NWFSC Research Brief #23 - Fire and Land Cover Change in the Palouse Praire-Forest Ecotone

The Palouse Prairie is a highly endangered ecosystem found along the Idaho–Washington border. The Palouse Prairie intermixes with the imperiled ponderosa pine savanna along this border, making the ecotone between these communities particularly diverse and ecologically important. Unfortunately, like many grassland and savanna communities across North America and the world, this rich prairie–pine ecotone is now highly fragmented and degraded.