News & Events
Read the latest from our field team, browse the newsletter archive, and catch up on the Annual Invasive Species Conference.
Read the latest from our field team, browse the newsletter archive, and catch up on the Annual Invasive Species Conference.
Annual Invasive Species Conference
ENLC and Tri-County Weed Control hosted the 20th Annual Invasive Species Conference in Ely.
Stories From the Field
Post-fire restoration, bat conservation, and more from ENLC's field team.
Annual Report
3,501 acres treated, 381,000 acres restored, and 56 wildlife surveys this year.
Annual Invasive Species Conference
ENLC and Tri-County Weed Control hosted the 20th Annual Invasive Species Conference on January 14-15, 2026, in Ely. Seventy-four attendees from four states (NV, CA, AZ, and UT), traveling about 17,050 round-trip miles, earned 285 CEUs and six people signed up for the applicator certification exam.
Save the date: the 21st Annual Invasive Species Conference returns January 13–14, 2027.
Events Calendar
Coming soon!
Landscape News
"We envision a future where the ecosystems of the arid and semi-arid West thrive."
Browse the Landscape News archive, now current through Fall 2025, for updates on ENLC's field projects, partner stories, and event recaps.
Newsletter archive (most recent first): Fall 2025, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, February 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Fall-Spring 2021, Fall-Winter 2020, Summer 2020, February 2020, November 2019.
Stories From the Field
Post-Fire Restoration: Diverse Approaches for a Hot Problem
ENLC Natural Resource Specialist Lara Derasary leads post-fire restoration across the Great Basin, using soil science and multiple seeding methods to fight back invasive annual grasses after wildfire.
"To solve a hot problem, you need diverse approaches to come to a solution."
Lara Derasary, Natural Resource Specialist
Read the Full Story
In FY2025, the team treated 9,565 acres of riparian area and mixed 338,540 pounds of seed for post-fire restoration, working alongside Moira Kolada (NDOW), Lauren Svejcar (formerly ARS), Sasha Reed (USGS), and Ty Peterson and team (BLM/DOI). The team weighs aerial seeding, which covers large or hard-to-reach burn areas quickly, against drill seeding, which places seed more precisely into the ground.
Building Bat Houses Creates Habitat and Learning Opportunities
ENLC is partnering with the Bureau of Land Management, Nevada Department of Wildlife, Bat Conservation International, and the North American Bat Monitoring Program on a five-year project inventorying bats at Basin and Range National Monument. In October 2025, second graders at David E. Norman Elementary School built bat houses, which were installed at the Steptoe Wildlife Management Area in March 2026.
Read the Full Story
ENLC is partnering with the Bureau of Land Management, Nevada Department of Wildlife, Bat Conservation International, and NABat on the Basin and Range Bat Inventory, a five-year project studying bat species across Basin and Range National Monument. The project provides baseline data on which bats live in the monument and how they use these public lands over time, work that matters more now that White-nose Syndrome has been confirmed in Nevada.
Acoustic monitoring has confirmed 14 bat species in the monument, and three trapping events have captured 149 individuals, giving ENLC and its partners a clearer picture of the monument's bat populations. With threats like habitat loss and White-nose Syndrome, this baseline data helps ENLC and its partners better understand and conserve bats in the monument.
The project reaches the community too. In October 2025, Ecologist Kelsey Danielson led an outreach event with second graders at David E Norman Elementary School, where students built their own bat houses. ENLC installed the finished bat houses at Steptoe Wildlife Management Area in March 2026.
Kids at David E Norman enthusiastically help NDOW Biologist Joey Danielson build a bat house.
ENLC Ecologist Kelsey Danielson and NDOW Biologist Joey Danielson in front of the newly installed bat houses at the Steptoe Wildlife Management Area.
Annual Report
See what ENLC accomplished this year: 3,501 acres treated for invasive species, 381,000 acres of habitat restoration work, and 56 wildlife surveys conducted across the Great Basin.
Download the full FY2025 Annual Report for the complete picture of ENLC's work, partners, and finances.
Join Us and Help Fund What Comes Next
Every story here, from post-fire restoration to bat conservation to the Invasive Species Conference, happens because of ENLC's members and supporters.
