Published Library Resources

This virtual library holds a wide range of urban forestry resources including: research abstracts and full text journal articles, trade magazine articles, CDs, other technology transfer resources, books (or chapters of books), patents, ordinances, theses and dissertations, and conference proceedings.

Partnership opportunities in neighborhood tree planting initiatives: building from local knowledge

Tending to local residents, as well as the trees, in neighborhoods can have positive impacts on tree survivorship, community development, and improved relationships between foresters and the public. This study explored resident involvement in tree planting and maintenance projects on vacant lots ...

Nontraditional techniques for management of overabundant deer populations

There are an increasing number of sites inaccessible to sportsmen where deer (Odocoileus virginianus) herds have become overabundant. This typically occurs in either suburban communities or on corporate or government properties. There are 3 primary reasons for a lack of deer management in ...

New kid in town: the Georgia regional transportation authority and its role in managing growth in metropolitan Georgia

With growth management programs in many states and regions approaching thirty years in operation, n2 it seems about time that the nation’s purportedly most sprawl-threatened metropolitan area, Atlanta, n3 would join their ranks. In 1999, Georgia Governor Roy Barnes proposed and the Georgia ...

Ground truth: the social implications of geographic information systems

Ground Truth: The Social Implications of Geographic Information Systems is, first, a book about the transformation data handling and mapping capabilities that have emerged in the past two decades, and the impact they have had within the discipline of geography. Second, it is a book about the ...

GIS helps manage wildland fire threat

Fire science studies have documented the most important factors in protecting a structure: the relationship between its flammability (i.e., its structure ignition component) form fire brands and the heat transferred from surrounding fuels that are ignited near a structure. Despite early findings ...

Geologic and evolutionary history of drainage systems in the southeastern United States

A discussion of the evolutionary history of drainage systems of the southeastern United States must necessarily include an assessment of the abundance, mode of occurrence, and interaction of water with both the surface and near-surface environment. Similarly, because the attitude and type of rock ...

Fragmentation of Continental United States Forests

We report a multiple-scale analysis of forest fragmentation based on 30-m (0.09 ha pixel-1) land- cover maps for the conterminous United States. Each 0.09-ha unit of forest was classified according to fragmentation indexes measured within the surrounding landscape, for five landscape sizes ...

Forest statistics of the United States, 1987

The Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act (RPA) of 1974 (88 Stat. 476 as amended) directs the U.S. Department of Agriculture to conduct a comprehensive assessment of all forest and range land resources on both public and private lands. Forest resource data collected from periodic ...

Forest integrity at anthropogenic edges: air pollution disrupts bioindicators Forest integrity at anthropogenic edges: air pollution disrupts bioindicators

The response of corticolous lichens, bryophytes, and vascular plants to anthropogenic edges in northern hardwood forest preserves is compared in east-coast and mid-west (NW Minnesota) sites, using micro-epiphytes on red oak (Quercus rubra) and sugar maple (Acer saccharum). The drastically ...

Fire in the rainforest

Three years later, El Ocote in many places wears a flush of green, a façade to those now looking deeper into the ecology of tropical fire. The burning of El Ocote was one of many thousands of tropical fires in an unusually fiery year that scientists say may soon become more the norm. And given ...

Considering fire in Florida's ecosystems

Natural ecosystems in Florida are dependent on periodic fire to maintain the health and diversity of native plants and animals. In the document Circular 1431, wildfire information is summarized for Florida's ecosystems: scrub pine, pine rockland, pine flatwood, dry prairie, marsh, high ...

Urban ecosystems: the human dimension

This paper develops a human ecological perspective on cities and urban regions. It describes the role of cities in the expanding human ecological niche and its implications for sustainable urban development. I have used a new technique, ecological footprint analysis, to convert the material and ...

The ecosystem approach: its use and abuse

In his book, Gene E. Likens spans a wide conceptual arch. Beginning with a description and definition of his subject, he explains and discusses how to approach ecological problems, emphasizes the need for sustained (long-term) ecological studies and ends with a critical assessment of the ...

