The US Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has tasked GeomorphIS and team partner G2 Archaeology to conduct cultural resources surveys for Outcome Based Grazing allotments are located in Lincoln and Nye Counties, Nevada. New range improvements and maintenance of existing improvements require a Section 106 Class III Inventory of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA ). The GeomorphIS-G2 team will complete an intensive Class III cultural inventory of  2,200 acres for 68 range improvement locations. The intent of this archaeological inventory is to identify, record, and evaluate cultural resources for their potential eligibility to the National Register of Historic Places. Following the completion of fieldwork, the results will be prepared in draft and final report documents that include data synthesis of all cultural resources and analysis within the unit areas.

GeomorphIS and partner BIOME will conduct USFWS Section 7-level protocol surveys for Mexican Spotted Owls (MSO; Strix occidentalis lucida) at established Protected Activity Center (PAC) sites on public lands administered by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Richfield Field Office (RFO) – Henry Mtns. Field Station (HMFS), Utah’s School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration (SITLA), and National Park Service (NPS), Glen Canyon National Recreation Area. Sites were selected according to USFWS habitat models in addition to desktop GIS and on the ground surveys for habitat suitability and observed MSO nests.  The GeomorphIS/BIOME team will conduct 4 surveys spread out over the breeding season (March 1^st – August 31^st) and which occur within 7 PAC sites: Burro Seep, French Spring, Larry Canyon, Marinus Canyon, Sams Mesa Box Canyon, Stair Canyon, Twin Corral Box Canyon. These surveys will allow the BLM to be compliant with the latest MSO protocol and therefore carry out planned special recreation permits (SRP) and non-commercial recreation, primarily increased canyoneering efforts in and around these areas. These surveys will also be beneficial for grazing permit renewals for the allotments that contain the PAC sites, aiding the BLM in planning efforts that support the protections afforded the MSO under the Endangered Species Act. The GeomorphIS-BIOME team conducted the 2019 surveys of these same areas.

The US Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has tasked GeomorphIS and partner Bloom Biological, Inc. to conduct a raptor nesting survey in the Bruneau-Owyhee Sage-grouse Habitat (BOSH) Project area in southwest idaho, during the 2020 season. The BOSH is a juniper treatment project designed to maintain and improve greater sage-grouse habitat across a 1.7 million-acre area in Owyhee County, Idaho. Approximately 600,000 acres have been identified that meet treatment criteria, i.e. where juniper has or is encroaching sagebrush communities, and have been proposed as the focal treatment area on BLM lands in the Bruneau and Owyhee Field Offices. The focal treatment area is a mosaic of big and low sagebrush communities primarily in the early- to mid-stages of juniper encroachment (phase I and early phase II, or 1-10% and 10-20% juniper cover). It is anticipated that treatments in phase II, or 10-20% juniper cover, may result in large quantities of cut material. Where scattering is not practical, jackpot burning would take place once the juniper biomass has dried sufficiently, live fuel moisture is high, i.e. low fire behavior, and soils are moist, frozen, or covered by snow. The GeomorphIS-BBI team will conduct an inventory of raptor nests across 5,875 acres in and around 13 units where juniper jackpot burning is likely to occur.