Ecological Assessments
The following projects involve ecological assessments:
Climate change and insect defoliation in the New Jersey Pine Barrens
CBI, in collaboration with the US Forest Service, will assess and predict the effects of gypsy moth defoliation events, fire management, and climate change on forest productivity, species composition, and tree mortality in the New Jersey Pine Barrens. Using management scenarios developed based on current management practices and potential carbon management practices; we will determine how interactions among these disturbances affect management goals. This project will help provide a predictive framework for working through landscape to regional management scenarios in areas with multiple, interacting management priorities that can be applied across the US, especially in areas where insect and fire disturbances interact. (ongoing)
Conservation Vision for Bahía de San Quintín
Bahía de San Quintín is the largest and only intact coastal lagoon system in the entire Mediterranean zone of North America. It is among the richest, most diverse, and most imperiled ecosystems on the planet, supporting dozens of species designated as Threatened or Endangered. (September 2007)
Ramona Grasslands Habitat Management Planning
A science-based adaptive habitat management plan for the approximately 3,000-acre Ramona Grasslands Open Space Preserve in central San Diego County. (January 2007)
Mapping Undisturbed Landscapes in Alaska: Overview Report and Interactive Atlas CD
This report, written in collaboration with Global Forest Watch, presents an analysis and geographical representation of relatively large forest landscapes free of visual evidence of human disturbances across the State of Alaska, USA. (October 2006)
Conservation Significance of Rancho Guejito
This document provides an introduction to the intersecting cultural and biological conservation values of Rancho Guejito—its cultural history, rare biological resources, its ecological functions within surrounding conserved areas, its significance to past, present, and future generations of Californians—and a plea for conservation of the irreplaceable values it supports, the loss of which cannot be mitigated elsewhere. (October 2005)
The importance of western Oregon BLM lands to fish and wildlife habitat conservation
This report provides BLM with a scientific foundation for managing its lands to meet the ecological objectives of the NWFP, ESA, and Clean Water Act. (October 2005)
Oregon's Legacy Wild Forests
This report provides new information on the importance of roadless areas in Oregon that places these areas among the most ecologically valued in the nation, thereby providing a scientific foundation for protecting all of Oregon's roadless lands regardless of the method to achieve this outcome. (October 2005)
Sierra Checkerboard Initiative
The Trust for Public Land, the Sierra Nevada Forest Protection Campaign, California Wilderness Coalition, and others, commissioned this Science Assessment to initiate development of a vision for a more sustainable landscape in the central Sierra Nevadas. (July 2005)
Maintaining Ecological Connectivity Across the “Missing Middle” of the Puente-Chino Hills Wildlife Corridor
An analysis of studies of wildlife movement in this area of the LA basin with recommendations for conservation and management. (July 2005)
Preliminary Aquatic Integrity Assessment for the Lower/Middle Klamath River and the Upper Sacramento River
An analysis of relative aquatic integrity focused on human impacts on salmonid habitat variables. (August 2004)
