Forest Conservation
The following projects have to do with forest conservation:
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)
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)
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)
Living in fire prone natural landscapes - Reducing the risk to rural communities from wildfire
An approach to mapping fire hazards at an intermediate scale to identify and prioritize fire management activities in the urban-wildland interface. (June 2004)
Ecological Issues Underlying Proposals to Conduct Salvage Logging in Areas Burned by the Biscuit Fire
An independent examination of the post-fire management options being considered for the Biscuit Fire (2002) within the Siskiyou National Forest in Southwestern Oregon. (January 2004)
Forest intactness database
An assessment of relative forest intactness for the coterminous United States. Each unit of analysis has a database comprising a suite of fragmentation metrics, road density values, and relative ordinal scores. (April 2001)
Landscape Change Analysis for the Klamath-Siskiyou Ecoregion
An analysis of landscape change history using remote sensing (1972-1992) in the Klamath-Siskiyou ecoregion with special emphasis on forest disturbance. (March 2001)
Global Forest Restoration: A Review
A review of the concept of forest restoration, as well as individual reviews of the various ecological, technical, and socio-political factors relevant to the WWF Global 200 major habitat types. (August 1999)
A GIS-Based Model for Assessing Conservation Focal Areas for the Redwood Ecoregion
A model produced for Save-the-Redwoods League that was intended to help target future proactive conservation planning efforts in the region. (April 1999)
