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.

Plant invaders: How non-native species invade & degrade natural areas

Change in plant ommunities is natural. New species move in as the climate changes and as soils build up and become richer or erode and become less fertile. The arrival of new species may be the result of a single catastrophic event like a hurricane, or of gradual change over thousands of years. ...

Planning Portland style: Pitfalls and possibilities

The nation can learn much from regional growth management in Portland, OR, which uses an urban growth boundary (UGB) to maintain a compact metropolitan form. Carl Abbott, Henry R. Richmond, and William A. Fischel offer very different views on how to interpret Portland's lessons; however, they agree ...

Planning for groundwater protection

This book describes selected groundwater contamination problems and the best available approaches for protecting groundwater. Our society has released large quantities of many pollutants including toxic contaminants into the environment. Many of these contaminants are harmful at even trace ...

Planet of weeds: Tallying the losses of Earth's animals and plants

 

Designing with nature and showing the benefits

Across the country, homebuyers and renters are demonstrating a growing interest not only in the design features of new homes but also in the quality of the homes' surroundings. A small yet expanding number of developers have recognized this trend and are responding to it by designing in harmony ...

Habitat patterns in the landscape

 

Land use perceptions and motivations affecting southeastern Oklahoma nonindustrial private forest landowners

Research on NIPF management behavior is necessary because of rapidly changing ownerships and inadequate understanding of landowner perceptions and attitudes. Generally, forest tracts are becoming increasingly fragmented as this land is split and sold or distributed between family members. As the ...

Information technologies: Overcoming challenges, capturing opportunities

Emerging computer and information technologies have great potential to dramatically improve not only our efficiency but also the quality and type of work that we can do. Preconceptions that these technologies are only for big companies or take too much time to learn to use can be an obstacle to ...

Increasing demand for a nationally renowned outdoor recreation resource: What is the appropriate managerial response?

The Kaibab National Forest/Grand Canyon National Park region has experienced dramatic growth in visitation over the past decade. As the growth continues, the physical resource is showing signs of impact and visitorss are finding themselves competing for limited park facilities and services. While ...

New visions for metropolitan America

For much of this century, but especially since World War II, the American Dream has centered on owning a car and a detached house in the suburbs with lawn, garden, responsive government, good schools, a quick commute to work, and fresh air. But as we approach the twenty-first century this dream has ...

From quiet revolution to smart growth: State growth management programs, 1960 to 1999

A decade ago, Daniel Mandelker (1989) argued that there are problems with existing classifications of state planning efforts. Those classification problems still remain today. Although state involvement in land use planning has certainly varied over time, scholars are literally all over the map ...

Forest resource policy

This textbook on forest resource policy culminates many years of work on an increasingly important subject. Most of the issues and problems facing resource professionals today are related to public opinions about and demands for use of forest resources. The state of our biophysical knowledge, ...

Fire safe California: Community action guide

Fire is one of the most powerful forces in nature. While its fury may be frightening, fire is essential for a healthy ecosystem. Fire thins the forests so that trees have room to grow, it cleanses the earth and replenishes the soil so that new life may be nourished. Without our intervention, fire ...

Competition for land in the American south: Agriculture, human settlement, and the environment

This book tries to add to our understanding of long-term land adequacy at the national level by taking a comprehensive look at land-use conditions and trends in a single section of the country, the South. As its author, land economist Robert G. Healy, points out, there are several reasons why the ...

Cities' trees choking, smothered by sprawl

Urban greenery, which provides shelter for pedestrians and respite for citizens, is drooping from chronic neglect. Often politicians would rather plant new trees than care for those already planted.

Changing landscapes: An ecological perspective

The concept of landscape ecology developed over the past few decades is gaining momentum in the scientific and planning-management worlds. Generated in Central Europe and becoming prosperous via application, it has recently spread to the New World. Its state of maturity was signaled by an ...

A model of urban forest sustainability

We present a model for the development of sustainable urban forests. The model applies general principles of sustainability to urban trees and forests. The central tenet of the model is that sustainable urban forests require a healthy tree and forest resource, community-wide support and a ...

A methodology for valuing town conservation land

This paper presents a methodology for rating existing or potential conservation land according to ten criteria weighted to reflect the needs of the local community in which the land is located. The ratings may be used to determine priority for public acquisition. The methodology may also be used to ...

