Proceedings of the Fifth Symposium on Oak Woodlands: Oaks in California's Changing Landscape

Richard B. Standiford, Douglas McCreary, Kathryn L. Purcell Technical Coordinators

Contents

Frontmatter 119 KB

Table of Contents 88 KB

General Session

The Oak (Quercus) Biodiversity of California and Adjacent Regions 9904 KB

Kevin C. Nixon

Perspectives on Cultural Values of California Oaks 654 KB

Paul F. Starrs

Emerging Tools and Institutions to Conserve Oak Woodlands: Integrating Public Trust and Private Benefits, or Can We Ever Get Paid for Doing the Right Thing? 190 KB

Laurie A. Wayburn

Grazing Relations

The Importance of Federal Grazing Allotments to Central Sierran Oak Woodland Permittees: A First Approximation 270 KB

Adriana Sulak and Lynn Huntsinger

The Effect of Topography, Vegetation, and Weather on Cattle Distribution at the San Joaquin Experimental Range, California 646 KB

Norman R. Harris, Douglas E. Johnson, Melvin R. George, and Neil K. McDougald

Sediment Dynamics and Sources in a Grazed Hardwood Rangeland Watershed 283 KB

Melvin R. George, Neil K. McDougald, Kenneth W. Tate, and Royce Larsen

Changes in Soil Quality Due to Grazing and Oak Tree Removal in California Blue Oak Woodlands 565 KB

Trina J. Camping, Randy A. Dahlgren, Kenneth. W. Tate, and William R. Horwath

Long-term Residual Dry Matter Mapping for Monitoring California Hardwood Rangelands 504 KB

Norman R. Harris, William E. Frost, Neil K. McDougald, Melvin R. George, and Donald L. Nielsen

Ecology-Soil Relations

Seasonal and Site Effects on Oak Fine Root Production and Ectomycorrhizal Colonization in California Oak Woodland 307 KB

Xiaomei Cheng and Caroline S. Bledsoe

Turbidity and Total Suspended Solid Concentration Dynamics in Streamflow from California Oak Woodland Watersheds 507 KB

David J. Lewis, Kenneth W. Tate, Randy A. Dahlgren, and Jacob Newell

Nitrogen Dynamics of Spring-fed Wetland Ecosystems of the Sierra Nevada Foothills Oak Woodland 918 KB

Randall D. Jackson and Barbara Allen-Diaz

Factors Influencing Soil-Surface Bulk Density on Oak Savanna Rangeland in the Southern Sierra Nevada Foothills 263 KB

Dennis M. Dudley, Kenneth W. Tate, Neil K. McDougald, and Melvin R. George

Ecology and Conseration of Garry Oak

Historical Jigsaw Puzzles: Piecing Together the Understory of Garry Oak (Quercus garryana) Ecosystems and the Implications for Restoration 262 KB

Carrina Maslovat

Biodiversity of Mycorrhizas on Garry Oak (Quercus garryana in a Southern Oregon Savanna 714 KB

Lori. L. Valentine, Tina L. Fiedler, Stephen R. Haney, Harold K. Berninghausen, and Darlene Southworth

Invasive Perennial Grasses in Quercus garryana Meadows of Southwestern British Columbia: Prospects for Restoration 326 KB

Andrew MacDougall

Does Habitat Matter in an Urbanized Landscape? The Birds of the Garry Oak (Quercus garryana) Ecosystem of Southeastern Vancouver Island 564 KB

Richard E. Feldman and Pamela G. Krannitz

Environmental Relationships of Native Garry Oak (Quercus garryana) Communities at Their Northern Margin 543 KB

Wayne R. Erickson

Damaging Factors-Regeneration

Arboreal Seed Removal and Insect Damage in Three California Oaks 411 KB

Walter D. Koenig, Johannes M. H. Knops, and William J. Carmen

Insect-oak Interactions with Coast Live Oak (Quercus agrifolia) and Engelmann Oak (Q. engelmannii) at the Acorn and Seedling Stage 381 KB

Connell E. Dunning, Timothy D. Paine, and Richard A. Redak

Rooting and Foraging Effects of Wild Pigs on Tree Regeneration and Acorn Survival in California's Oak Woodland Ecosystems 527 KB

Rick A. Sweitzer and Dirk H. Van Vuren

Fire Relations

Effects of a Prescribed Fire on Oak Woodland Stand Structure 330 KB

Danny L. Fry

Post-fire Monitoring of Coast Live Oaks (Quercus agrifolia) Burned in the 1993 Old Topanga Fire 768 KB

Rosi Dagit

Effects of Fire on Naturally Occuring Blue Oak (Quercus douglasii) Saplings 300 KB

Tedmund J. Swiecki and Elizabeth Bernhardt

Effects of Wildfire on Blue Oak in the Northern Sacramento Valley 241 KB

Marc Horney, Richard B. Standiford, Douglas McCreary, Jerry Tecklin, and Roy Richards

