USGS Researchers are Organizing the first Pacific Northwest Native American...
Dr. Ernest Valdez of FORT, New Mexico Landscapes Field Station along with researchers from the USGS-Northwest-Pacific Islands Region, Native American Fish and Wildlife Society, Confederated Tribes and...
View ArticleFriday's Findings - August 11 2023
Title: INHABIT: What, Where, and Why of Invasive Plant SpeciesSpeaker: Catherine Jarnevich, Research Ecologist, Fort Collins Science CenterDate: August 11, 2023 at 2:00pm ET / 11:00am PT
View ArticleFORT Scientists Discuss Research at the 2023 Ecological Society of America...
FORT researchers will be presenting at the 2023 Ecological Society of America (ESA) Conference in Portland, OR from August 6-11. The theme of this year's meeting is "ESA for All Ecologists" in which...
View ArticleA new management framework to balance competing species’ conservation needs
Conservation practitioners and restoration managers are often faced with the difficult decision of which species and ecosystems to prioritize during conservation. To aid managers in decision making,...
View ArticleUSGS scientists with the North American Bat Monitoring Program (NABat)...
USGS scientists from FORT and NOROCK with the North American Bat Monitoring Program (NABat) recently published the resulting data of a range-wide species distribution model for the tricolored bat...
View ArticleUSGS researchers and collaborators successfully host the first Pacific...
Dr. Ernest Valdez of USGS-FORT, New Mexico Landscapes Field Station along with USGS-Northwest Pacific Islands Region, Native American Fish and Wildlife Society, Confederated Tribes and Bands of the...
View ArticleUSGS scientists with the Wyoming Landscape Conservation Initiative lead field...
The USGS WLCI science team lead, Patrick Anderson (USGS Fort Collins Science Center), organized a field tour on August 24 to share and discuss science outcomes with WLCI partners after five years of...
View ArticleFORT Ecologist Adrian Monroe Coauthors Book Chapter on Sage-Grouse Ecology...
FORT ecologist Adrian Monroe is a coauthor on a new book chapter summarizing the ecology and conservation issues affecting Greater (Centrocercus urophasianus) and Gunnison (C. minimus) sage-grouse in...
View ArticleNew interagency study in Colorado identifies science needs to manage federal...
Terrestrial wildlife, protected birds and impacts of energy development were among the topics analyzed for land management decisions.
View ArticleCollaborative Research Between FORT Scientist Jill Baron and the Rocky...
The Rocky Mountain National Park Continental Divide Learning Center September newsletter has an article titled "Let Me Count the Ways: How Citizen Scientists Helped a Park Measure Visitor Impacts" that...
View ArticleFORT Hosts 2023 SyncroSim User Conference
From September 19-22, the Fort Collins Science Center is hosting the 2023 SyncroSim User Conference.
View ArticleA team of USGS scientists will be participating in a new USGS Tribal...
USGS scientists from the Rocky Mountain and Southwest Regions and beyond will participate in a USGS Open House held in Albuquerque at the Southwest Indian Polytechnic Institute (SIPI) on Tuesday...
View ArticleFORT scientists publish an annotated bibliography of scientific research on a...
In 2014, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) listed Gunnison sage-grouse as threatened under the Endangered Species Act because of declining populations and increasing habitat loss. To aid...
View ArticleFORT scientist James Meldrum will be presenting and participating as a...
The meeting will convene practitioners and scientists from 19 organizations, including local (fire protection districts), state (Colorado and Alaska), and federal (USGS, BLM, USFS) agencies and...
View ArticleFORT scientists present research at the 31st Conference of the North American...
From October 16-19, 2023, FORT scientists will present their research on invasive species management in North America through conference talks, posters, and networking sessions.
View ArticleUSGS scientists collaborate with the Association of Fish and Wildlife...
USGS scientists from FORT with the North American Bat Monitoring Program are working with the Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies (AFWA) to standardize transportation structure assessments, data...
View ArticleAmphibians have one more thing to worry about—mercury—large USGS study shows
RESTON, Va. — The first widescale assessment of methylmercury in adult amphibians in the U.S. to date shows that, in amphibians, this toxic compound is common, widespread and, at least for some, can...
View ArticleUSGS and partners publish the first in a series of science syntheses to...
USGS is working with federal land management agencies to develop a series of science syntheses to support environmental effects analyses that agencies conduct to comply with the National Environmental...
View ArticleFORT research economist Aaron Enriquez invited to present work on nonmarket...
USGS Research Economist Aaron Enriquez was invited to be a guest speaker at the Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife's lunchtime seminar series on Monday, November 6th. Aaron's talk is titled...
View ArticleNew USGS report assesses successes, barriers, and lessons learned for...
Decision-support tools can be useful to natural resource managers, policy makers and other stakeholders that use USGS data. USGS scientists analyzed how scientists and technology professionals describe...
View ArticleFORT scientists publish an updated annotated bibliography of greater...
A recently published USGS Open-File Report compiles and summarizes 147 research products about greater sage-grouse published between 2019 and 2022.
View ArticleFORT geneticist Scott Cornman uses data mining to gain new insights into a...
A new paper on an enigmatic giant virus of honey bees, Apis mellifera filamentous virus (AmFV), was recently authored by FORT geneticist (Robert) Scott Cornman as an example of how mining big data...
View ArticleFORT scientists develop density-habitat relationships and density...
FORT scientists Nicholas Van Lanen, Adrian Monroe, and Cameron Aldridge recently published population trends and density-habitat associations for 11 songbird species using summertime point count data...
View ArticleFORT Research Economist Aaron Enriquez to present research on salmon...
USGS Research Economist Aaron Enriquez was invited to travel to the University of Alaska Anchorage to participate in a series of meetings with researchers working on topics related to marine Arctic...
View ArticleResearch Ecologist Jill Baron coauthors study finding no effect of road...
Excess reactive nitrogen from vehicle emissions has the potential to negatively impact ecosystems, through increased soil acidification, biodiversity loss, or other cascading effects. A new paper out...
View ArticleFORT scientists host the second annual Big Rivers Data Integration Workshop
From December 5–6 the Fort Collins Science Center hosted the second annual Big Rivers Data Integration Workshop, combining efforts by scientists at FORT and the NPS Northern Colorado Plateau Network to...
View ArticleNew issue of National Parks magazine spotlights Jill Baron's decades-long...
The winter issue of National Parks, the magazine of the National Parks Conservation Association, has an article about Jill Baron written by Senior Editor Nicolas Brulliard, with photos by Emily Sierra....
View ArticleFORT Research Ecologist Sarah Carter invited to participate in workshop...
Sarah Carter was invited to participate in a workshop held December 14th by the City of Boulder, in conjunction with Boulder County, focused on informing the development of methodologies and tools that...
View ArticleFORT 2023: A Year in Review
In 2023, scientists at the Fort Collins Science Center produced more than 90 new publications and 40 new datasets, and presented their research at numerous conferences and meetings around the world....
View ArticleNew study from FORT social scientists and collaborators describes perceived...
A new paper out in the Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism describes the self-determined constraints of the U.S. public to participating in birdwatching and recreational hunting.
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