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 Priority Region: Great Basin
Staff contacts: The Great Basin Priority Region, sometimes called the Sagebrush Sea, contains some of the wildest, most remote lands in the Lower 48. At 113,000 square miles, the Great Basin is the largest arid area in the United States. Bounded in the east by the Colorado Plateau and central Rocky Mountains, in the north by the Columbia Plateau, the west by the Cascade-Sierra Range, and the south by the confluence of the Colorado River and the Mojave Desert, the Basin's 100 internally drained rivers and lakes have no outlet to the sea. The sagebrush-dominated landscapes of the Great Basin comprise one of the most extensive habitat types in the United States. These ecologically complex and biologically rich ecosystems formerly supported a high level of species endemism – species found nowhere else that evolved as habitat specialists of these steppe landscapes. Today, sagebrush habitats constitute one of the continent’s most imperiled and neglected types of ecosystems due to the profound, ecologically-transformative – but reversible – influence of livestock grazing followed by alteration of natural fire regimes and consequent invasion by exotic plant species. We partner with organizations working towards achieving the following goals in the Great Basin Priority Region:
Wilburforce concentrates its grants on conservation efforts in two focal areas:
We are supporting the following organizations for work in this area. When you click on an organization name you will see a list of all grants made to that organization, which may include projects funded in other program areas. (Organizations receiving science-related grants are not included in this list. Please see our Conservation Science section for those grants.)
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