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Progress continues on North-Central New Mexico Landscape Assessment |
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| Watershed topic group meeting held in New Mexico | |||
On August 3rd, Haydee Hampton and ForestERA collaborator Brad Piehl (Forest Hydrologist, JW Associates) hosted a meeting at the Santa Clara Pueblo to develop watershed-focused recommendations for use in the larger Assessment. After reviewing data layers ForestERA had developed and compiled (see our draft Data Atlas) for accuracy and completeness, the group came up with a list of priorities for consideration at the October workshop in planning restoration and fuel reduction treatments at the landscape scale. ForestERA staff are in the process of assembling additional data layers to represent these factors. |
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| Statewide Strategy for Restoring Arizona's Forests moves forward | |
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The ForestERA Project is supporting the development of the Statewide Strategy for Restoring Arizona's Forests. The Statewide Strategy outlines those efforts needed to move substantially forward with forest restoration, fire management, and community protection efforts across the state over the next twenty years. We look forward to helping mobilize the science and collaborative energy currently existing within the state through this process. For more information, please see www.azforests.info. |
| White Mtns. Landscape Assessment Follow-Up Meetings Held | |
| In response to an invitation from Apache-Sitgreaves Forests Supervisor, Elaine Zieroth, ForestERA hosted a one-day planning meeting in early August in Show Low, Arizona, to outline future landscape analyses that will benefit ongoing forest planning efforts. Based on input from meeting participants (about 20, representing a diversity of interests) we are using treatment information on planned Stewardship Contracts and the management scenarios developed last fall by the stakeholders at the White Mountains Landscape Assessment to model the predicted effects of various management alternatives on fire hazard, forest structure, and wildlife. In a follow-up meeting last month, Brett Dickson discussed opportunities for the wildlife analysis with the White Mountains Conservation Coalition. We look forward to moving ahead with these analyses and invite your comments on this process. |  |
| Brett Dickson Joins ForestERA Full-Time | |
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In July, Brett Dickson joined the ForestERA team as a Postdoctoral Fellow and project Ecologist. Brett recently received his Ph.D. in Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology from Colorado State University, where his research focus was on the response of bird communities to landscape-level prescribed fire experiments in ponderosa pine forests of Arizona and New Mexico. Brett will be responsible for many of the wildlife and fire models being developed for stakeholder workshops and collaborative agreements. His other research interests include the use of spatial models in ecology, carnivore biology, and quantifying the effects of disturbance, fragmentation and urbanization on wildlife communities. |
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