COLORADO—The USDA Forest Service, Southwest Fire Science Consortium, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Southwest Climate Adaptation Science Center, and partners hosted a two-day workshop on the intersection of wildlife and fire. Based on the needs identified in the workshop, this collaborative group is hosting a year-long series of workshops, webinars and reports to improve wildlife outcomes in the face of fire and climate change.

This Wildlife and Fire in the Southwest webinar series is intended to help researchers and practitioners across fire and wildlife disciplines exchange ideas, tools and lessons to address the rapid pace and scale of fire management.

In the second webinar of this series, From Borders to Biota, Monitoring at Multiple Scales, a panel of experts will discuss monitoring and collaboration at multiple scales at the intersection of fire and wildlife. Topics include the study of how fire and thinning may impact several important soil organisms that support forested wildlife habitat, large-scale monitoring of border infrastructure impacts on wildlife, stories from habitat recovery within large wildfire footprints, collaborations to manage sage grouse and their habitat, and observations on intra-agency differences coordinating wildlife and fire management.

Please join us on May 21, 12:30-2:00 p.m. MT, to learn more about Monitoring at Multiple Scales.

• What: Wildlife and Fire: From Borders to Biota, Monitoring at Multiple Scales

• When: Tuesday, May 21, 12:30-2:00 p.m. MT

• Where: Zoom; register here 

Panelists

• Jamie Sanderlin, quantitative vertebrate ecologist, USDA Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station
  Kara Gibson, postdoc, Northern Arizona University

• Kevin Doherty, national program leader for Wildlife Biology & Habitat Restoration Research, USDA Forest Service

• Eamon Harrity, wildlife projects manager, Sky Island Alliance

• Shaula Hedwall, senior/supervisory fish and wildlife biologist, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service