Advancing
the Fundamental Sciences: Proceedings of the Forest Service National
Earth Sciences Conference, San Diego, CA, 18-22 October 2004.
Furniss, M.; Clifton, C.; Ronnenberg, K. eds. 2007. Advancing
the Fundamental Sciences: Proceedings of the Forest Service National
Earth Sciences Conference, San Diego, CA, 18-22 October 2004. Gen.
Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-689. Portland, OR: U.S. Forest Service, Pacific
Northwest Research Station. 577 p.
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Section 1. Applied Science and Technology
Part 1. Fire and Smoke
Erosion
Risk Management Tool (ERMiT) – a probability-based
erosion prediction model
Peter R. Robichaud
Evaluating the effects of prescribed fire and fuels on water quality
and aquatic habitat
Robin M. Harris, Caty F. Clifton and Steven M. Wondzell
Long term ecological changes with post-fire emergency seeding
Jeff Bruggink
McNally post-fire discharge and the relationship of Sierra Nevada-wide
flood frequency curves and local Kern River discharge curves
Terry A. Kaplan-Henry
The effects of selected post-fire emergency rehabilitation techniques
on small watershed sediment yields in southern California
Peter M. Wohlgemuth and Peter R. Robichaud
Detecting smoke plumes and analyzing smoke impacts using remote
sensing and GIS for the Mcnalley Fire Incident
Ricardo Cisneros, Andrzej Bytnerowicz, Brad Quayle and Trent Procter
Sierra Nevada Framework Smoke Monitoring: Testing implementation
through a pilot program
Trent Procter, Ricardo Cisneros, Brent Skaggs, Suraj Ahuja and
Mike McCorison
Air quality
and prescribed fire management – Moving toward
a solution space
Tom Robison
Advances in fire convection dynamics
Brian E. Potter, Joseph J. Charney, Warren E. Heilman and Xindi
Bian
Part 2. Watershed Management
Using stream channel reference data
to guide land management decisions
Pete Bengeyfield
Sediment from a small ephemeral gully in South Carolina
William F. Hansen and Dennis L. Law
Quantifying the effects of livestock grazing on suspended sediment
and stream morphology
Pete Bengeyfield
Using multiple fine-sediment size classes to evaluate the condition
of trout spawning habitat
Pamela J. Edwards, Thomas C. Cain and Charles J. Gagen
Water quality effects of blue-green algal blooms in Diamond Lake,
Oregon
Mikeal Jones, Joseph Eilers and Jacob Kann
Watershed delineation on Prince of Wales Island, southeast Alaska
Katherine M. Prussian and J.F. Baichtal
An examination of the reference condition concept: Results of
a pulse study in Redwood National and State Parks, California
Tom Lisle, Ken Cummins and Mary Ann Madej
Part 3. Surface and Groundwater
Chronic misapplication of the relationship
between magnitude and frequency as illustrated in Fluvial Processes
in Geomorphology
by Leopold, Wolman and Miller
Tim Sullivan and Walt Lucas
The evolution of channel maintenance science in the Forest Service
John Potyondy
Forest Service channel maintenance flows in the Klamath Basin
Michael L. McNamara and Tim Sullivan
Keeping
our streams flowing – Tonto National Forest groundwater
policy
Richard Martin and Grant Loomis
USDA Forest Service policy on managing groundwater resources
Stephen P. Glasser
Section 2. Experimental and Research Watersheds
The Forest Service Barometer Watershed Management Program, a historic
viewpoint
Larry J. Schmidt and Byron Beattie
Development of watershed hydrologic research at Santee Experimental
Forest, coastal South Carolina
Devendra Amatya and Carl Trettin
Understanding the hydrologic consequences of timber-harvest and
roading: Four decades of streamflow and sediment results from the
Caspar Creek Experimental Watersheds
Elizabeth Keppeler and Jack Lewis
Forest road erosion research at the Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory
Mark S. Riedel, Lloyd W. Swift, Jr., James M. Vose and Barton D.
Clinton
The Entiat Experimental Forest: A unique opportunity to examine
hydrologic response to wildfire
Richard D. Woodsmith, Kellie B. Vache, Jeffrey J. McDonnell, Jan
Seibert and J. David Helvey
Discharge and sediment loads at the Kings River Experimental Watershed
in the southern Sierra Nevada of California.
