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.

Design of regular landscape fuel treatment patterns for modifying fire growth and behavior

Patterns of disconnected fuel treatment patches that overlap in the heading fire spread direction are theoretically effective in changing forward fire spread rate. The analysis presented here sought to find the unit shape and pattern for a given level of treatment that has the maximum effect on ...

Damage assessment following the East Bay Hills fire in the cities of Oakland and Berkeley, California

Two years and three days after the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake, the California cities of Oakland and Berkeley suffered another catastrophic disaster: the East Bay Hills Fire of October 20, 1991. With an average of one home being destroyed every 13 seconds during the fire's first nine hours, the ...

Crying 'Fire' in a crowded landscape: do Firewise initiatives ward off-or help spark- catastrophic wildfires?

What is happening when fire-prevention recommendations, produced by experts, often enforced by law, and followed conscientiously, fail to deliver the promised protection? This question can only be understood by analyzing whole landscapes and multiple issues, an approach landscape architects need to ...

Burning questions: a social science research plan for federal wildland fire management

Understanding the relationship of people and fire in America is crucial to how federal agencies respond to wildland fire in the 21st century. An expanded program of social science research is needed for an accurate and comprehensive understanding of the human dimensions of wildland fire. Important ...

Backyard forest stewardship

Owning a home in the woods is a dream come true for many people. Living in a forested setting offers unique advantages but presents unique challenges. This guide to Backyard Forest Stewardship is especially designed for people who live "in the woods" of western Washington. However, most of the ...

Back to nature: the Arcadian myth in urban America

In this volume, Peter J. Schmitt demonstrates that the modern metropolis not only refashioned the physical environment of townspeople and reshaped their institutional life, but also profoundly altered the way in which they perceived the natural world outside the city .For city folk, seeking refuge ...

An international collection of wildland-urban interface resource materials

A bibliographic listing of about 2200 wildland-urban interface resource materials that have been compiled by the International Association of Wildland Fire and the Canadian Forest Service, Northern Forestry Centre are listed alphabetically by author. Most items in this collection were produced ...

Income opportunities in special forest products: self-help suggestions for rural entrepreneurs

The types of special forest products discussed in this publication include aromatics; berries and wild fruits; charcoal; chips, shavings, excelsior, sawdust, bark, and pine straw; cones and seeds; cooking wood, smoke wood, and flavorwood; decorative wood; forest botanicals as flavorings, ...

Patterns on the land: our choices-our future

This publication synthesizes key data, observations and findings of a 20 month project to document land use trends in Michigan. Eleven separate working papers ranging from 100 to 215 pages apiece comprise the research upon which this publication is based. The combined 1500 pages represents the ...

Our localism: Part I - The structure of local government law

The most emphatic recent presentation of the claim that local governments lack legal power is Gerald Frug's The City as a Legal Concept. Professor Frug's assertion that the law of state-local relations renders cities powerless is not unique, however; the claim is widely reflected in the literature. ...

Non-timber forest products: the other forest products

There are a great variety of products harvested from forests in the United States that are not timber-based. While often overshadowed by timber products, non-timber forest products are receiving increased attention in the popular press, professional conferences, and state and federal policy ...

New tools for environmental protection: education, information, and voluntary mearures

Our goal in this volume is to bring together state-of-the-art research on the new tools for environmental protection. The chapters examine empirical research on new tools, extract lessons from adjacent policy and research traditions that can inform work on new tools, and consider the conceptual and ...

Fuel modification plan guidelines for projects located in Fire Zone 4 or Very High Fire Hazard Severity Zones

Following the disastrous Southern California wildfires in 1993, the Board of Supervisors established the Wildfire Safety Panel to analyze and make recommendations on the hazardous conditions that existed for wildfires in the wildland and urban interface/intermix areas of Los Angeles County. One of ...

Forestry serving urbanized societies: Selected papers from the conference

Continuing urbanisation is one of the main factors influencing use and management of urban and to a certain extent rural landscapes today. Presently, more than half of the world’s dwellers live in urban areas. As a result of urbanisation, attention towards the role of forests, parks, trees ...