The Biswell symposium: fire issues and solutions in urban interface and wildland ecosystems

Fire has been and continues to be both a threat and benefit to humans and ecosystems. Recent large or costly fires have occurred in both the wildland-urban interface and in the wildlands. These phenomena are not new events but merely recurrences of long-standing challenges. The values at risk ...

Nest site selection by urban and rural great horned owls in the northeast

We studied nest site and habitat characteristics associated with 75 Great Horned Owl (Bubo virginianus) nests in Connecticut, northern New Jersey, and southeastern New York. Nest sites were categorized as either urban (30) or rural (45) and were compared to data from available habitat (24 random ...

Modeling the wildland/urban interface

Complex vegetation types and the highly variable topography on which our forests grow present special management challenges. These wildland fuel managers have combined many years of study and practical observation with spatial technology to create classification systems for forest fuels and ...

Latinos/hispanics and Federal lands in the Interior Columbia River Basin

Visible and invisible, utilitarian and familial, homogeneous and diverse, minority and majority are adjectives which characterise the Latino population of the interior Columbia River Basin and their use of federal public lands. To understand these adjectives, this report will briefly describe the ...

Landscaping in Florida with fire in mind

Fire is a powerful part of Florida\'s landscape. It can maintain healthy natural ecosystems, but can also turn a home to ashes. Florida\'s frequent lightning strikes and human carelessness guarantee that wildfire will continue to be a factor in rural and subaurban areas. With the steady rise of new ...

Wildfire hazard assessment guide for Florida homeowners

Our growing population continues to spread from our communities into outlying areas where homes and wildland fuels intermingle. Unfortunately, homeowners who have moved to these areas to enjoy the benefits of being “close to nature” typically do not understand that the safety of their ...

Wild cities: it’s a jungle out there

Their projects are examples of the new frontier of environmental studies: urban ecology. Until recently, the only real environments thought worth studying were in “pristine” nature, remote areas as far as possible from the footprint of human beings. Cities, by contrast, were seen ...

Water quality: prevention, identification, and management of diffuse pollution

This book does not want to promote gloom and doom, nor does it want to cause unreasonable limitations on resources. The objective of this book is rather to identify the environmental problems caused by pollution, some of them of a global nature, and to suggest possible feasible and economical ...

Vegetation and microclimatic edge effects in two mixed-mesophytic forest fragments

Forest edges are known to consist of microenvironments that may provide habitat for a different suite of species than forest interiors. Several abiotic attributes of the microenvironment may contribute to this change across the edge to center gradient (e.g., light, air temperature, soil moisture, ...

Urbanization in developing countries' time for action for national forest programs and international development cooperation for the urban millennium

Developing countries are undergoing a transformation from rural to urban. Therefore no developing country can afford to ignore the phenomenon of urbanization, which will be one of the strongest social forces in coming years. Within the next 20 years, more poor and undernourished people in ...

An evaluation of two hazing methods for urban Canada geese

The most common techniques to reduce use of areas by geese include loud noises (e.g., firecrackers and exploders), chasing, harassing with dogs, swan decoys, wires or lines to discourage geese from ponds, and shooting (Conover and Chasko 1985). Of these methods, at least 2 appear to be applicable ...

Understanding fire behavior

Wildland fires pose a serious threat to human life and property when homes are built in fire-prone ecosystems (See fact sheet Fire in the Wildland-Urban Inteface: Considering Fire in Florida's Ecosystems). Several factors influence the intensity of wildfires and their potential to damage or destroy ...

Understanding fire: nature's land management tool

This document describes the ecological benefits of fires: the naturally occurring ones in Florida's lightning-derived fire season from mid-April through July and the prescribed (human-made, deliberate) fires.

This study documents the importance and values of Non-Timber Forest Products (NTFPs) collected and cultivated from trees and forests in urban areas. Through field observations, market observations, and semi-structured interviews, we docume

This study documents the importance and values of “Non-Timber Forest Products” (NTFPs) collected and cultivated from trees and forests in urban areas. Through field observations, market observations, and semi-structured interviews, we document that there are at least 103 non-timber ...

