Project Title

Resource Selection of Black-Backed Woodpeckers in Burned Forest and Mountain Pine Beetle Infestations

Abstract

The project's goals are to:

• estimate home ranges during the breeding season, fall, and winter in recently burned and mountain pine beetle habitats;
• document seasonal time budgets in recently burned and mountain pine beetle habitats;
• compute general and forage resource selection models for black-backed woodpeckers;
• develop a demographic population model that compares black-backed woodpecker demographics in burned and mountain pine beetle habitats of the Black Hills, SD.

Selected Publications

Banding Black-Backed Woodpecker Chicks

GSD Principal Investigators

Cooperators and Sponsors

Joshua Millspaugh, University of Missouri

National Fire Plan
South Dakota Department of Game Fish and Parks