Forest trees of Florida

Florida has a great variety of native trees, more than any other state in the U.S. other than Hawaii. Over northern Florida, particularly in the western section, many of the trees that range widely and are well known over the eastern U.S. find their southern limit. Here are many kinds of hickory, ...

Flagstaff fuel management

Wildfire is the # 1 fire threat to the greater Flagstaff community. It has the potential to disrupt commerce, damage natural resources, property, and other improvements, injure and kill residents, visitors, and emergency workers, and induce panic in the general population. Wildfire does not respect ...

FIREWISE Communities workshop: participant workbook: making sensible choices in the wildland/urban interface

Recognizing the value of collaboration in addressing wildland/urban interface fire problems, the National Wildland/Urban Interface Fire Program developed the series of FIREWISE Communities workshops to bring diverse disciplines and professions together-not in hundreds at large national conferences ...

Fires fail to deter Western migrants

Images of last summer's wildfires the worst in 50 years -haven't stopped the steady migration of retirees and commuters into the woods of the West. Retiree Emmett Dosier heard the call, and like other new residents he's learned to live with fire. He and neighbors cut cherished shade trees, ...

Fire in the interface

Fire is a necessary element of healthy, viable ecosystems, and nature exacts consequences when humans interrupt the natural and intricate place of fire in ecological evolution. We tread a dangerous path when we fail to recognize that the very trees and vegetation that drew people to the interface ...

Fire ecology and fire use in the pine forests of the South: a chronological bibliography

This bibliography originated as a teaching aid to a course in forest fire control and use at Louisiana State University. Over the past six years, the focus was deliberately narrowed to include only fire ecology and fire use and that is the subject of the present bibliography.

Fire communication and education

This Wildfire Prevention Guide is a project of the National Wildfire Coordinating Group. This guide is one in a series designed to provide information and guidance for personnel who have interests and/or responsibilities in fire prevention. Each guide in the series addresses an individual component ...

Containing wildland fire costs: enhancing mitigation capacity

When Congress and the federal land management agencies asked the Academy to examine six large fires in 2002, we found that the best opportunity to protect the nation from catastrophic wildfire damage and loss of life was to reduce wildfire hazards before the fires ignite. When we examined the ...

Conservation and development of nontimber forest products in the Pacific Northwest: an annotated bibliography

This bibliography encompasses literature on the historic and current scope of nontimber forest product industries in the Pacific Northwest and includes references on international markets and trade that bear on these industries. Key themes in the bibliography are biological and socioeconomic ...

Community identities as visions for landscape change

Residents' felt senses of their community can play substantial roles in determining visions for landscape change. Community identities are often anchored in tangible environments and events of a community, and have the potential to serve as visions for landscape planning processes. ...

Citizen wildfire ecology specialist certification program

This class certifies citizens and professionals from fields outside of fire management how to reduce a community's hazards from wildfire in the Urban Wildland Interface (UWl). Participants gain not only knowledge of fire ecology, but also the how to assess hazard situations and ways to reduce ...

Changing homeowners' behaviors involving toxic household chemicals: a psychological, multilevel approach

We describe an education and behavior change program with a multi-level approach. The program goal is to change how people think about, use, store, and dispose of toxic chemicals. We assume that changing long-standing behaviors is difficult, requires interventions at multiple points in the ...

A guide for prescribed fire on southern forests

The use of fire in the forests of the United States has come full cycle. Early settlers found Indians using fire in the virgin pine stands and adopted the practice themselves to keep down brush for better access and hunting and to get rid of the brush and timber so they could farm. This custom of ...

A forested tract-size profile of Virginia’s NIPF landowners

Information gathered from 3,221 permanent Forest Survey sample plots showed that nearly 1.3 million acres, or 11 percent of the nonindustrial private forest (NIPF) timberland in Virginia is in forested tracts 10 acres or less. Forested tracts, ranging from 11 to 100 acres accounted for the largest, ...

