US Great Basin Drought Impacts on Tribal Farm and Ranch Lands

These are the forgotten victims of the West's drought
(Justin NOBEL, National Geographic; August/September 2016)
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/08/nevada-drought/

$4.5 Million program to explore agriculture and water management on tribal lands
(Jane TORS, Nevada Today - University of Nevada, Reno; March 24, 2015)
http://www.unr.edu/nevada-today/news/2015/native-waters

Drought Prompts Disaster Declaration for Most of Nevada
(AgWeb/Associated Press; February 5, 2015)
http://www.agweb.com/article/drought-prompts-disaster-declaration-for-most-of-nevada-naa-associated-press/


Selected Research Publications:


Environmental Characteristics of the Great Basin and Mojave Desert Spring Systems
(SADA and LUTZ, 2016)
https://lccnetwork.org/sites/default/files/Resources/EnvironmentalCharacteristics_of_GreatBasin%26MojaveDesert_SpringSystems_Final.pdf

Trends and climatic sensitivities of vegetation phenology in semi-arid and arid ecosystems in the US Great Basin during 1982 - 2011
(TANG et al., 2015)
http://www.biogeosciences.net/12/6985/2015/bg-12-6985-2015.pdf


Websites:


Native Waters on Arid Lands
(University of Nevada Reno)
http://nativewaters-aridlands.com/

Drought Risk Atlas
(University of Nebraska Lincoln)
http://droughtatlas.unl.edu/

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