Wildland fire education handbook

Wildland fire is a timely and important topic for many people in Florida. Although fire is a natural process of Florida's ecosystems, with the conversion of natural areas into homes and subdivisions, residents tend to expect fire protection services. As the fires of 1998 and 1999 showed, there can ...

South Florida water: paying the price

Caught wet-handed, a Cape Coral resident argues against a $48.50 ticket for watering her lawn. A drought that began in 1988 forced the Gulf coast city to restrict water usage. All south Florida followed suit this past winter as water supplies reached an all-time low. Just outside Everglades ...

Restoring streams in cities: a guide for planners, policy makers, and citizens

This book describes more options for the treatment of the urban stream than are usually considered by conventional engineering projects. Both the general public and the professional engineer can benefit by being aware of these options. The variety of approaches described can help even seasoned ...

The search for a national land use policy: for the cities' sake

This article offers a survey of federal legislation and statements of policy that have shaped and directed land use and related phenomena, including the location of population, economic growth, and the character of urban development. Part I of this article provides a historical development of land ...

The longleaf pine forests of the southeast: requiem or renaissance?

What once was one of the most extensive forest ecosystems in North America has nearly vanished without notice. But only recently has this loss begun to attract attention and concern (Means and Grow 1985; Noss 1989). The objectives of this paper are to describe the longleaf pine ecosystem and its ...

Responses of urban deer and perceptions of residents to a 50% reduction in local herd density

White tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus)-human conflicts are increasing in urban and suburban areas across the nation. Removal of deer is often proposed as the solution to these conflicts. However, no information is currently available on the responses of urban deer to a herd reduction. We ...

Relative effects of habitat loss and fragmentation on population extinction

In their review of the recent 'explosion of spatially explicit theory' in ecology, Kareiva and Wennergren (1995) suggest a number of emerging principles for species conservation. One of these principles is that how habitats are arranged in space can mitigate the risks of species extinctions from ...

Race, ethnicity and use of the national park system

This paper reviews the social science literature on racial and ethnic minority use of the National Park System. Four theoretical perspectives are examined – the marginality hypothesis, subcultural hypothesis, assimilation theory, and the discrimination hypothesis. Each perspective is ...

Public comment on the ICBEMP Process

More than 83,000 citizens and interested parties heeded the Interior Columbia Basin Ecosystem Management Project’s call for public comment; the content of their letters has been compiled by analysts not involved in the project itself. For every issue raised there were both proponents and ...

Projecting land-use: a summary of models for assessing the effects of community growth and change on land-use patterns.

Many potential clients for land-use change models, such as city and county planners, community groups, and environmental agencies, need better information on the features, strengths, and limitation of various model packages. Because of this growing need, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ...

Proceedings of a symposium on oak woodlands: ecology, management, and urban interface issues

Oak woodlands, the predominant vegetation type in the most inhabitable areas of California, comprise 10 million acres in the State and have been used primarily for livestock production. Today, residential intrusion into oak woodlands results in habitat fragmentation and degradation of economic, ...

Private timberlands: growing demands, shrinking land base

By 2050, US timberland area is projected to be about 3 percent smaller than today due to increasing demands for urban and related land uses from another 126 million people. An increasing area of southern planted pine will be accompanied by a reduction in the area of upland hardwoods. Hardwoods ...

Preditation risks for nesting birds in fragmented coast redwood forest

Loss and fragmentation of habitat remain the principal threats to most temperate zone birds in the United States. The coast redwood (Sequoia sempivirens) forest ecosystem has been highly fragmented. The purpose of this study was to evaluate predation risk in relation to nest type, distance from ...

Exploring urban non-timber forest products: their hidden values & uses of the urban forest

This study documents the importance and values of “Non-Timber Forest Products” (NTFPs) collected and cultivated from trees and forests in urban areas. Through field observations, market observations, and semi-structured interviews, we document that there are at least 103 non-timber ...

Effects of landscape type and extensive management on use of motorway roadsides by small mammals.