A forested tract-size profile of South Carolina's NIPF landowners

Information gathered from 3,078 permanent forest survey sample plots showed that nearly 0.9 million acres, or 10 percent of the nonindustrial private forest (NIPF) timberland in South Carolina is in forested tracts 10 acres or less. Forested tracts ranging from 11 to 100 acres accounted for the ...

Human dimensions of living with wildlife-a management challenge for the 21st century

Problems addressed by wildlife management have changed dramatically during the 20th century. Some species have emerged from a period of scarcity to a state of overabundance. Wildlife managers now face many situations marked by an urgent, growing demand to reduce conflicts between people and species ...

Helping to save homes

As sobering as it may be, wildfires now regularly occur near or in our own backyards. The rising threat comes with an ever-increasing desire to live in natural settings. It is fueled by a highly flammable accumulation of pine needles, dead leaves and branches. The threat is so great that the state ...

Sudying wildfire behavior using FIRETEC

A coupled atmospheric/wildfire behavior model is described that utilizes physics-based process models to represent wildfire behavior. Five simulations are presented, four of which are highly idealized situations that are meant to illustrate some of the dependencies of the model on environmental ...

Southern forest resource assessment: technical report

The Southern Forest Resource Assessment was initiated in 1999 as a result of concerns raised by natural resource managers, the science community, and the public regarding the status and likely future of forests in the South. These included changes to the region’s forests brought about by ...

Natural resources and open space in the residential decision process: a study of recent movers to fringe counties in southeast Michigan

Within many metropolitan areas of the United States, there is great diversity in the type and location of housing available to homebuyers. Of this diversity, new single-family homes built at the urban fringe have become the subject of much criticism in planning circles because of the potential ...

National outreach strategy: a master plan for communicating in the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

This report describes a national communications strategy for the U .S. Fish and Wildlife Service. A more unified, strategic communications program will help the Service accomplish its conservation mission for fish and wildlife. This strategy recommends actions that will make communications an ...

Mulch and compaction: Prevention and treatment of compacted soils in urban settings

Compaction of soil in urban areas is an irreversible and overwhelming problem. Construction, heavy vehicular and pedestrian traffic, and even raindrops on bare soil all contribute to the epidemic. Trees suffer in compacted soils. Poor drainage, slow infiltration and movement of water and oxygen, ...

Managing urban and high-use recreation settings

This Unit's research will help determine: how people's perceptions of environmental quality are affected by changes in the physical, biological, social, and managerial attributes of urban and high-use settings; how people's recreation choices are influenced by the attributes of urban and high-use ...

Making your landscape more resistant to wildfires

Frequent, low-intensity fires have been a part of Florida's natural history for thousands of years. However, in the past few years many homes and entire developments have been built near or in the forest. The wildland-urban interface is expanding. The suggestions in this article are only ...

Living with nature in West Side Waterloo

Unlike many traditional developments, the West Side was designed so that the natural environment can be preserved. The rolling hills, creek valleys, wetlands and forests are protected for your enjoyment and to safeguard the health of a diversity of sensitive plants and wildlife, and the extensive ...

Living with fire: a guide for protecting homes from wildlife

This publication is provided to help you (homeowners, firefighters and the general public) identify numerous activities that will help you co-exist more safely with wildfire. For additional information or assistance, contact the local office of your state forestry agency.

Lessons from the urban deer battlefront: a plea for tolerance

White-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) in North America may be perceived as overabundant for at least 2 sets of reasons. First, deer may be regarded as overabundant when they cause direct harm or a perception of harm to human welfare, for example by damaging crops or ornamental plantings, ...

Wildfire hazard assessment guide for Florida homeowners

This Wildfire Hazard Assessment Guide for Florida Homeowners was developed to help Florida neighborhoods: (I) determine if a wildfire hazard exists for their neighborhood or subdivision, (2) evaluate the wildfire risk to the neighborhood and (3) take action to mitigate the existing wildfire hazard, ...

Water quality law and silviculture: a status update for the South

Federal and state water quality laws pertaining to silviculture in the thirteen southern states were examined to make sense of what is a confusing body of legislation and voluntary programs. Two federal laws, The Clean Water Act (The Federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1972) and amendments to ...

