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The Environmental Benefits Of Trees On An Urban Campus, Corinne G. Bassett University of Pennsylvania

The Environmental Benefits Of Trees On An Urban University Campus, Corinne G. Bassett

Master of Environmental Studies Capstone Projects

The University of Pennsylvania is situated on a rapidly growing and highly urbanized campus that, as of the summer of 2015, contained over 6,000 trees. Trees play an important ecological role within the urban environment, as well as support improved public health and provide aesthetic benefits to cities (Nowak et al. 2008; McPherson et al., 2003). This capstone project used the United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service’s software, i-Tree Eco, to quantify the ecosystem benefits that the University of Pennsylvania urban forest conveys to its community. Field research teams collected data on location and tree canopy size ...

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Sink Or Source? Fire And The Forest Carbon Cycle, Christina Frame US Forest Sercive

Sink Or Source? Fire And The Forest Carbon Cycle, Christina Frame

JFSP Briefs

As the size and severity of fires in the western U.S. continue to increase, it has become ever more important to understand carbon dynamics in response to fire. Many subalpine forests experience stand-replacing wildfires, and these fires and subsequent recovery can change the amount of carbon released to the atmosphere because subalpine forests store large amounts of carbon. Stand-replacing fires initially convert ecosystems into a net source of carbon as the forest decomposes—a short-term effect (decades) that will likely be important over the next century if fire frequency increases as a result of climate change. Over the long ...

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Furniture Manufacturing And Marketing: Eight Strategic Issues For The 21st Century, Steven H. Bullard, C. D. West Stephen F. Austin State University, Arthur Temple College of Forestry and Agriculture

Furniture Manufacturing And Marketing: Eight Strategic Issues For The 21st Century, Steven H. Bullard, C. D. West

Faculty Publications

“Take change by the hand, or it will take you by the throat.” Attributed to Winston Churchill, this brief sentence emphasizes the need to understand and embrace change in general. What important “changes” will impact furniture production and marketing in the 21st century? And what can furniture manufacturers and marketers do to “take change by the hand” today and in the future?

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Basic Concepts In Forest Valuation And Investment Analysis: Edition 3.0, Steven H. Bullard, Thomas J. Straka Stephen F. Austin State University, Arthur Temple College of Forestry and Agriculture

Basic Concepts In Forest Valuation And Investment Analysis: Edition 3.0, Steven H. Bullard, Thomas J. Straka

Faculty Publications

This book was originally intended to supplement lectures in forestry economics at the undergraduate level. It’s currently used for that purpose in ‘Forest Resource Economics’ courses at several universities. The book is also intended, however, to serve as a basic reference for foresters with experience in valuation and investment analysis concepts and methods. It has proven to be a valuable resource in forest valuation and investment analysis workshops for practicing foresters, landowners, and others interested in forestry investments.

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Wood Furniture Components: Implementation Of Flow-Line Technology Based On Lean Manufacturing Concepts, W. D. Motsenbocker, P. H. Steele, S. L. Hunter, Steven H. Bullard, A. Schuler Stephen F. Austin State University, Arthur Temple College of Forestry and Agriculture

Wood Furniture Components: Implementation Of Flow-Line Technology Based On Lean Manufacturing Concepts, W. D. Motsenbocker, P. H. Steele, S. L. Hunter, Steven H. Bullard, A. Schuler

Faculty Publications

This case study is #3 in a series of studies that relate specifically to the development and application of lean manufacturing techniques for the furniture and wood component supplying industries. Case study #3 is an example of how productivity can be increased in a furniture manufacturing organization by using flow-line technology.

This case study provides information about lean manufacturing and how a lean manufacturing system can be implemented, followed by a detailed case study of a wood component manufacturing company’s adoption of a new flow-line technology based on lean manufacturing concepts.

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After The Fire, Follow The Nitrogen, Jake Delwiche US Forest Service

After The Fire, Follow The Nitrogen, Jake Delwiche

JFSP Briefs

Nitrogen availability in soils, streams and associated terrestrial and aquatic vegetation can be infl uenced by both wildfi res and prescribed burns, though typically not to the same degree. Extensive research was done on postfire nitrogen dynamics at several mid-altitude coniferous National Forest sites in Idaho. Sites included both wildfi relocations and prescribed burn projects. By measurement of both ammonium (NH4) and nitrate (NO3) levels, researchers documented over time the effects of both high-intensity wildfi res and lower-intensity prescribed burns on nitrogen transformation processes in soil levels, and nitrogen levels in various ecosystem components. Field measurements demonstrated that the soil ...

