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Smokejumper Obituary: Pope, Clem Leroy (Cave Junction 1946), National Smokejumper Association

Smokejumper Obituaries

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Smokejumper Obituary: Tate, Stanton D. (Mccall 1953), National Smokejumper Association

Smokejumper Obituaries

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Smokejumper Obituary: Schmidt, Earl C. (Missoula 1943), National Smokejumper Association

Smokejumper Obituaries

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Smokejumper Obituary: Stratton, Homer Wagner (Missoula 1947), National Smokejumper Association

Smokejumper Obituaries

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Smokejumper Obituary: Rensmeyer, Fred H. (Mccall 1958), National Smokejumper Association

Smokejumper Obituaries

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2014 Future Earth Young Scientists Conference On Integrated Science And Knowledge Co-Production For Ecosystems And Human Well-Being, Ivy Shiue, Leah Samberg, Benard Kulohoma, Diana Dogaru, Carina Wyborn, Perrine Hamel, Peper Sogaard Jorgensen, Paul Lussier, Bharath Sundaram, Michelle Lim, Antonio Tironi

Forest Management Faculty Publications

Effective integration in science and knowledge co-production is a challenge that crosses research boundaries, climate regions, languages and cultures. Early career scientists are crucial in the identification of, and engagement with, obstacles and opportunities in the development of innovative solutions to complex and interconnected problems. On 25-31 May 2014, International Council for Science and International Social Science Council, in collaboration with the International Network of Next-Generation Ecologists and Institute for New Economic Thinking: Young Scholars Initiative, assembled a group of early career researchers with diverse backgrounds and research perspectives to reflect on and debate relevant issues around ecosystems and human …

Evaluating Gps Effectiveness For Natural Resource Professionals: Integrating Undergraduate Students In The Decision-Making Process, Daniel Unger, I-Kuai Hung, Yanli Zhang, David Kulhavy

Faculty Publications

Undergraduate students pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Forestry (BSF) degree at Stephen F. Austin State University (SFA) attend an intensive 6-week residential hands-on instruction in applied field methods. For students pursuing the BSF degree knowing the exact location of a forestland is crucial to the understanding and proper management of any related natural resource. The intensive 6-week instruction includes teaching how to use the Global Positioning System (GPS) to accurately record the spatial location of an earth’s surface feature. After receiving hands-on instructions during the summer of 2014, students were taken to the field to collect real-world locations. Students …

Traditional Ecological Knowledge: A Model For Modern Fire Management?, Gail Wells

Joint Fire Science Program Digests

For many thousands of years, aboriginal peoples worldwide used fire to manage landscapes. In North America, the frequency and extent of fire (both human caused and natural) were much reduced after European colonization. Fire exclusion became the policy in the United States for most of the 20th century as the country became more settled and industrialized. Past fire exclusion has helped produce landscapes that are highly susceptible to uncharacteristically severe wildfire. An urgent challenge for land managers today is to reduce fire risk through several means, including prescribed burning, without harm to culturally significant resources or human communities. The Joint …

Timber Talk, Vol. 52, No. 4, November 1, 2014

Timber Talk: Nebraska Forest Industry Newsletter

In This Issue

Lumber Market News ...........................1

Hardwood Lumber Price Trends—Green..................................2

Hardwood Lumber Price Trends—Kiln Dried...........................2

Wood is Good........................................3

Simple Steps for Double Your Firewood Profits................................4

Homemade Log Forwarder...................5

Nebraska Forest Industry Spotlight......6

The Trading Post....................................8

Timber Sales...........................................8

National Smokejumper Assocation Trail Maintenance Annual Report For 2014, National Smokejumper Association Trails Committee

