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Chapter 4 - Cultural dimensions of nontimber products

Nontimber forest products (NTFPs) provide cultural ecosystem services for peoples throughout the United States and its affliated territories. Cultural ecosystem services of NTFPs are those tangible and intangible functions that contribute to the traditions, livelihoods, and wellbeing of social groups including, but not limited to, indigenous and minority communities (...

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Author(s):

Frank K. Lake; Marla R. Emery; Michelle J. Baumflek; Kathleen S. Friday; Katie Kamelamela; Linda Kruger; Nicole Grewe; Jonathan Gilbert; Nicholas J. Reo

Year:

2018

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In: Chamberlain, James L.; Emery, Marla R.; Patel-Weynand, Toral, eds. 2018. Assessment of nontimber forest products in the United States under changing conditions. Gen. Tech. Rep. SRS–232. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Research Station

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

Source:

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

Surface fuel litterfall and decomposition in the northern Rocky Mountains, U.S.A.

Surface fuel deposition and decomposition rates are important to fire management and research because they can define the longevity of fuel treatments in time and space and they can be used to design, build, test, and validate complex fire and ecosystem models useful in evaluating management alternatives. We determined rates of surface fuel litterfall and decomposition...

Author(s):

Robert E. Keane

Year:

2008

Keywords:

fuel dynamics, fuel accumulation, deposition, decay, downed dead woody, simulation modeling

Source:

Research Paper RMRS-RP-70. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 22 p.

A visual training tool for the Photoload sampling technique

This visual training aid is designed to provide Photoload users a tool to increase the accuracy of fuel loading estimations when using the Photoload technique. The Photoload Sampling Technique (RMRS-GTR-190) provides fire managers a sampling method for obtaining consistent, accurate, inexpensive, and quick estimates of fuel loading. It is designed to require only one...

Author(s):

Violet J. Holley; Robert E. Keane

Year:

2010

Keywords:

fuel load loading, fuel sampling, fuelbeds, photographs, wildland fire

Source:

Gen. Tech. Rep. RMRS-GTR-242. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 235 p.

Catastrophic fires in Russian forests

We evaluated the contribution of catastrophic fires to the total burned area and the amount of tree mortality in Russia since the 1970?s. Such fires occurred in the central regions of European Russia (1972, 1976, 1989, 2002, 2010), Khabarovsk krai (1976, 1988, 1998), Amur region (1997-2002), Republics of Yakutia and Tuva (2002), Magadan and Kamchatka oblast (1984, 2001...

Author(s):

A. I. Sukhinin; D. J. McRae; B. J. Stocks; S. G. Conard; WeiMin Hao; A. J. Soja; D. Cahoon

Year:

2010

Keywords:

middle atmosphere energy deposition, natural hazards, remote sensing, land/atmosphere interactions

Source:

American Geophysical Union. Fall Meeting: Abstract #GC33A-0931.

Photostability and moisture uptake properties of wood veneers coated with a combination of thin sol-gel films and light stabilizers

In recent years, there has been increased interest in the use of inorganic UV blocking nanoparticles for photostabilization of wood surfaces. Photostability and moisture uptake properties of wood veneers coated with a combination of hybrid inorganic-organic thin sol-gel films and organic light stabilizers was investigated. The light stabilizers were applied by brushing...

Author(s):

Mandla A. Tshabalala; Ryan Libert; Christian M. Schaller

Year:

2011

Keywords:

Wood surfaces, wood deterioration, coatings, thin films, moisture, water repellents, wood moisture, surface chemistry, weathering, color fading, ultraviolet radiation, veneers, veneering, aluminum, crosslinking, lignin, resorcinol, Pinus radiata, sol-gel deposition, moisture content, methyltrimethoxysilane, resistance to decay, wood decay, durability, discoloration, photostabilizers, hexadecyltrimethoxysilane, aluminum isopropoxide, softwoods, radiata pine, hybrid inorganic-organic thin films, light stabilizers, sol-gel precursors, UV absorber, weathering, wood coatings

Source:

Holzforschung. Vol. 65, no. 2 (Mar. 2011): p. 215-220.