Numerical Response of Small Vertebrates to Prescribed Fire in a California Oak Woodland 331 KB

Justin K. Vreeland and William D. Tietje

Effects of Fire and Browsing on Regeneration of Blue Oak 238 KB

James W. Bartolome, Mitchel P. McClaran, Barbara H. Allen-Diaz, Jim Dunne, Lawrence D. Ford, Richard B. Standiford, Neil K. McDougald, and Larry C. Forero

Development and Fire Trends in Oak Woodlands of the Northwestern Sierra Nevada Foothills 791 KB

James Spero

Wildlife Relations

Factors Affecting the Abundance and Distribution of European Starlings at the San Joaquin Experimental Range 503 KB

Kathryn L. Purcell, Jared Verner, and Sylvia R. Mori

Purple Martins in Oak Woodlands 527 KB

Brian D. C. Williams

Cavity-nesting Bird Use of Nest Boxes in Vineyards of Central-Coast California 241 KB

Daniel P. Mummert, Laura Baines, and William D. Tietje

Effects of Residential Development and Landscape Composition on the Breeding Birds of Placer County's Foothill Oak Woodlands 1635 KB

Diana Stralberg and Brian Williams

Urban Forestry

To Prune of Not to Prune: Responses of Coast Live Oaks (Quercus agrifolia) to Canopy Retention during Transplanting 989 KB

Rosi Dagit and A. James Downer

Supersonic Air Jets Preserve Tree Roots in Underground Pipeline Installations 175 KB

Rob Gross and Michelle Julene

The Influence of Treeshelters and Irrigation on Shoot and Root Growth of Three Califonia Oak Species 332 KB

Douglas McCreary, Laurence R. Costello, Jerry Tecklin, Katherine Jones, and David Labadie

Using Midday Stem Water Potential to Assess Irrigation Needs of Landscape Valley Oaks 237 KB

Ken Shackel and Rob Gross

Genetic Relations

Geographic Patterns of Variation in Biomass Production of California Blue Oak Seedlings as a Response to Water Availability 589 KB

Susan Kloss and Joe R. McBride

Genetic Differentiation of Two California Red Oak Species, Quercus parvula var. shreveii and Q. wislizeni, based on AFLP Genetic Markers 385 KB

Nasser Kashani and Richard S. Dodd

Mating Patterns in a Savanna Population of Valley Oak (Quercus lobata Nee) 480 KB

Victoria L. Sork, Rank W. Davis, Rodney J. Dyer, and Peter E. Smouse

Oak Woodland Policy

The Potential Impacts of Development on Wildlands in El Dorado County 1123 KB

Shawn C. Saving and Gregory B. Greenwood

Oak Management by County Jurisdictions in the Central Sierra Nevada, California 201 KB

Richard R. Harris and Susan D. Kocher

Inconsistent Application of Environmental Law and Policies to California's Oak Woodlands 403 KB

Gregory A. Giusti and Adina M. Merenlender

When Oak Ordinances Fail: Unaddressed Issues of Oak Conservation 414 KB

Rudolph H. Light and Linda E. Pedroni

Oak Woodland Economics: A Contingent Valuation of Conversion Alternatives 468 KB

Richard P. Thompson, Jay E. Noel, and Sarah P. Cross

Working Woodlands: Public Demand, Owner Management, and Government Intervention in Conserving Mediterranean Ranches and Dehesas 908 KB

Pablo Campos-Palacin, Lynn Huntsinger, Richard Standiford, David Martin-Barroso, Pedro Mariscal-Lorente, and Paul F. Starrs

A Comparison of the History and Management of Oak Woodlands in Britain and California 265 KB

Douglas McCreary and Gary Kerr

Regeneration and Restoration

Riparian Valley Oak (Quercus lobata) Forest Restoration on the Middle Sacramento River, California 304 KB

F. Thomas Griggs and Gregory H. Golet

Soil Moisture Availability as a Factor Affecting Valley Oak (Quercus lobata Nee) Seedling Establishment and Survival in a Riparian Habitat, Consumnes River Preserve, Sacramento County, California 552 KB

Virginia C. Meyer

Factors Limiting Recruitment in Valley and Coast Live Oak 295 KB

Claudia M. Tyler, Bruce E. Mahall, Frank W. Davis, and Michael Hall

Stump Sprouting of Blue Oaks Ten Years after Harvest 369 KB

Douglas McCreary, William D. Tietje, and William Frost

Ten Years of Oak Restoration in City of Walnut Creek 1601 KB

Ralph Kraetsch

Modeling the Effectiveness of Tree Planting to Mitigate Habitat Loss in Blue Oak Woodlands 84 KB

Richard B. Standiford, Douglas McCreary, and William Frost

Oak Woodland Monitoring

Monitoring California's Hardwood Rangelands Using Remotely Sensed Data 686 KB

Chris S. Fischer and Lisa M. Levien

Collaborative Monitoring in Walnut Creek, California 305 KB

Heidi Ballard, Ralph Kraetsch, and Lynn Huntsinger

Inventory of Oaks on California's National Forest Lands 722 KB

Thomas Gaman and Kevin Casey

Monitoring Conservation Success in a Large Oak Woodland Landscape 771 KB

Rich Reiner, Emma Underwood, and John-O Niles

Historical Oak Woodland Detected through Armillaria mellea Damage in Fruit Orchards 1011 KB

