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General Technical Report

Title: Proceedings of the fifth symposium on oak woodlands: oaks in California’s changing landscape. 2001 October 22-25; San Diego, CA.

Author: Standiford, Richard B.; McCreary, Douglas; Purcell, Kathryn L.; technical coordinators

Date: 2002

Source: Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-GTR-184. Albany, CA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station; 846 p

Station ID: GTR-PSW-184

Description:

Contents

Front Matter 119 KB

Acknowledgments 28 KB
Richard B. Standiford, Douglas McCreary, and Kathryn L. Purcell

Table of Contents 116 KB

General Session

The Oak (Quercus) Biodiversity of California and Adjacent Regions 9.1 MB
Kevin C. Nixon

Perspectives on Cultural Values of California Oaks 638 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? 186 KB
Laurie A. Wayburn

Grazing Relations

The Importance of Federal Grazing Allotments to Central Sierran Oak Woodland Permittees: A First Approximation 263 KB
Adriana Sulak and Lynn Huntsinger

The Effect of Topography, Vegetation, and Weather on Cattle Distribution at the San Joaquin Experimental Range, California 630 KB
Norman R. Harris, Douglas E. Johnson, Melvin R.George, and Neil K. McDougald

Sediment Dynamics and Sources in a Grazed Hardwood Rangeland Watershed 276 KB
Melvin R. George, Neil K. McDougald, Kenneth W. Tate, and Royce Larsen

Change in Soil Quality Due to Grazing and Oak Tree Removal in California Blue Oak Woodlands 551 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 492 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 299 KB
Xiaomei Cheng and Caroline S. Bledsoe

Turbidity and Total Suspended Solid Concentration Dynamics in Streamflow from California Oak Woodland Watersheds 494 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 896 KB
Randall D. Jackson and Barbara Allen-Diaz

Factors Influencing Soil-surface Bulk Density on Oak Savanna Rangeland in the Southern Sierra Nevada Foothills 256 KB
Dennis M. Dudley, Kenneth W. Tate, Neil K. McDougald, and Melvin R. George

Ecology and Conservation of Garry Oak

Historical Jigsaw Puzzles: Piecing Together the Understory of Garry Oak (Quercus garryana) Ecosystems and the Implications for Restoration 255 KB
Carrina Maslovat

Biodiversity of Mycorrhizas on Garry Oak (Quercus garryana) in a Southern Oregon Savanna 697 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 318 KB
Andrew MacDougall

Does Habitat Matter in an Urbanized Landscape? The Birds of the Garry Oak (Quercus garryana) Ecosystem of Southeastern Vancouver Island 551 KB
Richard E. Feldman and Pamela G. Krannitz

Environmental Relationships of Native Garry Oak (Quercus garryana) Communities at their Northern Migration 530 KB
Wayne R. Erickson

Damaging Factors—Regeneration

Arboreal Seed Removal and Insect Damage in Three California Oaks 401 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 371 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 514 KB
Rick A. Sweitzer and Dirk H. Van Vuren

Fire Relations

Effects of a Prescribed Fire on Oak Woodland Stand Structure 322 KB
Danny L. Fry

Post-fire Monitoring of Coast Live Oaks (Quercus agrifolia) Burned in the 1993 Old Topanga Fire 750 KB
Rosi Dagit

Effects of Fire on Naturally Occurring Blue Oak (Quercus douglasii) Saplings 294 KB
Tedmund J. Swiecki and Elizabeth Bernhardt

Effects of Wildfire on Blue Oak in the Northern Sacramento Valley 234 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 323 KB
Justin K. Vreeland and William D. Tietje

Effects of Fire and Browsing on Regeneration of Blue Oak 232 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 772 KB
James G. Spero

Wildlife Relations

Factors Affecting the Abundance and Distribution of European Starlings at the San Joaquin Experimental Range 490 KB
Kathryn L. Purcell, Jared Verner, and Sylvia R. Mori

Purple Martins in Oak Woodlands 514 KB
Brian D. C. Williams

Cavity-nesting Bird Use of Nest Boxes in Vineyards of Central-coast California 235 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 1.5 MB
Diana Stralberg and Brian Williams

Urban Forestry

To Prune or Not to Prune: Responses of Coast Live Oaks (Quercus agrifolia to Canopy Retention during Transplanting 965 KB
Rosi Dagit and A. James Downer

Supersonic Air Jets Preserve Tree Roots in Underground Pipeline Installation 171 KB
Rob Gross and Michelle Julene

The Influence of Treeshelters and Irrigation on Shoot and Root Growth of Three California Oak Species 324 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 231 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 575 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 375 KB
Nasser Kashani and Richard S. Dodd

Mating Patterns in a Savanna Population of Valley Oak (Quercus labata Neé) 468 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, California 1.0 MB
Shawn C. Saving and Gregory B. Greenwood

Oak Management by County Jurisdictions in the Central Sierra Nevada, California 196 KB
Richard R. Harris and Susan D. Kocher.

