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Maintaining Quail and Grassland Bird Habitat in the Agricultural Landscape
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Northern bobwhite quail and many other grassland bird species have experienced significant population declines over the last several decades. Loss of native grassland habitat is one of the primary causes of these declines. The CP33 – Habitat Buffers for Upland Birds is a Continuous Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) practice that provides nesting and brooding habitat for quail and other grassland birds on less productive cropland field margins. The CP33 buffer practice can help maintain important native grassland habitat within an agricultural landscape. This webinar will discuss the CP33 practice requirements, their importance on the landscape and how best to establish, manage, and maintain the habitat quality for quail and grassland birds.
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Management practices increase the impact of roads on plant communities in forests
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The question of the interaction between management practices and road effects on forest biodiversity is of critical interest for sustainable practices and the conservation of forest communities. Forest road improvement and easier access to stand interiors via skid trails, are integral components of management. We tested whether skid trails and the use of limestone gravel for road improvement extended the road effect on plant communities further into forest habitats in a nutrient-poor environment. We analyzed how road distance and skid trail presence affect stand plant communities by examining species compo- sition, distribution of biological and ecological traits, individual species responses and environmental plant indicator values. All results showed that the road effect extended deeper into forest on skid trails, i.e. up to 20 m and even 60 m, than off skid trails, i.e. up to 10 m. Skid trails served as penetration con- duits for open-habitat species probably due to forest machinery traffic. The road effect was more damag- ing to forest species and less-competitive species on skid trails. Additionally, limestone gravel modified the acidity of adjacent poor soils, leading to a shift in species composition and to a colonization of the stand interior by basophilous species. We advocate minimizing skid trail density and using endogenous materials for roads to keep sections of forest large enough to conserve disturbance-sensitive forest species. The interaction found between road effects and management practices underlines the need to adopt a landscape-scale view and to consider multiple anthropogenic impacts in order to effectively preserve forest plant communities.
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Managing agricultural land for quail
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Cropland used to be synonymous with bobwhite whistles in South Carolina. As Ted Rainwater, Quail Forever Farm Bill Biologist, explains, there a many things a landowner can do to modern agriculture to make it more quail-friendly.
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Managing Forests and Fire in Changing Climates
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With projected climate change, we
expect to face much more forest
fi re in the coming decades. Policymakers
are challenged not to categorize all
fires as destructive to ecosystems simply
because they have long fl ame lengths and kill
most of the trees within the fi re boundary. Ecological
context matters: In some ecosystems,
high-severity regimes are appropriate, but climate
change may modify these fi re regimes
and ecosystems as well. Some undesirable
impacts may be avoided or reduced through
global strategies, as well as distinct strategies
based on a forest’s historical fi re regime.
SCIENCE VOL 342 4 OCTOBER 2013
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Managing Oak Forests for Northern Bobwhite Quail
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The southeastern United States has millions of acres of oak dominated forests that have a closed canopy with limited herbaceous and shrub understory that northern bobwhite require. However, research has demonstrated that with adequate overstory thinning, and the use of frequent prescribed fire, these forests can support populations of Northern Bobwhite Quail, presenting perhaps the best opportunity for large-scale quail restoration in the region. Participants in the webinar will learn about managing oak forests and restoration efforts related to northern bobwhite quail.
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Managing the whole landscape: historical, hybrid, and novel ecosystems
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The reality confronting ecosystem managers today is one of heterogeneous, rapidly transforming landscapes, particularly in the areas more affected by urban and agricultural development. A landscape management framework that incorporates all systems, across the spectrum of degrees of alteration, provides a fuller set of options for how and when to intervene, uses limited resources more effectively, and increases the chances of achieving management goals. That many ecosystems have departed so substantially from their historical trajectory that they defy conventional restoration is not in dispute. Acknowledging novel ecosystems need not constitute a threat to existing policy and management approaches. Rather, the development of an integrated approach to management interventions can provide options that are in tune with the current reality of rapid ecosystem change.
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