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Seventy Years Of Forest Change In The Northern Great Lakes Region, Usa, Lisa A. Schulte-Moore, Thomas R. Crow, Dave Cleland Jan 2003

Seventy Years Of Forest Change In The Northern Great Lakes Region, Usa, Lisa A. Schulte-Moore, Thomas R. Crow, Dave Cleland

Lisa A. Schulte Moore

The rates and magnitudes of forest change have important social and economic implications. We address facets of change associated with 20th century recovery of the U.S. Lake States (Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota) forests from the Great Cutover, and discuss ecological and socioeconomic implications for future forest resources.


Narrowing Historical Uncertainty: Probabilistic Classification Of Ambiguously Identified Tree Species In Historical Forest Survey Data, David J. Mladenoff, Sally E. Dahir, Eric V. Nordheim, Lisa A. Schulte, Glenn G. Guntenspergen Jan 2002

Narrowing Historical Uncertainty: Probabilistic Classification Of Ambiguously Identified Tree Species In Historical Forest Survey Data, David J. Mladenoff, Sally E. Dahir, Eric V. Nordheim, Lisa A. Schulte, Glenn G. Guntenspergen

Lisa A. Schulte Moore

Historical data have increasingly become appreciated for insight into the past conditions of ecosystems. Uses of such data include assessing the extent of ecosystem change; deriving ecological baselines for management, restoration, and modeling; and assessing the importance of past conditions on the composition and function of current systems. One historical data set of this type is the Public Land Survey (PLS) of the United States General Land Office, which contains data on multiple tree species, sizes, and distances recorded at each survey point, located at half-mile (0.8-km) intervals on a 1-mi (1.6 km) grid. This survey method was begun in …


Presettlement Vegetation Of The Lower Chippewa River Valley, Lisa A. Schulte-Moore, William J. Barnes Jan 1996

Presettlement Vegetation Of The Lower Chippewa River Valley, Lisa A. Schulte-Moore, William J. Barnes

Lisa A. Schulte Moore

The lower Chippewa River of west-central Wisconsin is the portion that flows southwest from the city of Eau Claire to the Mississippi River at Nelson. The river has a gentle gradient of about 0.8 m/km and highly erodible banks of sand and gravel. The river valley occurs between 35 m to 70 m below the surrounding upland, is between 1 and 5 km wide, and was formed primarily by glacial meltwaters. The floodplain is defined by annual high water levels and is generally below the 25 year flood recurrence interval, which on this part of the Chippewa River is >5m …