Name: Recordings to Restoration: Bird Vocalizations Guiding Forest Management
Start: 2026-03-24T18:30:00-07:00
End: 2026-03-24T21:00:00-07:00
Location: Whatcom Museum

Recordings to Restoration: Bird Vocalizations Guiding Forest Management

Learn how acoustic monitoring of birds is assisting with conservation efforts in West Puget Sound.
About this Event

Recordings to Restoration: Using Bird Vocalizations to Guide Forest Management

Presented by Adrian Wolf

This progam is part of the

North Cascades Audubon March 24, 2026 Membership Meeting

Location: Whatcom Museum Old City Hall Rotunda Room

Time: Social Hour starts at 6:30pm and Presentation begins at 7pm

NOTE: Reservations are not required - there NO NEED to reserve a ticket on Eventbrite - just add it to your calendar!

One of the goals of Great Peninsula Conservancy’s (GPC) stewardship program is to improve the ecological integrity and health of GPC’s forestlands by increasing forest structure and species diversity. Implementing practices to improve forest health seems appropriate given the dramatic decline in populations of many North American landbirds. GPC stewardship director, Adrian Wolf, will present a program to improve the long-term survival of Western Washington forest birds by implementing state of the art habitat improvement practices, initiating acoustic monitoring of bird responses to these conservation practices, and publicly sharing findings and replicable protocols through outreach and communications. The Listen Up program is a collaboration of three land trusts, four conservation and tribal organizations, and is supported by Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s Land Trust Bird Conservation Initiative. Adrian and the Listen Up program were recently featured in New York Times’ “50 States and 50 Fixes” series and on NPR’s “All Things Considered”.

Our Speaker:

Adrian Wolf joined Great Peninsula Conservancy’s (GPC), based in Bremerton, WA, in March 2021 and is committed to maintaining and improving the ecological integrity of natural ecosystems. He has over 30 years of professional experience working with threatened and endangered habitats, and the species that depend on them. Adrian obtained his master’s degree from The Evergreen State College where his research work focused on bird use of canopy epiphytes in a Pacific Northwest old-growth coniferous forest. He has extensive experience both monitoring and handling birds through ecological research studies.