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Investigation Of Compliance With The Ansi Z133.1 - 2006 Safety Standard In The New England Tree Care Industry, Alexandra K. Julius University of Massachusetts Amherst

Investigation Of Compliance With The Ansi Z133.1 - 2006 Safety Standard In The New England Tree Care Industry, Alexandra K. Julius

Masters Theses 1911 - February 2014

Arborists are exposed to many occupational hazards and experience more than three times the overall fatality rate of all U.S. workers. Investigations into fatal incidents lead to a better understanding of industry dangers. However, this knowledge does not extend to how tree workers operate when an injury or fatality does not occur. Current research regarding fatal and nonfatal injuries does not include the accreditation status of the company at which the worker was employed, nor whether certified arborists were on staff. Given the highly skilled nature of the work involved, certification and accreditation might ensure a minimum level of ...

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Beech Bark Disease Distribution And Resistance In Michigan And Fungal Endophyte Ecology Of Resistant And Susceptible Beech (Fagus Grandifolia Ehrh.), Rachel E. Griesmer-Zakhar Michigan Technological University

Beech Bark Disease Distribution And Resistance In Michigan And Fungal Endophyte Ecology Of Resistant And Susceptible Beech (Fagus Grandifolia Ehrh.), Rachel E. Griesmer-Zakhar

Dissertations, Master's Theses and Master's Reports - Open

Beech bark disease (BBD), a non-native association of the fungal pathogen Neonectria faginata and the beech scale insect Cryptococcus fagisuga, has dramatically affected American beech within North American forests. To monitor the spread and effects of BBD in Michigan, a network of forest health monitoring plots was established in 2001 following the disease discovery in Ludington State Park (Mason County). Forest health canopy condition and basic forestry measurements including basal area were reassessed on beech trees in these plots in 2011 and 2012. The influence of bark-inhabiting fungal endophytes on BBD resistance was investigated by collecting cambium tissue from apparently ...

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A Wildfire Risk Assessment Framework For Land And Resource Management, Joe H. Scott, Matthew P. Thompson, David E. Calkin Pyrologix LLC

A Wildfire Risk Assessment Framework For Land And Resource Management, Joe H. Scott, Matthew P. Thompson, David E. Calkin

USDA Forest Service / UNL Faculty Publications

Wildfires can result in significant, long-lasting impacts to ecological, social, and economic systems. It is necessary, therefore, to identify and understand the risks posed by wildland fire, and to develop cost-effective mitigation strategies accordingly. This report presents a general framework with which to assess wildfire risk and explore mitigation options, and illustrates a process for implementing the framework. Two key strengths of the framework are its flexibility— allowing for a multitude of data sources, modeling techniques, and approaches to measuring risk—and its scalability, with potential application for project, forest, regional, and national planning. The specific risk assessment process we ...

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The Forest, The Fire And The Fungi: Studying The Effects Of Prescribed Burning On Mycorrhizal Fungi In Crater Lake National Park, Carol Anna US Forest Service

The Forest, The Fire And The Fungi: Studying The Effects Of Prescribed Burning On Mycorrhizal Fungi In Crater Lake National Park, Carol Anna

JFSP Briefs

A first-of-its-kind study, conducted in a forest of old-growth ponderosa pine and white fi r in Oregon’s Crater Lake National Park, explored the relationships among seasonal prescribed burning, an array of soil attributes, and mycorrhizal fungal fruiting patterns. This three-fold approach not only made the study unique, but also enabled researchers to separate the effects of fi re treatment from the effects of soil attributes on fungal fruiting patterns. The study’s site encompassed three different prescribed burn treatments—applied in the early spring, late spring, and fall of 2002—as well as non-burned control plots. Analyzing statistics with ...

