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HomeMy WebLinkAbout040523 FW_ Here's something worth crowing about ________________________________ From: NNRG Sent: Wednesday, April 5, 2023 10:02:43 AM (UTC-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) To: Heidi Eisenhour Subject: Here's something worth crowing about ________________________________ ALERT: BE CAUTIOUS This email originated outside the organization. Do not open attachments or click on links if you are not expecting them. ________________________________ Plus: NNRG's April giving campaign! View this email in your browser <https://mailchi.mp/nnrg/wherebeaversandbutterfliesroam-13382411?e=b279c8a19f> <https://mcusercontent.com/f7fac24f39af609be946c1056/images/2f9525cc-9f28-4eb9-b266-13e8e70da2bd.png> ECOLOGICAL FORESTRY IS FOR THE BIRDS! NNRG NEWSLETTER | APRIL 2023 DIRECTOR'S MESSAGE I just wrapped up another 20-acre restoration project at my family’s Bucoda forest. This project is the first time I blended the USDA’s Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) and the Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP) to fund a suite of conservation practices. With the EQIP funding we hired a contractor to pre-commercially thin a 20-year old stand of mixed alder and Douglas-fir. EQIP also provided funding to girdle about 32 trees to convert them to snags, as well as create multiple wildlife habitat piles and constructed habitat logs. CSP provided funding to underplant this same stand with shade tolerant trees specifically for the purposes of long-term carbon sequestration. We planted western red cedar, western hemlock, grand fir, Sitka spruce, and Douglas-fir, which also served the purpose of diversifying the species of trees on our land. This was a great project to test out ecologically-based forest management strategies that serve multiple purposes: wildlife habitat enhancement, structural diversification, carbon sequestration, biodiversity, and timber stand improvement. I’ll write up an “as-built” summary for this project and include it in our next newsletter, as well as on the blog for my family’s forest, which you can find on our website here <https://nnrg.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f7fac24f39af609be946c1056&id=aad600b213&e=b279c8a19f> . This project is representative of how NNRG approaches forest management in the Pacific Northwest. By managing for biodiversity, we find that forests are better at producing a wider range of goods and ecosystem services. As a small non-profit organization, we also rely for support on the diverse community within which we work. I urge you to consider making a donation to NNRG during our April fundraising drive. Depending on the level of your donation, we have some neat gifts available, which you can find on our website here. <https://nnrg.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f7fac24f39af609be946c1056&id=83484f24d5&e=b279c8a19f> Kirk Hanson Director of Forestry Northwest Natural Resource Group kirk@nnrg.org <mailto:kirk@nnrg.org> <https://mcusercontent.com/f7fac24f39af609be946c1056/images/b71a3f08-0575-5ab4-902b-b1c5c1ea9ab0.png> When you give to a small — but mighty! — organization like NNRG, your gift goes a long way. Your contribution this April will help us spread ecological forest management to more forests in the Pacific Northwest. This approach means that more forests are thinned instead of clearcut at a young age — and dense, former plantation forests are stewarded in a way that makes them less vulnerable to drought, fire, pests, and disease. Ecologically managed forests are more biodiverse and provide better habitat for wildlife. This month, supporters will receive custom gifts designed by NNRG staff ― including our "treemendous" water bottles and tote bags, and custom alder salmon grilling planks! Make a gift to NNRG <https://nnrg.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f7fac24f39af609be946c1056&id=f6ed84a110&e=b279c8a19f> <https://mcusercontent.com/f7fac24f39af609be946c1056/images/e420dd1b-8d22-e6ac-c7d2-1d22bb845888.jpg> April Fireside Chat: Managing Forests for Wildlife This month NNRG's Director of Forestry Kirk Hanson is joined by Ken Bevis, Stewardship Wildlife Biologist for the Washington Department of Natural Resources. We'll discuss strategies forest owners can take to improve their forests for wildlife, looking in particular at birds and bats. The April Fireside Chat will take place on Zoom on Wednesday, April 19, 2023 from 7:30-8:30pm. Fill out the form here to register for the Fireside Chat and get the Zoom invite. <https://nnrg.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f7fac24f39af609be946c1056&id=60137f2b14&e=b279c8a19f> EVENTS What's Happening with Sudden Oak Death <https://nnrg.