Conservation and Adaptation Resources Toolbox Webinar Series
Event Description: Join us for a webinar where we will hear from Tara Bishop about Pinyon Juniper ecosystem changes, and Scott Somershoe about the needs of Pinyon Jays, in the context of grassland restoration and management.
Register here: https://arizona.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIlfuivqzIsG9SguYjBcK7OQG4izUtrn-cP
CART Webinar Series: This webinar series is one way the CCAST partnership is increasing communication to help our agencies and partners address shared conservation challenges. If you would like to learn more about CCAST or get involved, please contact Karlee Jewell (karlee_jewell@fws.gov) or Genevieve Johnson (gjohnson@usbr.gov).
Presenters: Tara Bishop, U.S. Geological Survey and Scott Somershoe, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, bios below!
Tara Bishop grew up near Salt Lake City, UT. She taught high school science for six years before choosing to earn her PhD at Brigham Young University. Tara completed a postdoc with USGS at the Southwest Biological Science Center studying on effects of seasonal grazing and drought on landscape sustainability. She also worked for the US Forest Service as a Research Ecologist for the Shrub Sciences Laboratory. Tara is now an Ecologist with USGS-SBSC in Moab, UT. She studies community and ecosystem ecology, how plant and soil communities respond to fire, climate change climate change
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Scott Somershoe is originally from the Philadelphia, PA area. After college at Millersville University, he moved to Statesboro, GA and completed a Master's in Biology at Georgia Southern University. Scott lived and worked in the southeast for 17 years before moving to Colorado in 2015 to work for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service as land bird coordinator for the Mountain-Prairie Region. Scott helps support conservation and research on declining birds like Sprague's Pipit, Thick-billed and Chestnut-collared Longspurs, Baird's Sparrow, Mountain Plover, and Pinyon Jay.