Inconsistent Application of Environmental Laws and Policies to California's Oak Woodlands 393 KB
Gregory A. Giusti and Adina M. Merenlender

When Oak Ordinances Fail: Unaddressed Issues of Oak Conservation 404 KB
Rudolph H. Light and Linda E. Pedroni

Oak Woodland Economics: A Contingent Valuation of Conversion Alternatives 457 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 887 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 259 KB
Douglas McCreary and Gary Kerr

Regeneration and Restoration

Riparian Valley Oak (Quercus lobata) Forest Restoration on the Middle Sacramento River, California 296 KB
F. Thomas Griggs and Gregory H. Golet

Soil Moisture Availability as a Factor Affecting Valley Oak (Quercus lobata Neé) Seedling Establishment and Survival in a Riparian Habitat, Cosumnes River Preserve, Sacramento County, California 296 KB
Virginia C. Meyer

Factors Limiting Recruitment in Valley and Coast Live Oak 288 KB
Claudia M. Tyler, Bruce E. Mahall, Frank W. Davis, and Michael Hall

Stump Sprouting of Blue Oaks Ten Years after Harvest 359 KB
Douglas McCreary, William D. Tietje, and William Frost

Ten Years of Oak Restoration in City of Walnut Creek Open Spaces 1.5 MB
Ralph Kraetsch

Modeling the Effectiveness of Tree Planting to Mitigate Habitat Loss in Blue Oak Woodlands 83 KB
Richard B. Standiford, Douglas McCreary, and William Frost

Oak Woodland Monitoring

Monitoring California's Hardwood Rangelands Using Remotely Sensed Data 670 KB
Chris S. Fischer and Lisa M. Levien

Collaborative Monitoring in Walnut Creek, California 298 KB
Heidi Ballard, Ralph Kraetsch, and Lynn Huntsinger

Inventory of Oaks on California's National Forest Lands 705 KB
Thomas Gaman and Kevin Casey

Monitoring Conservation Success in a Large Oak Woodland Landscape 752 KB
Rich Reiner, Emma Underwood, and John-O Niles

Historical Oak Woodland Detected through Armillaria mellea Damage in Fruit Orchards 987 KB
Alan K. Brown

General Ecology—Structure

Age Structure and Growth of California Black Oak (Quercus kelloggii) in the Central Sierra Nevada, California 509 KB
Barrett A. Garrison, Christopher D. Otahal, and Matthew L. Triggs

Coast Live Oak Long-term Thinning Study--Twelve-year Results 835 KB
Norman H. Pillsbury, Lawrence E. Bonner, and Richard P. Thompson

Plant Diversity and Invasives in Blue Oak Savannas of the Southern Sierra Nevada 559 KB
Jon E. Keeley

Northwest California Oak Woodlands: Environment, Species Composition, and Ecological Status 443 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 391 KB
John F. Karlik and Alistair H. McKay

Sudden Oak Death

Phytophthora ramorum and Sudden Oak Death in California: I. Host Relationships 310 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 265 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 432 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 262 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 262 KB
Richard S. Dodd, Nasser Kashani, and Zara Afzal-Rafii

Evaluation of Stem Water Potential and Other Tree and Stand Variables as Risk Factors for Phytophthora ramorum Canker Development in Coast Live Oak 367 KB
Tedmund J. Swiecki and Elizabeth Bernhardt

Monitoring Sudden Oak Death in California Using High-resolution Imagery 1.5 MB
Nina Maggi Kelly

Phytophthora ramorum and Sudden Oak Death in California: IV. Preliminary Studies on Chemical Control 371 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 103 KB
M. Bornyasz, R. Graham, and M. Allen.

Likeliness to Pay for Oak Woodlands by the Residents of San Luis Obispo County 75 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 81 KB
Emily Heaton, Colin Brooks, Adina Merenlender, Mark Reynolds, and Mary Chase

The Status of Island Scrub Oak (Quercus pacifica on Catalina Island, California 115 KB
Denise A. Knapp

Multi-scale Data to Assess and Monitor Sudden Oak Death 86 KB
Lisa M. Levien, Chris S. Fischer, Lianne C. Mahon, and Jeff A. Mai

North Coast Oak Woodland Conservation Research on a Landscape Scale 78 KB
Adina Merenlender, Colin Brooks, Jodi Hitty, Emily Heaton, Kerry Heise, and Jeff Opperman

Utilization Implications for Hardwoods Susceptible to Sudden Oak Death 96 KB
John R. Shelly

Value of Oak Woodlands and Open Space on Private Property Values in Southern California 387 KB
Richard B. Standiford and Thomas Scott

Oak Restoration Trials: Santa Catalina Island 101 KB
Lisa Stratton

Rehabilitation of an Oak Planting Project on Cleared Rangeland Using Treeshelters and Grazing: a Ten-year Saga 91 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 92 KB
Matt Wacker, David Saah, and Louise Fortmann

The Oak Woodland Bird Conservation Plan: A Strategy for Protecting and Managing Oak Woodland Habitats and Associated Birds in California 93 KB
Steve Zack, Mary K. Chase, and Geoffrey R. Geupel

Citation

Standiford, Richard B.; McCreary, Douglas; Purcell, Kathryn L.; technical coordinators 2002. Proceedings of the fifth symposium on oak woodlands: oaks in California’s changing landscape. 2001 October 22-25; San Diego, CA. Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-GTR-184. Albany, CA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station; 846 p.