Trails Reports

The Trails Maintenance Program Annual Reports compiled by the National Smokejumper Association Trails Committee summarizes the activities of the Trails Program. The members of the program also go by the title Trails Restoration and Maintenance Project Specialists (TRAMPS). The contents of the 2011 report include: Volunteer of the Year Report; Administrative Report; Base Abbreviations; Editors Note; Boundary Water Canoe Area; Kenck Cabin; Cliff Lake Trail; Dixie; Huckleberry Lookout; Art Jukkala Trail; Big Sand Lake/Blodgett Pass Tr.; Cache Creek Cabin; Center Creek Trail; Middle Fork Peak; Monongahela; Pentagon Station; Rocky Mountain National Park; Spyglass Lookout; Yellowstone Nature Connection; Sunbeam Hot Spring; …

Smokejumper Obituary: Mundell, James Asa (Missoula 1943), National Smokejumper Association

Smokejumper Obituaries

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Smokejumper Obituary: Osborn, Joseph C. (Missoula 1943), National Smokejumper Association

Smokejumper Obituaries

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Meeting Minutes, October 8th, 2014, National Smokejumper Association Board Of Directors

National Smokejumper Association Meeting Minutes

Agenda: Call to order, introduction to site, introductions, approval of the agenda.; Approval of previous meeting minutes.; Website Committee report.; Scholarship Committee report.; Investment Committee report.; Trails Report.; Reunion Committee report.; Reunion plans for additional history gathering.; Video interviews of smokejumpers.; Report on the Evergreen Museum and the Smokejumper display.; Recognition of Guy Hurlbutt's service.; Presentation by USFS Fire Investigator.; NSA's legal counsel.; Budget Report.; Membership Report.; Merchandise Report.; Details of Mark Urban's death.; New business.; Revisit of parachute system questions.; Fund Raising ideas.; Fire Starters.; Next meeting(s).; Evaluation of meeting and travel/lodging vouchers.;

Smokejumper Obituary: Lehman, Allen Dean (Mccall 1944), National Smokejumper Association

Smokejumper Obituaries

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Smokejumper Obituary: Curtiss, Ronald Glen Olaf (Grangeville 1961), National Smokejumper Association

Smokejumper Obituaries

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Economic Contribution Of Agriculture And Food To Arkansas' Gross Domestic Product 1997-2012, Leah English, Jennie Popp, Wayne Miller

AAES Research Reports and Research Bulletins

Agricultural production, processing, and retail industries are major contributors to the Arkansas economy in terms of GDP. Agriculture contributes to the economy through direct agricultural production, value-added processing, and agricultural retail activities, and it also plays an important role through its interactions with other sectors. The use of non-agricultural goods and services as inputs into the agricultural sector promotes diversified growth in Arkansas’ economy; thus agriculture remains a vital part of Arkansas’ economy. This report: 1) compares the relative size of the Agriculture and Food Sector in Arkansas with those of neighboring states, the Southeastern region of the United States, …

Taming The Software Chaos: True To Its Promise, Iftdss Eases The Burden Of Fuels Treatment Planning—And Does A Lot More Besides, Gail Wells

Joint Fire Science Program Digests

A key problem reported by the fuels treatment planning community is the difficulty and inefficiency of evaluating and then applying many planning tools and applications. Fuels specialists have struggled to find, load, and learn all the different fuels and fire planning models, not to mention the interface of running, adjusting, and inputting data specific to each model without the ability to easily share inputs/outputs between models.

The Interagency Fuels Treatment Decision Support System (IFTDSS) was conceived as a way for users to learn one interface, access a variety of data and models all in one place, and pass data (inputs …

A Test Of The Mean Distance Method For Forest Regeneration Assessment, Daniel Unger, Jeremy P. Stovall, Brian P. Oswald, David Kulhavy, I-Kuai Hung

Faculty Publications

A new distance-based estimator for forest regeneration assessment, the mean distance method, was developed by combining ideas and techniques from the wandering quarter method, T-square sampling and the random pairs method. The performance of the mean distance method was compared to conventional 4.05 square meter plot sampling through simulation analysis on 405 square meter blocks of a field surveyed clumped distribution and a computer generated random distribution at different levels of density of 100, 50 and 25%. The mean distance method accurately estimated density on the random populations but the mean distance method estimates were more variable than those of …

