If you are interested in participating, call the Magic Valley Regional office at 20.Volunteers should bring work gloves, water and lunch.As summer ended, nearly 190,000 of acres of land burned in the Pioneer Fire north of Idaho City. A four-wheel-drive or high-clearance vehicle is recommended. Fish and Games wildlife management areas are a microcosm of that relationship.Fish and Game staff will meet volunteers at the intersection of East 2900 North and North 4000 East at 8:30 a.m.The planting will take place from 9 a.m.Sage grouse rely on sagebrush for food and shelter, so they probably won’t come back until the plant does, but Fish and Game could soon have more information on how the birds are doing in the burn area, following some research being conducted this year. Replanting the sagebrush will likely be a long-term effort. Hunting in Idaho runs the spectrum from plentiful upland game to highly coveted big game species. “Ideally, we're going to build these islands of sagebrush stands and as they mature, they're going to seed out and hopefully start expanding across the hillside,” he said. If the seedlings make it one year, Tycz said, that’s a good sign they’ll take hold. Planting sagebrush seedlings – with their roots about five or six inches down – could give the plants a head start in soaking up water compared to the cheatgrass, which germinates in the fall. And the dry water year in 2021 didn’t help the seeds planted last year compete against invasive cheatgrass, which is thriving in the northern area of the burn. Sagebrush can take 25, 75, or even 100 years to recover after a wildfire. The Idaho Fire Map displays fire information about all reported wildfires in Idaho.
“It's one of our top priorities, to reestablish sagebrush as quickly as we can,” Tycz said. Forest Service The Badger Fire burned more than 90,000 acres south of Twin Falls, mostly on U.S.
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