Hydrology and the management of watersheds

This book provides fundamental information and practical methodology necessary to solve hydrologic problems on watersheds, and to understand and develop watershed management programs. Parts 1 and 2 are basic to courses on forest hydrology, range hydrology, or watershed management, as taught in many ...

Historical perspectives on sustainable development

Most discussions of environmental issues today contain very little historical perspective. It is generally assumed that environmental problems have only affected contemporary societies. In some cases, this view maybe justified. For example, the use of highly toxic pesticides and other chemicals and ...

Urban Hydrology: A multidisciplinary perspective. revised edition

The purpose of this book is to outline and discuss the facets of urban hydrology in language which can be easily understood by scholars of different disciplines. In this manner, an appreciation of the roles played by the specialists in various fields is developed. The book supports the view that ...

The effects of the federal estate tax on nonindustrial private landowners

The federal estate tax is designed to tax the accumulation and transfer of wealth. Between 1987 and 1997, the estate tax was as high as 55% of assets above $600,000. Timber and land values have increased significantly in many areas of the U.S. in recent years, and in some circumstances heirs ...

The effects of federal and state death and gift taxes on nonindustrial private forest lands in the midwestern states

This paper summarizes federal estate taxes and the death taxes of the 14 Midwestern states, with attention given to special provisions that apply to forestry and related land uses. Additionally, changes imposed by the 1997 Taxpayer Relief Act that must be considered in estate planning are ...

The economics of zoning laws: A property rights approach to American land use controls

This book is an attempt to persuade my fellow economists that zoning and other local land use controls are most usefully viewed as collective property rights controlled and exchanged by rational economic agents. Such a view allows the application of the modern theory of property rights, which stems ...

Multiple-use management: The economics of public forestlands

It is important to address the problem of multiple-use management of the public forestlands with the hope that this effort may contribute to more efficient management. Needless to say, it is also our hope that this study will be used to complement the instructional material used in forestry ...

Multiparty development and conservation agreements

When developers run into regulatory obstacles regarding preservation of environmental features such as wetlands and wildlife, they are turning increasingly to special planning processes to help them over the hurdles. Such planning efforts often bring together a variety of governmental entities, one ...

Managed forests for healthy ecosystems

In this publication, we will more completely describe the concept of ecosystem management, and provide examples of how it may apply to your woodland. The older multiple-use and sustained-yield principles will not be forgotten; they will simply become part of a larger goal of maintaining healthy ...

Long-term outdoor recreation participation trends

The National Survey on Recreation and the Environment has enabled identification of recreation trends over a 30-year period. Data from the 1994-95 surveys, focusing on 62 outdoor recreation activities, is examined in regard to participation by age, income level, and sex. While the popularity of ...

Wetlands: Mitigating and regulating development impacts. 2d ed

Since the first edition of this book was published in 1990, wetlands issues have remained in the national spotlight Pitched battles have been waged in Congress and the courts over the identification, regulation, and creation of wetlands, with neither side gaining much headway. Congress has avoided ...

Trees tackle clean water regs

In the late 1960s and early 1970s the quality of the nation's waterways was so bad that by 1972 Congress passed the Clean Water Act and set in motion a national effort to remove pollution from the nation's waterways, bring back the fish, and make safe swimming possible. Since the passage of the ...

Trees as part of the plan

Building with the environment means seeing planned development and natural systems as intricately linked and viewing natural resources as an opportunity rather than a constraint. The developer or builder who fully integrates trees and other natural resources into all construction planning creates a ...

Smart growth in the Southeast: New approaches to guiding development

The Southeast has a rich legacy of vibrant communities with a strong sense of identity and place. Historic cities such as Charleston, Savannah, and Alexandria are national treasures, and numerous distinctive smaller communities define the character of the region. The Southeast is also blessed with ...

Results of the Nationwide Urban Runoff Program

The possible deleterious water quality effects of nonpoint sources in general, and urban runoff in particular, were recognized by the Water Pollution. Control Act Amendments of 1972. Because of uncertainties about the true significance of urban runoff as a contributor to receiving water quality ...

Restoring the hydrological cycle in the urban forest ecosystem

Forests provide a protective cover for the landscape and cycle much of the precipitation back to the atmosphere. They are essential components of many aquatic ecosystems. When native forests are removed and replaced with impervious surfaces and high maintenance vegetation, much of the water that ...