Smokejumper Obituary: Miller, Leland (Missoula 1944), National Smokejumper Association

Smokejumper Obituaries

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Smokejumper Obituary: Pape, Donald L. (Idaho City 1948), National Smokejumper Association

Smokejumper Obituaries

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Smokejumper Obituary: Searles, Robert C. (Missoula 1945), National Smokejumper Association

Smokejumper Obituaries

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Smokejumper Obituary: Wallace, Donald Earl (Cave Junction 1949), National Smokejumper Association

Smokejumper Obituaries

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Smokejumper Obituary: Crosby, Harold Gene (Mccall 1953), National Smokejumper Association

Smokejumper Obituaries

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Agenda: Celebrating The Great Law: The Wilderness Act At 50, University Of Colorado Boulder. Getches-Wilkinson Center For Natural Resources, Energy, And The Environment, The Wilderness Society

Celebrating the Great Law: The Wilderness Act at 50 (September 4-5)

"A conference sponsored by the Getches-Wilkinson Center for Natural Resources, Energy, and the Environment and The Wilderness Society."

On September 3, 2014, the National Wilderness Preservation System—established and protected by the Wilderness Act of 1964—celebrates its 50th anniversary. We are gathering on September 4th and 5th to celebrate Wilderness—“ornery old wilderness, scratchy, sweaty, and distant, but sacred every step of the way”—and to commemorate the great law so central to its protection.

This is not an ordinary conference, full of dry presentations or heated policy debates. Instead, this will be a full-throated love song to wild country. We have brought …

Timber Talk, Vol. 52, No. 3, September 1, 2014

Timber Talk: Nebraska Forest Industry Newsletter

In This Issue

Lumber Market News ...........................1

Hardwood Lumber Price Trends—Green..................................2

Hardwood Lumber Price Trends—Kiln Dried...........................2

Band Saws for Small Sawmills..............3

Sawmills Can Make More than Lumber.............................................5

Nebraska Forest Industry Spotlight......6

The Trading Post....................................8

Timber Sales...........................................8

Economic Contribution Of The Agricultural Sector To The Arkansas Economy In 2012, Leah English, Jennie Popp, Wayne Miller

AAES Research Reports and Research Bulletins

This report is the ninth in a series of reports examining agriculture’s economic contribution on the Arkansas economy. Utilizing data from the United States Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), USDA Economic Research Service (ERS), USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS), and IMPLAN Group, LLC , the economic contribution of agriculture on the Arkansas economy was estimated for the most recent year available, 2012.

Smokejumper Obituary: Krueger, Otto Frederick (Missoula 1955), National Smokejumper Association

Smokejumper Obituaries

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Changing Forest Structure Across The Landscape Of The Sierra Nevada, Ca, Usa, Since The 1930s, Christopher R. Dolanc, Hugh D. Safford, James H. Thorne, Solomon Z. Dobrowski

Forest Management Faculty Publications

Understanding the dynamics of forest structure aids inference regarding future forests and their distributions around the world. Over the last few decades, several papers have addressed changing forest structure in the Sierra Nevada, CA, USA, but these studies were limited in scope. We carried out a broad comparison of forest density and composition in the 1930s versus the 2000s for the west slope of the central and northern Sierra Nevada, using the two most extensive data sets available. Forests in this region have endured a long, complex history of human disturbance, and are now experiencing climatic shifts. We subdivided the …

Smokejumper Obituary: Webb, Donald R. (Mccall 1956), National Smokejumper Association

Smokejumper Obituaries

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Smokejumper Obituary: Greene, Melvin L. (Missoula 1942), National Smokejumper Association

Smokejumper Obituaries

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