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.

After engaging with the entire series, participants will be able to:

• Describe the decline of forest-dwelling birds in the U.S., identifying causes and risk factors
• Apply species vulnerability assessment tools to identify priority bird species
• Describe the importance of forest management planning from landscape to local scales, recognizing essential forest community composition and structure for bird conservation
• Identify forest conservation and habitat management alternatives

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View the webinar series home page here. Click on the title below to view the video.

Effectiveness monitoring – evaluating the effects of forest management on bird populations
Speaker: John Alexander (Klamath Bird Observatory)

Recorded: January 18, 2022

Duration: 65 min

John Alexander with the Klamath Bird Observatory discusses partnerships for monitoring the success of bird conservation efforts and using birds as indicators of habitat suitability and conservation success. John will show how managing for a suite of bird species provides results that can be measured using the response of focal species to habitat management. He showed examples and case studies of partner monitoring efforts in the Klamath Siskiyou bioregion of the Pacific Northwest and data management and modeling tools that allow synthesis over large areas and over long time periods.

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