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Author
Publisher
Green Mountain College
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Part 1: The U.S. Forest Service: an agency still in transition "Manuscript submitted to Journal of Forestry" Greg Brown, Trevor Squirrell, Charles Harris. Abstract: The U.S. Forest Service has been widely viewed as the leader of the Nation's forestry profession. Using longitudinal survey research, we measured the attitudes, beliefs and preferences of agency employees on a wide range of resource management and organizational issues from 1990-2008....
Author
Publisher
Green Mountain College
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
This thesis describes a project completed in the Klamath Siskiyou bioregion. I collaborated with Frank Kanawha Lake (Karuk descendant and Ph.D.), a United States Forest Service (USFS) research ecologist who specializes in traditional ecological knowledge, ethno-biology, and fire ecology. Together we hypothesized that identifiers of biophysical diversity (dominant vegetation, fire histories) may be correlated to particular geological types (soil, parent...
Author
Publisher
Green Mountain College
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Red-cockaded Woodpecker (Picoides borealis) has been on the endangered species list since 1970. Stable P. borealis populations require older longleaf pine stands that have red heart rot in the older trees, maintained by frequent surface fire that suppress growth of hardwoods. A variety of factors endanger P. borealis with habitat loss. It is now over ten years since publication of the last federal management plan for P. borealis in 2003. Slow recovery...
Author
Publisher
Green Mountain College
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
This work began as a guide to improve and expand existing Longleaf pine (Pinus palustris) populations on a 728-acre site owned and operated by the United States Army Corps of Engineers in Central Alabama. It has evolved to consider a proposed alternate site and also provides broad recommendations for Longleaf restoration within the general study area. The intent of this plan is to restore degraded habitat which is currently affected by the absence...
Author
Publisher
Green Mountain College
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The recent decline of a documented population of the Baltimore Checkerspot (Euphydryas phaeton) is a concern for conservationists in the Chicago region. Data collected by the Illinois Butterfly Monitoring Network since 1988 show that the population of the butterfly at Bluff Spring Fen, an Illinois Nature Preserve, has been formerly robust. From 2012 onward, no individuals have been sighted. A combination of drought and fire stress are suspected to...
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