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Baldcypress And Black Willow Growth Response To Contrasting Flood Regimes, Climate, And Competition, In The Atchafalaya Basin, Louisiana, Alicia Louise McAlhaney 2018 Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College

Baldcypress And Black Willow Growth Response To Contrasting Flood Regimes, Climate, And Competition, In The Atchafalaya Basin, Louisiana, Alicia Louise Mcalhaney

LSU Master's Theses

Wetlands are dynamic ecosystems distinguished by their dependence on fluctuations of hydrologic influence. Although it is generally accepted that that flooding is a strong influence on growth, and that effects vary depending on whether water is stagnant or flowing, several aspects of flood characteristics and several tree species remain poorly investigated. One source of variability that has not been investigated is how flooding, climate, and competition among trees interact to control growth of individual trees. The objective of this study was therefore to 1) investigate effects of temporally varying hydrology and climate on growth of baldcypress and black willow trees ...

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Characterization Of Sites For Native Herbaceous Understory Restoration In West Gulf Coast Longleaf Pine (Pinus Palustris) Savannas, Brooke McCalip 2018 Stephen F Austin State University

Characterization Of Sites For Native Herbaceous Understory Restoration In West Gulf Coast Longleaf Pine (Pinus Palustris) Savannas, Brooke Mccalip

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Longleaf pine (Pinus palustris) savannas were once dominant in East Texas and parts of western and central Louisiana. Native understory species have since been removed or reduced by exotic plants that were introduced and from the reduction in the frequency of both wild and prescribed fires. A diverse layer of understory species can still be seen today, but not often in the historical savanna setting that is desirable in longleaf pine ecosystems. This project aimed to identify site characteristics associated with longleaf ecosystems that support a dense, herbaceous understory with little to no midstory cover.

A total of 65 plots ...

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Developing A Coastal Gis Model Of Sri Lanka To Pinpoint Areas At Risk Of Tsunamis, John E. Dellysse, Buddhika D. Madurapperuma 2018 Humboldt State University

Developing A Coastal Gis Model Of Sri Lanka To Pinpoint Areas At Risk Of Tsunamis, John E. Dellysse, Buddhika D. Madurapperuma

IdeaFest: Interdisciplinary Journal of Creative Works and Research from Humboldt State University

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Survey And Map Distribution Of English Ivy (Hedera Helix L.) At Patrick's Point State Park, California, John W. Cortenbach, Buddhika D. Madurapperuma 2018 Humboldt State University

Survey And Map Distribution Of English Ivy (Hedera Helix L.) At Patrick's Point State Park, California, John W. Cortenbach, Buddhika D. Madurapperuma

IdeaFest: Interdisciplinary Journal of Creative Works and Research from Humboldt State University

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Timber Talk, Vol. 56, No. 2, June 2018, 2018 University of Nebraska - Lincoln

Timber Talk, Vol. 56, No. 2, June 2018

Timber Talk: Nebraska Forest Industry Newsletter

In This Edition of Timber Talk

  1. Lumber Market Reports
  2. Hardwood Lumber Prices (green lumber, kiln-dried lumber, green pallet lumber, and green crossties)
  3. The Urban Wood Network: Bringing the Value of Urban Wood to Light
  4. Firewood Regulations Impacting Nebraska Firewood Producers
  5. Nebraska Legislature to Conduct Redcedar Study
  6. Nebraska Forest Industry Spotlight: Between Two Trees (Brady, NE)
  7. Woody Biomass Heating Assistance Available
  8. SAVE THE DATE: Walnut Timber Management and Harvest Workshop (Plattsmouth, NE)
  9. Trading Post
  10. Timber Sales
  11. Ponderosa Pine (Sheridan County, NE)

If there is information or subject matter which you would like to see included in future editions of Timber Talk ...

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I-Tree Landscape: A Case Study In Best Practices For Education And Dissemination For Multiple User Groups, Margaret M. Abood 2018 DePaul University

I-Tree Landscape: A Case Study In Best Practices For Education And Dissemination For Multiple User Groups, Margaret M. Abood

DePaul Discoveries

The urban ecosystems we inhabit provide essential ecosystem services to humans, such as air pollution removal, as well as effective means to avoid costs related to urban development, such as stormwater treatment. A better understanding of the value of ecosystem services and their spatial distribution in urban areas is vital to widespread, wholistic understanding of the relationship of environmental, economic, and social conditions. As such, it should be a component of education in grades 6-12, college, and continuing education. i-Tree Landscape is a free, online model developed by the USDA Forest Service in which users can select a geography (i ...

