Mission:  Provide science for sound management of land, vegetation, and fire in semi-arid ecosystems.

Research:  Solve regional problems and generate principles that apply nationally and internationally to semi-arid land management systems.

Outreach:  Transfer knowledge to public, priveate, and government agencies.

Expertise:  Plant community ecology specifically related to plant succession, structure, and function and the historic role and affects of prescribed and wildand fire in semi-arid ecosystems in the Intermountain West, USA.

Biology, Ecology, and Management of Western Juniper

Aspen Research

Fire Effects on Mountain, Wyoming, Low Sagebrush Communities

Fire History in Sagebrush Communities

Expansion of Western Juniper

Old Growth Juniper Woodlands

Rainfall Distribution Study

Bird Composition and Abundance in Juniper Woodlands of Oregon

Livestock Grazing Exclosure Study

The Influence of Precipitation Timing on Sagebrush Steppe Ecosystem

Restoration of Quaking Aspen Woodlands Invaded by Western Juniper

For more information phone or email Dr. Miller at:

(541) 737-1622 or Richard Miller