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New Multi-Agency Report on Sagebrush Conservation Features Two Members of the NC CASC
USGS released a new multi-agency report on sagebrush, "Sagebrush Conservation Strategy—Challenges to Sagebrush Conservation". Robin O'Malley (retired, NC CASC), Nicole DeCrappeo (NW/NC CASCs), and Stephen Jackson (SW/SC CASCs) were the co-conveners for the Chapter L Climate Adaptation writing team.
Aparna Bamzai-Dodson Featured on USGS Instagram
USGS Deputy Director, Aparna Bamzai-Dodson, was featured on one of USGS’ Instagram accounts, @usgs_wild, where her position at the NC CASC and PhD were highlighted.
Watch Our Latest Webinar on YouTube
The presentation recording from our latest webinar, "Our Changing Fire Regimes" on March 11th was posted to YouTube.
NC CASC Webinar Series: "Demographic uncertainty and disease risk drive climate-informed mountain goat management" Thursday, April 8th, 2021
Concerns about mountain goats have arisen in many areas in recent years. Climate change may negatively affect this alpine ungulate, and recent evidence indicates that mountain goats harbor respiratory pathogens associated with pneumonia epidemics in bighorn sheep.
Phil Higuera gives talk, “Colorado’s Record-Setting 2020 Fire Season in the Context of the Past 6000 Years”
On March 4th, PI Phil Higuera at the University of Montana, gave a talk for the Aspen Center for Environmental Studies “Naturalists Nights” program called, “Colorado’s Record-Setting 2020 Fire Season in the Context of the Past 6000 Years.”
NC CASC Seeks Graduate Assistants for Summer 2021
The NC CASC is looking to hire three Graduate Research Assistants for summer 2021: Climate Data, Tools and Science Support Summer 2021 Graduate Research Assistant Grasslands Synthesis Summer 2021 Graduate Research Assistant Traditional Knowledge Synthesis Summer 2021 Graduate Research Assistant
Molly Cross Finished FY18 Project on Species of Conservation Concern Planning
NC CASC PI Molly Cross at the Wildlife Conservation Society finished her fiscal year 2018 project, “Enabling Climate-Informed Planning and Decision about Species of Conservation Concern in the North Central Region: Phase 2.
Resource Stewardship Strategy (RSS) for Wind Cave National Park Published
The Resource Stewardship Strategy (RSS) for Wind Cave National Park has just been published. It acknowledges the NC CASC partnership by Brian Miller, Max Joseph, Travis Williams, and Imtiaz Rangwala in supporting the effort.
New Paper: Challenges to the Reforestation Pipeline in the United States
NC CASC Research Scientist, Kimberley Davis at the University of Montana, is listed as a co-author on a recent publication, "Challenges to the Reforestation Pipeline in the United States," which was published in the Frontiers in Forests and Global Change journal.
NC CASC Webinar Series: "Our Changing Fire Regimes" March 11th, 2021
There are three ingredients needed for fire: fuel to burn, hot & dry conditions, and an ignition source. People are changing all three. The number of wildfires and the area burned has increased over the past several decades, in western U.S. forests by 1500%.