Restoration of aquatic ecosystems: Science, technology, and public policy

This report is the result of recognition by the Water Science and Technology Board of the National Research Council's (NRC) Commission on Geosciences, Environment, and Resources that it should be concerned with the emerging science of restoration ecology in relation to aquatic ecosystems. During ...

The poisoned well: New strategies for groundwater protection

This book is designed to help citizens to help themselves. This book is based on the idea that the best way for citizens to protect their health is to go out and wage their own fight against groundwater contamination. People can make a difference if they know how to use the legal and other tools ...

The new millennium ranger: New challenges are changing foresters

As America expands into the backwoods, foresters are being forced to reassess their mission and hone new skills. They are looking beyond the trees to entire landscapes, weighing how natural resources in general relate to new subdivisions and deteriorating downtowns, and how each specific change ...

The new geography of population shifts:Trends toward balkanization

Urban growth and migration patterns continue to shift in unexpected ways and are creating sharper divisions across space. Back in the 1970s, urban scholars were baffled by the so-called rural renaissance, when rural and small communities in most parts of the country grew faster than large ...

The guiding principles of tree preservation during development

Tree preservation can and should be an integral part of the development process. Retaining trees on development projects offers benefits to the environment, to the community, to the development team, and to the subsequent users of the projects. Buyers prefer projects with trees and are willing to ...

The farm and the city: Rivals or allies?

In the years following World War II, the patterns of life and the patterns of land use in the United States changed dramatically. The population, which before the war had been distributed very largely in the cities and on the farms, moved in massive numbers to the suburbs. Single-family dwellings ...

Urban parks: Restoration and rehabilitation

An extensive historic and ecological understanding of a site is required in order to successfully manage historic parks. Restoration and rehabilitation are two primary methods used to do so – each has specific objectives and constraints. This paper describes the master planning and management ...

The subdivision and site plan handbook

This handbook consists of two parts - the model ordinance with a commentary that explains ordinance provisions, and a reference section that covers all aspects of subdivision development in depth. Both sections of the book follow the sequence of articles in the model ordinance shown below. Article ...

Relating forestry investment to the characteristics of nonindustrial private forestland owners in Northern California

Logit regression is used to relate characteristics of nonindustrial private forestland (NIPF)owners and ownerships to the probability of forestry investment in northern California. Full-time residence, high income, and young age are the most significant predictors of NIPF forestry investment in ...

Professional foresters and the land ethic, revisited

Using a nationwide survey of Forest Service employees, this article compares the land ethic of foresters with that of other natural resource professionals and examines the relationship between one's land ethic and preferred forest policy options. Professional foresters embrace a more utilitarian ...

Development or dependency? Sustaining Alabama's forest communities

Comparison of two forest-dependent communities in Alabama illustrates how prospects for sustainable development are shaped by history, social structure, prevailing pattern of resource ownership, and forest industrial sector structure. Opportunities appear stronger if a community's forest products ...

Land conservation through public/private partnerships

This book demonstrates, federal, state, and local governments have found able partners in national nonprofit organizations, and in public and private land trusts, to assist in land protection and acquisition. This book is a comprehensive guide to the complex world of protecting openspaces. It not ...

Investments in forestry: Rsources, land use, and public policy

This volume, which was drawn from the conference "Investments in Forestry," sponsored by Resources of Colorado State University, held in Denver, Colorado in January 17-18, 1983, examines four general sets of issues. The first section examines the market for natural resources in general and forest ...

Interceptor sewers and urban sprawl

To date, little research has been done to study the interaction of wastewater management facilities and land use. This book is based on a study conducted for the Council on Environmental Quality which sought to analyze the relationship of urban growth and the federal sewer grant program. The ...

Integrating man and nature in the metropolitan environment: Proceedings of a national symposium on urban wildlife

 

In search of the urban-rural interface

In this article three issues are selected for examination in detail: first, urban acess to the countryside; secondly, the question of 'second homes'; and thirdly, the issues underlying the spread of forests in upland britain. These topics illustrate the diverse nature of the interface between urban ...

Growth management in countryfied cities, Volume I: Change and response

A library, or at least a library stack, of books have been written since 1960 describing, analyzing, and interpreting the planning, land use, and local government implications of urban sprawl. Yet these treat the issue almost entirely as one concerned with the large city and its surrounding ...

