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Working paper 14: Integrating forest restoration treatments with Mexican spotted owl habitat needs

James, Michele A. (2005) Working paper 14: Integrating forest restoration treatments with Mexican spotted owl habitat needs. Working Paper. NAU Ecological Restoration Institute.

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Abstract

Management of the federally threatened Mexican spotted owl (MSO; Strix occidentalis lucida) has been a major concern, both technical and political, for forest managers in the southwestern United States. So has the need to reduce the risk of stand-replacing wildfire in the regions ponderosa pine forests.Managers have generally shied away from linking these two concerns, fearing that the consultation required under the federal Endangered Species Act makes forest restoration treatments in or adjacent to MSO habitat too cumbersome. Yet carefully planned and implemented restoration treatments either around or in MSO habitat are crucial to the species future survival, and can be accomplished. They can be designed to maximize benefits to forest health while minimizing negative impacts to and in some cases actively benefiting the MSO and/or its habitat. There will never be 100 percent agreement between reducing fire risk and maintaining or enhancing MSO habitat needs, but the goal of this publication is to find the areas of common ground between these two important management priorities within southwestern forests.

Item Type: Monograph (Working Paper)
ID number or DOI: 14
Keywords: ERI Library, working paper, Birds, Ecological Restoration, Ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa)
Subjects: G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GE Environmental Sciences
Q Science > QL Zoology
S Agriculture > SD Forestry
NAU Depositing Author Academic Status: Faculty/Staff
Department/Unit: Research Centers > Ecological Restoration Institute
Date Deposited: 19 Oct 2015 01:54
URI: http://openknowledge.nau.edu/id/eprint/1315

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