INR has a long history of creating, curating and compiling spatial datasets and decision support tools for natural resource planning in Oregon and throughout the West. Threat-based ecostate maps provide a spatial depiction of rangeland condition across public and private land in eastern Oregon and across the sagebrush biome. Ecostate maps are based on the principles of Threat-Based Land Management as a framework to identify and address threats from invasive annual grasses, conifer encroachment, and wildfire as the primary large scale, ecosystem-level threats to sagebrush ecosystems in the northern Great Basin. Access ecostate maps and many other spatial datasets through the SageCon Landscape Planning Tool, which provides a one-stop-shop for spatial datasets for sagebrush steppe in southeastern Oregon and allows users to summarize ecostate maps through time using our ecostate summarization tool. Ecostate maps were recently expanded to cover the entire sagebrush biome.
INR has also provided a suite of resources and guidance documents on our technical resource page to help our partners make use of spatial datasets, tools and other technical resources in rangeland management.