Forest resources policy: Process, participants, and programs

The fundamental structure of this book is based on: The process by which forest resource policies are developed, implemented, and disposed of; the participants who trigger and energize the process; and examples of major forest resource policy and program initiatives which have resulted from the ...

Forest island dynamics in man-dominated landscapes

Forest patches (or islands) exist today in most of the eastern United States embedded in a matrix of nonforest cover types or land use categories. The original forest has given way to continually increasing demands of agriculture, industry, and urbanization. Dam and reservoir construction, demands ...

Fire storm 98: A technical report on the 1998 wildfires in Brevard County

 

Controling urban runoff: A practical manual for planning and designing urban BMPs

This manual provides detailed guidance for engineers and site planners on how to plan and design urban best management practices (BMPs) to remove pollutants and protect stream habitat. Describes water quality and habitat impacts in streams that result from uncontrolled watershed development. ...

Constructed wetlands for water quality improvement

In recent years, heightened interest in the application of constructed wetlands for water quality improvement has been demonstrated by the organization of a number of major national and international symposia and conferences on the topic. Currently, there are numerous instances of the application ...

Community forestry, defined

The new discipline of community forestry links sustainable forestry to community well-being. Although community forestry has been practiced for many yeasrs in the developing world, it did not emerge in the United States until relatively recently. Community forestry efforts, which been undertaken ...

The comprehensive plan and comprehensive planning

This study discusses on a national level, with special emphasis on New York, issues related to the comprehensive plan and comprehensive planning. To this end, the study reports on state level initiatives as well as state sponsored incentives for local governments to more proactively participate in ...

Structures at the frige of the city

The fringe of the city, as the term is used here, may be defined quite easily. It is a zone of land on the periphery of a city which is experienceing a process of transformation from characteristically rural modes of production, social interaction and land use to characteristically urban ones, or ...

Stormwater management in urbanizing areas

This book describes how rapidly developing urbanization increases flooding and stream erosion and creates pollution of storm runoff, and how programs called stormwater management can prevent such environmental damage. Stormwater management is a new approach, which consists of the control of storm ...

State and regional initiatives for managing development: Policy issues and practical concerns

The Urban Land Institute organized a policy forum in March 1990 to examine these issues, focusing on whether state and regional approaches to growth management are desirable and, if so, how such responsibilities might be best shared among the various levels of government. Twenty-five experts from ...

Multiple use in the national forests: Rise and fall or evolution?

Multiple use, as established by Congress and practiced by the USDA Forest Service, has evolved as the guiding principle for national forest management. Concerns, pholosophical developments, and congressional debates continue. Is today's ecosystem management an extension of multiple use, or a change ...

Managing community growth: Policies, techniques, and impacts

Planners in the United States now have more than two decades of experience with growth management programs. During the last two decades, planners, public officials, lawyers, and others have written extensively on the subject; but most of that literature addressed the issue from one of these basic ...

Landscape architecture in the rural landscape

In developing this LATIS we hoped to focus attention on the rural landscape and some of the collaborative and encourage work taking place there. The observations and examples presented here are clearly the tip of the iceberg. We believe, however, that the range of issues and work presented is ...

Landowners' educational needs and how foresters can respond

A study of nonindustrial private forst landowners in Utah and Indiana- states with different ownership characteristics and numbers- reveals that direct, simple, flexable educational methods like newsletters and personal assistance are preferred over workshops and high-tech methods. Landowners with ...

Land, water and development: Sustainable management of river basin systems. 2d ed.

The management of the environment is under increasing pressure to conserve systems and pursue a sympathetic approach. This despite the increasing demands of population, agriculture, industrialization and public concern for human rights. Historically, the sector of the environment most affected by ...

Watershed '93: Proceedings of a national conferenceon watershed management; 1993 March 21-24; Alexandria, Va

These proceedings contain the presentations and discussions that took place during the plenary sessions, including the satellite broadcast, as well as many of the papers that were presented in 30 concurrent sessions. The first part of the proceedings includes all of the plenary session papers and ...

An incubation experiment to determine factors involving aggregation changes in an arid soil recieving urban refuse

The effect of the addition of urban refuse (UR) on the percentage of stable aggregates in a semi-arid structureless soil was studied in a 67-day incubation experiment. Twelve systems were established combining amendments with two doses of UR (2.4 and 4.8%) and treatments with cycloheximide, ...

