Invasive Species

This category includes only publications on invasive species. Many of the publications are species specific. Most are vegetation species. A few address non-native aquatic species.

Upcoming Events

None.

Past Events

North American Invasive Species Management Annual Conference 2019

September 30, 2019 to October 3, 2019

30th Montana Native Plant Society Annual Meeting - On the Edge

June 23, 2017 to June 25, 2017

70th Annual Society for Range Management Meeting

January 29, 2017 to February 2, 2017

Fire and Invasives - Rangeland Fire Management Priority Science Needs Discussion

May 13, 2016

Sagebrush Ecosystem Conservation: All lands, All Hands

February 23, 2016 to February 26, 2016

How to Determine the Most Appropriate Treatments Before and After Wildfire in Sagebrush and Pinyon-Juniper Ecosystems

May 27, 2015

68th Annual Society for Range Management Meeting: Managing Diversity

January 31, 2015 to February 6, 2015

Webinars/Videos

Why is Sagebrush Country on Fire?

Jun 3, 2020

Michele R. Crist

Relations among cheatgrass driven fire, climate and sensitive status birds

Oct 12, 2017

Erica Fleishman, Jimi Gragg

Bark Beetle Outbreaks in Western North America: Causes, Control and Consequences

Aug 2, 2017

Jodi Axelson

National forest and rangeland management initiative webinar: rangeland management strategies and tools

Jan 12, 2017

Chad S. Boyd, Brian A. Mealor, Jay Kerby

Rangeland Management Strategies and Tools: Promoting Resiliency and Addressing Invasive Species

Jan 12, 2017

Chad S. Boyd, Brian A. Mealor, Jay Kerby

A science framework for assessing threats to sagebrush ecosystems and greater sage-grouse and prioritizing conservation and restoration actions

Sep 26, 2016

Jeanne C. Chambers, Steven E. Hanser

Sagebrush responses to shifting climate and fire disturbances

Jan 23, 2014

Matthew J. Germino

Research Briefs

2020 Post-fire native species seed mixes are effective at keeping out cheatgrass in the Great Basin

2020 Can prescribed fire do the work we hired it to do?

Sylvia Kantor, Becky K. Kerns, Michelle A. Day

2012 Fire effects on noxious weeds

Robin J. Innes

2012 Cheating cheatgrass: new research to combat a wily invasive weed

Gail Wells

2008 The tao of treating weeds: reaching for restoration in the northern Rocky Mountains

Lisa-Natalie Anjozian

2008 Big changes in the Great Basin

Gail Wells

Management/Planning Documents

2020 Tackling Idaho’s Cheatgrass Challenge: A Call-to-Action to Reduce Cheatgrass and Other Invasive Annual Grasses in Sagebrush Country

2014 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

Jeanne C. Chambers, David A. Pyke, Jeremy D. Maestas, Michael L. Pellant, Chad S. Boyd, Steven B. Campbell, Shawn Espinosa, Douglas W. Havlina, Kenneth E. Mayer, Amarina Wuenschel

Syntheses

2016 Secondary invasion: the bane of weed management

Dean E. Pearson, Yvette K. Ortega, Justin B. Runyon, Jack L. Butler

2013 A review of fire effects on vegetation and soils in the Great Basin Region: response and ecological site characteristics