We compared the relative abundances of small mammals along extensively managed motorway roadsides (with a narrow mown strip adjacent to the roadway) in three distinct landscapes (garrigue, pine plantation, and intensive farmland), to evaluate the relative effects of management and landscape ...

Economic and environmental evaluation of prescribed burning and alternatives

The purpose of this report is to make an environmental evaluation of prescribed burning and its alternatives, and relate to the economic considerations in the Southern Region of the U.S. Forest Service.

Ecological costs of feral predator control: foxes and rabbits

We used a predator removal experiment to examine the role of red fox (Vulpes vulpes) predation in suppressing rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus) population growth in Namadgi National Park in southeastern Australia. At 2 sites, fox abundance was reduced with a 1080 poisoning campaign maintained over 18 ...

Density and reproduction of burrowning owls along an urban development gradient

We studied population density and reproductive success of a Florida burrowing owl (Athene cunicularia floridana) population on a 35.9-km² study area that spanned a residential development gradient ranging from <2% to >80% of lots with houses in Lee County, Florida, 1987-90. We observed 785 ...

Buffer zone distances to protect foraging and loafing waterbirds from human disturbance in Florida

Sixteen species of waterbirds (Pelecaniformes, Ciconiiformes, Charadriiformes) in north and central Florida were exposed to 4 types of human disturbances (walking, all-terrain vehicle, automobile, boat) to determine buffer zones that minimize flushing of foraging or loafing birds. Both ...

Bringing fire back: the changing regimes of the Appalachian mixed-oak forests

Since vegetative associations stabilized about 4,000 years ago, the Appalachian mixed-oak forests have experienced three profoundly different fire regimes. Periodic, low-intensity surface fires lit by American Indians characterized the first regime, and this regime helped perpetuate oak as one of ...

Bird communities and habitat as ecological indicators of forest condition in regional monitoring

Ecological indicators for long-term monitoring programs are needed to detect and assess changing environmental conditions. We developed and tested community-level environmental indicators for monitoring forest bird populations and associated habitat. We surveyed 197 sampling plots in ...

Beyond the suburbs: a landowners guide to conservation management

It is the 21st Century. With the advent of a new millennium, more and more Minnesotans are finding a piece of the land to call their own be it a large suburban lot, 10-acre hobby farm, or 40 acres of recreational land up north. As one of the private forest landowners in Minnesota who owns 40 ...

Aquatic species and habitats

Continuing human activities threaten the highly prized aquatic resources of the interior Columbia basin. Precipitous declines in native species, particularly Pacific salmon, and a large influx of introduced species have radically altered the composition and distribution of native fishes. ...

Another costly was that America can never win?

In a strange way, America's was against fires is similar to its was against drugs. Many lives have been lost and a great deal of money spent struggling against a fearsome enemy. But too little has been done to address the underlying causes, while a radical solution goes begging.

Land use in America

Land Use in America is designed to help communities throughout the country accommodate growth in better, more environmentally sound, more fiscally responsible ways. Henry L. Diamond and Patrick F. Noonan, two preeminent figures in the modern conservation movement, provide a broad overview of ...

Land-use changes in Southern appalachian landscapes: spatial analysis and forecast evaluation

Understanding human disturbance regimes is crucial for developing effective conservation and ecosystem management plans and for targeting ecological research to areas that define scarce ecosystem services. We evaluate and develop a forecasting model for land-use change in the Southern ...

Land use and vegetation associated with greater praire-chicken leks in an agricultural landscape

Greater prairie-chickens (Tympanuchus cupido pinnatus) have declined dramatically across their range because of habitat loss, primarily agricultural development. In Wisconsin, most prairie-chicken populations are found in grassland reserves managed primarily for prairie-chickens. However, a few ...

Forest thinning challenged as tactic to control fires

 

Firewise construction: design and materials

This publication provides homeowners and builders in the Wildland Urban Interface with design and building techniques that can offer more protection from wildland or forest fires. It is funded by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the Colorado State Forest Service, and the Colorado ...

