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Frank Lake shared many components of indigenous and traditional ecological knowledge and how they are used in bird friendly forest management. Frank also discussed and showed traditional regalia and described their importance to indigenous culture and ceremonies.

Darren Sleep of SFI discusses how Forest Certification is being used on corporate lands to create and maintain practices that benefit birds and biodiversity conservation. Darren Miller addressed how large private forest landowners can enhance bird diversity and abundance through purposeful forest management decisions.

Amanda Mahaffey of the Forest Stewards Guild discusses the significant success of forestry for the birds programs in a number of states including Vermont, Michigan and others including North Carolina’s Forest Landbird Legacy Program. The focus has been on translating bird life history and needs into silvicultural prescriptions made by foresters and incorporated in forest management planning.

Speaker Randy Wilson of the USFWS discussed how the ecosystem based approach to bird conservation shifted the conservation paradigm from a resource based, opportunistic approach, towards a science-based, strategic pursuit of sustainable landscapes. That approach however requires managing for population sustainability at multiple spatial scales and then translating bird habitat needs into forest management prescriptions.

Speaker Jeff Larkin of Indiana University of PA and the American Bird Conservancy discussed the importance of implementing forest bird conservation at biologically meaningful scales both spatially and temporally. He describes stepping down landscape scale bird conservation plans and strategies to the forest stand level.

Bob Ford, who is the USFWS – National PIF Coordinator, discusses the importance of landscape scale conservation design in the context of how landscape influences stand level management decisions. He explains how the “2016 Partners in Flight Plan” is a blueprint for regional forest bird conservation across the country.

Maria Janowiak and Steve Matthews first talk about climate change impacts on forests and habitats, and then talk about impacts on birds. They introduce the three interrelated issues of shifting seasons, shifting stressors and finally shifting species.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Forest Ecology Working Group, National Conservation Training Center, and Migratory Bird Program developed a 12-part lecture series to address the 50-year decline of 3 billion birds through partnerships, conservation science and forest management. The series tells a compelling story about forest bird population declines, partnership opportunities, and forest management actions that can support bird population recovery and sustainability.

To highlight many of the concepts discussed in NABCI’s Field Guide to Developing Partnerships, NABCI compiled some case studies in which conservation organizations partner with organizations whose primary focus is not conservation to achieve goals that benefit both. These talks were presented at the January 2021 NABCI meeting.

“Loss and Recovery of North American Birds.” The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Forest Ecology Working Group, National Conservation Training Center, and Migratory Bird Program have developed a 12-part monthly lecture series to address the 50-year decline of 3 billion birds through partnerships, conservation science and forest management. The series tells a compelling story about forest bird population declines, partnership opportunities, and forest management actions that can support bird population recovery and sustainability. This is webinar # 1 in the series.