Past Presentations | Eastside Ecology Forum

Date	2024-2025 Schedule (4:00 PM every other TUESDAY)	Location
10/22/24	Effects of Cattle Grazing on Food Web Dynamics in the Sagebrush Sea Vanessa Schroeder, EOARC-Burns, Oregon State University	PNW
11/05/24	Spatial Planning and Conservation Readiness to Promote Resilient Sagebrush Ecosystems Cameron Duquette The Nature Conservancy	EOU
11/19/24	Assessing the influence of defoliation on medusahead seed production and viability in Eastern Oregon Will Price OSU Extension, Union/Baker Counties, Oregon State University	EOU
12/03/24	Mitigating Wolf-Livestock Conflict on National Forest System Lands Susan Charnley, Pacific Northwest Research Station, USDA Forest Service	EOU
12/17/24	Prioritizing Invasive Plant Species for Prevention and Early-Detection/Rapid Response on National Wildlife Refuges: Lessons Learned & Future Directions Rob Taylor, US Fish and Wildlife Services	PNW
01/07/25	Northern Goshawk Management: A 50-year Perspective Pat Kennedy, EOARC-Union, Oregon State University	EOU
02/04/25	Using Genomic Techniques to Understand the Ecology and Population Status of the Wallowa Rosy-Finch Ben Vernasco, Whitman College	EOU
02/18/25	Comparing the effects of varying raven management strategies on sage-grouse reproductive success in eastern Oregon Ricard Rich, Oregon State University	PNW
03/04/25	Grazing gradients and environmental predictors of annual grass invasion across the Northern Great Basin Madelon Case, U.S. Geological Service	EOU
03/18/25	Wallowa Resources’ Wallowa Canyonlands Partnership Program: the Importance of Partnerships Brogan Watson, Wallowa Resources	PNW zoom
04/01/25	Cattle and wild ungulates suppress bryophytes: implications for riparian food webs Josh Averrett, EOARC Union, Oregon State University	EOU zoom
04/15/25	Grazing, Fuels, and Modeled Fire Behavior in Sagebrush Steppe JB Playfair, Drone Lab, University of Idaho Drone	EOU zoom
04/29/25	Beaver Rewilding: Satellite-based Monitoring to Support Adaptive Management Jodie Brandt & Nick Kolarik. Boise State University	EOU zoom

Date	2023-2024 Schedule (4:00 PM every other Thursday)
10/19/23	Peter Donovan Soil health & watershed function: Social learning & communities of practice
11/2/23	Morgan Solomon Baker Sage-grouse LIT Mesic Protection and Restoration: A local prioritization process
11/16/23	Casey Brown Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife Drought effects on bottom-up resources: implications for elk
11/30/23	Stella Copeland EOARC-Burns, Agricultural Research Service Simulated restoration outcomes suggest multiple seeding years and diverse germination behavior increase early seedling survival across the Great Basin
12/14/23	Dallas Hall Defrees Sustainable Northwest Sustainable Regenerative Ranching in the Pacific Northwest
1/11/24	Will Price OSU Extension, Union/Baker Counties Restoration Efforts to Improve Degraded Sagebrush Rangelands Using Dormant Season Grazing in SE Oregon
1/25/24	Cameron Duquette The Nature Conservancy Hysteresis in Arid Rangeland Plant Communities: Ecology, Screen Methods, and Strategic Management
2/8/24	Trace Martyn EOARC-Union, Oregon State University How can Restoration and Theory Coexist
2/22/24	Cameron Naficy Wallowa Whitman National Forest, USDA Forest Service Origins of Complexity in moist mixed conifer forests: implications for forest management
3/7/24	Phil Howell USDA Forest Service Unsolved Mystery: Westslope Cutthroat Trout in the John Day River
4/4	No seminar
4/18/24	David Bohnert EOARC- Burns, Oregon State University. Virtual Fence Technologies for Grazing Management
5/2/24	Matthew Hovland Animal & Rangeland Sciences, Oregon State University Refuge on the Moon: Persistence and Diversity at Craters of the Moon National Monument
5/16/24	Tavis Forrester Rocky Mountain Research Station, USDA Forest Service Effects of Timber Harvest on Grizzley Bear Habitat Use and Diet