BLM-ID Tasks GeomorphIS to Conduct BOSH-Area Plant Surveys

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management, Boise District, has tasked a GeomorphIS-Elliott Environmental Consulting team to conduct field examinations/surveys for BLM special status plants and noxious weeds with in the Bruneau-Owyhee Sage-Grouse Habitat (BOSH) Project area during 2023. The BOSH Project is a juniper treatment project designed to maintain and improve greater sage-grouse habitat in a 1.5-million-acre area spanning portions of Bruneau and Owyhee Field Offices of the BLM Boise District in SW Idaho. Approximately 617,000 acres have been identified that meet treatment criteria and have been proposed as a focal treatment area where cutting may occur. 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). The survey is being conducted as part of project planning and will occur prior to implementation of cutting activities. Surveys will be focused in areas where slash mitigation actions such as prescribed burning may be considered and are located within the Focal Treatment Area of the BOSH Project.