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Columbia River Basin Evapotranspiration Mapping Tool

This tool provides summarized evapotranspiration (ET) data at the 12 digit hydrologic unit level from the OpenET Data Explorer for the Columbia River Basin in Oregon, Washington and Idaho. The presented summary data is using the average of multiple models called the "ensemble" model for irrigated agricultural lands. 

Resource Date: 
June 2023
Resource OE Format: 
Tool
Resource OE Topics: 
Water Planning, Water Quantity and Quality, Watersheds, Farming and Agriculture, Land Use, Landscape Assessment
URL: 
https://tools.oregonexplorer.info/OE_HtmlViewer/index.html?viewer=columbia_river_basin

Reuniting Finley and Bohlman

The materials in this collection are the result of a yearlong partnership between the Oregon Historical Society Research Library and the Oregon State University Libraries Special Collections and Archives Research Center to digitize the William Lovell Finley and Herman T. Bohlman photograph and manuscript collections held by the libraries. The materials represent over fifty years (1899-1946) of work to document and protect the diversity of bird life in Oregon. 

Resource OE Format: 
Photo Collection, Document
Resource OE Topics: 
Birds, Wildlife, Rivers, Streams, and Lakes, Water Quantity and Quality
URL: 
https://oregondigital.org/collections/finley-bohlman

Stand with #StandingRock Story Map

Standing Rock story map created by Oregon State University students, Yuanyuan Tian and Yingqi Tang, as a Cartography and Geovisualization class project (GEOG 4/572). This dynamic map geo-narrates the story of the environmental protest at Standing Rock.
Resource Date: 
2017
Resource OE Format: 
Story Map
Resource OE Topics: 
Western Landscapes
URL: 
https://winkyt.github.io/standwithstandingrock/

Sage Grouse Initiative: web map application

This web map application for the NRCS-funded Sage Grouse Initiative visualizes, distributes, and interactively analyzes spatial data produced by the Sage Grouse Initiative's science team. 

Resource OE Format: 
Tool
Resource OE Topics: 
Sage-Grouse
URL: 
https://www.wlfw.org/sgi-map-description-and-instructions/

Sage Grouse Initiative: photo & video gallery

Sage Grouse Initiative collection of photos and videos of Sage-Grouse, sage brush community, conservation practices, and threats that can be downloaded and used with proper credit. Link also to a live webcam on an Oregon Sage-Grouse mating lek.
Resource OE Format: 
Photo Collection
Resource OE Topics: 
Sage-Grouse, Conservation, Ranching
URL: 
https://www.wlfw.org/news-media/photo-video-gallery/

Sage Grouse: A Life Cycle in Photos

Story map by the Natural Resource Conservation Service that features photos and narrative about the Sage-grouse through the four seasons.
Resource OE Format: 
Photo Collection, Multimedia stories
Resource OE Topics: 
Sage-Grouse, Birds
URL: 
https://nrcs.maps.arcgis.com/apps/Cascade/index.html?appid=ac90e45cf858431ab16bf3cb181d21f5

The Greater Sage-Grouse Does Not Require Endangered Species Act Protection

Video of Secretary Jewell's announcement that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has determined that Greater Sage-Grouse does not require Endangered Species Act protection.
Resource Date: 
9/22/2015
Resource OE Format: 
Video
Resource OE Topics: 
Sage-Grouse, Threatened and Endangered Species
URL: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHUsVfmyXhg

Wildfire and Invasive Species in the West: Challenges that Hinder Current and Future Management and Protection of the Sagebrush-steppe ecosystem – A Gap Report

Western Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies (WAFWA) publication that summarizes the policy, fiscal and science challenges that land managers encounter related to the control and reduction of the invasive plant/fire complex, especially as it relates to the threaten or endangered species listing status of the Greater sage-grouse.
Resource Date: 
2013
Resource OE Format: 
Document
Resource OE Topics: 
Invasive Species, Sage-Grouse, Wildlife, Western Landscapes
URL: 
https://pubs.usgs.gov/publication/70074483

Invasive Plant Management and Greater Sage-Grouse Conservation: A Review and Status Report with Strategic Recommendations for Improvement

Western Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies (WAFWA) publication commissioned by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to assess threats the invasive plant-wildfire nexus poses to greater Sage-Grouse and its habitat. 47 pp.
Resource Date: 
2015
Resource OE Format: 
Document
Resource OE Topics: 
Sage-Grouse, Invasive Species, Wildlife, Western Landscapes
URL: 
https://wafwa.org/wpdm-package/invasive-plant-management-and-greater-sage-grouse-conservation/

Western Landowners Alliance

The Western Landowners Alliance is a network of landowners committed to sustaining working landscapes, vibrant communities, and healthy fish and wildlife populations. The WLA represents landowners and managers from Sonora, Mexico to Alberta, Canada throughout the Intermountain West, banded together in dedication to assuring the land is whole, healthy, productive, and maintains a place for their families to prosper. The Western Landowners Alliance advances policies and practices that sustain working lands, connected landscapes, and native species.
Resource OE Format: 
Website, Agency/Organization
Resource OE Topics: 
Western Landscapes, Conservation, Private Lands, Wildlife
URL: 
https://westernlandowners.org/

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