Implementing adaptive ecosystem restoration in western long-needled pine forests

Covington, Wallace (1995) Implementing adaptive ecosystem restoration in western long-needled pine forests. Technical Report. USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station.

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Abstract

This paper discusses the restoration of western long-needled pine ecosystems in general with a focus on developing adaptive ecosystem management projects which will simultaneously restore these ecosystems and advance basic understanding of how these systems operate. The paper begins with some background remarks on ecosystem restoration. Next comes a brief overview of the evolutionary context of long-needled pine forests of western North America. Then I present a broad overview of human-caused changes in the structure and function of long-needled pine forests. Next I illustrate these changes for the ponderosa pine forests around Flagstaff, Arizona. Finally, I close with a call for interagency cooperation to implement adaptive ecosystem restoration of western long-needled pine ecosystems at an operational scale.

Item Type:	Monograph (Technical Report)
ID number or DOI:	General Technical Repoprt RM-GTR-278
Keywords:	ERI Library, report, Ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa), Ecological Restoration
Subjects:	S Agriculture > SD Forestry
NAU Depositing Author Academic Status:	Faculty/Staff
Department/Unit:	Research Centers > Ecological Restoration Institute
Date Deposited:	31 Mar 2016 22:10
URI:	http://openknowledge.nau.edu/id/eprint/2525

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