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Chapter 15: A desired future condition for Sierra Nevada Forests

An unexpected outcome of U.S. Forest Service General Technical Report PSW-GTR 220, "An Ecosystem Management Strategy for Sierran Mixed-Conifer Forests" (North et al. 2009), was how it generated discussion about a desired future condition for Sierra Nevada forests. The paper did not convey leading-edge research results or provide an exhaustive literature...

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M. North

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2012

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In: North, Malcolm, ed. 2012. Managing Sierra Nevada forests. Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-GTR-237. Albany, CA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station. pp. 165-175

Chapter 14: Clarifying concepts

There are some topics that continue to be raised by managers that were not sufficiently addressed in the first and second edition of U.S. Forest Service General Technical Report GTR 220 "An Ecosystem Management Strategy for Sierran Mixed-Conifer Forests." All of them concern issues about where and when GTR 220 concepts apply and how these concepts relate to...

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M. North; P. Stine

Year:

2012

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In: North, Malcolm, ed. 2012. Managing Sierra Nevada forests. Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-GTR-237. Albany, CA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station. pp. 149-164

Topographic variation in structure of mixed-conifer forests under an active-fire regime

Management efforts to promote forest resiliency as climate changes have often used historical forest conditions to provide general guidance for fuels reduction and forest restoration treatments. However, it has been difficult to identify what stand conditions might be fire and drought resilient because historical data and reconstruction studies are generally limited to...

Author(s):

Jamie Lydersen; Malcolm North

Year:

2012

Keywords:

fire frequency, mixed-conifer forest, Sierra Nevada, topography, tree mortality, wildfire

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Ecosystems 15: 1134-1146

Chapter 10: Geographic information system landscape analysis using GTR 220 concepts

Forest Service General Technical Report "An Ecosystem Management Strategy for Sierran Mixed-Conifer Forests" (hereafter GTR 220) (North et al. 2009) emphasizes increasing forest heterogeneity throughout a range of spatial scales including within-stand microsites, individual stands, watersheds, and entire landscapes. For fuels reduction, various landscape...

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M. North; R.M. Boynton; P.A. Stine; K.F. Shipley; E.C. Underwood; N.E. Roth; J.H. Viers; J.F. Quinn

Year:

2012

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In: North, Malcolm, ed. 2012. Managing Sierra Nevada forests. Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-GTR-237. Albany, CA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station. pp. 107-115

Chapter 9: Marking and assessing forest heterogeneity

Marking guidelines commonly use stocking level, crown class, and species preferences to meet management objectives. Traditionally, these guidelines were applied across the extent of the stand. Current marking guidelines are more flexible, responding to within-stand variability with different stocking level, crown class, and species preference guidelines in...

Author(s):

M. North; J. Sherlock

Year:

2012

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In: North, Malcolm, ed. 2012. Managing Sierra Nevada forests. Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-GTR-237. Albany, CA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station. pp. 95-105

SIMPPLLE, version 2.5 user's guide

SIMPPLLE is a spatially-interactive, dynamic landscape modeling system for projecting temporal changes in the spatial distribution of vegetation in response to insects, disease, wildland fire, and other natural and management-caused disturbances. SIMPPLLE is designed to provide a balance between incorporating enough complexity and interactions in modeling ecosystem...

Author(s):

Jimmie D. Chew; Kirk Moeller; Christine Stalling

Year:

2012

Keywords:

dynamic landscape simulation, forest management, simulation models, resource management, landscape ecology, decision support, collaborative modeling

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Gen. Tech. Rep. RMRS-GTR-268WWW. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 363 p.

Managing Sierra Nevada forests

There has been widespread interest in applying new forest practices based on concepts presented in U.S. Forest Service General Technical Report PSW-GTR-220, "An Ecosystem Management Strategy for Sierran Mixed-Conifer Forests." This collection of papers (PSW-GTR-237) summarizes the state of the science in some topics relevant to this forest management approach...

