Dr. Chris Moorman

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  Chris Moorman, NCSU and Mark Johns, NC Wildlife Resources Commission, Moderators.

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  Christopher Moorman - Extension Forestry Specialist, NCSU

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  Featured Speaker: Dr Chris Moorman, Associate Professor and Extension Wildlife Specialist at NC State University
  
  Chris works with professionals and private landowners interested in the effects of land management practices on wildlife.Recently, Chris began working more with urban landowners, landscape architects, and gardeners to advise them on ways to manage and landscape their backyards to attract birds and other wildlife.
  
  Presentation Topic: Landscaping with Native Plants to Attract Backyard Birds
  
  Chris will discuss design principles and plant species selection that will yield a quality backyard landscape worthy of high bird, butterfly, and other wildlife diversity.

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  Presenter: Chris Moorman
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  CHRIS MOORMAN received BS and MS degrees from the University of Georgia and a PhD from Clemson University.He currently serves as Associate Professor and Extension Wildlife Specialist at NCSU and works with professionals and private landowners interested in the effects of land management practices on wildlife.Recently, he began working more with urban landowners, landscape architects, and gardeners to advise them on ways to manage and landscape their backyards to attract birds and other wildlife and led the development of a website, Going Native, which focuses on landscaping for wildlife with native plants.

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  Christopher E. Moorman, Ph.D - Extension Forestry Specialist, NCSU

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  Dr. Chris Moorman, Associate Professor at NCSU, will discuss his collaborations with others to develop an outreach program, including presentations, extension pamphlets, a demonstration garden, and a website, to encourage the use of native plants.Short tour of native plants around the building is included.
  
  Directions to the wildlife education center and headquarters building can be found near the bottom of the home web page of the Wildlife Resources Commission at www.ncwildlife.org

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  Dr. Chris Moorman, extension wildlife specialist for North Carolina State, headed up the team that put together the "Going Native: Urban Landscaping for Wildlife with Native Plants."
  
  Moorman, who obtained his doctorate in wildlife at Clemson University, says that although the site is primarily focused on the North Carolina landscape, "Most, if not all, of the plants we present on the site work equally well for South Carolina."

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  Animals wouldn't starve in preserved forests , some species just wouldn't occur there , according to Chris Moorman , the forestry wildlife extension agent at North Carolina State University.
  
  But there are some declining bird species which typically like grasslands , such as meadow larks , that would benefit from forestry practices , he said.
  
  Anything we do will benefit some animals and it will negatively impact other animals , Moorman.
  
  It's natural for people to manage forests and affect animal habitat , as Native Americans did for 10 , 000 years , he said.
  
  What's missing today , Moorman said , is fire.People tend to put fires out , even though it removes forest litter and creates valuable nutrients for fire-dependent species.
  
  Fire is the missing component on the North Carolina landscape , he said.There's a whole suite of species that won't survive without fire..
  
  Since foresters sometimes use herbicides , which control some plant species like fire , they are reviving an age-old technique in managing forests.Moorman said that as long as herbicides are used according to their labels , they are not harmful to the wildlife.

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  Christopher Moorman, PhDAssociate ProfessorExtension Wildlife Specialist at NCSU
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  Chris works with professionals and private landowners interested in the effects of land management practices on wildlife.Recently, Chris began working more with urban landowners, landscape architects, and gardeners to advise them on ways to manage and landscape their backyards to attract birds and other wildlife.He also recently led the creation of a native plant demonstration on NCSU's campus and the development of a website, Going Native, which focuses on landscaping for wildlife with native plants.

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  Published on: 10/31/2003    Last Visited: 10/31/2003  

  Leaning against an ironwood tree a few feet from the stream, Christopher Moorman isn't surprised.A wildlife ecologist at North Carolina State University, he carefully notes the species and location of each bird that sings or wings within a 50-foot radius."Clearly, Black Creek is an oasis for birds," he whispers.But Black Creek flows through a tidy neighborhood in Cary, North Carolina, one of the nation's fastest growing towns.The paved greenway trail beside the creek is beloved by hikers, bikers, dog walkers, families on picnics, and children on Rollerblades.Backyards crowd the woods."The problem," Moorman says, "is that it's an oasis for humans, as well."
  
  Greenways and parks have long been attractive to humans seeking respite from the pressures of city and suburb.Now Moorman and his collaborators are trying to learn if the Black Creek greenway is a healthy place for birds, and if there are ways to make it better.
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  Such wooded corridors are frequently touted for providing much-needed wildlife habitat in developed landscapes, Moorman says, "but we don't know if it's good habitat, because we don't know what's happening to the birds that use it."
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  Moorman and his collaborators, including a landscape ecologist, an urban planner, and a parks and recreation expert, are studying how songbirds fare in small fragments of land cover surrounded by neighborhoods, shopping centers, and industrial areas.
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  When a natural landscape is carved into smaller, more isolated patches, some species gain a competitive advantage, says Christopher Moorman, a wildlife ecologist at North Carolina State University.Other species are dealt a competitive blow.
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  "These strips of woodlands are all the birds have left in many of these urbanizing environments,"Moorman says."We can suggest better ways for developers and urban planners to boost their value for birds."
  
  Recreational trail design is one instance in which there are lessons to be gleaned.Moorman says the team's most important finding was that wide, maintained paths and landscaped areas within the greenways "are bad news for birds."Break up a 1,000-foot-wide greenway with a 30-foot-wide walking trail and mowed shoulder, and you don't have a 1,000-foot-wide greenway any longer.You have two greenways that are not quite 500 feet wide."This is something greenway planners can easily prevent," he insists, "and with public education, it's something greenway users should support."Also, since greenways less than 150 feet wide proved to be a wasteland for some deep-woods-nesting neotropical migrants, that could be considered a minimum size.
  
  Developers also have the opportunity to craft more bird-friendly spaces.Many residential areas are designed with straight lines of grassy lawns and hedges-often planted in nonnative species-along the border between neighborhoods and natural areas.These abrupt edges leave a meager transition zone for birds to use as escape cover from predators such as hawks and cats.Adding insult to injury, Moorman explains, is that many greenway areas are shorn of shrubs and small trees."That leaves big trees and turf, with no intermediate vegetation, and that's not much good for birds no matter how wide a greenway may be," he says.Replicating natural cover as closely as possible, with shrubs and trees of varying heights, increases nesting and foraging habitats.

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