Numerical simulation of crown fire hazard following bark beetle-caused mortality in lodgepole pine forests

The purpose of this study is to investigate how varying amounts of MPB-induced tree mortality affects the amount of crown fuels consumed and the fire intensity across a range of lodgepole pine stands of different tree density and spatial arrangements during the early stages of a bark beetle outbreak. Unlike past studies which have relied on semi-empirical or empirical...

Author(s):

Chad Hoffman; Russell Parsons; Penny Morgan; Ruddy Mell

Year:

2010

Keywords:

crown fire, bark beetle, lodgepole pine forests

Source:

In: Wade, Dale D.; Robinson, Mikel L., eds. Proceedings of 3rd Fire Behavior and Fuels Conference; 25-29 October 2010; Spokane, WA. Birmingham, AL: International Association of Wildland Fire. 1 p.

Spatial scaling of wildland fuels for six forest and rangeland ecosystems of the northern Rocky Mountains, USA

Wildland fuels are important to fire managers because they can be manipulated to achieve management goals, such as restoring ecosystems, decreasing fire intensity, minimizing plant mortality, and reducing erosion. However, it is difficult to accurately measure, describe, and map wildland fuels because of the great variability of wildland fuelbed properties over space...

Author(s):

Robert E. Keane; Kathy Gray; Valentina Bacciu; Signe Leirfallom

Year:

2012

Keywords:

wildland fire, spatial variability, biomass, canopy fuel, woody debris, fuel loading, scale

Source:

Landscape Ecology. 27: 1213-1234.

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

Source:

New Forests 43:581–599

An economic assessment of mountain pine beetle timber salvage in the west

The mountain pine beetle has killed lodgepole pine and other species of pines in the western United States in an ongoing epidemic. The most heavily affected states are in the interior West: Colorado, Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming, with smaller losses elsewhere. Timber salvage is one response to the epidemic, which could generate revenues for affected landowners and...

Author(s):

Jeffrey P. Prestemon; Karen L. Abt; Kevin M. Potter; Frank H. Koch

Year:

2013

Keywords:

insects, wood products, markets, epidemic, spatial equilibrium

Source:

Western Journal of Applied Forestry 28(4):143-153

South Dakota's Forests 2010

The second completed annual inventory of South Dakota's forests reports 1.9 million acres of forest land. Softwood forests make up 68 percent of the total forest land area, with the ponderosa pine forest type by itself accounting for 60 percent of the total.

Author(s):

Ronald J. Piva; Brian F. Walters; Douglas D. Haugan; Gregory J. Josten; Brett J. Butler; Susan J. Crocker; Grant M. Domke; Mark A. Hatfield; Cassandra M. Kurtz; Andrew J. Lister; Tonya W. Lister; W. Keith Moser; Mark D. Nelson; Christopher W. Woodall

Year:

2013

Keywords:

annual inventory, forest area, forest health, forest products, South Dakota

Source:

Resour. Bull. NRS-81. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station. 60 p.

Simulated western spruce budworm defoliation reduces torching and crowning potential: A sensitivity analysis using a physics-based fire model

The widespread, native defoliator western spruce budworm (Choristoneura occidentalis Freeman) reduces canopy fuels, which might affect the potential for surface fires to torch (ignite the crowns of individual trees) or crown (spread between tree crowns). However, the effects of defoliation on fire behaviour are poorly understood. We used a physics-based fire model to...

Author(s):

Gregory M. Cohn; Russell A. Parsons; Emily K. Heyerdahl; Daniel G. Gavin; Aquila Flower

Year:

2014

Keywords:

canopy bulk density, CFD, Computational Fluid Dynamic model, critical surface fire intensity, Douglas-fir, fire behaviour, fuel moisture, surface fire intensity, WFDS, wildland-urban interface fire dynamic simulator

Source:

International Journal of Wildland Fire. 23: 709-720.