Sean M. Eagan, Carolyn T. Hunsaker, Christopher R. Dolanc, Marie
E. Lynch, and Chad R. Johnson
Section 3. Watershed Protection and
Restoration
Part 1. Monitoring and Restoration
The role of BMPs in 303(d) listed waters: A new alternative to
TMDLs
Bruce Sims and Chris Knopp
Best Management Practices (BMP) implementation monitoring: Keys
to success and pitfalls to avoid
Julianne Thompson and Jenny Fryxell
A regional protocol for monitoring BMP implementation and effectiveness
on timber harvest operations
Karen Sykes, Dave Welsch, Roger Ryder and Tim Post
Monitoring exposed! WARM: A database tool to share and query watershed
resources monitoring information
Sherry Hazelhurst and Ken Heffner
Aquatic restoration through hydropower licensing, Bond Falls Project,
Michigan
Mark A. Fedora
TRTR funds – Successes
in watershed restoration in the Eastern Region
Bonnie Ilhardt and Kristine Smith
The Alkali Creek story: 40 years of gully control
Mark Weinhold
The once and future streams: Recreating Bailey and Karnowsky Creeks,
central Oregon Coast Range, USA
Johan Hogervorst and Barbara Ellis-Sugai
Part 2. Roads
Lessons learned from management response to flood
damaged roads in the western Washington Cascades
James Doyle and Gary Ketcheson
Erosion and channel adjustments following forest road decommissioning,
Six Rivers National Forest
Carolyn Cook and Adam Dresser
Roads in the river: Encroachment, implications, and solutions
Bill Shelmerdine
Effectiveness monitoring for road decommissioning projects
Carolyn Napper
Section 4. Valuing the Earth Sciences
Part 1. Soil
Ten-year results from the North American Long-Term Soil Productivity
Study in the western Gulf Coastal Plain
D. Andrew Scott, John Novosad, and Gala Goldsmith
Soil compaction study of 20 timber-harvest units on the Ouachita
National Forest
Kenneth R. Luckow and James M. Guldin
Monitoring to improve the understanding of herbicide fate and
transport in the southern Sierra Nevada, California
Jerome V. DeGraff , Brent Roath, and Earle Franks
Part 2. Geology
Jökulhlaup
in the Wind River Mountains, Shoshone National Forest, Wyoming
Liz Oswald and Ellen Wohl
Reclamation, remediation and hydrologic monitoring of the Minnie
Mine and millsite, Okanogan County, Washington
Rodney T. Lentz
The role of geology in sediment supply and bedload transport patterns
in coarse grained streams
Sandra E. Ryan
A River Runs Underneath It: Geological control of spring and channel
systems and management implications, Cascade Range, Oregon
Anne Jefferson, Gordon E. Grant, and Sarah L. Lewis
Hubbard Glacier, Russell Fiord and Situk River: A landscape in
motion
Robert Gubernick and Steven Paustian
Part 3. Air
Using the critical load concept to protect ecosystems
from acidification
Deborah Ulinski Potter and Cindy Mitchell Huber
The potential
effects of acid deposition: What’s a National
Forest to do?
Stephanie J. Connolly, Thomas C. Cain, Jeremy S. Vestal and Pamela
J. Edwards
Methylmercury contamination: Impacts to aquatic systems and terrestrial
species, and insights for abatement
Charles E. Sams
Part 4. Water
A short history of watershed management in the Forest
Service: 1897 to 2100
Stephen P. Glasser
The marginal economic value of streamflow from National Forests:
Evidence from western water markets
Thomas C. Brown
An Army of Watershed Specialists: Good working relationships encourage
everyone to value watersheds
Scott Tangenberg
Section 5. Partnership and Collaboration
Forest sustainability criteria and indicators: A common language
for the 20 states served by the Northeastern Area
Constance A. Carpenter and Sherri Wormstead
Beyond
boundaries: Resource stewardship in the Skagit River basin – Communities
and National Forests in partnership
Greta Movassaghi and Mary A. Carr
Ecological Management Decision Support model of the Applegate
River basin
Mike Mathews
Klamath
Adjudication – lessons learned
Holly R. McLean
The Coastal
Initiative – Innovative partnerships to restore
watersheds
Karen Bennett
The Pathfinder Project: A collaborative effort to provide for
instream flow management on the Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison
National Forests
John M. Almy and Gary Shellhorn
Cooperative forest watershed management in Maryland: Watershed
restoration across land ownerships
Anne Hairston-Strang
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