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Mitigating climate change through small-scale forestry in the USA: opportunities and challenges

Forest management for carbon sequestration is a low-cost, low-technology, relatively easy way to help mitigate global climate change that can be adopted now while additional long-term solutions are developed. Carbon-oriented management of forests also offers forest owners an opportunity to obtain a new source of income, and commonly has environmental co-benefits. The...

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Author(s):

Susan Charnley; David Diaz; Hannah Gosnell

Year:

2010

Keywords:

family forest owners, forest carbon offsets, carbon markets

Source:

Small-scale Forestry. 9: 445-462

Objective and perceived wildfire risk and its influence on private forest landowners’ fuel reduction activities in Oregon’s (USA) ponderosa pine ecoregion

Policymakers seek ways to encourage fuel reduction among private forest landowners to augment similar efforts on federal and state lands. Motivating landowners to contribute to landscape-level wildfire protection requires an understanding of factors that underlie landowner behaviour regarding wildfire. We developed a conceptual framework describing landowners?...

Author(s):

A. Paige Fischer; Jeffrey D. Kline; Alan A. Ager; Susan Charnley; Keith A. Olsen

Year:

2014

Keywords:

fuel treatments, landscape models, non-industrial private forest landowners, wildfire risk, wildland–urban interface.

Source:

International Journal of Wildland Fire

Assessing the role of natural disturbance and forest management on dead wood dynamics in mixed-species stands of central Maine, USA

Dead wood pools are strongly influenced by natural disturbance events, stand development processes, and forest management activities. However, the relative importance of these influences can vary over time. In this study, we evaluate the role of these factors on dead wood biomass pools across several forest management alternatives after 60 years of treatment on the...

Author(s):

Joshua J. Puhlick; Aaron R. Weiskittel; Shawn Fraver; Matthew B. Russell; Laura S. Kenefic

Year:

2016

Keywords:

silviculture, tree mortality, spruce budworm, harvest severity index, woody debris

Source:

Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 46(9): 1092-1102.

Forest structure following tornado damage and salvage logging in northern Maine, USA

Understanding forest structural changes resulting from postdisturbance management practices such as salvage logging is critical for predicting forest recovery and developing appropriate management strategies. In 2013, a tornado and subsequent salvage operations in northern Maine, USA, created three conditions (i.e., treatments) with contrasting forest structure:...

Author(s):

Shawn Fraver; Kevin J. Dodds; Laura S. Kenefic; Rick Morrill; Robert S. Seymour; Eben Sypitkowski

Year:

2017

Keywords:

fire risk, fuel loads, pit-and-mound, Picea rubens, wind disturbance, woody debris

Source:

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Environmental justice and U.S. Forest Service hazardous fuels reduction: A spatial method for impact assessment of federal resource management actions

Natural resource managers of federal lands in the USA are often tasked with various forms of social and economic impact analysis. Federal agencies in the USA also have a mandate to analyze the potential environmental justice consequences of their activities. Relatively little is known about the environmental justice impacts of natural resource management in rural areas...

Author(s):

Mark D.O. Adams; Susan Charnley

Year:

2018

Keywords:

Environmental justice, rural populations, U.S. Census, natural resource management, U.S. Forest Service, hazardous fuels reduction.

Source:

Applied Geography. 90: 257-271.

Survey of beaver-related restoration practices in rangeland streams of the western USA

Poor condition of many streams and concerns about future droughts in the arid and semi-arid western USA have motivated novel restoration strategies aimed at accelerating recovery and increasing water resources. Translocation of beavers into formerly occupied habitats, restoration activities encouraging beaver recolonization, and instream structures mimicking the...

Author(s):

David S. Pilliod; Ashley T. Rohde; Susan Charnley; Rachael R. Davee; Jason B. Dunham; Hannah Gosnell; Gordon E. Grant; Mark B. Hausner; Justin L. Huntington; Caroline Nash

Year:

2018

Keywords:

Beaver dam analog, castor canadensis, check-dam, incised stream, water, wildlife.

Source:

Environmental Management. 61(1): 58-68.