Author(s):

Malcolm North

Year:

2012

Keywords:

Ecosystem restoration, forest resilience, heterogeneity, stakeholder collaboration

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Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-GTR-237. Albany, CA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station. 184 p

Diurnal flight response of the walnut twig beetle, Pityophthorus juglandis, to pheromone-baited traps in two northern California walnut habitats

The diurnal flight response of the walnut twig beetle, Pityophthorus juglandis Blackman (Coleoptera: Scolytidae), was assessed during two seasonal periods at two sites in northern California. Males and females flew primarily at dusk in response to aggregation pheromone-baited traps during late June/early July, and the percentage of beetles that...

Author(s):

Steven J. Seybold; Jennifer A. King; Daren R. Harris; Lori J. Nelson; Shakeeb M. Hamud; Yigen Chen

Year:

2012

Keywords:

Aggregation pheromone, bark beetle, California, crepuscular flight activity, diurnal flight behavior, Geosmithia morbida, Juglans hindsii, northern California black walnut, pheromone-trapping, Pityophthorus juglandis, thousand cankers disease, walnut twig beetle.

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Pan-Pac. Entomol. 88:231–247

Determining suitable locations for seed transfer under climate change: a global quantitative method

Changing climate conditions will complicate efforts to match seed sources with the environments to which they are best adapted. Tree species distributions may have to shift to match new environmental conditions, potentially requiring the establishment of some species entirely outside of their current distributions to thrive. Even within the portions of tree species...

Author(s):

Kevin M. Potter; William W. Hargrove

Year:

2012

Keywords:

Restoration, Conservation genetics, , Quantitative ecoregions, , Multivariate clustering, , Seed sources, , Human-assisted migration

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New Forests 43:581–599

Large-scale patterns of insect and disease activity in the conterminous United States and Alaska, 2006

A nalyzing patterns of forest pest infestation is necessary for monitoring the health of forested ecosystems because of the impact insects and diseases can have on forest structure and composition, biodiversity, and species distributions (Castello and others 1995). In particular, introduced nonnative insects and diseases can extensively damage the diversity, ecology,...

Author(s):

Kevin M. Potter; Frank H. Koch

Year:

2012

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Forest health monitoring: 2008 national technical report. General Technical Report SRS-158. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Southern Research Station

Chapter 12: The variable-density thinning study at Stanislaus-Tuolumne Experimental Forest

Prior to historical logging and fire suppression, forests of the Sierra Nevada were extremely heterogeneous. Frequent low- to moderate-intensity fire was partly responsible for this heterogeneity, which in turn helped make forests resilient to high-severity stand-replacing events. Early observers of forests on the west slope of the Sierra Nevada noted the...

Author(s):

E. Knapp; M. North; M. Benech; B. Estes

Year:

2012

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In: North, Malcolm, ed. 2012. Managing Sierra Nevada forests. Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-GTR-237. Albany, CA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station. pp. 127-139

Evolutionary diversity and phylogenetic community structure of forest trees across the conterminous United States

The Forest Health Monitoring (FHM) Program?s annual national technical report has three objectives: (1) to present forest health status and trends from a national or a multi-State regional perspective using a variety of sources, (2) to introduce new techniques for analyzing forest health data, and (3) to report results of recently completed evaluation monitoring...

Author(s):

Kevin M. Potter

Year:

2012

Keywords:

Drought, evaluation monitoring, fire, forest health, forest insects and disease, soil, tree mortality

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General Technical Report SRS-158. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Southern Research Station.

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Chapter 15: A desired future condition for Sierra Nevada Forests

Chapter 14: Clarifying concepts

Topographic variation in structure of mixed-conifer forests under an active-fire regime

Chapter 10: Geographic information system landscape analysis using GTR 220 concepts

Chapter 9: Marking and assessing forest heterogeneity

SIMPPLLE, version 2.5 user's guide

Managing Sierra Nevada forests

Diurnal flight response of the walnut twig beetle, Pityophthorus juglandis, to pheromone-baited traps in two northern California walnut habitats

Determining suitable locations for seed transfer under climate change: a global quantitative method

Large-scale patterns of insect and disease activity in the conterminous United States and Alaska, 2006

Chapter 12: The variable-density thinning study at Stanislaus-Tuolumne Experimental Forest

Evolutionary diversity and phylogenetic community structure of forest trees across the conterminous United States

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