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Project ID: 10-1-06-21

Year: 2010

Date Started: 06/15/2010

Ending Date:  06/30/2014

Title: Integrating Fuels Reduction and Pine Barrens Restoration in Endangered Kirtlands Warbler Habitat Management

Project Proposal Abstract: An important aspect of the Endangered Species Act (ESA) of 1973 is to, provide a means whereby the ecosystems upon which endangered species and threatened species depend may be conserved (Flather et al. 1998). However, in the case of the endangered Kirtlands warbler (Dendroica kirtlandii), a Neotropical migratory bird that utilizes young, dense stands of jack pine (Pinus banksiana) produced by stand-replacing wildfires, recovery actions that focus on jack plantations and other changes in land use have had the unintended consequences of homogenizing landscapes and ecosystems (Spaulding and Rothstein 2009), displacing rarer ecosystem types (Houseman and Anderson 2002), and producing fuel conditions that complicate prescribed fire management activities for future habitat management (USFWS 2009, Fig. 1). These alterations, relative to the pre-EuroAmerican landscape, have led to the need for the development of novel, landscape to patch-scale research that guides future multi-agency planning and management and integrates restoration of ecosystems, Kirtlands warbler habitat, and safe, effective fire management. To this end, we propose to quantify the pre-European distribution, abundance, and spatial patterns of young jack pine and jack pine barren ecosystems and integrate these findings into the restoration of barrens and the placement of fuel breaks. Concerns about fire management have led to fuel breaks (often 50-100 m swaths of open space similar to utility right-of-ways) being placed onto the landscape without multi-agency coordination or integration into habitat management. Providing a broad, spatial framework of these patterns across ownerships will provide guidance for future habitat management actions. Presently, the lack of coordination across agencies and jack pine ecosystem types has hampered the safe and effective application of prescribed fire for Kirtlands warbler habitat (USFWS 2009).

Principal Investigator: Robert G. Corace III

Agency/Organization: FWS-Fish and Wildlife Service

Branch or Dept: Seney NWR

Other Project Collaborators

Type	Name	Agency/Organization	Branch or Dept
Co-Principal Investigator	Patrick C. Goebel	Ohio State University	School of Environment & Natural Resources-Wooster
Co-Principal Investigator	Daniel M. Kashian	Wayne State University	Department of Biological Sciences
Co-Principal Investigator	Eric L. Toman	Ohio State University	School of Environment & Natural Resources-Columbus
Federal Cooperator	Tim Hepola	FWS-Fish and Wildlife Service	Region 3-Fire Management Office
Federal Fiscal Representative	Katherine L. Spomer	FWS-Fish and Wildlife Service	Region 3-Fire Management Office

Project Locations

Consortium

Lake States

Level	State	Agency	Unit
STATE	MI	FWS	Kirtlands Warbler National Wildlife Refuge

Project Deliverables

There is no final report available for this project.

	ID	Type	Title
	9415	Refereed Publication	Variability and Persistence of Post-Fire Biological Legacies in Jack Pine-Dominated Ecosystems of Northern Lower Michigan
	10036	MS Thesis	Characterizing the Decision Process of Land Managers When Managing for Endangered Species of Fire Dependent Ecosystems: The Case of the Kirtland’s Warbler (Setophaga kirtlandii Baird) (M.G.Myer)
	10037	Final Report Supplement	2012 Annual Report
	9421	Final Report Supplement	2011 Annual Report

Supporting Documents

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