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Immersed In Fire: The Use Of Virtual Reality As An Attitude Assessor And Boundary Object In Wildland Fire Management, Casey Olechnowicz 2018 University of Maine

Immersed In Fire: The Use Of Virtual Reality As An Attitude Assessor And Boundary Object In Wildland Fire Management, Casey Olechnowicz

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Interest in using prescribed burning as a forest management tool to promote forest health and regeneration is growing in Maine. The goal for this research was to better understand the way that the public perceives prescribed burning practices in wildland-urban interfaces, with an emphasis placed on how immersive imagery, closely related to virtual reality (VR), compares to traditional communication methods. We specifically focus on the social acceptability of prescribed burning and analyze how the level of immersive imagery is related to that acceptability (Ahn, 2015; Bricken, 1990; Fogg, Cuellar, and Danielson, 2009; Smith 2015; Wiederhold, Davis, and Wiederhold, 1998). The ...

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Climate Sensitivity And Potential Vulnerability Of Guatemalan Fir (Abies Guatemalensis) Forests In Totonicapán, Guatemala, Talia G. Anderson, Daniel Griffin, Kevin Anchukaitis, Diego Pons, Matthew Taylor 2018 University of Arizona

Climate Sensitivity And Potential Vulnerability Of Guatemalan Fir (Abies Guatemalensis) Forests In Totonicapán, Guatemala, Talia G. Anderson, Daniel Griffin, Kevin Anchukaitis, Diego Pons, Matthew Taylor

Journal of Latin American Geography

Despite continued forest loss and extensive demand for wood products throughout Guatemala, the locally managed and protected forests of Totonicapán remain some of the most intact within the country. Here, we study the growth rings of Guatemalan fir (Pinaceae; Abies guatemalensis Rehder; pinabete) at Totonicapán to assess environmental influences on tree growth and the potential vulnerability of these forests to climate change in the western highlands. We find that late summer and dry season precipitation are critical drivers in annual ring-width variability and that tree growth responds negatively to warm sea surface temperature anomalies in the eastern tropical Pacific. Considering ...

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Managing For Multiple Objectives In Southwestern Forests: Evaluating The Trade-Offs Between Enhancing Mexican Spotted Owl Nest Habitat And Mitigating Potential Crown Fire, Daniel C. Deane McKenna 2018 Utah State University

Managing For Multiple Objectives In Southwestern Forests: Evaluating The Trade-Offs Between Enhancing Mexican Spotted Owl Nest Habitat And Mitigating Potential Crown Fire, Daniel C. Deane Mckenna

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA), the United States’ forest census, measured sixty-six Mexican spotted owl nest stands in order gain insight into the structure and composition of the nest habitat of this threatened species. I used these data, along with the greater FIA database and the Forest Vegetation Simulator to explore questions surrounding the management of Mexican spotted owl habitat, specifically how to balance the objective of sustaining and enhancing nest habitat in face of increasing forest fire size and severity in the Southwest. My research consisted of three studies. The first study quantified the structure and composition of ...

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Blooming Mountains Of Biodiversity: An Investigation Of Angiosperms On Cerro Mayordomo, Tungurahua, Ecuador, Ella Matsuda 2018 SIT Study Abroad

Blooming Mountains Of Biodiversity: An Investigation Of Angiosperms On Cerro Mayordomo, Tungurahua, Ecuador, Ella Matsuda

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

Ecuador is one of the most biodiverse places on the planet, and many of the species in the region are found nowhere else in the world. The cloud forest is particularly diverse because the mountainous terrain isolates populations and changes in elevation create a wide variety of habitats. Cerro Mayordomo is a relatively unexplored mountain in the cloud forest of Tungurahua, Ecuador. It is known to have very high levels of endemism and several new species have been discovered there, but the biodiversity of angiosperms on the mountain has never been quantified. In this study, 5x5 m quadrants were established ...

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Roadside Integrated Vegetation Management Bmps: Right Tool For The Right Job, Cheryl Daniels, Davey Resource Group, Inc. 2018 Davey Resource Group, Inc.

Roadside Integrated Vegetation Management Bmps: Right Tool For The Right Job, Cheryl Daniels, Davey Resource Group, Inc.

Purdue Road School

Based on a 3-year ODOT IVM research project, lessons learned and techniques for innovative and adaptive IVM for diverse midwestern landscapes will be presented that can increase Indiana DOTs’ efficiency and cost-effectiveness and simultaneously improve worker safety, foster safe highway use, improve roadside aesthetics, and promote environmental stewardship.

