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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">Guest Lecturer: Dr. Brenda
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The Forest Ecology Working Group and NCTC are pleased to offer a 5-part focused lecture series to introduce fundamental principles of forest habitat management. </div>
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**Registration is handled individually for each lecture, but we suggest participation in all five one hour lectures, as they are presented as a sequential course of study.**<br>
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July 14 - Habitat Selection by Forest-Associated Species: Abiotic factors <br>
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Lecture series overview and introduction to habitat, habitat selection, and abiotic elements influencing forests and habitat for selected species.</div>
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July 28 - Saving all the Pieces: Forest structure and Composition </div>
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Introduction of biotic factors affecting forests and forest composition and structure as habitat elements</div>
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August 11 - Forest Disturbance and Stand Dynamics<br>
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Forest development stages, successional pathways and characterization of forest disturbances, both background and human-caused, based on size, frequency and intensity, with a brief introduction of silviculture as one type of disturbance<br>
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August 25 - Silviculture as a Forest Disturbance<br>
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silvicultural systems and management practices used to regen</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">erate and tend forests to provide desired habitat elements.</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">September 15 - Habitat Considerations: Dead wood and Riparian Areas Additional forest management considerations for specific habitat components critical
to certain wildlife species including riparian areas, dead wood, legacy trees and other unique features.</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Series Objectives</span><span><br>
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<div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">1.Introduce concepts & theory and of wildlife habitat selection and application offorest management to provide habitat for selected species or conservation
ofbiological diversity.</span><br>
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<div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">2.Help participants with forestry, wildlife, environmental sciences, fisheries andrelated backgrounds to find a common ground when approaching management
offorests for multiple values.</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">3.Introduce approaches of managing forests to achieve desired conditions forselected species or conservation of biological diversity.</span>
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<div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The Forest Ecology and Management Webinar Series is sponsored by the </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service’s Forest Ecology Working Group (FEWG). The FEWG is a forest ecology based community of practice for individuals to share forest ecosystem expertise and information. For more information contact: Jeff_Horan@fws.gov</span></div>
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