Pacific Northwest Landbird Monitoring and Management

MONITORING, MODELING, AND MANAGEMENT OF LANDBIRD POPULATIONS OF THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST FORESTS

OBJECTIVE - The objective of this project provides a landscape-scale adaptive approach to managing landbird populations of Pacific Northwest forests through a suite of management decision-support tools resulting from modeling avian demographic monitoring data (Manley 1993). This approach is consistent with Forest Service Tier 3 monitoring and emphasized in "Opportunities for Improving Avian Monitoring" released by the U.S. North American Bird Conservation Initiative Monitoring Subcommittee (2007).

MONITORING RESULTS- Since 1992, the Institute for Bird Populations (IBP), through the continent-wide Monitoring Avian Productivity and Survivorship (MAPS) program, and funded by USFS Region Six and the Bureau of Land Management, has collected demographic monitoring data (mist-netting, banding) on >150 landbird species. Thesee dta come from >120 monitoring stations, including 36 stations on six national forests in USFS Pacific Northwest Region 6, hereto know as the the PNW MAPS dataset. Analyses of these data suggest that these forests are of regional importance in supporting long-lived, healthy, and productive populations of forest-dwelling Neotropical migrants, and other species of conservation concern. Furthermore, three of the six national forests (in bold below) are listed by the Wilderness Society among the top ten carbon sinks in North America (PDF). Click on a national forest to view results.