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f7fac24f39af609be946c1056&id=b9649f229a&e=b279c8a19f> Apr 11 & 18 | Online Cost Share Programs for Pierce County Forest Owners <https://nnrg.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f7fac24f39af609be946c1056&id=170a04069d&e=b279c8a19f> Apr 11 | Online Vashon Forest Stewardship Coached Planning 2023 <https://nnrg.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f7fac24f39af609be946c1056&id=83a0a3cd15&e=b279c8a19f> Apr 18 - Jun 13 | Vashon Island, WA Managing a Diverse Forest for Oaks, Wildlife, and Wildflowers <https://nnrg.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f7fac24f39af609be946c1056&id=74244cdd10&e=b279c8a19f> Apr 18 | Oakland, OR *NNRG Event* Chainsaw Safety & Tree Felling for Beginners <https://nnrg.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f7fac24f39af609be946c1056&id=23efa421a0&e=b279c8a19f> Apr 22-23 | Eatonville, WA Nest Box Building Workshop Apr 25 | Seattle, WA Emerald Ash Borer Webinar <https://nnrg.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f7fac24f39af609be946c1056&id=45d30ac428&e=b279c8a19f> Apr 26 | Online *NNRG Event* Stewarding a Climate-Resilient Forest West of the Cascades <https://nnrg.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f7fac24f39af609be946c1056&id=fd9e949e20&e=b279c8a19f> Apr 29 | Chimacum, WA Washington State SAF 2023 Annual Meeting: Forestry as Part of the Solution <https://nnrg.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f7fac24f39af609be946c1056&id=1d451b8757&e=b279c8a19f> May 3 | La Conner, WA What the Old Forest Taught Us: Forest Stewardship in the 21st Century with Dr. Jerry Franklin <https://nnrg.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f7fac24f39af609be946c1056&id=cee36fe43f&e=b279c8a19f> May 3 | Seattle, WA Trees on the Edge - Understanding and Managing Douglas-fir Decline and Mortality In SW Oregon <https://nnrg.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f7fac24f39af609be946c1056&id=87d6fd0fd9&e=b279c8a19f> May 4 | Central Point, OR Oregon Bigleaf Maple Festival <https://nnrg.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f7fac24f39af609be946c1056&id=bca6a5470c&e=b279c8a19f> May 13 | Salem, OR Birds of The Willamette Valley <https://nnrg.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f7fac24f39af609be946c1056&id=b3632d67b1&e=b279c8a19f> May 18 | Online Western Oregon Urban Forests for the Birds <https://nnrg.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f7fac24f39af609be946c1056&id=a43421d452&e=b279c8a19f> May 19 | Portland, OR Forestry for the Birds – Western Oregon: A Workshop for Forestland Caretakers <https://nnrg.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f7fac24f39af609be946c1056&id=b30c03338c&e=b279c8a19f> May 20 | Forest Grove, OR Forestry for the Birds – Western Oregon: A Workshop for Natural Resource Professionals <https://nnrg.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f7fac24f39af609be946c1056&id=5a769d4a8d&e=b279c8a19f> Jun 2 | Forest Grove, OR Ecological Restoration: Native Plant Selection and Installation <https://nnrg.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f7fac24f39af609be946c1056&id=891fb77719&e=b279c8a19f> Jun 6 | Online Steve Stinson Legacy Family Forest Field Day <https://nnrg.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f7fac24f39af609be946c1056&id=02413d65db&e=b279c8a19f> Jun 10 | Eatonville, WA ARTICLES <https://mcusercontent.com/f7fac24f39af609be946c1056/images/1cb344b9-2304-c893-4142-53d5544f9f1a.jpg> ECOLOGICAL FORESTRY FOR THE BIRDS Deep in a forest on Washington’s Kitsap Peninsula, an orange-vested technician hikes through a dense, 40-year old conifer-dominated forest. He stops at a young cedar with low-hanging branches and pulls a sturdy plastic pouch out of his backpack. Inside is a small green circuit board shaped like a sticky-note. “AudioMoth” is written in white on one edge of the device. The technician pulls a zip tie out of a pocket and uses it to attach the pouch to a low branch. A green light flashes on the device. Nodding at his work, he turns around and hikes on. A top secret surveillance plot targeting Kitsap residents? Nope – just conservation science in action. These monitoring devices are indeed capturing audio, but only targeting the forest’s winged residents. They’re part of Great Peninsula Conservancy’s acoustic monitoring study of bird responses to specific conservation practices. Read more about this intriguing project on the NNRG blog. <https://nnrg.