Contributions of intensively managed forests to the sustainability of wildlife communities in the south

Wildlife communities in the South are increasingly influenced by land use changes associated with human population growth and changes in forest management strategies on both public and private lands. Management of industry-owned landscaped typically result in a diverse mixture of habitat types and ...

Coastal sprawl: the effects of urban design on aquatic ecosystems in the United States

According to popular wisdom, rapid population growth is the biggest threat to the costal environment. It's a classic case of trying to put ten pounds of potatoes in a five-pound sack. Or is it? At first glance, national statistics appear to confirm that perspective. Coastal counties cover 17 ...

Characteristics of feeding sites used by urban-suburban flocks of Canada geese in Connecticut

Nonmigratory populations of Canada geese (Branta Canadensis) have become established in many urban and suburban areas of North America during the last 50 years (Allin 1980, Chasko and Conover 1988). During much of the year, grazing on lawns has been a primary food source for these populations. ...

A summary of SAF's comments on ICBEMP

Five local units of the Society of American Foresters reviewed the ICBEMP documents. A reading of their comments reveals common issues: that ICBEMP prescribes standards that will limit local managers’ flexibility, that implementation of those standards will be expensive in both time and ...

Urban ecological systems: linking terrestrial ecological, physical, and socioeconomic components of metropolitan areas

Ecological studies of terrestrial urban systems have been approached along several kinds of contrasts: ecological in as opposed to ecology of cities; biogeochemical compared to organismal perspectives, land use planning versus biogeochemical compared to organismal perspectives, land use planning ...

Terrestrial species and habitats

The assessment of interior Columbia basin terrestrial species compared prehistoric, historical, and current terrestrial environments and plant and animal communities and looked closely at habitat changes that would affect sensitive vertebrates. We then projected three management scenarios and ...

Stakeholder acceptance of urban deer management techniques

The apparent increase in public opposition to hunting (Shaw 1977) may lead many wildlife managers to perceive that stakeholders are more likely to accept nonlethal than lethal techniques to reduce the damage associated with overabundant deer in urban environments (Curtis et al. 1993, Wright 1993). ...

Multiple benefits of large, undeveloped tracts in urbanized landscapes: a North Carolina example

In North Carolina’s Research Triangle region, development pressures threaten open space. Expanding municipalities and suburban sprawl have isolated public lands as private landowners subdivide or sell to developers. Large holdings owned by a private corporation and amassed to buffer a ...

Managing forests in the wildland-urban interface

Change is sweeping across the South in a manner unlike anywhere else in the United States – signaled by significant population growth and demographic change, shifts in land ownership, and a dynamic transformation of the landscape. One area where this change is occurring particularly rapidly ...

Lanscape and edge effects on the distribution of mammalian predators in Missouri

Raccoons (Procyon lotor), opossums (Didelphis virginiana), and striped skunks (Mephitis mephitis) are predators of forest songbird eggs and nestlings. We examined the relative abundance of these predators at landscape and local sales to better understand predation risks. At the landscape scale, ...

Landscape dynamics

Assessment of the landscape dynamics of the ecosystems within the interior Columbia River basin included both natural and human changes. We describe the relationships between land use, ecosystem health, species diversity, and interactions with inherent disturbance processes and biophysical ...

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Using and ecoregion assessment for integrated policy analysis

In broad terms, managing an ecosystem means maintaining both the integrity of ecological systems and the resilience of social and economic systems. Ratings of ecological integrity and socioeconomic resilience are combined to make general statements about ecosystem conditions in the interior ...

Understanding wildlife responses to humans

Wildlife management is often concerned with how humans will coexist with wild animals, but there are many variations on the coexistence ideal. In an urban setting like Anchorage, Alaska, the ideal might include brown bear populations that demonstrate avoidance behavior; in a protected area like ...

Wildlife damage to crops: perceptions of agricultural and wildlife professionals in 1957 and 1987

Agricultural damage by wildlife is a major concern for both agricultural and wildlife agencies at the state and federal levels. Unfortunately, a national perspective on this problem is lacking. In 1957, McDowell and Pillsbury (1959) surveyed state wildlife agencies to assess the extent of ...