Valuing social and economic impact of fire at the urban-wildland interface: a summary of what was learned

The project objectives where to: assess residents' perceptions of wildfire risk and responsibility for addressing risk, assess current levels of risk and preparedness, assess value of reducing risk of fire induced losses via individual risk reduction activities and government sponsored risk ...

Using ammonium sulfate fertilizer as an organic mulch fire retardant

The multiple benefits of organic mulches in landscape environments are well documented. The few problems associated with mulch use can be minimized or avoided with proper management. For example, development of nitrogen deficiency can be reduced by the addition of small amounts of nitrogen ...

Use of the 1990 census to define wildland urban interface problems

Predicting the movement of people into rural wildlands previously has been limited to studies of population and housing growth in counties or other large geographical areas. In these studies, the areas of high fire danger that contain dispersed rural housing cannot be distinguished from the areas ...

An integrated analysis of the effectiveness of Tennessee's Forest Greenbelt Program

Concerns about the preservation of farm and forest land in the United States in the face of development pressures have led to many land preservation policies, including preferential, or use-value (UV), taxation of property. Use-value taxation permits landowners to continue deriving income from ...

An ecological assessment of the United States mid-Atlantic region

This atlas is an ecological assessment of the mid-Atlantic region of the United States. The assessment was done using measurements derived from satellite imagery and spatial data bases. The information presented in this atlas is intended to help the reader visualize and understand the changing ...

Agricultural buffers at the rural-urban fringe: an examination of approval by farmers, residents, and academics in the Midwestern United States

In the Midwestern United States, urban areas most often expand by converting farmland into residential sites. This process puts households and working farms in close contact, often resulting in conflicts. Can agricultural buffers, which provide a variety of environmental and aesthetic benefits, ...

Urban and peri-urban forestry

Urban forestry is here defined as planning, design and management of trees and forest stands with amenity values, situated in or near urban areas. In the urban landscape, growing conditions of plants differs from the rural landscape. Paving and buildings characterize the city, in which wind speed ...

Theories of persuasion

One of the most basic forms of communication is persuasion. Persuasion has been defined as "attitude change resulting from exposure to information from others” (Olson and Zanna, 1993, p. 135). A great deal of research has been conducted dealing with communication aimed at changing attitudes. ...

Will global warming cause more wildfires?

As this year's fire season rages on, residents of California and other arid states should brace themselves for possibly even worse conflagrations. According to a recent study, catastrophic fires such as these will become ever more common as a result of global warming. “Warmer, drier and ...

Wildland/urban interface: Fire risk assessment plan: Camden county, Georgia

Located in coastal Georgia adjacent to the Florida border, Camden County covers more than 403,000 acres. More than two-thirds of this total acreage is in forestland. The objective of this pilot project was to address impacts to the forest resources of Camden County concerning Wildland Fire ...

Wildland/urban interface: Fire risk assessment plan: Brantley county, Georgia

Brantley County is located in the southeastern part of the state between Waycross and Brunswick. The county seat of Nahunta and Hoboken are the incorporated cities within Brantley County. The total land area covers approximately 284,000 acres, and more than 83 percent of this acreage is comprised ...

"Wildfire-proofing" your timberland

Controlling underbrush that presents a fire hazard is by far the most commonly used approach on timberland throughout the South. Heavy fuel loads can accumulate in southern pine stands in a short period, from three to five years. Below are a few of the most effective brush control methods.

Some reflections on the link between production and consumption for sustainable development

This paper addresses sustainable consumption as a way of contributing to the implementation of sustainable development. In order to introduce our reflections, the paper deals first with microeconomic consumer theory. The main aspects of neoclassical consumer theory are briefly outlined, and some ...

Should wildlife biologists be involved in wildlife contraception research and management?

Traditionally, active management of wildlife populations has used a variety of techniques (e.g. hunting, trapping, poisoning, relocation) to remove animals from a population to reduce density. Increasingly, these traditional management techniques are considered either impractical or publicly ...