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f7fac24f39af609be946c1056&id=fdbf8b7bed&e=b279c8a19f> <https://mcusercontent.com/f7fac24f39af609be946c1056/images/7d9d0d40-76c0-d8a4-6f74-b2273ca5295f.jpg> STOSSEL CREEK AND ASSISTED PLANT MIGRATION: HOW'S IT GROWING? Three years ago marked the start of the Stossel Creek adaptive restoration case study. Located in Carnation, WA, Stossel Creek is now home to over 14,000 growing seedlings, including 900 that are set in special plots to allow researchers to track their growth and vitality. Now that the Stossel Creek project has been underway for a few years, trends are starting to emerge among the monitored seedlings. Visit the NNRG blog to learn more about what the seedling growth and survival trends are indicating. <https://nnrg.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f7fac24f39af609be946c1056&id=376bf07065&e=b279c8a19f> <https://mcusercontent.com/f7fac24f39af609be946c1056/images/2b0709ed-f1c3-630f-fb1f-3b04d655d0f4.png> CONSERVATION IN THE FACE OF NOVEL PESTS AND PATHOGENS Pests and pathogens play an important role in natural selection but can also exact a toll on plant communities already strained by climate change and habitat fragmentation. With the arrival of emerald ash borer in Oregon, there's an opportunity to examine how breeding efforts have helped develop more pest and pathogen-resilient plant genotypes. In an article in the latest Treeline newsletter, <https://nnrg.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f7fac24f39af609be946c1056&id=afa6fd00dd&e=b279c8a19f> Kayla Seaforth and Richard Sniezko detail some of the successful efforts to recover native trees that leverage the genetic variability within a species. NEWS <https://mcusercontent.com/f7fac24f39af609be946c1056/images/2556b201-489d-7fa2-3e35-6be198e01f0a.jpg> ODF Reaches Settlement in Coho Lawsuit. <https://nnrg.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f7fac24f39af609be946c1056&id=01149b60dd&e=b279c8a19f> A lawsuit against the Oregon Department of Forestry for the incidental take of coho salmon in the Tillamook and Clatsop State Forests has been settled. The settlement will increase buffers around streams the number of streams that receive protections. <https://mcusercontent.com/f7fac24f39af609be946c1056/images/4882ed9e-f836-5f14-d973-2f7bcff4e7ad.png> Legislators, Lobbyists Look to Farm Bill to Save American Forests. <https://nnrg.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f7fac24f39af609be946c1056&id=423e0c5888&e=b279c8a19f> Against the backdrop of looming threats such as wildfires, legislators and lobbyists alike want to use the mammoth bill, worth more than a trillion dollars, to garner federal funding and create markets to pay for efforts to conserve and restore woodlands. <https://mcusercontent.com/f7fac24f39af609be946c1056/images/0e5eb55a-8852-1fd1-2f95-80b99b9ca926.jpg> Washington Senate Eyes Cap-and-Trade for $83 Million Forest Plan. <https://nnrg.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f7fac24f39af609be946c1056&id=78629d77a2&e=b279c8a19f> The Washington Senate approved an $83 million plan to thin forests, buy timberland and study weaving climate change policies into forest management, reports the Capital Press. <https://mcusercontent.com/f7fac24f39af609be946c1056/images/09dc57f5-a56d-3c3f-9e26-6bf5dec5be1d.png> To Help Oregon’s Dry Forests, Fire Needs to be Just the Right Intensity. <https://nnrg.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f7fac24f39af609be946c1056&id=b3d67013cf&e=b279c8a19f> Research into the ability of a wildfire to improve the health of a forest uncovered a Goldilocks effect – unless a blaze falls in a narrow severity range, it isn’t very good at helping forest landscapes return to their historical, more fire-tolerant conditions. <https://mcusercontent.com/f7fac24f39af609be946c1056/images/0101e511-b3ab-bef6-fdbc-d2e0d945cf55.jpg> Woodpecker That Likes Burned Forest Can Breed in Unburned Woods Too, Research Shows. <https://nnrg.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f7fac24f39af609be946c1056&id=008bcd50f5&e=b279c8a19f> A woodpecker once thought to limit itself to recently burned areas can breed successfully in the green parts of fire-prone landscapes too, a finding by OSU scientists that holds key implications for improved conservation and forest management efforts. <https://mcusercontent.com/f7fac24f39af609be946c1056/images/62fcaa48-0450-2e5a-55c1-6834d22b40f2.jpg> Wolverine Spotted Outside its Modern Range in Oregon for First Time in More Than 30 Years. <https://nnrg.