Social and economic systems

The social and economic assessments conducted for the Interior Columbia Basin Ecosystem Management Project characterized social and economic conditions and trends. The basin has a robust economy that is growing, diversifying, and reducing the importance of traditional resource industries. Even ...

Simulating spatial and temporal context of forest management using hypothetical landscapes

Spatially explicit models that combine remote sensing with geographic information systems (GIS) offer great promise to land managers because they consider the arrangement of landscape elements in time and space. Their visual and geographic nature facilitate the comparison of alternative landscape ...

Seven suggestions for revising ICBEMP

Ecosystem management is a still-developing concept. The version developed for federal lands in the interior Columbia River basin region includes unreasonable assumptions and outcomes, according to SAF foresters in the region. One of ICBEMP’s goals, maintaining ecosystem health and ...

Science findings: where will they all live? the enduring puzzle of land use change

A concern among land managers is land use. Who is using the land? What is it being used for? Is the amount of farm and forest land lost to development really increasing? Research forester and economist Jeff Kline and research forester Ralph Alig at the PNW Research Station are conducting ...

The report, Where are We Growing? Land Use and Transportation in Middle Tennessee, provides a fresh look at the current patterns of growth that are shaping the region, and highlights some of the efforts underway to better guide that growth.

The report, Where are We Growing? Land Use and Transportation in Middle Tennessee, provides a fresh look at the current patterns of growth that are shaping the region, and highlights some of the efforts underway to better guide that growth.

The value of the world's ecosystem services and natural capital

The services of ecological systems and the natural capital stocks that produce them are critical to the functioning of the Earth's life-support system. They contribute to human welfare, both directly and indirectly, and therefore represent part of the the economic value of the planet. We have ...

Regulation and stumpage prices: a tale of two States.

Conventional wisdom suggests that the regulation of timber harvesting adds expense to the process, thereby reducing profitability, and that landowners would bear the resulting cost of this regulation through reduced stumpage values. This study compared more than five years of quarterly stumpage ...

Protecting Florida homes form wildfire: a guide for planners, developers and fire services

As Florida's population grows and its wildlands are increasingly used for new development, the wildland/urban interface problem will also grow in importance. Successful implementation of an effective interface management plan will depend on close cooperation between local and state government, ...

Private forest-land owners of the Southern United States, 1994

Information from a recent study of forestland owners has provided a new estimate of the number of ownerships and insights into the attitudes and actions of this important group of decision makers. Nearly 47 percent of private forestland is in ownerships of more than 500 acres. An estimated 45 ...

Endangered ecosystems: a stus report on America's vanishing habitat and wildlife

Our study emphasizes that extensive habitat destruction is reaching the point where the nation faces the loss of hundreds of natural ecosystems, including California's ancient redwood forests, longleaf pine forests in the Southeast, beach dune habitats along the Fast Coast, and even subterranean ...

Effects of subdivision and access restrictions on private land recreation opportunities

Continuing conversion of woodlands, greater restrictions on recreational access, and subdivision are trends seeming to have important implications for future public recreation supply. The nature of these implications has not been adequately explored in previous research, a void that has led to ...

Ecosystem management education for public lands

An ecosystem management education program targeted at specific audiences was designed for Eglin Air Force Base in northwest Florida. The program was developed through a comprehensive, adaptive model, which incorporated data from baseline surveys and input from natural resource managers and key ...

Ecosystem-based management on multiple NIPF ownerships

Both professional foresters and the general public are increasingly interested in an ecosystem-based approach to forest management. This emerging interest raises the question of how such an approach might apply in a landscape that is dominated by numerous nonindustrial private forest (NIPF) ...

Devolution and rural development in forest-dependent communities: an assessment of literature, on-going practice and potential for an integrated, community-based approach

Current developments in forest management and rural community development present a special challenge and opportunity for forest-dependent rural communities in the Southern Region. All National Forests are required to revise their long-range plans every 10 to 15 years. Many in the Southern Region ...

