the Society for Rangeland Management.

"When the Pot Boiled Over" 

"Implementing EBIPM"

One of the toughest challenges land managers face is the advancing infestations of invasive weeds. Treating weeds is often really only treating a symptom. To be successful, managers must ‘get to the roots’ and treat the underlying cause of invasion.

‘Implementing EBIPM’ takes you into the field with the range ecologists and scientists and plant physiologists who’ve developed this decision-making process called Ecologically-Based Invasive Plant Management.

"A Working Ranch"

"A Working Ranch with an effective medusahead management program” tells the story of Ben and Barbara McGough who purchased the Circle Bar Ranch (Mitchell, OR) in 2003 and soon learned the ranch had a serious infestation of medusahead. They realized they needed to either “get on board with some kind of project to control the medusahead or sell now.”

With the help of ARS Ecologist Roger Sheley and others at the Eastern Oregon Agricultural Research Center in Burns, OR, Ben and Barbara began using EBIPM to focus on treating the true causes of the infestation and get a hold on the invasion.