Archives for Forests

A new study demonstrates an improved approach to ensure protected areas enhance and conserve biodiversity. The results of the study were used to inform expansion of the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument.

The Evening Grosbeak is featured on the cover of the 2016 PIF Landbird Conservation Plan, as it has the dubious honor of experiencing the steepest population decline (92% since 1970) of all landbirds in the continental U.S. and Canada.

While harvested landscapes have increased throughout its breeding range, the Olive-sided Flycatcher has continued to decline, suggesting that conditions on the wintering grounds may be driving its negative population trend.

During the breeding season, Prothonotary Warblers are inhabitants of the wet forests of the eastern U.S., with the core of their breeding range in the southeast.

Lewis’s Woodpecker population declines are consistent with heavy loss of ponderosa pine habitat in Arizona, British Columbia, Oregon and Washington due to fire suppression, intensive grazing, and logging.

The boldly patterned Golden-winged Warbler has experienced severe population declines across its range in recent decades, including a 98% decline in Appalachian forests, a former stronghold of the species.