"Culture clash" revisited: newcomer and longer-term residents' attitudes toward land use, development, and environmental issues in rural communities in the Rocky Mountain west

Many rural communities in the Rocky Mountain West with high amenity values have experienced substantial in-migration in the 1990’s. Popular media accounts and some social science literature suggest that newcomers have very different values than longer-term residents regarding environment, growth, ...

Another look at NIPFs: facing our "myths".

Implementing forest stewardship on nonindustrial private forest (NIPF) is no small task. Despite decades of foresters’ efforts, most NIPFs are not well managed. Perhaps foresters’ inability to bring more NIPFs under sound management is traceable to our failure to truly understand the ...

Is your home protected from wildfire disaster?

Nearly every state has been devastated by wildfires in the last century. More than 140,000 wildfires occur on average each year. Since 1990, more that 900 homes have been destroyed each year by wildfires. So, what can you do to protect yourself, your home and your property from wildfires? This ...

Interim air quality policy on wildland and prescribed fires.

This policy statement has been prepared in response to plans by some Federal, tribal and State wildland owners/managers to significantly increase the use of wildland and prescribed fires to achieve resource benefits in the wildlands. Many wildland ecosystems are considered to be unhealthy as a ...

Perceptions of game damage in Montana by resource agency personnel and agricultural producers

Professional employees of state and federal resource agencies may respond directly to complaints by farmers and ranchers about game damage and may also serve as a conduit of information between agricultural producers and government administrators. Professionals in resource agencies who accurately ...

Perceptions of American agricultural producers about wildlife on their farms and ranches

Perceptions of U.S. agricultural producers about wildlife were examined by distributing questionnaires in 1993 and 1994 to 2,000 farmers and ranchers: 1,000 selected from a random list maintained by Survey Sampling, Inc., and 1,000 contacted through county offices of the U.S. Department of ...

New pioneers: the back-to-the-land movement and the search for a sustainable future

The chapters that follow tell the story of the back-to-the-landers in a straightforward narrative contextualized within reoccurring sustainability themes. Chapter 1, “Conventional Radicals: Back-to-the-Land Profiles,” is first account of how I tracked down potential ...

Forests of the south

Because of the Southern temperate climate, abundant rainfall and availing topography, the nation\'s richest plant community thrives. There are more than 400 woody species of plants in the South, many of which have some commercial value. This 200 million acre forest plant community is increasingly ...

Forest productivity and timber supply modeling in the south

The South can increase forest productivity on industrial and non-industrial private forest (NIPF) lands. As timber markets have improved and timberprices have increased, returns from intensive management are more profitable. The interaction of timber markets, inventory, and prices are analyzed in ...

Firewise plant materials

Creating a \'\'defensible space\'\' around your home is one of the most important and effective steps you can take to protect you, your family and your home frorn catastrophic wildfire. Defensible space is the area between a structure and an oncoming wildfire where nearby vegetation has been ...

Firewise landscaping

This article gives points for defensible space, the "zone" concept, and the importance of proper plant selection when trying to landscape using firewise principles.

Community and forestry: continuities in the sociology of natural resources

This volume was assembled to address the need for a better understanding of recent changes in forest-based communities. Unprecedented patterns of growth and decline, together with the complexity of the social and economic processes causing these changes, require a broad description of communities ...

A survey of Florida residents regarding three alternative fuel treatment programs

The objective of this study is to determine the level of support Florida residents ascribe to three alternative fuel reduction techniques given location to recent large-scale wildfire events and differences in ethnicity and/or language. Gaps in knowledge and attitude toward prescribed fire exist ...

A guide for prescribed fire in southern forests

This guide provides basic information needed to help you become technically proficient in the proper use of prescribed fire. A glossary toward the end of this manual will help you with unfamiliar terms. To learn more about the subject of prescribed fire, a list of suggested reading follows the ...

Homeowner persepectives on fire hazard, responsibility, and management strategies at the wildland-urban interface.

Following a survey of forest homeowners in rural Michigan to assess the value of reducing the risk of damage from wildfires at the wildland-urban interface, focus-group discussions were conducted with a subset of survey participants to learn about their perceptions concerning specific components of ...