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Restoration of Low Elevation Dry Forests of the Northern Rocky Mountains: A Holistic Approach PDF

Dry forests of the northern Rocky Mountains can be described as stands of pure ponderosa pine, or pine intermixed with Douglas-fir and western larch that cover the lower slopes of these mountains and provide important habitat for a number of wildlife species. Since the beginning of the 19th century, these forests were greatly affected by logging, grazing, road-building, and fire suppression. Such activities changed the structure of the forests reducing their ecological integrity.

The Unknown Trajectory of Forest Restoration: A Call for Ecosystem Monitoring PDF

Ecological restoration of forests is an increasingly common activity on our nation’s forests. However, monitoring after forest restoration activities is a costly process. This brief provides a synthesis of how we might accomplish forest restoration monitoring in light of limited federal budgets, thereby allowing for adaptive strategies in the management of low elevation, dry forest ecosystems of the Northern Rocky Mountains.

Targeting the Community Fire Planning Zone: Mapping Matters PDF

Protecting communities threatened by wildland fire is one of the highest priorities of federal fire policy. The National Fire Plan and the 10-Year Comprehensive Strategy have called on federal agencies such the USDA Forest Service and the USDOI Bureau of Land Management to focus their efforts on the “wildland-urban interface,” where private homes abut fire-prone public wildlands.

Restoring forests and reducing fire danger in the Intermountain West with thinning and fire PDF

Much of the forest landscape in the Intermountain West has been transformed. Beginning with livestock grazing in the second half of the 19th century and continuing with decades of logging, road-building and fire exclusion through the 20th century, these changes have degraded watersheds and habitat for fish and wildlife. These altered forests also respond very differently to fire, sometimes to the further detriment of fish, wildlife, and watersheds, as well as endangering the lives and property of people who have chosen to live within and adjacent to forest lands.