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Woodpecker Habitat After the Fire

Year: 2011

Public land managers are asked to minimize fuel levels after fires, including using techniques such as salvage logging. They are also responsible for maintaining suitable wildlife habitat, especially for species of concern to state and federal agencies. An area where these responsibilities could conflict is in the use of salvage logging in burned-over areas that also represent good habitat for certain wildlife such as woodpeckers. Controversy over this conflict has led to litigation. Public land management agencies need consistent design criteria to maintain suitable habitats for these birds…

Fire Effects and Fire Ecology, Fish and Wildlife Habitat

jfsp fire science briefs and digests, post-fire, salvage logging, wildlife

Publication Type: Report

Postfire woodpecker foraging in salvage-logged and unlogged forests of the Sierra Nevada

Year: 2008

In forests, high-severity burn patches — wherein most or all of the trees are killed by fire — often occur within a mosaic of low- and moderate-severity effects. Although there have been several studies of postfire salvage-logging effects on bird species, there have been few studies of effects on bird species associated with high-severity patches in forests that have otherwise burned at lower severities. From 2004 to 2006, we investigated the foraging presence or absence of three woodpecker species, the Black-backed (Picoides arcticus), Hairy (P. villosus), and White-headed (P. albolarvatus)…

Fish and Wildlife Habitat

post-fire, wildlife, fire severity, salvage logging

Publication Type: Journal Article