http://westinstenv.org W.I.S.E. Home Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:16:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en SOS Forests: Active Forest Management Can Save the Entire Planet The Tumblebug Fire D-bug Hazard Reduction and Timber Sale Project DEIS Comments Requested The Great Montana Land Swindle, Phase II Prescribed Burning and Assuming Responsibility A Short History of the WFLC Wilderness Recognized As Fire Hazard Wildlife and People: Oregon Supreme Court Upholds Klamath Farmer Water Rights Panel Roundtable: Canadian ... http://westinstenv.org/blog/2010/03/18/commentary-updates/ Where Have All the Fires Gone? by Stephen J. Pyne in History of Western Landscapes Aboriginal Use of Fire: Are There Any “Natural” Plant Communities? by Gerald W. Williams in History of Western Landscapes Lessons from a Transboundary Wolf, Elk, Moose and Caribou System by Mark Hebblewhite in Wildlife Sciences The Art and ... http://westinstenv.org/blog/2010/03/03/recent-titles-8/ Defining, Identifying, and Protecting Old-Growth Trees by Mike Dubrasich in Forest and Fire Sciences The Benefits of Forest Restoration by Mike Dubrasich in Restoration Forestry The Fictional Ecosystem and the Pseudo-science of Ecosystem Management by Travis Cork III in Forest and Fire Sciences The Alseya Valley Prairie Complex, ca. 1850: Native Landscapes in ... http://westinstenv.org/blog/2010/02/03/recent-titles-7/ Using a spatially explicit ecological model to test scenarios of fire use by Native Americans: An example from the Harlem Plains, New York, NY by William T. Bean and Eric W. Sanderson in Forest and Fire Sciences Pre-Columbian geometric earthworks in the upper Pur'us: a complex society in western Amazonia by ... http://westinstenv.org/blog/2010/01/08/recent-titles-6/ Spark and Sprawl: A World Tour by Stephen J. Pyne in Forest and Fire Sciences Historic Anthropogenically Maintained Bear Grass Savannas of the Southeastern Olympic Peninsula by David Peter and Daniela Shebitz in History of Western Landscapes Ecological and Cultural Significance of Burning Beargrass Habitat on the Olympic Peninsula, Washington by Daniela ... http://westinstenv.org/blog/2009/12/15/recent-titles-5/ The Wildland/Science Interface by Stephen J. Pyne in Forest and Fire Sciences The Forest Health Crisis: How Did We Get In This Mess? by Charles E. Kay in Forest and Fire Sciences Tending Fires by Roger Underwood in SOS Forests Rhymes With Chiricahua by Stephen J. Pyne in Forest and Fire Sciences The relationship ... http://westinstenv.org/blog/2009/10/30/recent-titles-4/ Causes of Post-Fire Runoff and Erosion: Water Repellency, Cover, or Soil Sealing? by Isaac J. Larsen, Lee H. MacDonald, Ethan Brown, Daniella Rough, Matthew J. Welsh, Joseph H. Pietraszek, Zamir Libohova, Juan de Dios Benavides-Solorio, and Keelin Schaffrath in Forest and Fire Sciences A 500-year record of fire from a humid ... http://westinstenv.org/blog/2009/09/07/recent-titles-3/ U.S. Wildfire Cost-Plus-Loss Economics Project: The “One-Pager” Checklist by  Bob Zybach, Michael Dubrasich, Gregory Brenner, and John Marker in Forest and Fire Sciences The Complexities of State Management of Wildlife Under Federal Laws by Randy Budge in Wildlife Sciences An Asian origin for a 10,000-year-old domesticated plant in the Americas by David ... http://westinstenv.org/blog/2009/08/04/recent-titles-2/ Testimony of Dr. Peter Kolb on Mountain Pine Beetle by Peter Kolb in Forest and Fire Sciences Sea otters, shellfish, and humans: 10,000 years of ecological interaction on San Miguel Island, California by Jon M. Erlandson, Torben C. Rick, Michael Graham, James Estes, Todd Braje, and René Vellanoweth in History ... http://westinstenv.org/blog/2009/07/09/latest-titles-24/ Re-Inventing the United States Forest Service: Evolution from Custodial Management, to Production Forestry, to Ecosystem Management by Doug MacCleery in Forest and Fire Sciences The Threat of the Yrmo: The Political Ontology of a Sustainable Hunting Program by Mario Blaser in Wildlife Sciences Patch Burning by Stephen Pyne in Forest and Fire ... http://westinstenv.org/blog/2009/06/19/latest-titles-23/ Bushfires, Prescribed Burning, and Global Warming by Roger Underwood, David Packham, and Phil Cheney in Forest and Fire Sciences Revitalizing Science in a Risk-Averse Culture: Reflections on the Syndrome and Prescriptions for Its Cure by Gerald H. Pollack in Forest and Fire Sciences Impacts Of Earthquake Tsunamis On Oregon Coastal Populations by ... http://westinstenv.org/blog/2009/04/02/latest-titles-22/ Soil respiration in Amazonian plantations treated with charcoal, and mineral or organic fertilisers by Christoph Steiner, Murilo Rodrigues de Arruda, Wenceslau G. Teixeira, and Wolfgang Zech in Forest and Fire Sciences Nitrogen retention and plant uptake on a highly weathered central Amazonian Ferralsol amended with compost and charcoal by Christoph Steiner, ... http://westinstenv.org/blog/2009/03/29/latest-titles-21/ Cultivated Landscapes of Native Amazonia and the Andes by William M. Denevan in History of Western Landscapes Of Fates, Forests, and Futures: Myths, Epistemes, and Policy in Tropical Conservation by Susanna B. Hecht in History of Western Landscapes The legacy of cultural landscapes in the Brazilian Amazon: implications for biodiversity by Michael ... http://westinstenv.org/blog/2009/02/21/latest-titles-20/ Missouri Compromise by Stephen J. Pyne in Forest and Fire Sciences Effects of Wolf Predation on North Central Idaho Elk Populations by the Idaho Department of Fish and Game in Wildlife Sciences Pre-industrial CO2 levels were about the same as today by Dr. Tim Ball in Paleobotany and Paleoclimatology Large predators: them and ... http://westinstenv.org/blog/2008/12/31/latest-titles-19/ Intense forest wildfire sharply reduces mineral soil C and N: the first direct evidence by Bernard T. Bormann, Peter S. Homann, Robyn L. Darbyshire, and Brett A. Morrissette in Forest and Fire Sciences Yellowstone’s Destabilized Effects, Science, and Policy Conflict by Frederick H. Wagner, reviewed by Cliff White in Wildlife Sciences The ... http://westinstenv.org/blog/2008/11/12/latest-titles-18/