Download or read book Restoring the Uinkaret Mountains written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1995, the Ecological Restoration Institute (ERI) at Northern Arizona University (NAU) has been working with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and Arizona Game and Fish Department (AGFD) to implement and monitor large-scale ponderosa pine forest ecosystem restoration in northwest Arizona. This work has already produced many valuable lessons that have been applied to restoration in the Uinkaret Mountains on the Arizona Strip, but many of those lessons may also be useful elsewhere. This document summarizes operational lessons learned during more than five years of intensive research, and suggests how it may be applied at other ponderosa pine restoration sites in the Southwest.
Download or read book Understory Plant Community Restoration in the Uinkaret Mountains Arizona written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The herbaceous plant community, consisting of shrubs, grasses, sedges, and forbs is a vital part of ponderosa pine forest ecosystems. Restoration treatments have tended to focus directly on tree patterns and reindtroduction of fire. Fore restoration to be successful, however, the natural diversity and productivity of the understory plant community must be regained, and invasive or exotic understory species must be removed or maintained at tolerable levels. This document offers preliminary recommendations for understory restoration based on monitoring and observation in the Uinkaret Mountains and other ponderosa pine restoration sites in northern Arizona.
Download or read book Proceedings International Conference on Transfer of Forest Science Knowledge and Technology written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Proceedings International Conference on Transfer of Forest Science Knowledge and Technology written by Cynthia Louise Miner and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compiles papers presented by extensionists, natural resource specialists, tech. transfer specialists, and others at a conf. that examined tech. transfer theories, methods, and case studies. Topics included: adult educ., extension, diffusion of innovations, social marketing, tech. transfer, etc. Descriptions of methods and case studies included combined digital media, engagement of users and commun. specialists in research, integrated forestry applications, Internet-based systems, science writing, training, video conf., Web-based ency., etc. Innovations transferred were best mgmt. practices for water quality, reforestation practices, land mgmt. system, portable timber bridges, reduced impact logging, silvicultural practices, urban forestry, etc. Illustrations.
Download or read book Ecology Management and Restoration of Pi on juniper and Ponderosa Pine Ecosystems written by Gerald J. Gottfried and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Southwestern piñon-juniper and juniper woodlands cover large areas of Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, and adjacent Colorado. Ponderosa pine forests are the most common timberland in the Southwest. All three ecosystems provide a variety of natural resources and economic benefits to the region. There are different perceptions of desired conditions. Public and private land managers have adapted research results and their observations and experiences to manage these ecosystems for multiresource benefits. Ways to mitigate the threat of wildfires is a major management issue for these ecosystems, and the wide-spread piñon mortality related to drought and the bark beetle infestation has heightened concerns among managers and the general public. In addition, the impacts of climate change on these ecosystems are a growing concern. As a step in bringing research and management together to answer some of these questions, workshops concerned with the ecology, management, and restoration of piñon-juniper and ponderosa pine ecosystems were held in St. George, Utah in 2005 and in Albuquerque, New Mexico in 2006. The combined proceedings from these two workshops contain papers, extended abstracts, and abstracts based on oral and poster presentations. Some topics included forest and woodland restoration treatments and their impacts on fuels, wildlife, and other ecosystem components, watershed management, insect infestations and drought, wood utilization, landscape changes, basic ecology, and more.
Download or read book To the Last Smoke written by Stephen J. Pyne and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2020-04-21 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From boreal Alaska to subtropical Florida, from the chaparral of California to the pitch pine of New Jersey, America boasts nearly a billion burnable acres. In nine previous volumes, Stephen J. Pyne has explored the fascinating variety of flame region by region. In To the Last Smoke: An Anthology, he selects a sampling of the best from each. To the Last Smoke offers a unique and sweeping view of the nation’s fire scene by distilling observations on Florida, California, the Northern Rockies, the Great Plains, the Southwest, the Interior West, the Northeast, Alaska, the oak woodlands, and the Pacific Northwest into a single, readable volume. The anthology functions as a color-commentary companion to the play-by-play narrative offered in Pyne’s Between Two Fires: A Fire History of Contemporary America. The series is Pyne’s way of “keeping with it to the end,” encompassing the directive from his rookie season to stay with every fire “to the last smoke.”
Download or read book Integrating Forest Restoration Treatments with Mexican Spotted Ows Habitat Needs written by Michele A. James and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Management of the federally threatened Mexican spotted owl (MSO; Strix occidentalis lucida) has been a major concern, both technical and political, for forest managers in the southwestern United States. So has the need to reduce the risk of stand-replacing wildfire in the regions ponderosa pine forests.Managers have generally shied away from linking these two concerns, fearing that the consultation required under the federal Endangered Species Act makes forest restoration treatments in or adjacent to MSO habitat too cumbersome. Yet carefully planned and implemented restoration treatments either around or in MSO habitat are crucial to the species future survival, and can be accomplished. They can be designed to maximize benefits to forest health while minimizing negative impacts toand in some cases actively benefitingthe MSO and/or its habitat. There will never be 100 percent agreement between reducing fire risk and maintaining or enhancing MSO habitat needs, but the goal of this public...