Richard F. Miller, Jeanne C. Chambers, David A. Pyke, Frederick B. Pierson

2011 Economic and social impacts of wildfires and invasive plants in American deserts: lessons from the Great Basin

Mark W. Brunson, John A. Tanaka

2011 Euphorbia esula (leafy spurge)

Corey L. Gucker

2011 Hieracium caespitosum (meadow hawkweed)

Katharine R. Stone

2010 Hieracium aurantiacum (orange hawkweed)

Katharine R. Stone

2010 Post-wildfire seeding in forests of the western United States: an evidence-based review

Donna Peppin, Peter Z. Fule, Carolyn Hull Sieg, Jan L. Beyers, Molly E. Hunter

2010 Melilotus alba, Melilotus officinalis (white sweetclover, yellow sweetclover)

Corey L. Gucker

2010 Coronilla varia (crownvetch)

Corey L. Gucker

2010 Euphorbia cyparissias (cypress spruge)

Corey L. Gucker

2010 Schedonorus pratensis (meadow fescue)

Katharine R. Stone

2010 Polygonum aviculare (prostrate knotweed)

Katharine R. Stone

2010 Ailanthus altissima (tree-of-heaven)

Janet L. Fryer

2009 Isatis tinctoria (dyer's woad)

Kristin L. Zouhar

2009 Tanacetum vulgare (common tansy)

Corey L. Gucker

2009 Berberis vulgaris (common barberry)

Corey L. Gucker

2008 Chapter 12. Gaps in scientific knowledge about fire and nonnative invasive plants

Kristin L. Zouhar, Gregory T. Munger, Jane Kapler Smith

2008 Chapter 16. Fire and nonnative plants—summary and conclusions

Jane Kapler Smith, Kristin L. Zouhar, Steve Sutherland, Matthew L. Brooks

2008 Wildland fire in ecosystems: fire and nonnative invasive plants

2008 Chapter 2. Effects of fire on nonnative invasive plants and invasibility of wildland ecosystems

Kristin L. Zouhar, Jane Kapler Smith, Steve Sutherland

2006 Vulpia myuros (rattail sixweeks grass)

Janet L. Howard

2006 Fire management impacts on invasive plants in the western United States

Jon E. Keeley

2005 Psathyrostachys juncea (Russian wildrye)

Jane E. Taylor

2005 Hypericum perforatum (common St Johnswort)

Kristin L. Zouhar

2005 Elaeagnus angustifolia (Russian-olive)

Kristin L. Zouhar

2005 Lonicera fragrantissima, Lonicera maackii, Lonicera morrowii, Lonicera tatarica, Lonicera x bella, Lonicera xylosteum (winter honeysuckle, Amur honeysuckle, Morrow's honeysuckle, Tatarian honeysuckle, Bell's honeysuckle, European fly honeysuckle)

Gregory T. Munger

2005 Cytisus scoparius, Cytisus striatus (Scotch broom, Portuguese broom)

Kristin L. Zouhar

2004 Sonchus arvensis (perennial sowthistle)

Jack McWilliams

2004 Convolvulus arvensis (field bindweed)

Kristin L. Zouhar

2004 Sorghum halepense (Johnson grass)

Janet L. Howard

2004 Chondrilla juncea (rush skeletonweed)

Kristin L. Zouhar

2004 How much do we know about the effects of wildfire on the occurrence and expansion of non-native plant species' distributions in natural areas?

Mara Johnson, Lisa J. Rew, Bruce D. Maxwell, Steve Sutherland

2004 Cardaria chalapensis, Cardaria draba, Cardaria pubescens (lens-podded hoary cress, heart-podded hoary cress, globe-podded hoary cress)

Kristin L. Zouhar

2004 Lepidium latifolium (perennial pepperweed)

Kristin L. Zouhar

2003 Tamarix chinensis, Tamarix gallica, Tamarix parviflora, Tamarix ramosissima (tamarisk, French tamarisk, small-flowered tamarisk, saltcedar)