Alabama Forest Resource Center strategic planning, procedures and standards for conservation easments

The new mission of the Alabama Forest Rresource Center is to enhance, promote and preserve the productivity and sustainability of Alabama’s forest resources to ensure their economic and environmental benefits for future generations. The Center focuses on providing services via conservation ...

Timberland downtown?: Southern forest resources along the urban-rural continum

An Urban-Rural Continuum provides a simple, practical way to classify forest resources and estimate the size and extent of the urban forest. Metropolitan counties contain over 26 percent of the Southeast's timberland acreage- about 28 million acres- and over 26 percent of its standing sawtimber and ...

Wildland watershed management. 2d ed

Small portions of most watershed lands are tightly linked to the stream system at nearly all times (e.g., riparian zones), whereras much of the remainder is well buffered from it most of the time. However, the area of tight linkage shrinks and expands, and its location shifts over time. It is at ...

Sediment reduction in urban stormwater runoff from construction sites

This research has focused on an evaluation of current design criteria and best-management practices for controlling sediment in runoff from construction sites in response to recent Georgia legislation which established an effluent limit on turbidity. The research approach has been two-pronged with ...

Role of the forester in land-use planning

Foresters can influence public land-use planing throughout the process. Goals, issues, and constraints should include forestry needs and supporting data. In plan development, foresters can work with the planning staff and offer aid in choosing among alternatives, formulating policies, and ...

The South's fourth forest: Oklahoma

During and immediately following preparation of the 1982 analysis of the timber situation in the United States (USDA Forest Service 1982), the forestry community of the nation and southern region became concerned about timber growth and inventory trends in the south. One result of this concern was ...

The relation of ground water quality to housing density, Cape Cod, Massachusetts

Correlation of median nitrate concentration in ground water with housing density for 18 sample areas on Cape Cod yields a Pearson correlation coefficient of 0.802, which is significant at the 95-percent confidence level. In five of nine sample areas where housing density is greater than one unit ...

The public debate about roads on the national forests: An analysis of the news media,1994-98

Computer methods were used to analyze attitudes and beliefs expressed in a large database of news stories about roads on the US national forests. The view that forest roads are important for recreational use and access was expressed most frequently, followed by the belief that roads cause ...

The living landscape: An ecological approach to landscape planning

The landscapes of this planet need help. Conflicts over the use of land and about environmental and social degradation abound. Complex and often seemingly contradictory questions must be addressed: Where should new communities be located? How do new community developers accommodate housing that is ...

The fast lane of urban fringe forest economics

An urban fringe project in the South Hertfordshire Community Forest is described. Economic appraisal shows that eligibility for the Farm Woodland Scheme increases net present value significantly, but continuing agricultural use of the site would still be much more profitable than timber production. ...

Urban openspace, an investment that pays

This four part monograph series describes many of the contributions that open space makes to the economy of cities. By highlighting its impact on real estate values, public health, energy conservation and infrastructure investments and the image of the city, we will present open space as a critical ...

The vanishing farmland crisis: Critical views on the movement to preserve agricultural land

I have been interested in the issue of preserving agricultural land for nearly forty years. My wife and I represent five generations in American agriculture, and we view agriculture as both a productive activity and a way of life that has much to recommend it. As operators of a sheep ranch in ...

The Upper Etowah River watershed: Our land, our water, our future: A guide for local residents, policy makers, and resource agencies

The Upper Etowah River Alliance created this document to provide direction for future conservation efforts of the Upper Etowah River, its tributaries, and its watershed. Our aim is to identify key concerns and solutions within the watershed, through both scientific knowledge of the area and ...

Public and private forest disturbance regimes in the southern appalachians

The choice to harvest timber depends on, among other things, the accessibility and location of the forest. This paper examines observed harvest choices derived from satellite imagery and tests for relationships between harvest probability and location, quality, and ownership attributes of the site. ...

Privatization: Infastructure on the urban edge

In 1989 two public-private coalitions were formed to help plan and develop physical and social infrastructure in Rouse Hill, a minicity of a quarter of a million people for the northwest fringe of Sydney, Australia. Brought together at the instigation of state government bureaucrats, the coalitions ...

Preservation of rural character and protection of natural resources

Rural communities across New York State have been experiencing an increase in development activities. This has led to increased interest in rural planning and rural growth management. The issue is of particular concern, since some rural communities still have not enacted zoning, and many of these ...

