Prineville

Local Implementation Team

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The Prineville Local Implementation Team is a collaborative partnership that shares the work of restoring sagebrush ecosystems within the range of sage-grouse in the Prineville area. This includes Crook, Deschutes, and northern Lake County. This is accomplished by identifying, prioritizing, and implementing landscape-level actions; that maintain and enhance culturally, economically, and ecologically healthy public and private rangelands.

The Prineville LIT’s Threats Reduction Plan (TRP) provides an overview of the threats that we wish to address and the work that partners have implemented. We use this document to guide funding requests, and direct restoration work to the areas where we expect to see long-term ecological benefits.

Next LIT Meeting:

Threat-Based Strategic Conservation Workshop

Part 3

March 28th, 2025

12:30 pm- 4 pm

Clover Building

498 SE Lynn Blvd., Prineville

Meetings and Events

America the Beautiful

Grant Awarded

$3.5 Million for strategic sage steppe restoration in Crook and Deschutes Counties

The Prineville LIT engaged in a year long process to identify shared priority areas for restoration. The funding will be used to implement our shared vision of healthy rangelands to support wildlife and rural economies. In a national contest for limited funds, we are thrilled that the funders understood the importance of this fragile and unique landscape. We look forward to working with the Prineville Team to make these lands more resilient in the face of large fires and long droughts.

For more information please reach out to Crook County Soil and Water Conservation District (541) 447-3548

Accomplishments

The Prineville LIT hosted Threat-Based Strategic Conservation workshops to identify places of “Conservation Readiness” in our LIT geography.
Check out the outcomes of this process
The Prineville LIT hosted a meeting for ODFW to present the proposed changes to the sage-grouse habitat maps. The meeting included a presentation about the data used to update the maps and provided an opportunity for comments on the accuracy of the updates.
In Spring 2023, LIT partners used their consensus process and agreed to adopt the first version of the living TRP. LIT partners will update this document annually according to the protocol outlined in section 4.3.
Barbwire Juniper Removal project
- In 2023 Pheasants Forever and Department of State Lands received Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funding to remove 1,232 acres of Phase I and II juniper within the Brothers PAC.
- In 2024 Pheasants Forever and Department of State Lands received another round of BIL funding to remove additional acres of Phase I and II juniper within the Brothers PAC.

Barbwire Juniper Removal Project area. Treatments scheduled for 2023.

Intact Sagebrush-steppe in the foreground with Barbwire Juniper Removal Project area in the background.

Partners

Prineville Bureau of Land Management, Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, USFWS- Bend Field Office, USFS, NRCS, Department of State Lands, Crook and Deschutes SWCDs, Crook County, Deschutes County, Crooked River Weed Management Area, East Cascades Bird Alliance, The Nature Conservancy, Private Landowners

Contact

Rachael Davee

SageCon Coordinator

rachael.davee@sagesalix.com