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Carolyn Johnson

Deputy Refuge Manager
Email: Carolyn_Johnson@fws.gov
Office Phone: 478 986-5441 ext 224
Fax: 478-986-9646
Multi-species habitat management at Piedmont National Wildlife Refuge: Using remote sensing to determine habitat requirements and management strategies for Bachman’s Sparrow and Northern Bobwhite in Red-cockaded Woodpecker managed habitat
Upland pine ecosystems in USFWS Region 4 can support many trust species, but management is often directed at only a single species. At Piedmont NWR in central Georgia, management is focused on the Red-cockaded Woodpecker, but several other species (including Bachman’s Sparrow and Northern Bobwhite) could be benefited by slight alterations to management (e.g., more frequent burning or smaller burn units). We will build habitat use models using remotely sensed data and existing information on species occurrence at Piedmont NWR to determine how each of these species responds to management related to prescribed burning. We will then estimate how well these models perform both at Piedmont NWR (using newly collected groundtruthing...
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