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Using Gis For Forest Recreation Planning On The Longleaf Ridge Special Area Of The Angelina National Forest, East Texas, I-Kuai Hung

Faculty Publications

Longleaf Ridge Special Area (LRSA) located in the Angelina National Forest is the westernmost example of a longleaf pine savanna community. Ecologically, the area is one of the most diverse communities in Texas. Due to its size, abundant natural and historical resources, numerous outdoor recreation opportunities exist. In this study, GIS was used to develop a forest recreation concept plan on LRSA. Most of the geospatial data came from public entities. Information for demand analysis on forest recreation was obtained from the 2000 National Survey on Recreation and the Environment database. U.S. Forest Service recreation fee envelope data were analyzed …

Pre-Logging Liana Cutting Reduces Liana Regeneration In Logging Gaps In The Eastern Brazilian Amazon, Jeffrey J. Gerwing, Christopher Uhl

Environmental Science and Management Faculty Publications and Presentations

The cutting of all lianas prior to logging is a reduced-impact logging technique that is predicted to reduce liana proliferation in logging gaps. This study compares liana abundance and species composition in gaps created during conventional and reduced-impact logging in a forest of the eastern Brazilian Amazon. Logging treatments were conducted in side-by-side plots. Shortly following logging, 50-m² plots were located in the approximate centers of four single treefall and four multiple treefall gaps in each logging area. Six years following logging, there were ∼40% fewer climbing lianas in reduced-impact gaps than in conventional logging gaps. In both logging …

Smokejumper Obituary: Dobbins, Wallace J. (Missoula 1947), National Smokejumper Association

Smokejumper Obituaries

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Smokejumper Obituary: Shetler, Maynard W. (Missoula 1945), National Smokejumper Association

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Smokejumper Obituary: Stokes, Walter S. (Pendleton 1945), National Smokejumper Association

Smokejumper Obituaries

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Meeting Minutes, October 12th, 2002, National Smokejumper Association Board Of Directors

National Smokejumper Association Meeting Minutes

Agenda: Pledge of Allegiance was omitted.; Meeting Minutes.; Introduced new director Doug Houston.; Reports.; Treasurer's Report.; Membership Report.; Magazine Report.; Web Report.; Trails Report.; Data Base Report.; Memorial Plaques.; Museum Report.; Next National Reunion.; Public Affairs Officer Position Created.; Folklife Festival Explained.; The 100th anniversary of the Forest service.; We should form an archives committee.; Everyone in attendance at a board meeting should be assigned to a committee.; Those attending board meetings should have name badges Long-Range Plan Revised.; New VP Named.; Nyquest Chief Trash Man in Missoula.; Rohrbach Suggests Lobbying for Additional Smokejumpers.; Twiss Elected.; Proceed with the fabrication …

Impact Of The Agricultural Sector On The Arkansas Economy, H. L. Goodwin Jr., Jennie Popp, Wayne Miller, Gina Vickery, Z. Clayton-Niederman

AAES Research Reports and Research Bulletins

Agriculture historically has been one of the primary sectors of the Arkansas economy. Agriculture is defined as the sum of agricultural, forestry, and fisheries production and processing activities unless otherwise specified. Not only does agriculture contribute to the economy through direct agricultural production and added value processing, it also plays an important role through the economy’s other sectors. Utilizing data from the United States Bureau of Economic Affairs and the State of Arkansas, the economic impact of agriculture on the Arkansas economy was estimated for the latest year available, 1999. Gross State Product (GSP) information for Arkansas was compared with …

Smokejumper Obituary: Vail, Edwin (Missoula 1944), National Smokejumper Association

Smokejumper Obituaries

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Smokejumper Obituary: Zimmerman, Merlo M. (Missoula 1944), National Smokejumper Association

Smokejumper Obituaries

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Effects Of Prescribed Burning On Vegetation And Fuel Loading In Three East Texas State Parks, S. Rideout, Brian P. Oswald

Faculty Publications

-This study was conducted to evaluate the initial effectiveness of prescribed burning in the ecological restoration of forests within selected parks in east Texas. Twenty-four permanent plots were installed to monitor fuel loads, overstory, sapling, seedling, shrub and herbaceous layers within bum and control units of Mission Tejas, Tyler and Village Creek state parks. Measurements were taken during the summers of 1999 and 2000. Prescribed burning was conducted between these sampling periods in early spring 2ooo. Results indicated that the current applications of prescribed burning do not significantly influence vegetation or fuels. Sustained drought, prior management practices and imposed local …

Smokejumper Obituary: Elms, James R. (Missoula 1959), National Smokejumper Association

Smokejumper Obituaries

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G02-1452-A Landscaping Around Established Trees, Kathleen Pauley Cue, Scott Josiah

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

This NebGuide examines how tree roots grow and how they can be damaged by landscaping activities, and suggests ways to prevent such damage.

