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“Early-Successional and Non-Forested Bird Habitat on the Olympic Peninsula”

Presented by Scott Gremel, Wildlife Biologist

Wednesday, April 20, 2022   7:00pm 

Location: Rainshadow Hall at the Dungeness River Nature Center, 2099 W Hendrickson Rd, Sequim, Washington 

FREE

Although the Olympic Peninsula is primarily a land of old conifer forests, disturbances of differing frequency and intensity create a diversity of habitats that in turn support a more diverse community of birds. Understanding the processes that create our unique bird habitats can help to inform the management of our protected areas, and allow for the creation and maintenance of these habitats into the future. Scott will discuss how fires, river flooding and channel migration, avalanches and other seemingly disastrous events can actually create some of the richest bird habitats in our area.

Scott Gremel

Scott Gremel grew up birding in Indiana and did his undergraduate research on bird communities in clear-cuts in Indiana’s only National Forest. For the last 25 years, Scott has worked as a wildlife biologist for Olympic National Park. His day job has always involved monitoring Spotted Owls, but he has also worked on bird communities in recent burns, the Olympic pocket gopher in mountain meadows and other projects that got him out of the trees.