The proposed large-scale collaborative research project will provide the first thorough assessment of the effects of pion-juniper woodland treatments on the Pinyon Jay, a species undergoing rapid population declines according to the BBS. The results of this multi-state study will provide land management agencies critical information about impacts of woodland management on the species and significant, novel data about habitat use and specific habitat preferences. These data will allow land managers to better understand the needs of the species and inform how future management practices can be implemented to reduce or mitigate negative impacts. Without these data, land management agencies and the conservation community will continue to develop management strategies that lack key information and thus be unable to build more comprehensive and effective prescriptions to meet multiple objectives within the sagebrush and pion-juniper woodland ecotone.
PI: Clark Rushing, Assistant Professor, clark.rushing@usu.edu, 435-797-0337
PI/Funding recipients organization: Utah State University
Start date: 9/1/2020
Projected end date: 12/31/2025
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Funding sources and amounts: US Fish and Wildlife Service, Legacy Region 6, Science Applications, $70,00