Meeting Minutes, June 22nd, 2002, National Smokejumper Association Board Of Directors

National Smokejumper Association Meeting Minutes

Agenda: Old Business; Treasurer's Report.; Membership.; Merchandise.; Magazine.; Board of Directors Election.; NSA Website.; Trails Program.; Smokejumper Database.; Changing of the Guard.; New Business; Trade Mark.; Termination of Agreements.; Regional NSA Gatherings.; CPS Reunion.; Memorial Funds.; NSA Committees.; BOD Name Tags.; Plaque for Deceased Jumpers.; Meeting Location Strategy.; 2003 Meeting Schedule.; Folk Life Festival 2005 on the Washington Mall.; Smokejumper History Book.; Next Meeting.; Attachments.;

An Assessment Of Potential Habitat Corridors And Landscape Ecology For Long-Tailed Macaques (Macaca Fascicularis) On Bali, Indonesia, Mark Warren Southern

All Master's Theses

The relationship between Balinese long-tailed macaques, Bali's cultural settings, and Bali's physical settings was studied. A Geographical Information System (GIS) database was developed and analyzed to determine if forest corridors exist on Bali that may provide habitat connectivity between 42 Balinese long-tailed macaque troops. The GIS database was also analyzed to determine if the landscape type that has the highest percentage of overlap with the 42 Balinese long-tailed macaque home range sites is forest. The results indicate that connectivity between troops located within Bali's western region is significantly higher than that for troops located in Bali's eastern region. The results …

Forest Landscape Change Detection In The Meseta PuréPecha, MichoacáN, MéXico, John Malcolm Chase

Dissertations and Theses

Social, political, economic, and environmental factors converge in developing countries to stimulate high rates of deforestation. Forest conversion reduces biodiversity, contributes to carbon loading of the atmosphere, alters the global water balance, and degrades the quality of life for rural people. Mexico is the fifth most biologically diverse country in the world and temperate and tropical forests in Mexico are rapidly disappearing with environmental and cultural repercussions for people and ecosystems.

Social, political, economic, and environmental factors converge in developing countries to stimulate high rates of deforestation. Forest conversion reduces biodiversity, contributes to carbon loading of the atmosphere, alters the …

Meeting Minutes, March 23rd, 2002, National Smokejumper Association Board Of Directors

National Smokejumper Association Meeting Minutes

Agenda: Treasurer's Report.; Membership Report.; Merchandise Report.; Magazine Report.; Website Report.; History Book Report.; Trails Program Report.; Scanning NSA Documents Report.; Trademark The New NSA Logo.; Long-Range Plan.; Museum of Mountain Flying Report.; Telephone service at the Missoula NSA office.; Videos Report.; Common Stock Account.; Database Update.; Suggested Changes to Rookie Membership Plan.; Missoula Reunion Report.; Evergreen Aviation Museum Report.; University of Montana Archives Report.; Folk Life Festival Opportunity.; Evergreen Aviation Museum Report.; Ascension of officers.; Board of Directors Positions.; Next Board of Directors and Executive Committee Meetings.;

Fuel Loading Prediction Models Developed From Aerial Photographs Of The Sangre De Cristo And Jemez Mountains Of New Mexico, Usa, Kelly Scott, Brian P. Oswald, Kenneth W. Farrish, Daniel Unger

Faculty Publications

Fuel load prediction equations that made use of aerial photographs were developed for Mixed Conifer, Ponderosa Pine (Pinus ponderosa Dougl. ex Laws.) and Pinyon-Juniper (Pinus edulis Engelm.)-(Juniperusmonosperma Engelm.) cover types from one-time measurements made in the Santa Fe watershed (SFWS) located in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of northern New Mexico, and at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) located in the Jemez Mountains of northern New Mexico. The results of the watershed data set were favorable and exhibited a high degree of relative accuracy. The results from the LANL data set did not share the same degree of accuracy, …

Wildland Fire In Ecosystems Effects Of Fire On Air, David V. Sandberg, Roger D. Ottmar, Janice L. Peterson, John Core

Joint Fire Science Program Synthesis Reports

This state-of-knowledge review about the effects of fire on air quality can assist land, fire, and air resource managers with fire and smoke planning, and their efforts to explain to others the science behind fire-related program policies and practices to improve air quality. Chapter topics include air quality regulations and fire; characterization of emissions from fire; the transport, dispersion, and modeling of fire emissions; atmospheric and plume chemistry; air quality impacts of fire; social consequences of air quality impacts; and recommendations for future research.

Smokejumper Obituary: Braden, C. Murray (Missoula 1944), National Smokejumper Association

Smokejumper Obituaries

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Smokejumper Obituary: Chiprany, Thomas A. (Mccall 1964), National Smokejumper Association

Smokejumper Obituaries

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Smokejumper Obituary: Moncrief, Ellis Everett (Idaho City 1951), National Smokejumper Association

Smokejumper Obituaries

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Smokejumper Obituary: Mason, Calvin Orthel (Pendleton 1945), National Smokejumper Association

Smokejumper Obituaries

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Smokejumper Obituary: Wheeler, W. Paul (North Cascades 1962), National Smokejumper Association

Smokejumper Obituaries

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Smokejumper Obituary: Nellist, Edward Lane (Missoula 1969), National Smokejumper Association

Smokejumper Obituaries

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Smokejumper Obituary: Orr Jr., Conrad O. "Connie" (Missoula 1953), National Smokejumper Association

Smokejumper Obituaries

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Smokejumper Obituary: Kaufman, Robert L. (Missoula 1945), National Smokejumper Association

Smokejumper Obituaries

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Smokejumper Obituary: Neufeld, Elmer W. (Cave Junction 1944), National Smokejumper Association

Smokejumper Obituaries

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Smokejumper Obituary: Dewey, James E. (Missoula 1950), National Smokejumper Association

Smokejumper Obituaries

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Smokejumper Obituary: Wilde, Paul F. (Mccall 1946), National Smokejumper Association

Smokejumper Obituaries

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Smokejumper Obituary: Mcbride Jr., Ben (Idaho City 1963), National Smokejumper Association

Smokejumper Obituaries

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