Table 17: Treatment impacts on the Pinyon Jay. "+" = positive response, " - " = negative response, "0" = no effect or results inconclusive, "+ / - " = mixed response. Treatment Response Location Habitat Response Methods Citation Variable Wildfire NC Central OR Semi-arid, Abundance, Sampled and Pinyon Jays occur Reinkensmeyer upland plant diversity veg communities in 4 primarily in 2000 communities cover types: and grassland, juniper. shrub-steppe; No occurrence in western post-burn grassland juniper; old-growth or shrub-steppe western juniper lacking juniper. - Prescribed Rocky Pinyon-juniper N/A Literature Review Treatments, Saab et al. burning Mountains woodland including prescribed 2005 fire or other actions that reduce tree density, decrease foraging opportunities - Fire/thinning Multiple Southwestern Counts Literature Review 6 Pinyon Jay Kalies et al. conifer forests for thinning and observations and 2010 burning cumulative increase after treatment or high-severity burn/thin NC Grazing Northeast NM Eastern slope Counts Random plot Slightly higher Goguen and of Sangre de selection of grazed detection on Mathews 1998 Cristo Mtns. and 20-year ungrazed plots, but Low elev = plots in P-J difference is not shortgrass woodland. statistically prairie, high significant elev = P-J woodland + Grazing Multiple Ponderosa N/A Literature Review This literature review et al. Pine Forest suggests that grazing 1997 could open bare ground in ponderosa pine forests, thereby improving forage
Table 17: Treatment impacts on the Pinyon Jay. "+" = positive response, " - " = negative response, "0" = no effect or results inconclusive, "+ / - " = mixed response. Treatment Response Location Habitat Response Variable Methods Citation Wildfire NC Central OR Semi-arid, upland plant communities Abundance, diversity Sampled and veg communities in 4 cover types: grassland, shrub-steppe; western juniper; old-growth western juniper Pinyon Jays occur primarily in and juniper. No occurrence in post-burn grassland or shrub-steppe lacking juniper. Reinkensmeyer 2000 Prescribed burning - Rocky Mountains Pinyon-juniper woodland N/A Literature Review Treatments, including prescribed fire or other actions that reduce tree density, decrease foraging opportunities Saab et al. 2005 Fire/thinning - Multiple Southwestern conifer forests Counts Literature Review for thinning and burning 6 Pinyon Jay observations and cumulative increase after treatment or high-severity burn/thin Kalies et al. 2010 Grazing NC Northeast NM Eastern slope of Sangre de Cristo Mtns. Low elev = shortgrass prairie, high elev = P-J woodland Counts Random plot selection of grazed and 20-year plots in P-J woodland. Slightly higher detection on ungrazed plots, but difference is not statistically significant Goguen and Mathews 1998 Grazing + Multiple Ponderosa Pine Forest N/A Literature Review This literature review suggests that grazing could open bare ground in ponderosa pine forests, thereby improving forage et al. 1997
Sagebrush%20birds%20WAFWA%20draft%2010-27-16.docx