Kristin L. Zouhar

2003 Bromus tectorum (cheatgrass)

Kristin L. Zouhar

2003 Sisymbrium altissimum (tumble mustard)

Janet L. Howard

2003 Potentilla recta (sulfur cinquefoil)

Kristin L. Zouhar

2003 Descurainia sophia (flixweed tansymustard)

Janet L. Howard

2003 Acer platanoides (Norway maple)

Gregory T. Munger

2003 Linaria dalmatica, Linaria vulgaris (Dalmatian toadflax, yellow toadflax)

Kristin L. Zouhar

2002 Cynoglossum officinale (houndstongue)

Kristin L. Zouhar

2002 Carduus nutans (musk thistle)

Kristin L. Zouhar

2002 Lythrum salicaria (purple loosestrife)

Gregory T. Munger

2002 Centaurea solstitialis (yellow starthistle)

Kristin L. Zouhar

2002 Cirsium vulgare (bull thistle)

Kristin L. Zouhar

2001 Centaurea maculosa (spotted knapweed)

Kristin L. Zouhar

2001 Bromus madritensis, Bromus rubens (foxtail chess, red brome)

Kevin A. Simonin

2001 Acroptilon repens (Russian knapweed)

Kristin L. Zouhar

2001 Cirsium arvense (Canada thistle)

Kristin L. Zouhar

2001 Centaurea diffusa (diffuse knapweed)

Kristin L. Zouhar

2001 Taeniatherum caput-medusae (medusahead)

Amy Archer

2000 Fire and invasive species within the temperate and boreal coniferous forests of western North America

Richy J. Harrod, Sarah Reichard

1998 Bromus hordeaceus (soft chess)

Janet L. Howard

1995 Schedonorus arundinaceus (tall fescue)

Roberta A. Walsh

1995 Molothrus ater (brown-headed cowbird)

Janet Sullivan

1994 Fire conditions and pre- and postoccurrence of annual grasses on the Snake River Plain

Erin F. Peters, Stephen C. Bunting

1993 Amaranthus retroflexus (rough pigweed)

Roberta A. Walsh

1993 Taraxacum officinale (common dandelion)

Lora L. Esser

1993 Poa pratensis (Kentucky bluegrass)

Ronald Uchytil

1993 Phleum pratense (timothy)

Lora L. Esser

1992 Elymus repens (quackgrass)

S. A. Snyder

1992 Halogeton glomeratus (halogeton)

Diane S. Pavek

1992 Xanthium strumarium (common cocklebur)

Ronald Uchytil

1992 Medicago sativa (alfalfa)

Janet Sullivan

1992 Erodium cicutarium (cutleaf filaree)

Janet L. Howard

1989 Rubus laciniatus (evergreen blackberry)

D. A. Tirmenstein

1989 Rubus discolor (Himalayan blackberry)

D. A. Tirmenstein

Publications/Reports

2020 Longer-term post-fire succession on Wyoming big sagebrush steppe

Book or Chapter or Journal Article

Jonathan D. Bates, Chad S. Boyd, Kirk W. Davies

2020 Vegetation dynamics following compound disturbance in a dry pine forest: fuel treatment then bark beetle outbreak

Book or Chapter or Journal Article

Justin S. Crotteau, Christopher R. Keyes, Sharon M. Hood, Andrew J. Larson

2020 Invasive grasses: A new perfect storm for forested ecosystems?

Book or Chapter or Journal Article

Becky K. Kerns, Claire Tortorelli, Michelle A. Day, Ty Nietupski, Ana M. G. Barros, John Kim, Meg A. Krawchuk

2020 Invasive Species Science Update (No. 12)

Technical Report or White Paper

Justin B. Runyon

2019 Operationalizing resilience and resistance concepts to address invasive grass-fire cycles

Book or Chapter or Journal Article

Jeanne C. Chambers, Matthew L. Brooks, Matthew J. Germino, Jeremy D. Maestas, David Board, Matthew O. Jones, Brady W. Allred

2019 Does burn severity affect plant community diversity and composition in mixed conifer forests of the United States Intermountain West one decade post fire?

Book or Chapter or Journal Article

Eva K. Strand, K.L. Satterberg, Andrew T. Hudak, John C. Byrne, Azad Henareh Khalyani, Alistair M. S. Smith

2019 Seeding native species increases resistance to annual grass invasion following prescribed burning of semiarid woodlands

Book or Chapter or Journal Article

Alexandra K. Urza, Peter J. Weisberg, Jeanne C. Chambers, David Board, Samuel W. Flake

2019 Bunchgrass root abundances and their relationship to resistance and resilience of burned shrub-steppe landscape

Book or Chapter or Journal Article

Matthew J. Germino, Matthew R. Fisk, Cara Applestein

2019 Relations among cheatgrass-driven fire, climate, and sensitive-status birds across the Great Basin - Final Report to the Joint Fire Sciences Program

