Restoring Bee Communities in Harvested Forests

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Despite growing evidence that harvested forests offer excellent opportunities for pollinator habitat conservation, little is known about effective pollinator-friendly restoration practices within harvested forests. Identifying forest management practices that promote pollinator populations is critical for broad, national pollinator conservation efforts, particularly given the likely listing of several bumble bee species under the Endangered Species Act over the next decade. This webinar will cover techniques for installing floral enhancements in harvested forests.

Speaker

Lauren Ponisio, Assistant Professor, University of Oregon

Is this webinar for you?

This webinar is appropriate for land managers, foresters, conservation professionals, and any other interested landowners or researchers. This webinar is further intended for anyone interested in restoring pollinator populations in their harvested forests.

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Pricing

This webinar is FREE ($0) for all attendees and was made possible by contributions from the following professional development partners:

USDA Forest Service
Manulife Investment Management
Oregon Department of Forestry
Oregon Forest Resources Institute
Oregon State University

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The webinar is scheduled for live viewing on Thursday, August 15, 2024 at 3 pm ET. The Zoom Webinar platform will be used for the presentation. Be sure to connect to the webinar using a device approved to access Zoom.

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Webinar duration

This webinar is 1 hour.

Learning objectives

Upon successful completion of this webinar, you will be able to:

1. Identify what bees need to survive in forests.

2. Describe how to plan and install floral enhancements.

3. Explain how to monitor bees post-restoration.

Rubric

Successful completion of the webinar is measured by participating in the entire webinar and completing the evaluation.

Evaluation

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Lauren Ponisio

Assistant Professor

University of Oregon

Dr. Lauren Ponisio studies bees and their roles as pollinators in managed and natural plant communities. She currently leads a study that could change how forestlands in the Northwest are managed, particularly post-harvest and post-fire, to the benefit of wild bees. Her research has examined ways to persuade California almond growers to adopt more bee-friendly agricultural practices, discovered how native bee species may be best equipped to survive intensive agricultural practices and climate change and analyzed how forest fires can help maintain pollinator biodiversity. Ponisio earned a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, and an MS and BS from Stanford University.

Jim Rivers (Moderator)

Associate Professor

Oregon State University

Jim is an animal ecologist with broad research interests, and the work that he undertakes with his lab group generally falls into two related areas. In the first, he investigates the behavioral, physiological, and ecological processes that influence animal populations. This work focuses largely on forest-dependent birds and examines how key vital rates are influenced by a range of land use activities. In the second, he examines how natural and anthropogenic disturbances influence native insect pollinators within managed forests. In both areas, his work includes basic and applied research with the ultimate goal of understanding how organisms respond adaptively to ongoing and future change in their environment.

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