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Forest Management & Lynx Habitat Trends Erin Simons-Legaard Collaborators: Kasey Legaard, Dan Harrison, Mark McCollough, Aaron Weiskittel, Caitlin Andrews Northern Appalachian/Acadian Ecoregion Hoving et al. 2003 Eastern spruce budworm (

Forest Management & Lynx Habitat Trends Erin Simons-Legaard Collaborators: Kasey Legaard, Dan Harrison, Mark McCollough, Aaron Weiskittel, Caitlin Andrews
Northern Appalachian/Acadian Ecoregion
Hoving et al. 2003
Eastern spruce budworm ( Choristoneura fumiferana Clem.)
State-run spray protection program, treating several million acres annually at its peak Proposed spray blocks, 1979 Irland et al. 1988
Severe mortality - 20-25 million cords of spruce and fir Approx. 1500 ac salvage killed harvest block Salvage logging by commercial clearcut
Maine Forest Practices Act, 1989 - First legal definition of a clearcut - Regulation of clearcut size, configuration, regeneration The Forestry Rules of Maine, 2014; MFS
Maine Forest Practices Act, 1989 1970-80s budworm Forest Practices Act salvage clearcuts category 1 clearcuts
Annual statewide harvest
Ownership change Lilliholm et al. 2010
Ownership change
Ownership change
Conservation easements
Landowner change history, 1994-2007
Forest disturbance, age, composition mapping Landsat Thematic Mapper: 2010 2007 2004 2-3 year intervals 2001 - stand-replacing and 1998 partial canopy disturbance 1995 - disturbance intensity 1993 (% basal area removed) 1991 1988 1985 Landsat Multispectral Scanner: 1985 1982 2-4 year intervals 1978 - stand-replacing 1975 disturbance 1973
Forest disturbance, age, composition mapping 1985 Landsat: 1988 Landsat: Harvest, 1985-1988
Forest disturbance, age, composition mapping 1988 Landsat: 1985-1988 forest disturbance:
Forest disturbance, age, composition mapping 1993 Landsat: 1985-1993 forest disturbance:
Fire Wind Biomass Fire Insects Wind Harvest Spatially I nteractive Landscape
Fire Wind Biomass Fire Insects Wind Harvest Spatially I nteractive Landscape
• Ownership ca. 2010 • >80 owners • >500 parcels
Snowshoe hare/Lynx foraging habitat
Snowshoe hare/Lynx foraging habitat
Snowshoe hare/Lynx foraging habitat
S. Olsen 2014
Maine Forest Service
2014 trap counts Total SBW Count 0 - 1 2 - 30 40 - 50 60 - 100 200 300 - 600
Spruce-fir Live Biomass Hennigar et al. 2013
Percent change in forest area (2010-2110)
Ownership change Lilliholm et al. 2010
Adapted from Iverson et al 2007
Suitable habitat for S-F forest • Number of days >5⁰C • Mean temp in the coldest month • Mean annual precipitation • Growing season precipitation • Associated with areas that are colder and snowier
Forest Management & Lynx Habitat Trends Erin Simons-Legaard Collaborators: Kasey Legaard, Dan Harrison, Mark McCollough, Aaron Weiskittel, Caitlin Andrews

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