Selected fire regimes: Historical characteristics: Southeast

Geographically the Southeast spans three gross terranes: the coastal plains, the Piedmont, and the southern Appalachians. Their biota are complex and plastic, ready to assume many forms as a function of fire abundance and frequency. Change can be rapid. Lightning fires are prevalent in certain ...

Second international wildland fire ecology and fire management congress and fifth symposium on fire and forest meteorology

This meeting brings together public officials, agency administrators, researchers, resource specialists, consultants, and students to address one of the fastest growing policy issues in the United States, Canada and other parts of the world -wildland fire. Whether in our wildlands or in the urban ...

Restoring nature: perspectives from the social sciences and humanities

Regardless of one's viewpoint, the conflict that erupted in the spring of 1996 and became known as the Chicago restoration controversy has left an indelible mark on the region's environmental community and has forever changed the way those involved will think about restoration. Its implications ...

The practice of sustainable development

"Sustainable development"-a two-word phrase with a thousand meanings. "Sustainable" implies forever, perpetuity, constant rebirth and renewal, an inexhaustible system. "Development" connotes change, growth, expansion, production, movement. Both words speak of time, evolutionary processes, ...

Rekindling the national discourse on U.S. population growth: sprawl, smart growth, and cities

Most people don't spend a lot of time worrying about population growth or biodiversity in the ecosystem. They fret over the crime level on local streets, worry about the education of their children, and guard against environmental declines in their local streams, air and parks. National and global ...

Public involvement in fire management

Fire managers cannot afford to rest on the laurels of a successful and decades-old fire suppression program. Managers need to move at times from the public information end of the continuum to true public involvement where the public is engaged with us in dialogue about larger societal questions: ...

Private forestland parcelization and development in Wisconsin's Northwoods: perceptions of resource-oriented stakeholders

Increases in the parcelization and development of private forestlands in the US and other countries have become a major concern of natural resource agencies and groups. This concern is particularly heightened in heavily forested areas such as Wisconsin "Northwoods," where private lands make up a ...

Predicting the probability of house survival during bushfires

Trends in the pattern of house survival during a bushfire were examined by analyzing data from 450 houses affected by the serious bushfire of 16 February 1983 at Mount Macedon, Victoria. The possible effects on house survival of fire intensity, house design and construction materials, garden and ...

Fighting fire with fire

On May 4, 2000, a prescribed burn in the Bandolier National Monument in New Mexico escaped into the Los Alamos National Forest. Fifteen days later, when the Cerro Grande fire was finally contained, it had burned 48,000 acres and destroyed 280 homes and 40 government labs, with an estimated price ...

Fight or flee? - A case study of the Mount Macedon bushfire

Results from a detailed study of the bushfire on 16 February 1983 at Mount Macedon, Victoria, suggest that able-bodied residents who are threatened by a bushfire should remain in their houses. Their chances of surviving are excellent, and about 90 per cent can expect to save their houses. ...

Farming in the forests of Florida

Forest settings can provide an ideal location for cultivating many valued plants which prefer shaded conditions. There are many nontimber forest products including animals and shade tolerant plants which can be intentionally promoted by specific management practices. When considering alternatives ...

Environmental education and communication for a sustainable world: a handbook for international practioners

This manual was designed for those who make policy and design programs that affect people and the environment. The staff of GreenCOM, the U.S. Agency for International Development's Environmental Education and Communication Project, have arranged the following chapters and case studies to share ...

Educational interventions that improve environmental behaviors: a meta-analysis

In this meta-analysis the author compared the effectiveness of educational interventions (N = 18) conducted in classrooms and in nontraditional settings in improving environmental behavior. Classroom interventions improved environmental behavior more effectively (r = .65) than interventions in ...

Diffusion of innovations.

This book is both (1) a revision of the theoretical framework and the research evidence supporting this updated model of diffusion, and (2) a new intellectual venture, in that new concepts and new theoretical viewpoints are introduced. The stream of diffusion scholarship over the past fifty years ...