Development of input data layers for the FARSITE fire growth model for the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness Complex, USA

Fuel and vegetation spatial data layers required by the spatially explicit fire growth model FARSITE were developed for all lands in and around the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness Area in Idaho and Montana. Satellite imagery and terrain modeling were used to create the three base vegetation spatial data layers of potential vegetation, cover type, and structural stage....

Author(s):

Robert E. Keane; Janice L. Garner; Kirsten M. Schmidt; Donald G. Long; James P. Menakis; Mark A. Finney

Year:

1998

Keywords:

fuels mapping, fire behavior fuel model, GIS, terrain modeling, satellite imagery

Source:

Gen. Tech. Rep. RMRS-GTR-3. Ogden, UT: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 66 p.

Decaying wood and tree regeneration in the Acadian Forest of Maine, USA

We examined the effect of management history on the availability of decayed downed wood and the use of downed wood as a regeneration substrate in mixed-species stands in the Acadian Forest of Maine. Regeneration of red spruce (Picea rubens Sarg.), eastern hemlock (Tsuga canadensis (L.) Carr.), balsam fir (Abies balsamea L. Mill), and red maple (Acer rubrum L.) was...

Author(s):

Jamie K. Weaver; Laura S. Kenefic; Robert S. Seymour; John C. Brissette

Year:

2009

Keywords:

Decayed downed wood, Regeneration, Silviculture, Eastern hemlock, Red spruce, Balsam fir, Red maple

Source:

Forest Ecology and Management, Volume 257, Issue 7, 22 March 2009, Pages 1623-1628

Nonnative invasive plants in the Penobscot Experimental Forest in Maine, USA: influence of site, silviculture, and land use history

We investigated the occurrence of nonnative invasive plants on approximately 175 ha comprising a long-term, 60-year-old U.S. Forest Service silvicultural experiment and old-field stands in the Penobscot Experimental Forest (PEF) in central Maine. Stands in the silvicultural experiment were never cleared for agriculture, but have been repeatedly partially cut. Our...

Author(s):

Elizabeth Olson; Laura S. Kenefic; Alison C. Dibble; John C. Brissette

Year:

2011

Keywords:

U.S. Forest Service experimental forests, invasive plant, old-field successional forest, Frangula alnus, Lonicera

Source:

Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society. 138(4): 453-464.

Influence of partial harvesting and site factors on the abundance and composition of natural regeneration in the Acadian Forest of Maine, USA

Understanding the factors regulating the composition and abundance of natural regeneration in forest ecosystems is critical to sustainable management worldwide. Using a long-term silvicultural experiment in Maine, we partitioned the variation in natural regeneration and examined the contribution of overstory and understory vegetation (biotic factors), substrate and...

Author(s):

Mohammad Bataineh; Laura Kenefic; Aaron Weiskittel; Robert Wagner; John Brissette

Year:

2013

Keywords:

Silviculture, Environmental factors, Variance-partitioning, Relative importance, Spruce-fir, Northeast

Source:

Forest Ecology and Management. 306: 96-106.

A network approach to assessing social capacity for landscape planning: The case of fire-prone forests in Oregon, USA

tManagement of ecological conditions and processes in multiownership landscapes requires cooperationby diverse stakeholder groups. The structure of organizational networks ? the extent to which networksallow for interaction among organizations within and across ideological and geographic boundaries ?can indicate potential opportunities for cooperation on landscape-...

Author(s):

A. Paige Fischer; Ken Vance-Borland; Lorien Jasny; Kerry E. Grimm; Susan Charnley

Year:

2016

Keywords:

organizational networks, social network analysis, social capital, landscape planning, wildfire management, forest restoration

Source:

Landscape and Urban Planning

Sixty Years of Silviculture in a Northern Conifer Forest in Maine, USA

In 1950, the US Forest Service initiated a cutting practice level (CPL) study on the Penobscot Experimental Forest in Maine on the basis of findings of a national appraisal of forestland management. Silvicultural treatments, including the selection system with 5- and 15-year cutting cycles, fixed diameter-limit cutting, and variants of commercial clearcutting, were...

