*Title:* Searching for Goldilocks: Balancing Forest Ecosystem Restoration and Old-forest Species Conservation in the Sierra Nevada, CA *Date:* Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2017 *Time:* 12 pm MST *Speaker:* Gavin M. Jones, PhD Student, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology Check out Gavin on Twitter https://twitter.com/EcologyOfGavin or visit his page at the Peery Wildlife Ecology and Conservation Lab to learn more. <http://labs.russell.wisc.edu/peery/gavin-jones/>
Concern over the social, economic, and ecological consequences of increasingly frequent "megafires" in California's Sierra Nevada have led some to propose large-scale forest restoration to increase ecosystem resilience. However, restoration efforts (e.g., forest thinning) may have collateral impacts on declining old-forest species. Is it possible to find balance between these two seemingly competing objectives? In this hour, I explore this question using the California spotted owl as a model old-forest species, and share new insights from ongoing research as part of my PhD dissertation. *Register for the webinar here.* <https://extension.zoom.us/webinar/register/f1e43084e1b92e4d34538d7d4481ef37> <https://zoom.us/webinar/register/62ceca2fa336c5557c24e00bf0acd2b8> * Zoom will send you a reminder email the day before, and 1 hour before the scheduled webinar. They will also convert the webinar to your local timezone. * * CEUs (ISA or SAF) are available for those that participate in the webinar. Archived webinars can be viewed on our website, here. https://forestry.usu.edu/htm/video/webinars/ <https://forestry.usu.edu/htm/video/webinars/>*