Technical Report or White Paper

Erica Fleishman, Jennifer Balch, Bethany A. Bradley, Ned Horning, Matthias Leu

2019 Invasive grasses increase fire occurrence and frequency across US ecoregions

Book or Chapter or Journal Article

Emily J. Fusco, John T. Finn, Jennifer Balch, R. Chelsea Nagy, Bethany A. Bradley

2019 Integrating anthropogenic factors into regional-scale species distribution models - a novel application in the imperiled sagebrush biome

Book or Chapter or Journal Article

Juan M. Requena-Mullor, Kaitlin C. Maguire, Douglas J. Shinneman, T. Trevor Caughlin

2019 TRIA-Net: 10 years of collaborative research on turning risk into action for the mountain pine beetle epidemic

Book or Chapter or Journal Article

Patrick M.A. James, Dezene P.W. Huber

2019 Validating a time series of annual grass percent cover in the sagebrush ecosystem

Book or Chapter or Journal Article

Stephen P. Boyte, Bruce K. Wylie, Donald J. Major

2019 Insect communities in big sagebrush habitat are altered by wildfire and post‐fire restoration seeding

Book or Chapter or Journal Article

Ashley T. Rohde, David S. Pilliod, Stephen J. Novak

2019 Postwildfire seeding to restore native vegetation and limit exotic annuals: an evaluation in juniper-dominated sagebrush steppe

Book or Chapter or Journal Article

Kirk W. Davies, Jonathan D. Bates, Chad S. Boyd

2019 Distinguishing disturbance from perturbations in fire-prone ecosystems

Book or Chapter or Journal Article

Jon E. Keeley, Juli G. Pausas

2018 U.S. Geological Survey Sage-Grouse and Sagebrush Ecosystem Research Annual Report for 2018

Technical Report or White Paper

Steven E. Hanser

2017 Post-fire vegetation response at the woodland-shrubland interface is mediated by the pre-fire community

Book or Chapter or Journal Article

Alexandra K. Urza, Peter J. Weisberg, Jeanne C. Chambers, Jessica M. Dhaemers, David Board

2017 Removal of perennial herbaceous species affects response of cold desert scrublands to fire

Book or Chapter or Journal Article

Jeanne C. Chambers, David Board, Bruce A. Roundy, Peter J. Weisberg

2017 Effects of climate change on rangeland vegetation in the northern Rockies

Book or Chapter or Journal Article

Matthew C. Reeves, Mary Manning, Jeff P. DiBenedetto, Kyle Palmquist, William Lauenroth, John Bradford, Daniel Schlaepfer

2017 Using resilience and resistance concepts to manage persistent threats to sagebrush ecosystems and greater sage-grouse

Book or Chapter or Journal Article

Jeanne C. Chambers, Jeremy D. Maestas, David A. Pyke, Chad S. Boyd, Michael L. Pellant, Amarina Wuenschel

2017 Development of remote sensing indicators for mapping episodic die-off of an invasive annual grass (Bromus tectorum) from the Landsat archive

Book or Chapter or Journal Article

Peter J. Weisberg, Thomas E. Dilts, Owen W. Baughman, Susan E. Meyer, Elizabeth A. Leger, K. Jane Van Gunst, Lauren Cleeves

2016 Secondary invasion: the bane of weed management

Book or Chapter or Journal Article, Synthesis

Dean E. Pearson, Yvette K. Ortega, Justin B. Runyon, Jack L. Butler

2016 Cascading effects of fire retardant on plant-microbe interactions, community composition, and invasion

Book or Chapter or Journal Article

Abigail Marshall, Lauren Waller, Ylva Lekberg

2014 Resilience to stress and disturbance, and resistance to Bromus tectorum L. invasion in cold desert shrublands of western North America

Book or Chapter or Journal Article

Jeanne C. Chambers, Bethany A. Bradley, Cynthia S. Brown, Carla M. D'Antonio, Matthew J. Germino, James B. Grace, Stuart P. Hardegree, Richard F. Miller, David A. Pyke

