Profile Link:

https://www.fs.fed.us/research/people/dfinch

Email:

deborah.m.finch@usda.gov

Address:

333 Broadway SE, Suite 115
Albuquerque, NM 87102-3407

Phone:

505-724-3671

Mobile Phone:

505-401-0580

Featured Publications

Profile Link:

https://www.fs.fed.us/research/people/rpendleton

Email:

rlpendleton@fs.fed.us

Address:

333 Broadway SE, Suite 115
Albuquerque, NM 87102-3407

Phone:

505-724-3660

Fax:

505-724-3688

Featured Publications

1. Displacement of native riparian shrubs by woody exotics: Effects on arthropod and pollinator community composition
2. Baboquivari Mountain plants: Identification, ecology, and ethnobotany [Book Review]
3. Conference Proceedings: Seed Ecology III - The Third International Society for Seed Science Meeting on Seeds and the Environment - "Seeds and Change"; June 20-June 24, 2010; Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
4. The 'Appar' flax release: Origin, distinguishing characteristics, and use; and a native alternative
5. Proceedings of the 16th Wildland Shrub Symposium: Threats to Shrubland Ecosystem Integrity; 2010 May 18-20 Logan, UT

Profile Link:

https://www.fs.fed.us/research/people/mreeves

Email:

matt.c.reeves@usda.gov

Address:

800 East Beckwith Avenue
Missoula, MT 59801-5801

Phone:

406-546-5875

Mobile Phone:

406-546-5875

Fax:

406-543-2663

Featured Publications

Profile Link:

https://www.fs.fed.us/research/people/jeott

Email:

jeffrey.e.ott@usda.gov

Address:

322 E. Front Street Suite 401
Boise, ID 83702-7373

Phone:

208-373-4353

Fax:

208-373-4391

Featured Publications

1. Postfire drill-seeding of Great Basin plants: Effects of contrasting drills on seeded and nonseeded species
2. Comparison of postfire seeding practices for Wyoming big sagebrush
3. Seeding techniques for sagebrush community restoration after fire

Profile Link:

https://www.fs.fed.us/research/people/ffkilkenny

Email:

francis.f.kilkenny@usda.gov

Address:

322 E Front Street Suite 401
Boise, ID 83702

Phone:

208-373-4376

Fax:

208-373-4391

Featured Publications

1. Priority actions to improve provenance decision-making
2. Long-term vegetation recovery and invasive annual suppression in native and introduced postfire seeding treatments
3. Population history provides foundational knowledge for utilizing and developing native plant restoration materials
4. Genetic variation in adaptive traits and seed transfer zones for Pseudoroegneria spicata (bluebunch wheatgrass) in the northwestern United States
5. Genecological approaches to predicting the effects of climate change on plant populations
6. Evolution of marginal populations of an invasive vine increases the likelihood of future spread
7. Adaptive divergence at the margin of an invaded range
8. Climate suitability and human influences combined explain the range expansion of an invasive horticultural plant
9. Evolution of competitive ability within Lonicera japonica's invaded range
10. Conserving and restoring habitat for Greater Sage-Grouse and other sagebrush-obligate wildlife: The crucial link of forbs and sagebrush diversity

Profile Link:

https://www.fs.fed.us/research/people/jackbutler

Email:

jack.butler@usda.gov

Address:

8221 S. Highway 16
Rapid City, SD 57702

Phone:

605-716-2160

Featured Publications

1. Lack of native vegetation recovery following biological control of leafy spurge
2. Invasive Species Working Group: Research Summary and Expertise Directory
3. Invasive Species Science Update (No. 3)
4. Invasive Species Science Update (No. 2)
5. Invasive Species Science Update (No. 1)

Profile Link:

https://www.fs.fed.us/research/people/jacquelinepott

Email:

jacqueline.ott@usda.gov

Address:

8221 Mt Rushmore Road
Rapid City, SD 57702-8741

Phone:

605-716-2210

Featured Publications

Profile Link:

https://www.fs.fed.us/research/people/jpinto

Email:

jeremy.pinto@usda.gov

Address:

1221 South Main Street
Moscow, ID 83843

Phone:

208-883-2352

Featured Publications

1. Photosynthetic response, survival, and growth of three ponderosa pine stocktypes under water stress enhanced by vegetative competition
2. Establishment and growth of container seedlings for reforestation: A function of stocktype and edaphic conditions
3. Conducting seedling stock type trials: A new approach to an old question
4. National Proceedings: Forest and Conservation Nursery Associations - 2012
5. Light emitting diodes (LED): applications in forest and native plant nurseries

Profile Link:

https://www.fs.fed.us/research/people/plford

Email:

paulette.l.ford@usda.gov

Address:

333 Broadway SE, Suite 115
Albuquerque, NM 87102-3407

Phone:

505-724-3660

Mobile Phone:

505-263-9992

Fax:

505-724-3688

Featured Publications

1. Effects of dormant- vs. growing-season fire in shortgrass steppe: Biological soil crust and perennial grass responses
2. Chihuahuan Desert grassland responds similarly to fall, spring, and summer fires during prolonged drought
3. Effects of prescribed fire on wildlife and wildlife habitat in selected ecosystems of North America
4. Rangeland drought: Effects, restoration, and adaptation [Chap. 8]
5. Grassland to shrubland state transitions enhance carbon sequestration in the northern Chihuahuan Desert
6. Climate change impacts on future carbon stores and management of warm deserts of the United States
7. Precipitation thresholds and drought-induced tree die-off: Insights from patterns of Pinus edulis mortality along an environmental stress gradient
8. Relationship of stand characteristics to drought-induced mortality in three Southwestern pinyon-juniper woodlands
9. Pinyon pine mortality alters communities of ground-dwelling arthropods
10. Spatial analysis of effects of mowing and burning on colony expansion in reintroduced black-tailed prairie dog (Cynomys ludovicianus)

Profile Link:

https://www.fs.fed.us/research/people/jrunyon

Email:

justin.runyon@usda.gov

Address:

Montana State University Campus
1648 South 7th Avenue
Bozeman, MT 59717-2780

Phone:

406-994-4872

Fax:

406-994-5916

Featured Publications

1. Volatiles of high-elevation five-needle pines: Chemical signatures through ratios and insight into insect and pathogen resistance
2. Floral volatiles structure plant-pollinator interactions in a diverse community across the growing season
3. Global change effects on plant-insect interactions: The role of phytochemistry
4. Drought and leaf herbivory influence floral volatiles and pollinator attraction
5. Costs of induced defenses for the invasive plant houndstongue (Cynoglossum officinale L.) and the potential importance for weed biocontrol
6. Roads impact the distribution of noxious weeds more than restoration treatments in a lodgepole pine forest in Montana, U.S.A
7. Interactions among the mountain pine beetle, fires, and fuels
8. Volatile chemical cues guide host location and host selection by parasitic plants
9. Secondary invasion: The bane of weed management
10. Remarkable fly (Diptera) diversity in a patch of Costa Rican cloud forest: Why inventory is a vital science

Profile Link:

https://www.fs.fed.us/research/people/skitchen

Email:

stanley.kitchen@usda.gov

Address:

735 North 500 East
Provo, UT 84606

Phone:

801-356-5108

Mobile Phone:

801-471-6728

Fax:

801-375-6968

Featured Publications

1. Ecosystem resilience despite large-scale altered hydroclimatic conditions
2. Functional response of U.S. grasslands to the early 21st-century drought
3. Historical fire regime and forest variability on two eastern Great Basin fire-sheds (USA)
4. Climate effects on historical fires (1630-1900) in Utah
5. Influence of climate and environment on post-fire recovery of mountain big sagebrush
6. Learning to live with cheatgrass: Giving up or a necessary paradigm shift?
7. Multicentury fire and forest histories at 19 sites in Utah and eastern Nevada
8. Origin of the flax cultivar 'Appar' and its position within the Linum perenne complex