Changes in fire hazard as a result of the Cerro Grande Fire

On May 4, 2000, a prescribed burn was ignited on the Upper Frijoles Burn Units 1 and 5 on New Mexico's Bandelier National Monument. The units were located at between 9,000 and 10,000 feet (2,700–3,000 m) elevation in the Jemez Mountains, 6 miles (10 km) west of Los Alamos, NM. The burn was part of ...

Building in a fire-prone environment: research on building survival in two major bushfires

This paper describes some eleven years of research by the authors into the reasons why houses are ignited and subsequently destroyed in bushfires in Australia. Particular reference is made to fires which occurred in February 1983 and January 1994. The effect on various aspects of building design ...

Big versus small fires: the bushfires of greater Sydney, January 1994

The landscape fires ("bushfires") of January 1994 in and around the city of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia (Figure 1) received worldwide media attention. Locally, the fires were unprecedented in terms of the structural damage they caused and the catchment from which firefighters and equipment ...

Land use conflict: when city and country clash

Except for the magnitude of impact, many consequences of population loss in central cities are similar to impacts experienced by rural communities located in counties with population loss. For these urban and rural places, the key land use policy question is: How should the land resources and ...

People-fire managers must talk with them

Fire managers know the wildland-urban interface fire problem is a "people" problem, but recognizing the problem and addressing it in ways that are apt to cause interface residents to change their behavior are two different things. The interface fire problem demands that managers deal with people in ...

Partnerships for natural resource education: differing program needs and perspectives of extension agents and state agency staff

This article analyzes what Extension agents and DOF field staff need when communicating to the public about a novel resource management issue and compares their perspectives based on survey results. The findings and recommendations should be helpful when introducing any new topic through ...

Out in the country: sprawl and the quest for nature nearby

Residential development at the rural fringe, although contributing to many environmental problems, is steadily attracting new homeowners. Among the appeals of living “out in the country” are being closer to “nature” and having “space.” The purpose of this study ...

Growing pains: quality of life in the new economy

American growth has historically been linked to a higher quality of life. For some 50 years, the United States has experienced unprecedented economic growth, producing higher levels of affluence, homeownership, and mobility for most Americans. The economic boom of the 1990s has seen increasing ...

Getting out the news about environmental education programs

To many, the news media are the people we love to hate. Several studies measuring the public's perception of trustworthiness in the job force have found people do not like or trust journalists. So if that is the case, why do you want to learn to effectively relate to an industry that people do not ...

Fuel models and fire potential from satellite and surface observations

A national 1-km resolution fire danger fuel model map was derived through use of previously mapped land cover classes and ecoregions, and extensive ground sample data, then refined through review by fire managers familiar with various portions of the U.S. The fuel model map will be used in the next ...

Fostering sustainable behavior: an introduction to community-based social marketing

The movement toward a sustainable future has begun in many places throughout the world. In North America, numerous initiatives to reduce waste, increase energy efficiency, reduce water consumption, and alter transportation patterns are first footholds in the transition to sustainability. This book ...

Fire's effects on wildlife habitat: Sympsoium proceedings

The symposium, "Fire's Effects on Wildlife Habitat," represents one of the closing ceremonies of the Fire Effects and Use Research and Development Program, conducted by the Intermountain Research Station from 1979 to 1984. One of the R&D program's most important goals had been to study the long-and ...

Fire seen as vital for nature, igniting ecological debate

For some 10,000 years before Europeans came to North America, fires set by lightning and by Indians swept the landscape so routinely that ecosystems became as dependent on flame as on rainfall and sunlight; too little or too much at the wrong time meant ecological disaster. In this century, ...

Fire-resistant plants for Oregon home landscapes

When landscaping around a home, most homeowners are interested in creating a landscape that is aesthetically pleasing, complements their home, and has variations in color, texture, flowers, and foliage. If your home is located in or adjacent to forests or rangeland, you also should consider the ...

Fire-resistant landscaping

Colorado's population is growing, its urban areas are rapidly expanding, and people are building more homes in what was once natural forest and brushlands. Newcomers to rural areas need to know how to correctly landscape their property to reduce wildfire hazards. Improper landscaping worries land ...