2014 Bromus tectorum response to fire varies with climate conditions

Book or Chapter or Journal Article

Kimberly Taylor, Tyler Brummer, Lisa J. Rew, Matt Lavin, Bruce D. Maxwell

2014 A field guide for selecting the most appropriate treatment in sagebrush and pinon-juniper ecosystems in the Great Basin: Evaluating resilience to disturbance and resistance to invasive annual grasses, and predicting vegetation response

Technical Report or White Paper

Richard F. Miller, Jeanne C. Chambers, Michael L. Pellant

2013 A review of fire effects on vegetation and soils in the Great Basin Region: response and ecological site characteristics

Synthesis, Technical Report or White Paper

Richard F. Miller, Jeanne C. Chambers, David A. Pyke, Frederick B. Pierson

2013 Using native annual plants to restore post-fire habitats in western North America

Book or Chapter or Journal Article

Christopher M. Herron, Jayne L. Jonas, Paul J. Meiman, Mark W. Paschke

2013 Resistance to invasives and altered fire regimes differs between cold and hot desert shrublands

Book or Chapter or Journal Article

Matthew L. Brooks, Jeanne C. Chambers

2013 Introduced annual grass increases regional fire activity across the arid western USA (1980-2009)

Book or Chapter or Journal Article

Jennifer Balch, Bethany A. Bradley, Carla M. D'Antonio, Jose Gomez-Dans

2013 Does Kochia prostrata spread from seeded sites? an evaluation from southwestern Idaho, USA

Book or Chapter or Journal Article

Erin C. Gray, Patricia S. Muir

2012 Fire as a tool for controlling Tamarix spp. seedlings

Book or Chapter or Journal Article

Michelle K. Ohrtman, Sharon A. Clay, David E. Clay, Alaexander J. Smart

2012 Aquatic species invasions in the context of fire and climate change

Technical Report or White Paper

Michael K. Young

2012 Postfire downy brome (Bromus tectorum) invasion at high elevations in Wyoming

Book or Chapter or Journal Article

Brian A. Mealor, Samuel Cox, D. Terrance Booth

2012 Roads impact the distribution of noxious weeds more than restoration treatments in a lodgepole pine forest in Montana, U.S.A.

Book or Chapter or Journal Article

Jennifer L. Birdsall, Ward W. McCaughey, Justin B. Runyon

2012 A common-garden study of resource-island effects on a native and an exotic, annual grass after fire

Book or Chapter or Journal Article

Amber N. Hoover, Matthew J. Germino

2011 Influence of fire on native and nonnative salmonid populations and habitat in a western Montana basin

Book or Chapter or Journal Article

Clint M. Sestrich, Thomas E. McMahon, Michael K. Young

2011 Fire, plant invasions, and erosion events on western rangelands

Book or Chapter or Journal Article

Frederick B. Pierson, Christopher Jason Williams, Stuart P. Hardegree, Mark A. Weltz, Jeffry J. Stone, Patrick E. Clark

