Monday, April 21, 2025
Before-after-control-impact study reveals muted avian response to low-severity wildfire
Undergraduate Honors Thesis Defense
Lucy Heflin
WHEN: Monday, April 21 at 4 PM
WHERE: Peavy 316
Wildfire is increasing in frequency and severity across the western U.S., highlighting a need to understand how biological communities are responding to this disturbance. In this study I tested three hypotheses regarding bird response to 2020 Holiday Farm Fire in the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest.
Lucy Heflin is a third year undergraduate honors student majoring in Natural Resources. She has participated in field work at the H.J. Andrews the past two summers and is a member of the Betts Forest Landscape Ecology Lab at OSU.