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f7fac24f39af609be946c1056&id=eacbbcad29&e=b279c8a19f> A wolverine was spotted near Oregon's Columbia River last month, marking the first confirmed time that the threatened species has been seen outside the Wallowa Mountains in over thirty years. Wolverine, rare and listed as threatened in Oregon, are the largest member of the weasel family and resemble a small bear. RESOURCES FOR STEWARDING A WILDLIFE-RICH FOREST For many forest owners, creating and enhancing the habitat value of their woods is a top priority. Many stewardship actions can make your forest a better home for native Northwest critters, from creating snags and down logs to installing nest boxes and pollinator-supporting hedgerows. Identifying your resident species and optimizing habitat for them can be one of the most compelling rewards of forest stewardship. General Information on Wildlife * Family Forests and Wildlife: What You Need to Know <https://nnrg.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f7fac24f39af609be946c1056&id=0bdd0ed53a&e=b279c8a19f> * Maintaining and Enhancing Wildlife Habitat <https://nnrg.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f7fac24f39af609be946c1056&id=98258b2f2d&e=b279c8a19f> * Threatened and Endangered Wildlife in Washington <https://nnrg.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f7fac24f39af609be946c1056&id=587667dfb8&e=b279c8a19f> * Threatened and Endangered Species in Oregon <https://nnrg.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f7fac24f39af609be946c1056&id=27574ebc5d&e=b279c8a19f> Managing for Wildlife * Diversifying Forest Structure to Promote Wildlife Biodiversity in Western Washington Forests <https://nnrg.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f7fac24f39af609be946c1056&id=876ae77077&e=b279c8a19f> * Westside Douglas-Fir Forests and Wildlife <https://nnrg.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f7fac24f39af609be946c1056&id=1b19e5958e&e=b279c8a19f> * Amphibians in Managed Woodlands: Tools for Family Forestland Owners <https://nnrg.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f7fac24f39af609be946c1056&id=b54ab18666&e=b279c8a19f> * How to Help Oregon's Native Western Gray Squirrel <https://nnrg.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f7fac24f39af609be946c1056&id=dac10b58f5&e=b279c8a19f> * Resources For Building Wildlife Nesting & Roosting Boxes <https://nnrg.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f7fac24f39af609be946c1056&id=66483643fd&e=b279c8a19f> Managing for Birds & Bees * Forest Restoration With Birds in Mind <https://nnrg.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f7fac24f39af609be946c1056&id=5d08eae7a7&e=b279c8a19f> * Managing Forest Habitats for Migrant Song Birds <https://nnrg.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f7fac24f39af609be946c1056&id=4f898efe6f&e=b279c8a19f> * Managing Small Woodlands for Raptors: Oregon & Washington <https://nnrg.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f7fac24f39af609be946c1056&id=86acdae56a&e=b279c8a19f> * Cavity Nesting Ducks <https://nnrg.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f7fac24f39af609be946c1056&id=6b2aaad48b&e=b279c8a19f> * Pacific Northwest Plants for Bees <https://nnrg.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f7fac24f39af609be946c1056&id=a5188dd359&e=b279c8a19f> * Nurturing Mason Bees in Your Backyard in Western Oregon <https://nnrg.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f7fac24f39af609be946c1056&id=d0577e4017&e=b279c8a19f> Habitat Piles, Snags, & Logs * How to Build a Wildlife Habitat Pile - NNRG video <https://nnrg.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f7fac24f39af609be946c1056&id=9427671fd0&e=b279c8a19f> * Keeping Dead Wood and Creating Wildlife Habitat Piles: Some Guidance for Forest Owners <https://nnrg.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f7fac24f39af609be946c1056&id=3f2b7f48a3&e=b279c8a19f> * The Why and How of Snags <https://nnrg.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f7fac24f39af609be946c1056&id=4f2095ba38&e=b279c8a19f> * Habitat Use By Snag-Associated Species: A Bibliography for Species Occurring in Oregon & Washington <https://nnrg.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f7fac24f39af609be946c1056&id=f90590995c&e=b279c8 a19f> * PNW Research Station Science Findings: Dead and Dying Wood <https://nnrg.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f7fac24f39af609be946c1056&id=77a43a6e7e&e=b279c8a19f> <https://nnrg.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f7fac24f39af609be946c1056&id=56cc170864&e=b279c8a19f> <https://nnrg.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f7fac24f39af609be946c1056&id=d4e7f53eb1&e=b279c8a19f> <https://nnrg.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f7fac24f39af609be946c1056&id=ef03b0c007&e=b279c8a19f> <https://nnrg.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f7fac24f39af609be946c1056&id=39daa72474&e=b279c8a19f> Copyright © 2023 Northwest Natural Resource Group, All rights reserved. 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