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Current Quarterly Report for Review
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Contains the most recent Quarterly Reporting materials from the vendor for review by the Technical Oversight Team.
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Riparian Restoration Team
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Data Needs Assessment Scope of Work
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A contract was executed between the AppLCC/WMI and Clemson University with the attached Scope of Work for a 1-year effort to conduct a data needs assessment for landscape planning in Appalachia.
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Data Needs & GIS Team
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Background Project and Member Information
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Desert Thrashers Work Group (CWPRI)
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All materials related to this work group. Chris McCreedy leads this group.
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Collaborative Wildlife Protection and Recovery Initiative (CWPRI)
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Do Review Papers on Bird–Vegetation Relationships Provide Actionable Information to Forest Managers in the Eastern United States?
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Abstract
Forest management planning requires the specification of measurable objectives as desired future conditions at spatial extents ranging from stands to landscapes and temporal extents ranging from a single growing season to several centuries. Effective implementation of forest management requires understanding current conditions and constraints well enough to apply the appropriate silvicultural strategies to produce desired future conditions, often for multiple objectives, at varying spatial and temporal extents. We administered an online survey to forest managers in the eastern US to better understand how wildlife scientists could best provide information to help meet wildlife-related habitat objectives. We then examined more than 1000 review papers on bird–vegetation relationships in the eastern US compiled during a systematic review of the primary literature to see how well this evidence-base meets the information needs of forest managers. We identified two main areas where wildlife scientists could increase the relevance and applicability of their research. First, forest managers want descriptions of wildlife species–vegetation relationships using the operational metrics of forest management (forest type, tree species composition, basal area, tree density, stocking rates, etc.) summarized at the operational spatial units of forest management (stands, compartments, and forests). Second, forest managers want information about how to provide wildlife habitats for many different species with varied habitat needs across temporal extents related to the ecological processes of succession after harvest or natural disturbance (1–2 decades) or even longer periods of stand development. We provide examples of review papers that meet these information needs of forest managers and topic-specific bibliographies of additional review papers that may contain actionable information for foresters who wish to meet wildlife management objectives. We suggest that wildlife scientists become more familiar with the extensive grey literature on forest bird–vegetation relationships and forest management that is available in natural resource management agency reports. We also suggest that wildlife scientists could reconsider everything from the questions they ask, the metrics they report on, and the way they allocate samples in time and space, to provide more relevant and actionable information to forest managers. View Full-Text
Keywords: forestry; silviculture; forest wildlife–habitat relationships; evidence-based practice; implementation gap; research relevance; synthesis; knowledge exchange; science–practice
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WLFW Outcomes: Funded Research
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DOI Research Facilities/Programs
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A list for DOI agencies.
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Introduction to the Appalachian LCC
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Federal Research Capacity within the AppLCC
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Economic and Production Performance of Native Grasses as Forage in the Fescue Belt
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The primary purpose of developing this literature review and summary was to inform producers about the potential benefits from utilizing warm-season grasses in the Fescue Belt. Effectively, managing forages is not always straightforward for livestock producers. Summarizing the economic and production benefits from using warm-season grasses could help producers make more informed forage management decision and might encourage producers to consider adopting warm-season grasses. Furthermore, this literature review also gathered information about the potential benefits of using native grasslands as forage to the quail population in this region, which could likely result in an economic benefit to the producer from leasing farmland to hunters.
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Ecosystem Services/Human Dimensions COP
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This folder contains content that supports the work of this specific COP within the Indicators Work Group.
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Fact Sheets
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A collection of fact sheets that describe current activities or projects related to the global topic of fire.
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General Training Materials
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Feb 2012 RFA for Aquatic Habitat Classification Project
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Request for Applications for the Stream Classification Project
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Aquatic Habitat Stream Classification Team
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Feb 2012 RFA for Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment
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Request for Applications for the Climate Change Vulnerability Project.
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Climate Change Vulnerability Team
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