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Environmental, Regional, and Seasonal Drivers of Migration in North American Golden Eagles

Environmental, Regional, and Seasonal Drivers of Migration in North American Golden Eagles

Migratory bird species can change the timing and duration of their annual migration to correspond with favorable conditions. This variation gives...

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Level and Pattern of Live Tree Retention Shape the Abundance of Snags in Managed Forests

Level and Pattern of Live Tree Retention Shape the Abundance of Snags in Managed Forests

Standing dead trees, or snags, are important features in natural forests, providing habitat and food for a wide range of fungi, insects, birds, and...

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Limited Rigor in Studies of Raptor Mortality and Mitigation at Wind Power Facilities

Limited Rigor in Studies of Raptor Mortality and Mitigation at Wind Power Facilities

Wind power is a rapidly expanding source of renewable energy and poses risks to wildlife such as raptors that are vulnerable to collisions with wind...

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Considering Behavior When Predicting Habitat Use for the Endangered Tasmanian Wedge-Tailed Eagle

Considering Behavior When Predicting Habitat Use for the Endangered Tasmanian Wedge-Tailed Eagle

Tasmanian wedge-tailed eagles are facing threats from habitat loss, contaminants, and collisions with power lines and wind turbines. Risk to these...

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Post-Fire Sagebrush Seed Dispersal is Limited and Highly Variable

Post-Fire Sagebrush Seed Dispersal is Limited and Highly Variable

Sagebrush seeds are dispersed naturally from plants that survive wildfires and can also be broadcast-seeded by natural resource agencies to aid the...

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Selecting Auditory Alerting Sounds for Eagles Approaching Wind Turbines

Selecting Auditory Alerting Sounds for Eagles Approaching Wind Turbines

Development of wind energy facilities results in interactions between wildlife and wind turbines and can lead to fatalities of bald and golden eagles.

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The Effects of Cheatgrass Invasion on Carbon Storage in the Great Basin

The Effects of Cheatgrass Invasion on Carbon Storage in the Great Basin

Annual grass invasions are transforming desert ecosystems in ways that could affect ecosystem carbon balance, but previous studies do not agree on the...

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Simulating Fire Spread in Sagebrush Steppe: An Approach to Improving Input Data and Accuracy

Simulating Fire Spread in Sagebrush Steppe: An Approach to Improving Input Data and Accuracy

Simulations of wildfire spread are needed for the management and study of wildfires in the vast sagebrush steppe of North America.

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Engaging Stakeholders for Prioritizing Investments in Recovery of Threatened Bull Trout

Engaging Stakeholders for Prioritizing Investments in Recovery of Threatened Bull Trout

The natural resource agencies involved in conservation of the threatened Bull Trout have a shared goal of recovering the species. However, this goal...

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Stream Food Web Responses to Riparian Forest Thinning

Stream Food Web Responses to Riparian Forest Thinning

Resource managers may decide to thin riparian forests to increase the amount of light that streams receive and enhance aquatic productivity. However...

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Restoration Variability and Herbicide-Weather Interactions in Severely Invaded Rangeland

Restoration Variability and Herbicide-Weather Interactions in Severely Invaded Rangeland

Invasive exotic annual grasses are replacing native plants in the vast sagebrush steppe rangelands of western North America. Efforts to control exotic...

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Selective Cattle Use of Large, Burned Landscapes in Sagebrush-Steppe

Selective Cattle Use of Large, Burned Landscapes in Sagebrush-Steppe

The loss of quality grazing land for cattle and suitable habitat for wildlife due to the cycle of increasing wildfire frequency and exotic annual...

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