Resource use, dependence and vulnerability: community-resource linkages on Alaska's Tongass National Forest

Understanding how rural communities use and depend upon local natural resources is a critical factor in developing policies to sustain the long-term viability of human and natural systems. Such ?community-resource? linkages are particularly important in Alaska, where rural communities ? many of them comprised of indigenous Alaskan Natives ? are highly dependent upon...

Author(s):

E.T. Mekbeb; R.J. Lilieholm; D.J. Blahna; L.E. Kruger

Year:

2009

Keywords:

economics, ecosystem management, environmental services, timber dependent communities, resilience, social capital, sustainable development.

Source:

WIT Transaction on Ecology and the Environment. 122: 263-272.

Nuclear genetic variation across the range of ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa): Phylogeographic, taxonomic and conservation implications

Ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) is among the most broadly distributed conifer species of western North America, where it possesses considerable ecological, esthetic, and commercial value. It exhibits complicated patterns of morphological and genetic variation, suggesting that it may be in the process of differentiating into distinct regional...

Author(s):

Kevin M. Potter; Valerie D. Hipkins; Mary F. Mahalovich; Robert E. Means

Year:

2015

Keywords:

Biogeography . Gene conservation . Inbreeding . Isozymes . Microevolution . Microsatellites

Source:

Tree Genetics & Genomes (2015) 11:38

Final report for SERDP project RC-1648: new tools for estimating and managing local/regional air quality impacts of prescribed burns. University of California - Riverside

Gaseous and particulate emissions were measured for a variety of chaparral and Madrean oak woodland fuel types in a series of laboratory and field experiments in California and Arizona. Emissions were measured using state of the art ground-based and aircraft-based sampling systems. Emission factors were determined for many new chemical species for the fuels....

Author(s):

W. Miller; D. Weise; S. Mahalingam; M. Princevac; R. Yokelson; W. Hao; D. Cocker; H. Jung; G. Tonnesen; S. Urbanski; I. Burling; S. Hosseini; S. Akagi

Year:

2013

Keywords:

chaparral, particulate, madrean, Arctostaphylos, Ceanothus, Adenostoma, Quercus, Prosopsis, emissions

Source:

University of California - Riverside. 195 p

Modeling the spatial distribution of forest crown biomass and effects on fire behavior with FUEL3D and WFDS

Crown fire poses challenges to fire managers and can endanger fire fighters. Understanding of how fire interacts with tree crowns is essential to informed decisions about crown fire. Current operational crown fire predictions in the United States assume homogeneous crown fuels. While a new class of research fire models, which model fire behavior with computational...

Author(s):

Russell A. Parsons; William Mell; Peter McCauley

Year:

2010

Keywords:

spatial heterogeneity, crown fuels, fire behavior, plant architecture, CFD

Source:

In: Viegas, D. X., ed. Proceedings of the VI International Conference on Forest Fire Research; 15-18 November 2010; Coimbra, Portugal. Coimbra, Portugal: University of Coimbra. 15 p.

Relationships between moisture, chemistry, and ignition of Pinus contorta needles during the early stages of mountain pine beetle attack

Very little is known about how foliar moisture and chemistry change after a mountain pine beetle attack and even less is known about how these intrinsic foliar characteristics alter foliage ignitability. Here, we examine the fuel characteristics and ignition potential of Pinus contorta (lodgepole pine) foliage during the early stages of a mountain pine beetle attack....

Author(s):

W. Matt Jolly; Russell A. Parsons; Ann M. Hadlow; Greg M. Cohn; Sara S. McAllister; John B. Popp; Robert M. Hubbard; Jose F. Negron

Year:

2012

Keywords:

fuel moisture, carbohydrates, crude fat, mountain pine beetle, flammability, crown fire

Source:

Forest Ecology and Management. 269: 52-59.