Download or read book Restoring Forest Roads written by Kimberly Lowe and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Restoring unused and abandoned forest roads is an important step in the rehabilitation of natural ecosystem processes. The USDA Forest Service estimates that there are over 435,000 miles of road within the national forest system, 52,000 miles of which are unclassified and not maintained for vehicle use. Temporary forest roads can facilitate ecosystem restoration by providing access for equipment and by serving as firebreaks. But they also have the potential to cause an array of ecological problems. Many agency land management plans call for closing and rehabilitating unneeded roads. This publication presents an overview of the ecological problems forest roads can cause and a guide to traditional and novel methods that can be used in their restoration.
Download or read book The Interior West written by Stephen J. Pyne and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2018-03-13 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Its fires help to give the Interior West a peculiar character, fundamental to its natural and human histories. While a general aridity unites the region—defined here as Nevada, Utah, and western Colorado—its fires illuminate the ways that the region’s various parts show profoundly different landscapes, biotas, and human settlement experiences. In this collection of essays, fire historian Stephen J. Pyne explains the relevance of the Interior West to the national fire scene. This region offered the first scientific inquiry into landscape fire in the United States, including a map of Utah burns published in 1878 as part of John Wesley Powell’s Arid Lands report. Then its significance faded, and for most of the 20th century, the Interior West was the hole in the national donut of fire management. Recently the region has returned to prominence due to fires along its front ranges; invasive species, both exotics like cheatgrass and unleashed natives like mountain pine beetle; and fatality fires, notably at South Canyon in 1994. The Interior West has long been passed over in national fire narratives. Here it reclaims its rightful place. Included in this volume: A summary of 19th- and 20th-century fire history in the Interior West How this important region inspired U.S. studies of landscape fire Why the region disappeared from national fire management discussions How the expansion of invasive species and loss of native species has affected the region’s fire ecology The national significance of fire in the Interior West
Download or read book Fuels Treatments and Forest Restoration written by Peter Friederici and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In contemporary ponderosa pine forests throughout the Southwest the need to thin dense stands in order to reduce the risk of catastrophic fires has become evident. Numerous thinning prescriptions have been implemented. While many prescriptions focus solely on lowering fire risk by removing ladder fuels and reducing crown connectivity, others explicitly aim to alter both forest structure and functioning. This publication examines the benefits of restoration treatments that can lower fire danger while also increasing the overall biological diversity and long-term health of treatment areas.
Download or read book Controlling Invasive Species as Part of Restoration Treatments written by Kimberly Harding and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thinning, prescribed fire, and other treatments can restore ecological integrity in southwestern ponderosa pine forests that are at risk of unnaturally severe crown fires and bark beetle outbreaks. Such treatments can promote the survival and recruitment of native plants and animal species, but they also represent a significant disturbance that can allow invasive plants to spread. Invasive plants are a serious threat to the biological integrity of lands in western North America and elsewhere. Mitigating their impact must be a high priority during the planning and implementation of restoration treatments. This publication presents an overview of methods to prevent and control their spread.
Download or read book Restoring Spatial Pattern to Southwestern Ponderosa Pine Forests written by Dave Egan and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until recently, forest managers have largely ignored the value of maintaining dynamic spatial patterns in forested ecosystems. In the America Southwest, where the norm in overstocked forests that are extremely susceptible to catastrophic fires and/or insect infestations and disease, restoring a spatial pattern of openings and tree groups would help alleviate these threats and move the forests within their historic range of variability. This ERI working paper focuses on restoring a dynamic spatial pattern to ponderosa pine forests in the American Southwest. It also addresses basic questions that land managers and others have about how to restore active spatial patterns across the forested Southwest.
Download or read book Proceedings RMRS written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Restoration of Ponderosa Pine Forests to Presettlement Conditions written by Peter Friederici and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Working Paper is one of a series that describes the planning and implementation of restoration treatments in southwestern ponderosa pine forests. In this paper the treatment type is designed to emulate the forest structure prevalent before the landscape-level disturbances that followed Euro-American settlement. It represents the best scientifically based knowledge currently available about treatment types and effects. But this Working Paper is not a prescription. Restoration decisions need to be made with close attention to local conditions there is no one size fits all approach, and specific prescriptions must be determined according to project objectives. Use this publication as an aid in making informed decisions about how to restore more natural conditions, and greater health, to the southwestern ponderosa pine forests.
Download or read book Collaboration as a Tool in Forest Restoration written by Kimberly Lowe and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many policy makers, stakeholders and land management agencies have embraced collaborative approaches as a means of guiding forest management on public lands. A growing number of federal policies, such as the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003 and the Facilitation of Cooperative Conservation Executive Order 13352 of August 26, 2004, call for cooperative conservation by encouraging federal agencies to work collaboratively with multiple stakeholders on natural resource management issues. These directives have created both optimism and uncertainty. This publication presents an overview of collaborative forest restoration, including its benefits and challenges.
Download or read book Controlling Cheatgrass in Ponderosa Pine and Pinyon juniper Restoration Areas written by Michele A. James and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum) is widespread throughout western North America and is a significant concern for land managers conducting restoration treatments in southwestern ponderosa pine and pinyon-juniper forests. It is common on a few restoration treatment areas in northern Arizona, on severely burned mature/old growth pinyon-juniper sites at Mesa Verde National Park in southwestern Colorado (Floyd et al. 2006), throughout wildfire areas in Zion National Park in southern Utah (U.S. National Park Service 2007), and on areas consumed by wildfire in northern Arizona (Sieg et al. 2003). There is concern that cheatgrass populations may expand further with an increase in the scale and frequency of restoration treatments in southwestern ponderosa pine and pinyon-juniper ecosystems.