Author(s):

Nicole Rogers; Laura Kenefic; Mindy Crandall; Robert Seymour; Paul Sendak

Year:

2017

Keywords:

Penobscot Experimental Forest, cutting practice level study, selection system, diameter-limit cutting, red spruce

Source:

Forest Science

Factors influencing organic-horizon carbon pools in mixed-species stands of central Maine, USA

The overall goal of this study was to evaluate the correlation of multiple abiotic and biotic factors with organic-horizon (O-horizon) carbon (C) content on the Penobscot Experimental Forest in central Maine, USA. O-horizon samples were collected and their associated depths were recorded from stands managed with a range of silvicultural and harvesting treatments (i.e...

Author(s):

Joshua J. Puhlick; Shawn Fraver; Ivan J. Fernandez; Aaron R. Weiskittel; Laura S. Kenefic; Randy Kolka; Marie-Cecile Gruselle

Year:

2016

Keywords:

Silviculture, Forest soil, Forest floor, Carbon storage, Bryophytes, Pedotransfer functions

Source:

Forest Ecology and Management. 364: 90-100.

Historical perspective on the influence of wildfire policy, law, and informal institutions on management and forest resilience in a multiownership, frequent-fire, coupled human and natural system in Oregon, USA

We examine the influence of wildfire institutions on management and forest resilience over time, drawing on research from a multiownership, frequent-fire, coupled human and natural system (CHANS) in the eastern Cascades of Oregon, USA. We constructed social-ecological histories of the study area?s three main landowner groups (national forest, private corporate, and...

Author(s):

Michelle M. Steen-Adams; Susan Charnley; Mark D. Adams

Year:

2017

Keywords:

Coupled human and natural system, environmental history, institutions, multiownership landscape, tribal forests, wildfire management.

Source:

Ecology and Society. 22(3)

Species mixture effects in northern red oak-eastern white pine stands in Maine, USA

Growth and yield studies of mixed-species stands lack generality, though mixture effects appear to be most likely in stands of species with contrasting traits and/or with vertical stratification. The northern red oak (Quercus rubra L.) - eastern white pine (Pinus strobus L.) forest type of the US Northeast is dominated by species...

Author(s):

Justin Waskiewicz; Laura Kenefic; Aaron Weiskittel; Robert Seymour

Year:

2013

Keywords:

Overyielding, Additivity, Relative density index, Two-aged stands, Red maple, Eastern hemlock

Source:

Forest Ecology and Management. 298: 71-81.

Flame Retardancy of Chemically Modified Lignin as Functional Additive to Epoxy Nanocomposites

Epoxy printed circuit boards are used in a variety of electronics applications as rigid, thermally stable substrates. Due to the propensity of components on the boards, such as batteries and interconnects, to fail and ignite the epoxy, flame retardant additives are required to minimize fire risk. Currently, industry uses brominated flame retardants, such as TBBPA, to...

Author(s):

John A. Howarter; Gamini P. Mendis; Alex N. Bruce; Jeffrey P. Youngblood; Mark A. Dietenberger; Laura Hasburgh

Year:

2015

Keywords:

Circuit Board epoxy, Phosphorus-based FRT, epoxy lignin composite, Mass Loss Calorimeter, TGA

Source:

In: 26th annual Conference on Recent Advances in Flame retardancy, MAY 18 - 20, 2015 SHERATON STAMFORD HOTEL, STAMFORD CT USA; Session 3: Nanocomposites, 2015; pp. 2-1 - 2-8.

Using an agent-based model to examine forest management outcomes in a fire-prone landscape in Oregon, USA

Fire-prone landscapes present many challenges for both managers and policy makers in developing adaptive behaviors and institutions. We used a coupled human and natural systems framework and an agent-based landscape model to examine how alternative management scenarios affect fire and ecosystem services metrics in a fire-prone multiownership landscape in the eastern...

Author(s):

Thomas A. Spies; Eric White; Alan Ager; Jeffrey D. Kline; John P. Bolte; Emily K. Platt; Keith A. Olsen; Robert J. Pabst; Ana M. G. Barros; John D. Bailey; Susan Charnley; Anita T. Morzillo; Jennifer Koch; Michelle M. Steen-Adams; Peter H. Singleton; James Sulzman; Cynthia Schwartz; Blair Csuti

Year:

2017

Keywords:

adaptation, ecosystem services, landscape, management, wildfire

Source:

Ecology and Society. 22(1): 25.

