Download or read book Wetland and Riparian Stewardship in Pennsylvania written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Pennsylvania Forest Stewardship written by Ellen O'Donnell and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Wetlands Ecology and Conservation written by Shyamal K. Majumdar and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Assessment of Pennsylvania s Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program written by Stephanie Eisenbise and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Riparian forest buffers have been considered one of the best management practices for improving water quality in stream ecosystems in North America in areas where forest cover was the predominant land cover. Afforestation in riparian areas can be a slow and difficult process and presents many challenges for successful establishment of streamside forests for natural resource professionals and private landowners. One of the many conservation programs that offer assistance to private landowners for the establishment of riparian forest buffers is the USDA Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (CREP). This program provides technical assistance and financial incentives to landowners to retire their riparian lands from production and install riparian forest buffers. This study explores the attitudes and opinions of landowners enrolled in Pennsylvania CREP riparian forest buffer initiative. It investigates the motivations for actions taken to ensure successful establishment of the trees as well as future plans for the buffer. A mail questionnaire was developed and administered to 538 CREP riparian forested buffer participants in 43 Pennsylvania counties.This study identified some of the underlying factors that led to engagement and active participation in the maintenance of riparian forest buffers by private landowners in Pennsylvania. The participant response to the questionnaire yielded distinct patterns in landowner attitudes, level of engagement, and understanding of maintenance required for the successful establishment of their riparian forest buffer. Pennsylvania CREP riparian forest buffer participants indicated a strong motivation for improving water quality and environmental stewardship that led them to enroll their streamside land in CREP for the establishment of a riparian forest buffer. Results confirm that frequency of visits and the perceived importance of maintenance tasks by program participants were significant predictors of the level of engagement in maintenance of the riparian buffer. Landowners who participated in this study had a clearly stated intention to keep the riparian forest buffer intact when their contract expired and to continue program participation by re-enrolling their forest buffer for an additional 10 or 15 years. Landowner attitudes and beliefs about environmental stewardship, improving water quality, the aesthetic value of streamside buffers, and wildlife habitat guided their decision making about voluntary conservation and restoration efforts over the long term. Possible management implications for these findings are advanced.

Download or read book Wetlands Stewardship written by United States. Department of the Interior and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Best Management Practices for Silvicultural Activities in Pennsylvania s Forest Wetlands written by Pennsylvania State University. School of Forest Resources and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Riparian Areas written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2002-09-10 with total page 448 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.

Download or read book Pennsylvania s Forest Stewardship Program written by Pennsylvania. Bureau of Forestry and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Better backyard a citizen s resource guide to beneficial landscaping and habitat restoration in the Chesapeake Bay watershed written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Wetlands and Wildlife written by Robert P. Brooks and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Managing for Enhancement of Riparian and Wetland Areas of the Western United States written by David A. Koehler and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This annotated bibliography contains 1,905 citations from professional journals, symposia, workshops, proceedings, technical reports, and other sources. The intent of this compilation was to: (1) assemble, to the extent possible, all available and accessible publications relating to riparian management within a single source or document; (2) provide managers, field biologists, researchers, and others, a point of access for locating scientific literature relevent to their specific interest; and (3) provide, under one cover, a comprehensive collection of annotated publications that could dessiminate basic information relative to the status of our knowledge.

Download or read book The Long term Environmental Impacts and the Costs Associated with Forest Road Crossings of Wetlands in Pennsylvania written by Robert L. Miller (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Forest Stewardship in Pennsylvania written by Jennifer Melbye and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book National Management Measures to Protect and Restore Wetlands and Riparian Areas for the Abatement of Nonpoint Source Pollution written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Exploring Wetlands Stewardship written by Jane Rubey and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Riparian Management Area Guidebook written by BC Environment and published by Forest Service British Columbia. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Helps managers, planners and field staff set and comply with Forest Practices Code standards for management of riparian management areas (RMAs).

Download or read book Characterizing the Network Structure of Headwater Riparian Wetlands in the Ridge and Valley Region Pennsylvania written by Abbey Tyrna and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation aims to illuminate the cumulative impact of anthropogenic disturbances on the collective capacity of wetland functions. Changes to wetland hydrologic regime and subsequent connectivity in response to landscape disturbances are poorly understood. However, studies have shown that anthropogenic disturbances have decreased ecosystem services in regional watersheds leading to lower water quality conditions. Considering the multi-scale impacts to wetland hydrology in the context of connectivity can further the understanding of important and fundamental interactions of the terrestrial and aquatic realms that contribute to water quality. This work provides a framework for an integrated ecological assessment that can be used to better manage wetland-derived functions and ecosystem services. Chapter 1 provides a conceptual framework for considering wetlands and their aquatic and terrestrial linkages, and outlines the overall research objectives. Hydrologic responses of 10 wetlands classified by disturbance level (highly disturbed and least disturbed or reference standard condition) were examined in Chapter 2. Hydrologic regime variation across the two disturbance groups was much greater than the variation within each group. This suggests that disturbance overrides hydrologic characterization by hydrogeomorphic subclass for riverine upper perennial wetlands. For all sites, percent saturation ranged from 0 - 100% during the growing season. For reference standard sites, percent saturation ranged from 58 - 100%. Highly disturbed sites, which each had a unique package of perturbations, had a larger variation in percent saturation both over the entire study period (0 - 78%) and within a single growing season (3 - 79%). All wetland hydrologic regime characteristics were strongly correlated with disturbance score. However, when examined individually, no one landscape, buffer zone, or site level feature could explain the variability in all wetland hydrologic regime characteristics. Hydrologic regime was used to infer hydrologic flow paths and resultant hydrologic connections between wetlands, streams and terrestrial upland. Wetland and stream inventories in central Pennsylvania were enhanced and wetland condition was documented in Chapter 3. Wetland inventories were enhanced by field observations and condition was assessed using Level 1 and Level 2 assessment tools. Fifty-seven new wetlands totaling 23 ha (57 ac) and three National Wetland Inventory (NWI) wetland extensions equaling 5 ha (12 ac) were added to the Upper Shaver Creek wetland inventory. The new inventory nearly doubled the existing wetland area for headwater riparian wetlands within Upper Shaver Creek watershed. The stream length for the newly inventoried segments equaled 35 km adding nearly one-third more of stream length to the watershed inventory. Level 1 assessment revealed that one-third of the wetland resource in Upper Shaver Creek was rated in the highest or high category of ecological condition and 17% were in lowest category. Wetland buffers, which are known for maintaining quality and reducing landscape scale impact, were discovered to be narrower in the riparian zones that were most impacted by agricultural uses. The importance of a strong buffer was evidenced by the fact that wetlands with