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mycoplasmas, spiroplasmas, etc. Viruses Walnut Warm season perennial grasses (includes dallisgrass, bluestems, Water resources Watersheds Watersheds and river basins, general Weather Weeds Wetland and riparian systems Wheat, other Wild animals Wild birds Wildlife and natural fisheries, general/other Wildlife habitats Wine grapes Winter annual grasses (includes annual ryegrass) Winter annual legumes (includes subterranean clover, arrowleaf clover) Wood and wood products Wool fiber Desert and semidesert shrub land and shinnery A Regional Experiment to Evaluate Effects of Fire and Fire Surrogate Treatments in the Sagebrush Steppe Application of "interpreting Indicators of Rangeland Health" (Iirh, Tr 1734-6) to Management of Linear Impacts Assessing the Status and Extent of Sagebrush Step Plant Communities Within the Great Basin Baseline Ecological Health Survey Biological Control of Russian Olive, Saltcedar, Perennial Pepperweed, and Other U.S. Invasive Weeds from Kazakhstan and Central Asia Biological Control of Saltcedar Biological Control of Saltcedar: Israel Biological Control of U.S. Invasive Weeds from China Biologically Based Integrated Management of Weeds on Western Rangeland Watersheds Biologically Based Techniques for Control of Insect Pests Biologically Based Techniques to Limit the Dispersal of Invasive Pests Carbon Dioxide Fluxes on Western Rangelands Collection of Low-Maintenance Turf Grass Seeds in Eurasia Develop and Evaluate Plants for Improved Livestock Performance Develop and Use Est Libraries to Identify and Clone Desirable Genes from Grasses Develop And/or Use Molecular Tools to Identify and Clone Desirable Genes from Rangeland Plants Develop, Evaluate and Exchange Promising Plant Germplasm for the Western U.S. Development and Improvement of Integrated Control Tactics for the Containment of Cactoblastis Cactorum Development and Testing of a Bmp Evaluation Tool for Texas Development of Models and Conservation Practices for Water Quality Management and Resource Assessments Development of State and Transition Models That Describe the Vegetation Dynamics of Ecological Sites Development Technologies and Plant Germplasm for Management and Remediation of Degraded Rangelands Disturbance Assessment and Mitigation of Great Basin Rangeland Effect of Herbicide Application Timing on Crested Wheatgrass Control and Subsequent Native Plant Reestablishment Success Effects of Conservation Practices on Soil and Water Resources in the Leon River Watershed (Phase Ii) Estimating Environmental Impacts of Conservation Practices on Grazing Lands Evaluation of Sage-Grouse Habitat and Food Supply Fate and Transport of E. Coli in Rural Texas Landscapes and Streams Feasibility Test of a Uav-Based System for Rangeland Inventory Assessment and Monitoring in the Owyhee Uplands Field Testing of Monitoring and Assessment Technologies Across Large Ranch Landscapes in the Southwestern U.S. Forecasting Water Quality and Quantity Hazards Using Spatially Distributed Watershed Models and Biophysical Data Geospatial Watershed Modeling for Improved Watershed Assessments Grazinglands Ceap and Nri Technical Support Grazinglands Ceap and Nri Technical Support-Phase II Great Basin Cooperative Eco-Systems Study Unit II Great Basin Restoration Initiative Remote Sensing Project Habitat Monitoring on Holleman Air Force Base Hydrologic and Water Quality System Design and Development Hydrologic Modeling of the Indus River Basin in Pakistan Hydrologic Processes, Scale, Climate Variability, and Water Resources for Semiarid Watershed Management Hydrological and Water Quality System Identification, Characterization, & Transfer of Microbial Endophytes into Native Plant Materials to Improve Success of Rangeland Restoration Impacts of Global Changes and Biological Control of Invasive Weeds on Western Rangelands Improved Plant Genetic Resources for Pastures and Rangelands in the Temperate Semiarid Regions of the Western U.S. Improvement of Plant Materials and Beef Cow Production on Irrigated Pastures Indian Ricegrass and Needle and Thread Grass Genetic Diversity Assessment in the Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument Integrated Weed Control and Revegetation of Temperate Desert Rangeland in the Great Basin Interactions of Climate Change and Other Environmental Factors on Invasive Plant Infestation in the Arid West Internet Capability for Assessing/managing Impacts of Climate Change on Sediment Loading to Streams Using Wepp Joint Effects of Climate Change on Grasslands: Extending Lycog Through Stochastic Modeling of Co2, Temperature, and Precipitation Forcing Lake Mead National Recreation Area Ecosystem Health Monitoring Livestock Grazing in Rangeland Management Systems Management Technologies for Arid Rangelands Methods for Using Remotely Sensed Data with Public Land Health Standard Assessments Modeling Soil Erosion and Sediment Yield in Rangeland Environments Modeling the Impacts of Land-Applied Municipal Biosolids on Ecosystem Services Across Urban, Agricultural, and Wildlife Interfaces Models and Monitoring Protocols to Support Long-Term Monitoring of Desert Ecosystems Monitor Habitat Monitoring of Vegetation Within the San Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area New Monitoring Technologies for Improving Rangeland Management Nitrogen Fertilizer for Free: Accounting for Mineralizable Nitrogen in the Soil Phylogenetic Characterization of Genetic Diversity in Basalt Milkvetch; 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