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Assessing the Impact of Projected Housing Density on High Priority Forest Birds: Dr. Todd Jones-Farrand, Science Coordinator, Central Hardwoods Bird Joint Venture

Planning for Growth and Open Space Conservation Webinar Series: Discussion on Federal Landscape Conservation Initiatives with overviews from the US Fish and Wildlife Service, Bureau of Land Management, Natural Resources Conservation Service, and Department of Defense.

Private Land Conservation Programs from the Farm Bill and Other Sources: Join us for a discussion of current and future Farm Bill programs administered by the Forest Service, Natural Resource Conservation Service, and Farm Service Agency that support private landowner efforts to protect working forests and conserve open space.

Can Landscape-scale Management Influence Insect Outbreak Dynamics: We hypothesized that landscape connectivity of host tree species increases forest susceptibility to insect pest damage. We evaluated this hypothesis for spruce budworm within a 6 million hectare “experimental” landscape at the international border between the Midwestern US and Canada, containing wilderness plus two contrasting harvest patterns (coarse vs. fine).

Planning for Growth and Open Space Conservation Webinar Series: Conserving Private Lands in Perpetuity: Monitoring and Enforcement of Conservation Easements

Webinar Series on State Wildlife Action Plan Revision: A webinar series to help states as they revise their SWAPs. Webinars will take place monthly on Thursdays from 1:00-2:30pm eastern.

Oak, Fire and Mesophication: Past, current and future trends of oak in the eastern United States: Fire has been a preeminent force over much of the eastern United States for multi-millennia. As such, pyrogenic vegetation types dominated this region in pre-European times, including oak, oak-pine, and pine savannas/woodlands/forests and tallgrass prairies.

Oak Woodlands & Forests Fire Consortium Webinar: Reconstructing pre-European fire regimes, forests and wildlife habitats in the eastern United States: Mammoth Cave National Park, Kentucky

Prescribed Fire and Bats Webinar: With bat populations declining due to white-nose syndrome and other factors, it is critical to strike a balance between the use of prescribed fire for managing natural areas and the need to protect bats and their critical habitats.

The Planning for Growth and Open Space Conservation Webinar Series: Session #26: Using Social Marketing and Micro Targeting to Engage and Move Woodland Owners to Stewardship.

LANDFIRE Data Applications for Research in Fire Ecology, Forest Mgmt in California: Brandon Collins presents the second in a series of webinars that LANDFIRE co-hosts with the California Fire Science Consortium. Collins is a USFS Research Forester based in Davis, CA, whose interests involve characterizing effects of fire and fuels treatments on forests at both the stand and landscape levels. He says, "My research intends to provide meaningful information to managers interested in improving forest resiliency and incorporating more natural fire-vegetation dynamics across landscapes."

LANDFIRE Data Applications for Research in Fire Ecology and Forest Management: Brandon Collins is on deck for the second in a series of webinars that LANDFIRE is co-hosting with the California Fire Science Consortium. Scheduled for noon PT, the November 2 webinar will examine LANDFIRE data applications for research in fire ecology and forest management.

Finding the best science available on fire ecology and fire regimes in tallgrass prairie and oak woodland ecosystems: Managers and planners need scientifically sound information on historical fire regimes and contemporary changes in fuels and fire regimes in tallgrass prairie and oak woodland ecosystems to make informed management decisions.

Resources Planning Act (RPA) Assessment Webinar: U.S. Forest Fragmentation and Land Cover Patterns: Forest fragmentation continues even as total forestland area remains relatively stable.

Working Lands for Wildlife (WLFW) Workspaces: The Working Lands for Wildlife (WLFW) program develops win-win approaches with producers and private landowners. WLFW partners understand that collaboration is critical to enhance wildlife habitat and improve agriculture and forest productivity. We can continue to strengthen collaboration -- especially between technical experts from federal and state agencies and non-government partner staff -- through the WLFW workspaces. The WLFW workspaces provide online infrastructure and space for partners to share their expertise with one another, exchange resources and ideas, and plan work together on a certain species, a given habitat or land use, or a specific project. A subset of the resources here are available to producers, landowners, and communities who are interested in, or involved with, the WLFW program.

Lucas Furman: The Longleaf Alliance & SE Fire Map: Lucas Furman is the GIS Coordinator at the Longleaf Alliance; in this role he also serves as a project liaison for the Southeast Fire Map. He shares about the importance of collaboration across stakeholder groups to develop good planning tools and serve all actors in a landscape.

Landscape-scale Conservation Planning: A basic overview of the principles and methods for the Appalachian Landscape Conservation Cooperative, including a discussion on the major goals of landscape conservation.

Landscape-scale Conservation Planning: A basic overview of the principles and methods for the Appalachian Landscape Conservation Cooperative, including a discussion on the major goals of landscape conservation. Dr. Rob Baldwin, Professor, Clemson University