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Representing climate, disturbance, and vegetation interactions in landscape models

The prospect of rapidly changing climates over the next century calls for methods to predict their effects on myriad, interactive ecosystem processes. Spatially explicit models that simulate ecosystem dynamics at fine (plant, stand) to coarse (regional, global) scales are indispensable tools for meeting this challenge under a variety of possible futures. A special...

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Author(s):

Robert E. Keane; Donald McKenzie; Donald A. Falk; Erica A.H. Smithwick; Carol Miller; Lara-Karena B. Kellogg

Year:

2015

Keywords:

landscape modeling, disturbance, interactions, scale, landscape ecology, global change

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Ecological Modelling. 309-310: 33-47.

Linkages to Public Land Framework: toward embedding humans in ecosystem analyses by using “inside-out social assessment.”

This article presents the " Linkages to Public Land" (LPL) Framework, a general but comprehensive data-gathering and analysis approach aimed at informing citizen and agency decision making about the social environment of public land. This social assessment and planning approach identifies and categorizes various types of linkages that people have to public...

Author(s):

Joanna Endter-Wada; Dale J. Blahna

Year:

2011

Keywords:

common property, coupled natural-human systems, forest policy, human dimensions of ecosystem management, public involvement, public land access, social impact assessment

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Ecological Applications. 21(8): 3254-3271

Barriers to wildland fire use: A preliminary problem analysis

American society has a general cultural bias toward controlling nature (Glover 2000) and, in particular, a strong bias for suppressing wildfire, even in wilderness (Saveland et al. 1988). Nevertheless, the Federal Wildland Fire Management Policy directs managers to "allow lightning-caused fires to play, as nearly as possible, their natural ecological role in...

Author(s):

Dustin L. Doane; Jay O'Laughlin; Penelope Morgan; Carol Miller

Year:

2006

Keywords:

wildland fires, fire suppression, fire management, wilderness, social values

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International journal of wilderness. 12(1): 36-38

Retrospective fire modeling: Quantifying the impacts of fire suppression

Land management agencies need to understand and monitor the consequences of their fire suppression decisions. We developed a framework for retrospective fire behavior modeling and impact assessment to determine where ignitions would have spread had they not been suppressed and to assess the cumulative effects that would have resulted. This document is a general...

Author(s):

Brett H. Davis; Carol Miller; Sean A. Parks

Year:

2010

Keywords:

fire behavior prediction, fire effects, fire modeling, retrospective, impact assessment

Source:

Gen. Tech. Rep. RMRS-GTR-236. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 40 p.

Recreational use in dispersed public lands measured using social media data and on-site counts

Outdoor recreation is one of many important benefits provided by public lands. Data on recreational use are critical for informing management of recreation resources, however, managers often lack actionable information on visitor use for large protected areas that lack controlled access points. The purpose of this study is to explore the potential for social media data...

Author(s):

David M. Fisher; Spencer A. Wood; Eric M. White; Dale J. Blahna; Sarah Lange; Alex Weinberg; Michael Tomco; Emilia Lia

Year:

2018

Keywords:

Recreation, visitation rates, public lands, social media, conservation areas, national forests, geotagged photographs.

Source:

Journal of Environmental Management. 222: 465-474.

A comparison of thinning methods in red pine: consequences for stand-level growth and tree diameter

Long-term replicated experiments that contrast thinning method (dominant thinning, thinning from below) while controlling stocking level are rare. Stand growth and tree size responses to thinning method can be useful for making decisions to achieve desired objectives, whether these are timber or wildlife habitat related. We examined data from two long-term (>50 year...

Author(s):

John B. Bradford; Brian J. Palik

Year:

2009

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Source:

Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 39: 489-496.

Age-related patterns of forest complexity and carbon storage in pine and aspen-birch ecosystems of northern Minnesota, USA

Forest managers are seeking strategies to create stands that can adapt to new climatic conditions and simultaneously help mitigate increases in atmospheric CO₂. Adaptation strategies often focus on enhancing resilience by maximizing forest complexity in terms of species composition and size structure, while mitigation involves sustaining carbon...

Author(s):

John B. Bradford; Douglas N. Kastendick

Year:

2010

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Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 40: 401-409.

Guidelines for regenerating southern pine beetle spots

Southern pine forests are of exceptional commercial and ecological importance to the United States, and the southern pine beetle is their most serious insect pest. The southern pine beetle generally kills overstory pines, causing spots of tree mortality that are unpredictable in time and space and frequently disruptive to management activities and goals. The canopy...

Author(s):

J.C.G. Goelz; B.L. Strom; J.P. Barnett; M.A. Sword Sayer

Year:

2012

Keywords:

Forest management, overstory pines, regeneration, residual stands, southern pine beetle spots

Source:

Gen. Tech. Rep. SRS-153. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Southern Research Station. 11 p.