Fire and the environment: ecological and cultural perspectives: Proceedings of an international symposium

Half a century ago, fire policy in most public and private agencies charged with the management of wilderness was neatly summarized in the so-called 10 A.M. Rule: If a fire starts, it should be extinguished by 10 the next morning. Our attitudes toward fire and other natural disturbances in ...

Creating wildfire-defensible zones

Fire is capricious. It can find the weak link in your home's fire protection scheme and gain the upper hand because of a small, overlooked or seemingly insignificant factor. While you may not be able to accomplish all measures below, each will increase your home’s and, possibly, your family’s ...

Community-scale fire spread

This paper addresses community-scale fires, which have also been called urban/wildland interface or intermix fires. These fires arise when wildland fires invade the built environment and attack structures as well as wildland fuels. The prediction of the spread of wildland fires, such as those ...

Communicator's guide: wildland fire

Land management practitioners and society as a whole must continue to make a concerted effort to inform and engage people, especially in human communities embedded in fire dependent natural communities. Without this engagement and public participation, land managers will be continually forced to ...

Communication skills for conservation professionals

This book is meant to guide the student, scientist, manager, and professional in achieving conservation goals through better communications. Whether in the form of talking to the public or the press, devising a special event, training volunteers, or raising project funds, conservation involves ...

Coastal forest tree populations in a changing environment, southeastern Long Island, New York

The temporal and spatial dynamics of tree populations in coastal forests of southeastern Long Island, New York, were reconstructed from analyses of (1) historical accounts, maps, and aerial photos, (2) field evidence of forest history, (3) age and height class distributions along the moisture ...

Classifying fuels with aerial photography in East Texas

National Fire Danger Rating System fuel models were predicted from 1:80,000 scale aerial photographs with a greater than 90% accuracy using combinations of three variables: pine composition, pine basal area and total crown closure. These variables were measured from aerial photos and field checked ...

Characterizing dynamic spatial and temporal residential density patterns from 1940-1990 across the North Central United States

The spatial deconcentration of population during the 20th century and the resulting expansion of human settlements has been a significant cause of anthropogenic landscape change in the United States and many other countries. In the seven-state North Central Region, as in other regions of the US, ...

A regional model of the eastern cottontail and land-use changes in Illinois

The eastern cottontail (Sylvilagus floridanus) is important in ecological food webs as a prey species for a wide variety of predators throughout its range, and is also a popular game animal. From 1956 to 1978, the eastern cottontail is estimated to have declined at least 70% in Illinois and more ...

Improving fire hazard assessment in South Lake Tahoe, CA

Because homeowners must be actively involved in fire hazard mitigation in the wildland/urban interface (WUI), private landscaping practices are closely regulated in high-fire-hazard areas in California (California Public Resources Code [PRC] 4291). PRC 4291 limits plant choice, density, and ...

History, uses, and effects of fire on the Appalachians

Information regarding the use of prescribed fire in Appalachian ecosystems is limited. However, the few pertinent studies in the Southern Appalachians, as well as studies from other physiographic regions, suggest that prescribed fire could be an important management tool. Low-intensity prescribed ...

The effect of human settlement on the density of moose in northern Alberta

The objective of our study was to determine the net impact of human settlement on moose (Alces alces) at a large scale. Our study area was northern Alberta, Canada, which is divided into a White Zone in which agriculture is permitted and where most human settlement is concentrated, and a Green ...

Technology transfer: putting research into practice

Did you ever stop to think where we would be today without computers? What would happen if all the mainframes, personal computers, networks, and software packages suddenly were unavailable? There might be a few scattered cheers, but for most of us, our ability to deal with today's complex problems ...

Southern pine forests

The flora of the southern pine forests, which extend from Maryland and New Jersey, southward to Florida, westward to eastern Texas, and northward into Missouri and Tennessee (fig. 9), is rich in species, with some 100 different tree species and probably 8 or 10 times more shrubby, herbaceous, and ...