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Timber Talk, Vol. 56, No. 1, March 2018, 2018 University of Nebraska - Lincoln

Timber Talk, Vol. 56, No. 1, March 2018

Timber Talk: Nebraska Forest Industry Newsletter

Dear Timber Talk Subscribers,

Attached is the March 2018 issue of “Timber Talk – Nebraska Forest Industry Newsletter.” You must have Adobe software to open the file.

The direct link to previous issues of Timber Talk on the Nebraska Forest Service website is: http://nfs.unl.edu/timber-talk

In This Edition of Timber Talk

1. Lumber Market Reports

2. Hardwood Lumber Prices (green lumber, kiln-dried lumber, green pallet lumber, and green crossties)

3. Evaluating Timber Harvest Potential in Western Nebraska

4. Lincoln Schools, NFS to Demonstrate Urban Lumber Use

5. Nebraska Forest Industry Spotlight: Cutting Edge Mill (Elkhorn, NE)

6. Nebraska ...

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Herbaceous Vegetation: June, Julia I. Chapman, M. E. Maloney, Erin C. Rowekamp, Mitchell J. Kukla, Sean D. Mahoney, Eric B. Borth, Ryan W. McEwan 2018 University of Dayton

Herbaceous Vegetation: June, Julia I. Chapman, M. E. Maloney, Erin C. Rowekamp, Mitchell J. Kukla, Sean D. Mahoney, Eric B. Borth, Ryan W. Mcewan

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Within-Stream Variability Data, Kevin W. Custer, Julia I. Chapman, Ryan W. McEwan 2018 University of Dayton

Within-Stream Variability Data, Kevin W. Custer, Julia I. Chapman, Ryan W. Mcewan

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Water Toxicity Effects Test: Physicochemical Data, Kevin W. Custer, Eric B. Borth, Julia I. Chapman, Ryan W. McEwan 2018 University of Dayton

Water Toxicity Effects Test: Physicochemical Data, Kevin W. Custer, Eric B. Borth, Julia I. Chapman, Ryan W. Mcewan

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Time To Colonization Trial Data, M. E. Maloney, Eric B. Borth, Julia I. Chapman, Ryan W. McEwan 2018 University of Dayton

Time To Colonization Trial Data, M. E. Maloney, Eric B. Borth, Julia I. Chapman, Ryan W. Mcewan

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Lonicera Maackii Leaf Leachate Toxicity: Physicochemical Data, Eric B. Borth, Kevin W. Custer, Julia I. Chapman, Ryan W. McEwan 2018 University of Dayton

Lonicera Maackii Leaf Leachate Toxicity: Physicochemical Data, Eric B. Borth, Kevin W. Custer, Julia I. Chapman, Ryan W. Mcewan

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Lymnaea stagnalis and Hyalella azteca

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Bankfull Width, Kevin W. Custer, Eric B. Borth, Julia I. Chapman, Ryan W. McEwan 2018 University of Dayton

Bankfull Width, Kevin W. Custer, Eric B. Borth, Julia I. Chapman, Ryan W. Mcewan

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Honeysuckle, Erin C. Rowekamp, Eric B. Borth, Julia I. Chapman, Ryan W. McEwan 2018 University of Dayton

Honeysuckle, Erin C. Rowekamp, Eric B. Borth, Julia I. Chapman, Ryan W. Mcewan

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Lonicera Maackii Leaf Leachate Toxicity: Survival, Eric B. Borth, Kevin W. Custer, Julia I. Chapman, Ryan W. McEwan 2018 University of Dayton

Lonicera Maackii Leaf Leachate Toxicity: Survival, Eric B. Borth, Kevin W. Custer, Julia I. Chapman, Ryan W. Mcewan

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Lymnaea stagnalis and Hyalella azteca

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University of Nebraska - Lincoln

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University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Michigan Technological University

Popular Authors

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Steven Bullard Stephen F. Austin State University, Arthur Temple College of Forestry and Agriculture

Christina Frame US Forest Sercive

Jake Delwiche US Forest Service

Marjie Brown US Forest Service

Rachel Clark US Forest Service

Thomas Straka Clemson University

Elise LeQuire US Forest Service

Shari Anstedt US Forest Service

Lisa-Natalie Anjozian US Forest Service

Alexandra Julius University of Massachusetts Amherst

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