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Tips for Dryland Restoration - Summer 2022

Tips for Dryland Restoration - Summer 2022

IN THIS EDITION: Best wishes to staff moving on, research updates, and we celebrate our work from Fiscal Year 2022.

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Comunicado de prensa: Plan estratégico científico del USGS para incendios forestales, 2021–26

Comunicado de prensa: Plan estratégico científico del USGS para incendios forestales, 2021–26

Con el propósito de atender a los desafíos crecientes creados por incendios forestales en América, el Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Geológicas...

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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 North American Breeding Bird Survey: Helping Keep Common Birds Common

The North American Breeding Bird Survey: Helping Keep Common Birds Common

The North American Breeding Bird Survey was initiated in 1966 to monitor bird populations over large geographic areas.

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Research Spotlight: Vegetation Type Conversion in the Southwest -- Observations and Management Takeaways

Research Spotlight: Vegetation Type Conversion in the Southwest -- Observations and Management Takeaways

Two new publications describe how forests, shrublands, and grasslands are being transformed into different ecosystem types in response to severe and...

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Energy development in migration corridors affects mule deer access to best forage

Energy development in migration corridors affects mule deer access to best forage

Findings highlight the need for migration maps in future development decisions

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Connecting Alaska’s Algal Blooms to Shellfish Health

Connecting Alaska’s Algal Blooms to Shellfish Health

The Central Council of Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska are working alongside Alaska CASC supported researchers to better predict when and...

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Friday's Findings - October 14th 2022

Friday's Findings - October 14th 2022

Title: Knowledge Co-Production on the Impact of Decisions for Waterbird Habitat in a Changing Climate 

Date: October 14th at 2:00 pm Eastern

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Polar Bear Hair Sheds Light on Seal Populations Under the Arctic Sea Ice

Polar Bear Hair Sheds Light on Seal Populations Under the Arctic Sea Ice

Researchers studied chemical signatures in polar bear hair to determine that the apex predators are changing their diet in response to prey (mostly...

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Wind turbine wakes can impact downwind vegetation

Wind turbine wakes can impact downwind vegetation

A new USGS report shows a link between air disturbed by wind turbines and vegetation patterns

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New Report Offers Path Forward for Interagency Efforts to Revive the West’s Disappearing Sagebrush Ecosystem

New Report Offers Path Forward for Interagency Efforts to Revive the West’s Disappearing Sagebrush Ecosystem

New Report Offers Path Forward for Interagency Efforts to Revive the West’s Disappearing Sagebrush Ecosystem

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Adapting to Drought Along the U.S-Canadian Border

Adapting to Drought Along the U.S-Canadian Border

North Central CASC-supported researchers use tree rings to study historical streamflow data for the Milk and St. Mary river basins to better...

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