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Bergthold, Casey

Workspace: This space will be used to draft training materials, unedited videos, and other content not yet ready for broader sharing, as well as store some materials that may be sensitive for immediate or near-term sharing. Workshop Teams WLFW-Pine Savannah Workshop Materials Logistics Planning Lists of Workshop Attendees Workshop Input & Feedback Input (pre-workshop coordination) Feedback WLFW-Grasslands Workshop Materials Logistics Planning Lists of Workshop Attendees Workshop Input & Feedback Input (pre-workshop coordination) Feedback Documents in Progress WHEGs Job sheets Outreach Materials Partnership Development On-going Research Funded UGA-2018 UT-2018 Datasets GIS Products Other Tools

Workspace: This space will be used to draft training materials, unedited videos, and other content not yet ready for broader sharing, as well as store some materials that may be sensitive for immediate or near-term sharing. Workshop Teams WLFW-Pine Savannah Workshop Materials Logistics Planning Lists of Workshop Attendees Workshop Input & Feedback Input (pre-workshop coordination) Feedback WLFW-Grasslands Workshop Materials Logistics Planning Lists of Workshop Attendees Workshop Input & Feedback Input (pre-workshop coordination) Feedback Documents in Progress WHEGs Job sheets Outreach Materials Partnership Development On-going Research Funded UGA-2018 UT-2018 Datasets GIS Products Other Tools

Monarch Butterfly: NRCS is working with America's farmers, ranchers, and forest managers on voluntary conservation efforts to combat the decline of monarchs on private lands by establishing new habitat and managing existing habitat for monarchs and pollinators.

Gopher Tortoise: NRCS offers technical and financial assistance to help agricultural producers voluntarily conserve gopher tortoise habitat on private lands. This assistance helps producers plan and implement a variety of conservation activities, or practices, that benefit the tortoise and support forestry operations.

Poster Presentation: Seeing Past the Green: Quantifying the Characteristics of High-graded Forests: Download the Poster Presentation for "Seeing Past the Green: Quantifying the Characteristics of HIgh-Graded Forests

Decision Support Tools to Inform the Rehabilitation and Management of High Graded Forests: Abstract Numerous forests in the eastern United States have been degraded due to past exploitative timber harvesting known as high grading. High graded forest stands may not improve without active re- habilitation and may require targeted silvicultural treatments. This study focuses on high graded mixed-oak (mixed-Quercus spp.) stands and aims to develop a model that can identify past high grading and to determine modifications that may improve forest management recommendations provided by the prominent decision support tool, SILVAH. We present a model that uses standard forest inventory measurements and does not require knowledge of preharvest stand conditions to predict with moderate to high accuracy whether a stand was high graded, which could be par- ticularly useful for nonindustrial private forests. Results indicate that modifications to SILVAH may be necessary to improve its utility for prescribing silvicultural treatments in high graded stands. Study Implications: High graded forest stands are often not readily apparent and likely require specific forest management practices. We present a tool that uses standard forest inventory meas- urements to predict past high grading, which can be used to inform and prioritize forest manage- ment decisions. We also present suggested modifications to the prominent decision support tool, SILVAH, that may improve its ability to prescribe optimal silvicultural treatments for high graded stands. Results from this study provide forestry professionals/landowners working in the mixed- oak forests of the northeastern United States with tools to inform forest management decisions that aim to return degraded stands to healthier and more productive states.

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Willacker, Janette

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Do Review Papers on Bird–Vegetation Relationships Provide Actionable Information to Forest Managers in the Eastern United States?: 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