Managing Forests as Habitat in a Changing World NCTC Webinar Series
January 16, 2025
The U.S Fish and Wildlife Service is launching a new 12-part monthly forest wildlife habitat panel discussion webinar series, to be held every 3rd Tuesday of each month, starting on Tues. January 21, 2025, from 12 – 1:30 p.m. ET. and will run until December 16, 2025.
These interactive panel discussions connect land managers, researchers, and practitioners spanning diverse geographies and ownerships to explore managing and stewarding forest habitats amid social and ecological changes.
Climatic shifts are impacting forest habitats all across the U.S., challenging how we fulfill our mission of conserving, protecting, and enhancing wildlife habitat. Warming winters, extreme precipitation events, drought and catastrophic wildfire, and other elements affect pollinators, game species, bats, fish, birds, and the people that steward their habitats. Ecosystem management and community-building are part of the solution to addressing these challenges.
This series provides examples of ecological silviculture and restoration techniques that enhance habitat along with the planning, policy, guidance, and partnerships needed to get these actions implemented. Panels will represent a diversity of biologists, foresters, and scientists to help participants discover management tools, respond to climate change, and build on collaborative conservation success (and failure!) stories. For more information, visit the website.