Symposium Proceedings on Piñon-Juniper Habitats: Status and Management for Wildlife - 2016

Abstract

Piñon-juniper vegetation types, including juniper woodland and savannah, piñon-juniper, and piñon woodland, cover approximately 40 million ha in the western United States, where they provide ecosystem services, wildlife habitat, and cultural and aesthetic value (Romme et al. 2009). These ecosystems are also the sites of oil and gas activities, grazing, and urban development and are impacted by changing climate and wildfire. The realization that piñon-juniper ecosystems are being lost and degraded by human activities and changing climate (Cole et al. 2008, Williams et al. 2010, Clifford et al. 2011, McDowell et al. 2016) has stimulated interest in management of these habitats for wildlife. The goal of the 2016 symposium, Piñon-juniper Habitats: Status and Management for Wildlife, was to bring together information on the management of piñon-juniper ecosystems for the wildlife that depend on them.

Titles contained within Symposium Proceedings on Piñon-Juniper Habitats: Status and Management for Wildlife - 2016

• Pinon-juniper is not just one vegetation type: Key variation in composition, structure, and disturbance dynamics, with implications for wildlife and ecosystem management
• Root-associated microbes in pinyon pine: Implications for management
• Stand structure and drought alter tree mortality risk in nevada’s pinyon-juniper woodlands
• Vulnerability of pinon-juniper habitats to climate change in the Southwestern USA
• Fire exclusion linked to increased forest density in a New Mexico pinon-juniper savanna landscape
• Pinyon jay habitat use and management recommendations in New Mexico pinon-juniper woodlands
• Habitat use at multiple scales by nesting gray vireos in New Mexico
• Elk, deer, and pinyon-juniper in New Mexico: Needs, what works, and what doesn’t
• Changes in habitat use of Montezuma quail in response to pinyon-juniper canopy reduction in the Capitan Mountains of New Mexico
• Effects of pinon-juniper woodland thinning on avian communities in the Arkansas River Valley, Colorado
• Identifying and mitigating social-ecological tradeoffs: Vegetation, birds, fuels, and modeled fire behavior in pinon-juniper fuel reduction treatments
• Wildlife responses to small-scale tree thinning in central New Mexico pinyon-juniper and ponderosa pine woodlands
• Using the assessment, inventory, and monitoring strategy to measure treatment effectiveness in pinyon-juniper woodlands

Citation

Malcolm, Karl; Dykstra, Brian; Johnson, Kristine; Lightfoot, David; Muldavin, Esteban; Ramsey, Marikay. 2020. Symposium Proceedings on Piñon-Juniper Habitats: Status and Management for Wildlife - 2016. Proceedings RMRS-P-77. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 128 p.