Forest Management and Wildlife in Working Forests: Lessons from the Pacific Northwest
Society of American Foresters National Convention: Thursday, October 4, 2018; Oregon Convention Center, RM B113
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This is a symposium supported by the: Oregon Society of American Foresters, Oregon Forest Resources Institute, The Wildlife Society Forestry and Wildlife Working Group, Society of American Foresters Wildlife and Fish Ecology Working Group, and Oregon State University.
This symposium will present current research findings that describe wildlife interactions with working forests and the
practices that are used to manage those forests. Sustainable forest management represents a fundamental challenge of balancing wood product demands with conserving wildlife. Finding this balance is critically important for forest certification, consumer confidence, and viability of forest products industries. This symposium explores the relationships between forest management and forest‐dependent wildlife in the Pacific Northwest, with the goal of connecting foresters, land managers, scientists, and policy makers. The symposium will highlight current research results on forest management and wildlife, with direct linkages to common forest practices like the effects of herbicides and structure retention on wildlife. Attendees of this session will be exposed to forestry effects on a variety of taxon and should leave with an understanding of how operational practices (e.g., harvest unit layout, protection of special features, application of herbicides) affect wildlife on properties they manage.
Presentations include:
- Guild Specific Effects of Intensive Forest Management on Avian Abundance
- Quantifying the role of deer and elk in forest plantations of the Oregon Coast Range
- Stand‐level Tradeoffs Between Timber Production, Biodiversity, and Pollination Services in the Oregon Coast Range
- Spotted Owl Habitat Use during the early Fledgling Period, 2017
- Impacts of Harvest Practices on Terrestrial Salamanders in Managed Forests
- Using multi‐species eDNA to understand relationships between aquatic biodiversity and forestry BMPs
- Wildlife Response to Structure Retention in Recent Clearcuts
- Seeing the forest for the bees: pollinator health research in managed conifer forests of the Pacific Northwest
- The effects of fuels treatments, wildfire, and post‐fire salvage logging on fishers and a carnivore community
- Novel tools to identify important rest structures used by potentiall imperiled marten and fisher populations
- Quantifying black bear damage to western conifers