Evaluating the performance and mapping of three fuel classification systems using Forest Inventory and Analysis surface fuel measurements

Fuel Loading Models (FLMs) and Fuel Characteristic Classification System (FCCSs) fuelbeds are used throughout wildland fire science and management to simplify fuel inputs into fire behavior and effects models, but they have yet to be thoroughly evaluated with field data. In this study, we used a large dataset of Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) surface fuel...

Author(s):

Robert E. Keane; Jason M. Herynk; Chris Toney; Shawn P. Urbanski; Duncan C. Lutes; Roger D. Ottmar

Year:

2013

Keywords:

fuel loading model, fuel Characteristics Classification System, fuel Type Groups, LANDFIRE fuel mapping, fire effects inputs, surface fuel loadings

Source:

Forest Ecology and Management. 305: 248-263.

Biomass and fire dynamics in a temperate forest-grassland mosaic: Integrating multi-species herbivory, climate, and fire with the FireBGCv2/GrazeBGC system

Landscape fire succession models (LFSMs) predict spatially-explicit interactions between vegetation succession and disturbance, but these models have yet to fully integrate ungulate herbivory as a driver of their processes. We modified a complex LFSM, FireBGCv2, to include a multi-species herbivory module, GrazeBGC. The system is novel in that it explicitly...

Author(s):

Robert A. Riggs; Robert E. Keane; Norm Cimon; Rachel Cook; Lisa Holsinger; John Cook; Timothy DelCurto; L.Scott Baggett; Donald Justice; David Powell; Martin Vavra; Bridgett Naylor

Year:

2015

Keywords:

herbivory, fire, climate, succession, modeling, FireBGCv2

Source:

Ecological Modelling. 296: 57-78.

Light absorption by biomass burning source emissions

Black carbon (BC) aerosol has relatively short atmospheric lifetimes yet plays a unique and important role in the Earth's climate system, making it an important short-term climate mitigation target. Globally, biomass burning is the largest source of BC emissions into the atmosphere. This study investigated the mass absorption efficiency (MAE) of biomass burning BC...

Author(s):

Yuan Cheng; Guenter Engling; Hans Moosmuller; W. Patrick Arnott; Antony L. W. Chen; Cyle E. Wold; Wei Min Hao; Ke-Bin He

Year:

2016

Keywords:

biomass burning, light absorption, black carbon, photoacoustic, liquid-like organics

Source:

Atmospheric Environment. 127: 347-354.

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Chapter 4 - Cultural dimensions of nontimber products

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

Surface fuel litterfall and decomposition in the northern Rocky Mountains, U.S.A.

A visual training tool for the Photoload sampling technique

Catastrophic fires in Russian forests

Photostability and moisture uptake properties of wood veneers coated with a combination of thin sol-gel films and light stabilizers

Numerical simulation of crown fire hazard following bark beetle-caused mortality in lodgepole pine forests

Spatial scaling of wildland fuels for six forest and rangeland ecosystems of the northern Rocky Mountains, USA

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

An economic assessment of mountain pine beetle timber salvage in the west

South Dakota's Forests 2010

Simulated western spruce budworm defoliation reduces torching and crowning potential: A sensitivity analysis using a physics-based fire model

Resource use, dependence and vulnerability: community-resource linkages on Alaska's Tongass National Forest

Nuclear genetic variation across the range of ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa): Phylogeographic, taxonomic and conservation implications

Final report for SERDP project RC-1648: new tools for estimating and managing local/regional air quality impacts of prescribed burns. University of California - Riverside

Modeling the spatial distribution of forest crown biomass and effects on fire behavior with FUEL3D and WFDS

Relationships between moisture, chemistry, and ignition of Pinus contorta needles during the early stages of mountain pine beetle attack

Evaluating the performance and mapping of three fuel classification systems using Forest Inventory and Analysis surface fuel measurements

Biomass and fire dynamics in a temperate forest-grassland mosaic: Integrating multi-species herbivory, climate, and fire with the FireBGCv2/GrazeBGC system

Light absorption by biomass burning source emissions

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