Wildlife and Fire: Improving Habitat Management Through Monitoring and Adaptation

Panelists discuss a variety of topics related to the impact of climate change, fire, and associated stressors on wildlife habitat management. Watch the recording for research reviews, case studies, and stories about emerging monitoring technologies, management frameworks, and holistic approaches to wildlife biology to advance our understanding of fire and wildlife and improve wildlife outcomes.
Learn more about the full Wildlife and Fire Webinar Series here: www.swfireconsortium.org/2024...
Recorded on: June 11, 2024
Description: In January, the Southwest Fire Science Consortium, USDA Forest Service, Southwest Climate Adaptation Science Center, and many other partners hosted a two-day workshop on the intersection of wildlife and fire. Based on the needs identified in the workshop, this collaborative group developed a yearlong series of workshops, webinars, and reports to improve wildlife outcomes in the face of fire and climate change. This series is intended to help researchers and practitioners across fire and wildlife disciplines exchange ideas, tools, and lessons to address the rapid pace and scale of fire management.
In the third webinar of this series, a panel of experts discusses informing wildlife habitat management through monitoring and adaptation at the intersection of fire, climate change, and human encroachment. Topics include the how monitoring may be expanded to the big picture - habitat associations, animal distributions across space and time, and the associated changes therein - by harnessing “big data”; monitoring frameworks for addressing vulnerability of wildlife and their habitats to climate change using MSO as an example; using the study of animal movement in response to changing fire regimes to inform conservation and human-wildlife coexistence; and holistic management of wildlife habitat when addressing fuels reduction, especially in pinyon juniper ecosystems.
Presenters: Valerie Stein Foster, Wildlife Biologist, Forest Service Washington Office; Andrew Stillman, Cornell Lab of Ornithology Center for Avian Population Studies; Rachel Blakey, Cal Poly Pomona - Department of Biological Sciences; Josh Goldberg, Pacific Northwest Research Station
Resources:
From Rachel Blakey:
Movebank data tracker: www.movebank.org/cms/movebank...
Goshawk and wildfire research paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science...
Mountain lion and wildfire research paper: www.cell.com/current-biology/...
Short film on mountain lions and wildfire: • Mountain lion behavior...
From Joshua Goldberg:
Rodman et al. 2023: doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16939
Jones et al. 2023: doi.org/10.1007/s10980-022-01...
Shirk et al. 2023: doi.org/10.1007/s10980-022-01...
From Valerie Stein:
Presentation resources:
National Wildlife and Fisheries Programs: www.fs.usda.gov/managing-land/natural-resources/biological-physical-resources#about
NFMA and the Forest Service Planning Rule: www.fs.usda.gov/planningrule
Wildfire crisis strategy (feeds into CRV below): www.fs.usda.gov/news/releases/interactive-map-showcasing-wildfire-reduction-projects
Climate change: EO 14702 ( Strengthening the Nation's Forests, Communities, and Local Economies) and related secretarial memo: www.usda.gov/directives/sm-10...
Climate Adaptation Plan: www.fs.usda.gov/managing-land/sustainability-and-climate/adaptation
Partner sites:
Bird Conservancy of the Rockies - Monitoring: www.birdconservancy.org/what-...
Rocky Mountain Avian Data Center: rmbo.org/v3/avian/Home.aspx
Springs Stewardship Institute: www.springstewardshipinstitute...
Climate adaptation Tools
Climate risk viewer: biodiversity and fireshed layers: storymaps.arcgis.com/collecti...
NIACS adaption workbook (monitoring decision support tool): adaptationworkbook.org/
From Andrew Stillman:
eBird Status and Trends Website: science.ebird.org/en/status-a...
eBird data summaries for state agencies: www.birds.cornell.edu/home/us...
This webinar is co-hosted by the Arizona Wildfire Initiative
www.swfireconsortium.org