2011 Canyon grassland vegetation changes following fire in northern Idaho

Book or Chapter or Journal Article

Corey L. Gucker, Stephen C. Bunting

2011 Rocky Mountain Research Station invasive species visionary white paper

Technical Report or White Paper

Dean E. Pearson, Mee-Sook Kim, Jack L. Butler

2011 Fire effects on the cheatgrass seed bank pathogen Pyrenophora semeniperda

Book or Chapter or Journal Article

Julie Beckstead, Laura E. Street, Susan E. Meyer, Phil S. Allen

2011 Economic and social impacts of wildfires and invasive plants in American deserts: lessons from the Great Basin

Book or Chapter or Journal Article, Synthesis

Mark W. Brunson, John A. Tanaka

2010 Post-wildfire seeding in forests of the western United States: an evidence-based review

Book or Chapter or Journal Article, Synthesis

Donna Peppin, Peter Z. Fule, Carolyn Hull Sieg, Jan L. Beyers, Molly E. Hunter

2010 Response of six non-native plant species to wildfires in the northern Rocky Mountains, USA

Technical Report or White Paper

Dennis E. Ferguson, Christine L. Craig

2010 Effect of fire on a seed bank pathogen and on seeds of its host Bromus tectorum

Conference Proceedings

Julie Beckstead, Susan E. Meyer, Laura E. Street, Phil S. Allen

2009 Variable impacts of imazapic rate on downy brome (Bromus tectorum) and seeded species in two rangeland communities

Book or Chapter or Journal Article

Christo Morris, Thomas A. Monaco, Craig W. Rigby

2008 Fire, native species, and soil resource interactions influence the spatio-temporal invasion pattern of Bromus tectorum

Book or Chapter or Journal Article

Michael J. Gundale, Steve Sutherland, Thomas H. DeLuca

2008 Wildland fire in ecosystems: fire and nonnative invasive plants

Synthesis, Technical Report or White Paper

2008 Chapter 2. Effects of fire on nonnative invasive plants and invasibility of wildland ecosystems

Synthesis, Technical Report or White Paper

Kristin L. Zouhar, Jane Kapler Smith, Steve Sutherland

2008 Chapter 12. Gaps in scientific knowledge about fire and nonnative invasive plants

Synthesis, Technical Report or White Paper

Kristin L. Zouhar, Gregory T. Munger, Jane Kapler Smith

2008 Cheatgrass and red brome; the history and biology of two invaders

Conference Proceedings

Chad R. Reid, Sherel Goodrich, James E. Bowns

2008 Chapter 16. Fire and nonnative plants—summary and conclusions

Synthesis, Technical Report or White Paper

Jane Kapler Smith, Kristin L. Zouhar, Steve Sutherland, Matthew L. Brooks

2007 Rapid assessment of postfire plant invasions in coniferous forests of the western United States

Book or Chapter or Journal Article

Jonathan P. Freeman, Thomas J. Stohlgren, Molly E. Hunter, Philip N. Omi, Erik J. Martinson, Geneva W. Chong, Cynthia S. Brown

2007 Postfire invasion potential of rush skeletonweed (Chondrilla juncea)

Book or Chapter or Journal Article

Cecilia Lynn Kinter, Brian A. Mealor, Nancy L. Shaw, Ann L. Hild

2006 Impacts of restoration treatments on alien plant invasion in Pinus ponderosa forests, Montana, USA

Book or Chapter or Journal Article

Erich K. Dodson, Carl E. Fiedler

2006 Combustion properties of Bromus tectorum L.: influence of ecotype and growth under four CO2 concentrations

Book or Chapter or Journal Article

Robert R. Blank, Robert H. White, Lewis H. Ziska

2006 Fire management impacts on invasive plants in the western United States

Book or Chapter or Journal Article, Synthesis

Jon E. Keeley

2005 Sagebrush steppe and pinyon-juniper ecosystems - effects of changing fire regimes, increased fuel loads, and invasive species - Final Report to the Joint Fire Science Program

Technical Report or White Paper

Jeanne C. Chambers, E. Durant McArthur, Stephen B. Monsen, Susan E. Meyer, Nancy L. Shaw, Robin J. Tausch, Robert R. Blank, Stephen C. Bunting, Richard R. Miller, Michael L. Pellant, Bruce A. Roundy, Scott C. Walker

2005 Effects of prescribed fire on the invasion of northern mixed-grass prairie by non-native plant species - Final Report to the Joint Fire Science Program

Technical Report or White Paper

Jennifer S. Hartz-Rubin, Tad Weaver, Cory S. Rubin, Jack Plaggemeyer

2005 Fall-prescribed burn and spring-applied herbicide effects on Canada thistle control and soil seedbank in a northern mixed-grass prairie

Book or Chapter or Journal Article

Andrea J. Travnicek, Rodney G. Lym, Chad Prosser

2005 New technology for fuel breaks and green strips in urban interface and wildland areas

Conference Proceedings

Jennifer L. Vollmer

2004 Monitoring changes in weed populations: post-fire and post-herbicide treatment

Conference Proceedings

Elaine Kennedy Sutherland