Forest management and Wildlife

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Forest management and Wildlife
Food and cover relationships Forest succession
and wildlife habitat Interior vs edge
species Silvicultural systems
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Forest management and Wildlife food and cover
relationships
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Forest management and Wildlife food and cover
relationships
Wildlife respond to
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Forest management and Wildlife food and cover
relationships

• Wildlife respond to
• Species composition

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Forest management and Wildlife food and cover
relationships

• Wildlife respond to
• Species composition
• Age

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Forest management and Wildlife food and cover
relationships

• Wildlife respond to
• Species composition
• Age
• Stand structure

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Forest Succession
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Forest Succession
Early Succession
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Characteristics of Early Successional Stages
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• Characteristics of Early Successional Stages
• Abundant ground cover

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• Characteristics of Early Successional Stages
• Abundant ground cover
• Open spaces

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• Characteristics of Early Successional Stages
• Abundant ground cover
• Open spaces
• Bare ground

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• Characteristics of Early Successional Stages
• Abundant ground cover
• Open spaces
• Bare ground
• Abundant seeds / insects

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• Characteristics of Early Successional Stages
• Abundant ground cover
• Open spaces
• Bare ground
• Abundant seeds / insects
• Goal 3-5 of the
• forest in this stage

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• Characteristics of Early Successional Stages
• Abundant ground cover
• Open spaces
• Bare ground
• Abundant seeds / insects
• Goal 3-5 of the
• forest in this stage
• Maintain by Disturbance every 2 3 years

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Woodcock
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Forest Succession
Brush Stage
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Characteristics of Brush Stages
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• Characteristics of Brush Stages
• Young trees and shrubs

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• Characteristics of Brush Stages
• Young trees and shrubs
• Nesting, roosting and
• loafing cover

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• Characteristics of Brush Stages
• Young trees and shrubs
• Nesting, roosting and
• loafing cover
• Seeds, fruit, insects and
• browse

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• Characteristics of Brush Stages
• Young trees and shrubs
• Nesting, roosting and
• loafing cover
• Seeds, fruit, insects and
• browse
• Goal 10 of the forest in this stage

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• Characteristics of Brush Stages
• Young trees and shrubs
• Nesting, roosting and
• loafing cover
• Seeds, fruit, insects and
• browse
• Goal 10 of the forest in this stage
• Maintain by disturbance every 5 to 6 years

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Cut along roads and edges feathered edge
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Forest Succession
Mature forest
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Characteristics of Mature Forest
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• Characteristics of Mature Forest
• Canopy may be closed

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• Characteristics of Mature Forest
• Canopy may be closed
• Mast, foliage, browse,
• insects, flowers food

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• Characteristics of Mature Forest
• Canopy may be closed
• Mast, foliage, browse,
• insects, flowers food

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• Characteristics of Mature Forest
• Canopy may be closed
• Mast, foliage, browse,
• insects, flowers food
• Trees with cavities

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Snag any dead or dying tree 4-inch or
greater dbh at least 20 feet tall
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• Characteristics of Mature Forest
• Canopy may be closed
• Mast, foliage, browse,
• insects, flowers food
• Trees with cavities
• Provide seasonal cover

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• Characteristics of Mature Forest
• Canopy may be closed
• Mast, foliage, browse,
• insects, flowers food
• Trees with cavities
• Provide seasonal cover

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• Characteristics of Mature Forest
• Canopy may be closed
• Mast, foliage, browse,
• insects, flowers food
• Trees with cavities
• Provide seasonal
• Provide year-round cover (conifers)

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Red pine
White Spruce
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• Characteristics of Mature Forest
• Canopy may be closed
• Mast, foliage, browse,
• insects, flowers food
• Trees with cavities
• Provide seasonal
• Provide year-round cover (conifers)
• If maintained long enough old growth

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Forest Succession
Old growth forest
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Forest Succession
Pole timber stage
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Characteristics of Intermediate Stages
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• Characteristics of Intermediate Stages
• Canopy closed

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• Characteristics of Intermediate Stages
• Canopy closed
• Sparse understory

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• Characteristics of Intermediate Stages
• Canopy closed
• Sparse understory
• Trees too small for
• cavities

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• Characteristics of Intermediate Stages
• Canopy closed
• Sparse understory
• Trees too small for
• cavities
• Little or no mast

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• Characteristics of Intermediate Stages
• Canopy closed
• Sparse understory
• Trees too small for
• cavities
• Little or no mast
• Very limited food and
• cover compared to
• other stages

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Rotation
Harvest
Stand Establishment
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Truncated management
Shortened rotation
Harvest
Plant seedlings
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• Edge and Interior species
• Edge Species

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• Edge and Interior species
• Edge Species
• Adaptable to disturbance

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• Edge and Interior species
• Edge Species
• Adaptable to disturbance
• Often are generalists

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• Edge and Interior species
• Edge Species
• Adaptable to disturbance
• Often are generalists
• Nest in concealed sites

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• Edge and Interior species
• Interior Species
• Very vulnerable to disturbance

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• Edge and Interior species
• Interior Species
• Very vulnerable to disturbance
• Often habitat specialists

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• Edge and Interior species
• Interior Species
• Very vulnerable to disturbance
• Often habitat specialists
• Nest in more open exposed areas

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• Edge and Interior species
• Interior Species
• Very vulnerable to disturbance
• Often habitat specialists
• Nest in more open exposed areas
• Lower productivity

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• Edge and Interior species
• Interior Species
• Very vulnerable to disturbance
• Often habitat specialists
• Nest in more open exposed areas
• Lower productivity
• Includes neotropical migrants

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• Silvicultural systems and wildlife
• Even-aged systems
• Tend to favor edge species initially
• May favor edge or interior species as forest
  matures

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• Silvicultural systems and wildlife
• Uneven-aged systems
• Tend to favor interior species
• Results in minimal disturbance to the
  understory

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• Silvicultural systems and wildlife
• Uneven-aged systems
• Tend to favor interior species
• Results in minimal disturbance to the
  understory

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Habitat

• Forest management influences species differently
• Brown et al. (2002)
• Effects of forest management on winter habitat
  selection by hermit thrushes in Louisiana.
• Evaluated selection with respect to fat levels
  and survivorship.

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Ruffed grouse and aspen
Aspen and hardwood
succession

Grouse life history
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Ruffed grouse and aspen
Aspen and hardwood
succession


Grouse life history
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Ruffed grouse and aspen



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Ruffed grouse and aspen



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Ruffed grouse and aspen



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Ruffed grouse and aspen



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Ruffed grouse and aspen



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Breeding
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Nesting
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Brood rearing
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Winter habitat
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Winter habitat