Forest management for mitigation and adaptation: insights from long-term silvicultural experiments

Developing management strategies for addressing global climate change has become an increasingly important issue influencing forest management around the globe. Currently, management approaches are being proposed that intend to (1) mitigate climate change by enhancing forest carbon stores and (2) foster adaptation by maintaining compositionally and structurally complex...

Author(s):

Anthony W. D'Amato; John B. Bradford; Shawn Fraver; Brian J. Palik

Year:

2011

Keywords:

carbon storage, climate change adaptation, forest thinning, selection methods, northern hardwoods, Pinus resinosa

Source:

Forest Ecology and Management. 262: 803-816.

Multi-scale evaluation of the environmental controls on burn probability in a southern Sierra Nevada landscape

We examined the scale-dependent relationship between spatial fire likelihood or burn probability (BP) and some key environmental controls in the southern Sierra Nevada, California, USA. Continuous BP estimates were generated using a fire simulation model. The correspondence between BP (dependent variable) and elevation, ignition density, fuels and aspect was evaluated...

Author(s):

Sean A. Parks; Marc-Andre Parisien; Carol Miller

Year:

2011

Keywords:

fire regime, fuels, ignitions, spatial scale, topography

Source:

International Journal of Wildland Fire. 20: 815-828.

Quantifying understorey vegetation in the US Lake States: a proposed framework to inform regional forest carbon stocks

The contribution of understorey vegetation (UVEG) to forest ecosystem biomass and carbon (C) across diverse forest types has, to date, eluded quantification at regional and national scales. Efforts to quantify UVEG C have been limited to field-intensive studies or broad-scalemodelling approaches lacking fieldmeasurements. Although large-scale inventories of UVEG C are...

Author(s):

Matthew B. Russell; Anthony W. D'Amato; Bethany K. Schulz; Christopher W. Woodall; Grant M. Domke; John B. Bradford

Year:

2014

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Source:

Forestry

Is U.S. climatic diversity well represented within the existing federal protection network?

Establishing protection networks to ensure that biodiversity and associated ecosystem services persist under changing environments is a major challenge for conservation planning. The potential consequences of altered climates for the structure and function of ecosystems necessitates new and complementary approaches be incorporated into traditional conservation plans....

Author(s):

Enric Batllori; Carol Miller; Marc-Andre Parisien; Sean A. Parks; Max A. Moritz

Year:

2014

Keywords:

climate classification, climate rarity, conservation, gap analysis, principal components analysis, protection network

Source:

Ecological Applications. 24(8): 1898-1907.

What people value: an ecosystem services approach to managing public lands

Since 1960, the Forest Service has been guided by the multiple-use concept, which recognizes five major uses for public lands?timber, water, range, recreation, and fish and wildlife habitat?and mandates that all five should be equally considered in management plans. In recent decades, however, it has become evident that people also value many other benefits offered by...

Author(s):

Marie Oliver; Robert Deal; Nikola Smith; Dale Blahna; Jeff Kline

Year:

2016

Keywords:

Source:

Science Findings 188. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 5 p.

Using risk analysis to reveal opportunities for the management of unplanned ignitions in wilderness

A goal of fire management in wilderness is to allow fire to play its natural ecological role without intervention. Unfortunately, most unplanned ignitions in wilderness are suppressed, in part because of the risk they might pose to values outside of the wilderness. We capitalize on recent advances in fire risk analysis to demonstrate a risk-based approach for revealing...

Author(s):

Kevin Barnett; Carol Miller; Tyron J. Venn

Year:

2016

Keywords:

wildland fire, exposure analysis, spatial fire planning, escape probability

Source:

Journal of Forestry. 114(6): 610-618.

Chapter 7 - Policies and regulations concerning non-timber forest products

The United States regulatory landscape for managing nontimber forest products (NTFPs) is as complex as the broad spectrum of harvesters, consumers, species, and products that make up this category. This overview briefy highlights some of the important historical foundations of United States natural resource laws and introduces more recent concepts and attitudes to...

Author(s):

Patricia De Angelis; Sharon Nygaard-Scott; James Chamberlain; Sharofa Crandall; Frank K. Lake; Rebecca J. McLain; Christine Mitchell; Amit R. Patel

Year:

2018

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Source:

In: Assessment of nontimber forest products in the United States under changing conditions. General Technical Report SRS-232, USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station.

Evaluating risks and benefits of wildland fire at landscape scales

Fire suppression has resulted in severe management challenges, especially in the wildland-urban interface zone. Fire managers seek to reduce fuels and risks in the interface zone, while striving to return the natural role of fire to wildland ecosystems. Managers must balance the benefits of wildland fire on ecosystem health against the values that need to be protected...

