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This essay examines the work of wildlife biologist Herbert Stoddard, who came to the longleaf pine-grassland forests of south Georgia in 1924 to study the bobwhite quail, and stayed to develop a method of land management that stressed ecological…
Type: Document
Year: 2007
Kaufmann, Binkley, Fulé, Johnson, Stephens, Swetnam
There are varying definitions of old-growth forests because of differences in environment and differing fire influence across the Intermountain West. Two general types of forests reflect the role of fire: 1) forests shaped by natural changes in…
Type: Document
Year: 2007
Murphy, Abrams, Daniel, Yazzie
Ecological and social factors shaped old-growth forests of the western United States before Euro-American settlement, and will, in large part, determine their future. In this article, we focus on the social factors that affected the forest's…
Type: Document
Year: 2007
Dickson, Hampton, Muñoz-Erickson, Rundall, Schlossberg, Sisk, Xu, Evans, Krasilovsky, Niemeyer
The North-Central New Mexico Landscape Assessment was a collaborative, landscape-scale effort that engaged stakeholders in a series of meetings and workshops to identify and prioritize areas of forest and associated lands in greatest need of…
Type: Document
Year: 2007
Vosick, Ostergren, Murfitt
Most federal legislation and policies (e.g., the Wilderness Act, Endangered Species Act, National Forest Management Act) fail to speak directly to the need for old-growth protection, recruitment, and restoration on federal lands. Various policy and…
Type: Document
Year: 2007
Fulé, Denton, Springer, Kalies, Egan
Support for the use of prescribed fire and wildland fire use has increased in the Southwest in recent decades. However, the frequency and seasonality of these contemporary fires is typically different than historical fires, which burned during late…
Type: Document
Year: 2007
Koch
The Southwest of Western Australia is one of the world's biodiversity hotspots. In the jarrah forest there are at least 300-400 plant species in vegetation that is typically mined and as many as 1163 species per 0.1 ha. Hence, restoring the plant…
Type: Document
Year: 2007
Robertson
From the text (pp.6-7) ... 'Another [reason periodic low-intensity fires have ceased to provide forest and land maintenance] is the culture of fire suppression in America deliberately created in the early 20th century to promote a shift to intensive…
Type: Document
Year: 2007
Yazzie
Anyone who has not lived in 'Indian country' cannot understand just how extensively the United States government and its laws affect Native Americans and their natural resource management. These effects are sobering, and touch upon sensitive issues…
Type: Document
Year: 2007
Shlisky, Hickey, Bragg
Altered fire regimes are a serious threat to biodiversity in almost every major habitat type on earth. Threats to the restoration and maintenance of intact fire regimes (e.g., federal and state fire policies, land use, social values, global plant…
Type: Document
Year: 2007