<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:large"><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><b>The CEES Seminar Series and the Alumni in the Classroom Experience present:</b></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><b>Neil Gifford </b>(91 & 94) - Conservation Director Albany Pine Bush Preserve Commission</div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><b>Shifting paradigms in managing a fire-dependent degraded pitch pine-scrub oak barrens.</b></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Friday March 25th 3:30 Hudson 106</div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Reception prior to the talk at 3:30 outside of the lecture hall</div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><div><p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed;word-break:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Since 1991 managers at the Albany Pine Bush Preserve have employed a variety of strategies to restore fire’s fundamental role in a congested wildland urban interface. Limited ecological success and extreme fire behavior posed significant challenges and resulted in a paradigm shift in </span><span style="color:black">understanding </span><span style="color:black">of </span><span style="color:black">quality pine barrens, </span><span style="color:black">and </span><span style="color:black">revealed </span><span style="color:black">important differences between restoration and maintenance fire regimes. </span><span style="color:black">This has </span><span style="color:black">improved ecosystem viability and increased the distribution and abundance of rare wildlife - including the complete recovery of the local </span><span style="color:black">Karner</span><span style="color:black"> blue </span><span style="color:black">butterfly.</span></font></p></div><div><br></div></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><div>Sponsored by the Alumni in the Classroom Experience</div><div>For additional information contact Dr. Mark Lesser (<a href="mailto:mless004@plattsburgh.edu" target="_blank">mless004@plattsburgh.edu</a>)</div></div></div></div>