Alan K. Brown

General Ecology-Structure

Age Structure and Growth of California Black Oak (Quercus kelloggii) in the Central Sierra Nevada, California 522 KB

Barrett A. Garrison, Christopher D. Otahal, and Matthew L. Triggs

Coast Live Oak Long-term Thinning Study--Twelve-year Results 855 KB

Norman H. Pillsbury, Lawrence E. Bonner, and Richard P. Thompson

Plant Diversity and Invasives in Blue Oak Savannas of the Southern Sierra Nevada 573 KB

Jon E. Keeley

Northwest California Oak Woodlands: Environment, Species Composition, and Ecological Status 454 KB

Thomas M. Jimerson and Sydney K. Carothers

Leaf Area Index, Leaf Mass Density, and Allometric Relationships Derived from Harvest of Blue Oaks in a California Oak Savanna 400 KB

John F. Karlik and Alistair H. McKay

Sudden Oak Death

Phytophthora ramorum and Sudden Oak Death in California: I. Host Relationships 318 KB

David M. Rizzo, Matteo Garbelotto, Jennifer M. Davison, Garey W. Slaughter, and Steven T. Koike

Phytophthora ramorum and Sudden Oak Death in California: II. Transmission and Survival 272 KB

Jennifer M. Davidson, David M. Rizzo, Matteo Garbvelotto, Steven Tjosvold, and Garey W. Slaughter

Sudden Oak Death: Disease Trends in Marin County Plots after One Year 443 KB

Brice A. McPherson, David L. Wood, Andreww J. Storer, Nina Maggi Kelly, and Richard B. Standiford

Phytophthora ramorum and Sudden Oak Death in California: III. Preliminary Studies in Pathogen Genetics 269 KB

Matteo Garbelotto, David M. Rizzo, Katie Hayden, Monica Meija-Chang, Jennifer M. Davidson, and Steven Tjosvold

Population Diversity and Evidence of Introgression among the Black Oaks of California 419 KB

Richard S. Dodd, Nasser Kashani, and Zara Afzal-Rafii

Evaluation of Stem Water Potential and Other Tree and Stand Variables as Risk Factorsfor Phytophthora ramorum Canker Development in Coast Live Oak 376 KB

Tedmund J. Swiecki and Elizabeth Bernhardt

Monitoring Sudden Oak Death in California Using High-resolution Imagery 1596 KB

Nina Maggi Kelly

Phytophthora ramorum and Sudden Oak Death in California: IV. Preliminary Studies on Chemical Control 380 KB

Matteo Garbelotto, David M. Rizzo, and Lawrence Marais

Posters

Distribution of Quercus agrifolia Mycorrhizae Deep within Weathered Bedrock: A Potential Mechanism for Transport of Stored Water 106 KB

M. Bornyasz, R. Graham, and M. Allen

Likeliness to Pay for Oak Woodlands by the Residents of San Luis Obispo County 78 KB

Sarah P. Cross

Examining Effects of Vineyard Development on Bird Populations of California's Oak Woodlands--Use of GIS and Power Analysis to Select Study Sites 84 KB

Emily Heaton, Colin Brooks, Adina Merenlender, Mark Reynolds, and Mary Chase

The Status of Island Scrub Oak (Quercus pacifica) on Catalina Island, California 118 KB

Denise A. Knapp

Multi-scale Data to Assess and Monitor Sudden Oak Death 88 KB

Lisa M. Levien, Chris S. Fischer, Lianne C. Mahon, and Jeff A. Mai

North Coast Oak Woodland Conservation Research on a Landscape Scale 80 KB

Adina Merenlender, Colin Brooks, Jodi Hitty, Emily Heaton, Kerry Heise, and Jeff Opperman

Utilization Implications for Hardwoods Susceptible to Sudden Oak Death 99 KB

John R. Shelly

Value of Oak Woodlands and Open Space on Private Property Values in Southern California 397 KB

Richard B. Standiford and Thomas Scott

Oak Restoration Trials: Santa Catalina Island 103 KB

Lisa Stratton

Rehabilitation of Oak Planting Project on Cleared Rangeland Using Treeshelters and Grazing: A Ten-year Saga 936 KB

Jerry Tecklin, J. Michael Connor, and Douglas D. McCreary

Forty Years of Land Use and Land Ownership Change in Central Sierra Nevada Oak Woodlands 946 KB

Matt Wacker, David Saah, and Louise Fortmann

The Oak Woodland Bird Conservation Plan: A Strategy for Protecting and Managing Oak Woodlands Habitats and Associated Birds in California 96 KB

Steve Zack, Mary K. Chase, and Geoffrey R. Geupel