Plowing the urban fringe: An assessment of alternative approaches to farmland preservation

This book culminates eight years of research and public information activities on farmland protection programs. The Florida Atlantic University/Florida International University Joint Center for Environmental and Urban Problems established its agricultural lands project in 1980 when it cosponsored, ...

Planning and growth management in the United States

This monograph is an assessment, as of 1992, of state/regional growth management systems in seven selected states and two regions. It represents an interim status report on the state/regional growth management movement that began in the 1970s and has continued into the 1990s. These systems will be ...

Farming on the urban fringe

Metropolitan areas in the United States contain 20.2 percent of the nation's prime agricultural land and 76 percent of its population. Together with the ring of counties adjacent to them, these areas account for 51.7 percent of prime land. In recent decades population growth has been concentrated ...

Exurban industrialization: Implications for economic development policy

Manufacturing is moving into the exurban countryside, away from central cities and their suburbs. However, manufacturing firms remain attracted to markets, labor, and transportation facilities and, therefore, tend to avoid remote areas. Increasing numbers of firms and employment are locating ...

Effects of nature trails on ground vegetation and understory colonization of a patchy remnant forest in an urban domain

Effects of nature trails on understory vegetation was studied in self recovering patchy forest remained in an urban sprawl of central Japan. An adverse impact of soil compaction at surface level, originating basically from human trampling, was found on root development and stem growth of understory ...

Ecosystem management: Capturing the concept for woodland owners

Now nonindustrial private forests are managed is crucial in ecosystems where NIPF owners control most of the land, but ecosystem management is complex. A survey of landowners indicates, however, that most are already predisposed to its basic principles: they understand that their actions affect ...

Do we really want diversity?

'Managing for diversity' is the code of today's land managers, but in many cases 'managing weeds' would be a more accurate description of what actually goes on in the field. Our love for diversity, friends, is an ecological trap. Conservation often speaks loftily of preserving “biological ...

Assessing the value of future landscapes

Landscapes can change over time as a consequence of economic demands and technological innovations in agriculture. This study assesses the preferences for and the values of different landscapes, which could arise in the Yorkshire Dales National Park. The landscapes assessed were comprised of images ...

Has ecosystem management really changed practices on the national forests

In 1992 the USDA forest Service adopted ecosystem management as a holistic approach to manage its forests and grasslands. Three recent forest plans were evaluated to ascertain whether they more closely reflect ecosystem management principles than earlier plans. On the George Washington and Francis ...

Land use dynamics within an urbanizing non-metropolitan county in New York state (USA)

Land use/land cover data for fifteen minor civil divisions (MCDs) in Ulster County, New York (USA) were interpreted from 1968 and 1985 aerial photographs. These data were combined with ancillary physiographic and demographic data as raster layers within a computerized geographic information system ...

Integrated stormwater management

When the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency began its research work in urban storm-generated pollution control and stormwater management in 1965, the field was in its infancy. It is gratifying to see this field growing and gaining the international recognition it deserves. Abatement or prevention ...

Growth management: Issues, techniques and policy implications

There are specific topics which, in microcosm, bring together many of the strands of a whole society. The pressures at work in responding to the problems involved in these topics both in implementing and retarding their resolution, provide a unique insight into the strains of our time. In many ...

Fuel dynamics in an urban fringe dry sclerophyl forest in Victoria

Urban fringe forests surrounding many Australian cities are among the most hazardous areas in terms of potential loss of lives and property from fire. Fuel dynamics in dry sclerophll forest to the north east of Melbourne have been studied, using sites which had either been unburned for more than ...

Conasauga River ecosystem -based assistance study

The Canasauga River Ecosystem-Based Assistance Study (EBA) is one of ten pilot projects funded nationwide in 1995 by the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS). These projects are exploring new approaches to the way the NRS assists landowners and managers in caring for natural ...

A framework for ecosystem management in the Interior Columbia Basin

A framework was developed to set forth the relationship of science to management for the Interior Columbia Basin Ecosystem Management Project. It incorporates a general planning model that has four iterative steps: monitoring, assessment, decisionmaking, and implementation. In this effort we ...

Hydrologic information and analyses required for mitigating hydrologic effects of urbanization

The objectives were to characterize for gauged and ungauged catchments the pre-development hydrology and to determine or estimate the post-development hydrology and develop criteria for runoff control measures to mitigate hydrologic effects of development. Field observations combined with map and ...