Author(s):

Carol Miller; Peter B. Landres; Paul B. Alaback

Year:

2000

Keywords:

wildland-urban interface, wildland fire use, GIS model

Source:

In: Neuenschwander, Leon F.; Ryan, Kevin C., tech. eds. Crossing the millenium: integrating spatial technologies and ecological principles for a new age in fire management: Proceedings, Joint Fire Sciences conference and workshop; June 15-17, 1999, Boise, ID. Boise, ID: University of Idaho. 10 p

Tree age, disturbance history, and carbon stocks and fluxes in subalpine Rocky Mountain forests

Forest carbon stocks and fluxes vary with forest age, and relationships with forest age are often used to estimate fluxes for regional or national carbon inventories. Two methods are commonly used to estimate forest age: observed tree age or time since a known disturbance. To clarify the relationships between tree age, time since disturbance and forest carbon storage...

Author(s):

J.B. Bradford; R.A. Birdsey; L.A. Joyce; M.G. Ryan

Year:

2008

Keywords:

carbon dynamics, disturbance, forest age, scaling

Source:

Global Change Biology. 14: 2882-2897.

Spatial bottom-up controls on fire likelihood vary across western North America

The unique nature of landscapes has challenged our ability to make generalizations about the effects of bottom-up controls on fire regimes. For four geographically distinct fire-prone landscapes in western North America, we used a consistent simulation approach to quantify the influence of three key bottom-up factors, ignitions, fuels, and topography, on spatial...

Author(s):

Sean A. Parks; Marc-Andre Parisien; Carol Miller

Year:

2012

Keywords:

burn probability, fire, fuels, ignitions, simulation modeling, topography

Source:

Ecosphere. 3(1): Article 12.

Contributions of ignitions, fuels, and weather to the spatial patterns of burn probability of a boreal landscape

The spatial pattern of fire observed across boreal landscapes is the outcome of complex interactions among components of the fire environment. We investigated how the naturally occurring patterns of ignitions, fuels, and weather generate spatial pattern of burn probability (BP) in a large and highly fireprone boreal landscape of western Canada, Wood Buffalo National...

Author(s):

Marc-Andre Parisien; Sean A. Parks; Carol Miller; Meg A. Krawchuck; Mark Heathcott; Max A. Moritz

Year:

2011

Keywords:

fire, boreal forest, ignitions, fuels, weather, burn probability, simulation modeling, structural equation modeling

Source:

Ecosystems. 14: 1141-1155.

Previous fires moderate burn severity of subsequent wildland fires in two large western US wilderness areas

Wildland fire is an important natural process in many ecosystems. However, fire exclusion has reduced frequency of fire and area burned in many dry forest types, which may affect vegetation structure and composition, and potential fire behavior. In forests of the western U.S., these effects pose a challenge for fire and land managers who seek to restore the ecological...

Author(s):

Sean A. Parks; Carol Miller; Cara R. Nelson; Zachary A. Holden

Year:

2014

Keywords:

burn severity, dNBR, fire history, interacting fires, reburn, wilderness, wildland fire use

Source:

Ecosystems. 17: 29-42.

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Representing climate, disturbance, and vegetation interactions in landscape models

Linkages to Public Land Framework: toward embedding humans in ecosystem analyses by using “inside-out social assessment.”

Barriers to wildland fire use: A preliminary problem analysis

Retrospective fire modeling: Quantifying the impacts of fire suppression

Recreational use in dispersed public lands measured using social media data and on-site counts

A comparison of thinning methods in red pine: consequences for stand-level growth and tree diameter

Age-related patterns of forest complexity and carbon storage in pine and aspen-birch ecosystems of northern Minnesota, USA

Guidelines for regenerating southern pine beetle spots

Forest management for mitigation and adaptation: insights from long-term silvicultural experiments

Multi-scale evaluation of the environmental controls on burn probability in a southern Sierra Nevada landscape

Quantifying understorey vegetation in the US Lake States: a proposed framework to inform regional forest carbon stocks

Is U.S. climatic diversity well represented within the existing federal protection network?

What people value: an ecosystem services approach to managing public lands

Using risk analysis to reveal opportunities for the management of unplanned ignitions in wilderness

Chapter 7 - Policies and regulations concerning non-timber forest products

Evaluating risks and benefits of wildland fire at landscape scales

Tree age, disturbance history, and carbon stocks and fluxes in subalpine Rocky Mountain forests

Spatial bottom-up controls on fire likelihood vary across western North America

Contributions of ignitions, fuels, and weather to the spatial patterns of burn probability of a boreal landscape

Previous fires moderate burn severity of subsequent wildland fires in two large western US wilderness areas

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