Download or read book Guidelines for Managing and Restoring Natural Plant Communities Along Trails and Waterways written by Angela A. Anderson and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Trail Planning Design and Development Guidelines written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Guidelines for Applying Protected Area Management Categories written by Nigel Dudley and published by IUCN. This book was released on 2008 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IUCN's Protected Areas Management Categories, which classify protected areas according to their management objectives, are today accepted as the benchmark for defining, recording, and classifying protected areas. They are recognized by international bodies such as the United Nations as well as many national governments. As a result, they are increasingly being incorporated into government legislation. These guidelines provide as much clarity as possible regarding the meaning and application of the Categories. They describe the definition of the Categories and discuss application in particular biomes and management approaches.
Download or read book Riparian Areas written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2002-10-10 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Clean Water Act (CWA) requires that wetlands be protected from degradation because of their important ecological functions including maintenance of high water quality and provision of fish and wildlife habitat. However, this protection generally does not encompass riparian areasâ€"the lands bordering rivers and lakesâ€"even though they often provide the same functions as wetlands. Growing recognition of the similarities in wetland and riparian area functioning and the differences in their legal protection led the NRC in 1999 to undertake a study of riparian areas, which has culminated in Riparian Areas: Functioning and Strategies for Management. The report is intended to heighten awareness of riparian areas commensurate with their ecological and societal values. The primary conclusion is that, because riparian areas perform a disproportionate number of biological and physical functions on a unit area basis, restoration of riparian functions along America's waterbodies should be a national goal.
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Download or read book Wildlife and Recreationists written by Richard L. Knight and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2013-04-22 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wildlife and Recreationists defines and clarifies the issues surrounding the conflict between outdoor recreation and the health and well-being of wildlife and ecosystems. Contributors to the volume consider both direct and indirect effects of widlife-recreationist interactions, including: wildlife responses to disturbance, and the origins of these responses how specific recreational activities affect diverse types of wildlife the human dimensions of managing recreationists the economic importance of outdoor recreation how wildlife and recreationists might be able to coexist The book is a useful synthesis of what is known concerning wildlife and recreation. More important, it addresses both research needs and management options to minimize conflicts.
Download or read book Regional Recreation Open Space Policy Plan written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Regional Recreation Open Space Policy Plan written by Metropolitan Council of the Twin Cities Area and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 2030 Regional Parks Policy Plan written by Metropolitan Council of the Twin Cities Area and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wetland Trail Design and Construction written by Robert T. Steinholtz and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ln this manual we have described the common techniques for building a wetland trail. We have also included information on some of the more unusual materials and tools.
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Download or read book Restoring Plant Communities for Multiple Ecosystem Functions After Natural Resource Development written by Kathryn Marie Barlow and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Natural resource development is a significant contributor to terrestrial conversion globally. The ecosystem functions and services that are degraded or lost to extraction activities must be restored after development to regain ecological integrity in the surrounding landscape. Restoration of such highly disturbed ecosystems has historically been reactive, not proactive, and limited to site stabilization measures to control soil erosion. In addition to site stabilization, restoration must also prioritize setting the successional trajectory for plant communities that will provide for multiple ecosystem functions over time. The development of oil and gas reservoirs with low permeability and porosity, commonly referred to as unconventional production, has only become economically feasible in the last decade. Thus far, most measures to regulate and restore the terrestrial footprint of unconventional gas development in the Marcellus and Utica Shales in the northeastern United States have been reactive and limited in scope. Here, we aim to bring attention to the limited nature of the restoration approach and governing regulations, and offer alternatives from the perspective of restoration ecology. In Chapter Two, we report on the main drivers contributing to the spread of invasive plants along shale gas infrastructure, documenting the shift in plant community composition from a largely native forest to incursions of non-native plants. In Chapter Three, we provide an assessment of the establishment success of a native perennial plant mixture on compacted soils, typical conditions of shale gas well pads, as an alternative to the widespread use of non-native, cool season grasses and legumes. In Chapter Four, we report on a floristic survey of a gas pipeline corridor seeded with a similar native perennial mixture to assess the long-term assembly of these species across an environmental gradient. Finally, to address the limited scope of reclamation regulations we outline specific language and concepts in regulations pertaining to the earth disturbance activities of shale gas that are barriers to shifting the norms of reclamation to ecological restoration. This research highlights vegetation changes within the footprint of shale gas production. Non-native plants are recruited inadvertently via the high level of anthropogenic activities on drilling sites, and directly from restoration seed mixes. We demonstrate the potential for using native plants for restoration to set the successional trajectory for restoring multiple ecosystem functions beyond erosion control. However, restoration practices are unlikely to change at a scale that matters unless regulations address the lost value of terrestrial ecosystems.
Download or read book Kisatchie National Forest N F Revised Land and Resource Management Plan written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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