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Plan to Increase American Beaver Populations at Rio Mora National Wildlife Refuge, NM Goals: Grow beaver population in Rio Mora National Wildlife Refuge to 20; Improve and expand habitat; Deter bison from beaver habitat

Video presentations from the conference held October 18-19, 2016 at Utah State University. As climate changes, forests are being impacted by severe drought, longer fire seasons, and impressive insect epidemics. New approaches to landscape restoration are needed to cope with these disturbances. The 2016 Restoring the West Conference offered presentations by experts in climate science, landscape restoration, and forest ecology on techniques for this uncertain future, and gave examples where these techniques are working.

Bagdon, B. and Huang, C.H., 2016. Southwest Fire Science Consortium Working Paper

Unprecedented study relies on more than 1,500 years of tree-ring data and hundreds of years of fire-scar records gathered from Ponderosa Pine forests.

FOREST ECOLOGY - Forest Stewardship Series 3 - Publication 8233

Article published in Science Codex on June 15, 2012

Western Governors' Association Reports

Attached are the latest (April 6-May 2) WRP Natural Resources Committee related updates for your reference and use. If you have any related updates you would like to share with the Committee, please email them to amyduffy@westernregionalpartnership.org for the next update.

This is just the PowerPoint slides, no recording: The opening presentation to the 3-hour "Preparing for Large Wildfires in New Mexico" workshop. We cover fire ecology, fire regimes, and the need for mitigation.

Article from Science Daily, Oct. 29, 2011