Economic feasibility of timber harvesting in lowlands

Northern white-cedar (Thuja occidentalis L.) is an important commercial tree species in the New England and Great Lakes regions of the USA and adjacent Canada, yet cedar-dominated stands are comparatively less harvested. This is mainly attributed to the operational challenges associated with fragile and poorly drained soils in lowlands where the...

Author(s):

Alex Kunnathu George; Anil Raj Kizha; Laura Kenefic

Year:

2019

Keywords:

cedar, cut-to-length, forest operations, sensitivity analysis, winter harvest

Source:

In: Czupy, Imre, ed. Exceeding the vision: forest mechanisation of the future. Proceedings of the 52nd International Symposium on Forestry Mechanization. Sopron, Hungary: University of Sopron Press: 379-393.

Rebuilding and new housing development after wildfire

The number of wildland-urban interface communities affected by wildfire is increasing, and both wildfire suppression and losses are costly. However, little is known about post-wildfire response by homeowners and communities after buildings are lost. Our goal was to characterise rebuilding and new development after wildfires across the conterminous United States. We...

Author(s):

Patricia M. Alexandre; Miranda H. Mockrin; Susan I. Stewart; Roger B. Hammer; Volker C. Radeloff

Year:

2015

Keywords:

building digitalisation, fire perimeters, fire-adapted communities, post-wildfire community response, rebuilding patterns, wildland-urban interface

Source:

International Journal of Wildland Fire. 24: 138-149.

Northeastern conifer research: Multiple species and multiple values

The northern conifer, or spruce-fir, forest of the northeastern USA and adjacent Canada has had a defining influence on the economy and culture of the region. The same can be said of the USDA Forest Service?s research in this forest, which began more than 100 years ago. Forest Service research has evolved since that time in response to changes in the needs and...

Author(s):

Laura S. Kenefic; John C. Brissette; Richard W. Judd

Year:

2014

Keywords:

Acadian Forest, Penobscot Experimental Forest, Silviculture, Red spruce, Balsam fir

Source:

In: Hayes, D.C.; Stout, S.L.; Crawford, R.H.; Hoover, A.P., eds. USDA Forest Service experimental forests and ranges research for the long term. New York, NY: Springer: 103-127.

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Mitigating climate change through small-scale forestry in the USA: opportunities and challenges

Objective and perceived wildfire risk and its influence on private forest landowners’ fuel reduction activities in Oregon’s (USA) ponderosa pine ecoregion

Assessing the role of natural disturbance and forest management on dead wood dynamics in mixed-species stands of central Maine, USA

Forest structure following tornado damage and salvage logging in northern Maine, USA

Environmental justice and U.S. Forest Service hazardous fuels reduction: A spatial method for impact assessment of federal resource management actions

Survey of beaver-related restoration practices in rangeland streams of the western USA

Development of input data layers for the FARSITE fire growth model for the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness Complex, USA

Decaying wood and tree regeneration in the Acadian Forest of Maine, USA

Nonnative invasive plants in the Penobscot Experimental Forest in Maine, USA: influence of site, silviculture, and land use history

Influence of partial harvesting and site factors on the abundance and composition of natural regeneration in the Acadian Forest of Maine, USA

A network approach to assessing social capacity for landscape planning: The case of fire-prone forests in Oregon, USA

Sixty Years of Silviculture in a Northern Conifer Forest in Maine, USA

Factors influencing organic-horizon carbon pools in mixed-species stands of central Maine, USA

Historical perspective on the influence of wildfire policy, law, and informal institutions on management and forest resilience in a multiownership, frequent-fire, coupled human and natural system in Oregon, USA

Species mixture effects in northern red oak-eastern white pine stands in Maine, USA

Flame Retardancy of Chemically Modified Lignin as Functional Additive to Epoxy Nanocomposites

Using an agent-based model to examine forest management outcomes in a fire-prone landscape in Oregon, USA

Economic feasibility of timber harvesting in lowlands

Rebuilding and new housing development after wildfire

Northeastern conifer research: Multiple species and multiple values

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