RMRS Science Programs: Science Resource Center

Science Application & Integration

Rocky Mountain Research Station Science Programs

Air, Water & Aquatic Environments

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Program Research Subject Areas

Air Quality

Bull Trout

Climate Change and Aquatic Ecosystems

Fire and Aquatic Ecosystems

Geomorphology

Invasive Aquatic Species

Mountain Pine Bark Beetle

Remote Sensing

Road Erosion

Stream-Riparian Environments

Stream Temperature

Program Scientists

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Featured Science

* Bull Trout and Climate Change - Risks, Uncertainties and Opportunities for Mapping the Future

* Invasive Species Managing for Native Trout

* Hyporheic Exchange in Gravel Bed Rivers with Pool-Riffle Morphology

* Detecting Mobile Boreal Toads

* Remotely Assessing and Monitoring Channel Physical Habitat

* Bull Trout and Climate Change

* Nonnative Fish Removal

* GRAIP- Quantifying and Prioritizing Road Impacts

Aldo Leopold Wilderness Institute

Aspen Grove

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Program Research Subject Areas

Wilderness Management

Packstock Grazing

Wildland Fire Assessments

Social Sciences - People in Nature

Program Scientists

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Featured Science

* The Fire Effects Planning Framework (FEPF)

* Growth in the Wildland Urban Interface and Its Implications for Wildland Fire Use

* Campsite Restoration in the Sawtooth Wilderness

* Learning From Wilderness: The Social Dimension of Fire Management

* A relatively nonrestrictive approach to reducing campsite impact

* Determinants of trust for public lands: fire and fuels management on the Bitterroot National Forest

* Amphibian decline in Yellowstone National Park

* Mitochondrial DNA evolution in the Anaxyrus boreas species group

Fire, Fuel & Smoke Science

Forest fire

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Program Research Subject Areas

Fire Modeling

Climate Change

Landscape Inventories

Forest Ecosystems

Ozone

Impact of Fire on Fish & Streams

Fire Behavior Models

Remote Sensing

Landscape

Terrestrial Carbon Exchange

Fire Restoration

Ecology

Program Scientists

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Featured Science

* Behave Plus Modeling System

* Condition of live fire-scarred ponderosa pine eleven years after removing partial cross-sections

* Climate change effects on historical range and variability of two large landscapes in western Montana, USA

* Real-time monitoring of the three-dimensional distribution of smoke aerosol levels from prescribed fires and wildfires. Final Report. Joint Fire Sciences Program

* Predicting wildfires

* A computational method for optimising fuel treatment locations

* Effects of alternative treatments on canopy fuel characteristics in five conifer stands

Forest & Woodland Ecosystems Research

Running Water

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Program Research Subject Areas

Long-Term Soil Productivity

Management of Northern Rocky Mountains

Ecotones

Program Scientists

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Featured Science

* Holocene records of Dendroctonus bark beetles in high elevation pine forests of Idaho and Montana, USA

* Predicting Post-Fire Douglas-Fir Beetle Attacks and Tree Mortality in the Northern Rocky Mountains

* Clean Water - Insect Outbreaks and Watersheds

* Impacts of air pollution and climate change on forest ecosystems - emerging research needs

* US Forest Service bark beetle research in the western United States: Looking toward the future

* Fuel treatments, fire suppression, and their interaction with wildfire and its impacts: the Warm Lake experience during the Cascade Complex of wildfires in central Idaho, 2007

* Wildlife monitoring across multiple spatial scales using grid-based sampling

* Contributions of silvicultural studies at Fort Valley to watershed management of Arizona's ponderosa pine forests

Grassland, Shrubland & Desert Ecosystems

Shrubland

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Program Research Subject Areas

Biology - Native Species

Program Scientists

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Featured Science

* What Makes Great Basin Sagebrush Ecosystems Invasible by Bromus Tectorum?

* Pinon and juniper field guide: Asking the right questions to select appropriate management actions

* Climate change and the Great Basin

* Great Basin sagebrush ecosystems

* Post-wildfire recovery of riparian vegetation during a period of water scarcity in the southwestern USA

* Environmental regulation of dormancy loss in seeds of Lomatium dissectum (Apiaceae)

* Coleogyne ramosissima Torr.: blackbrush

Inventory, Monitoring & Analysis Science

Magnifying Glass

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Program Research Subject Areas

Forest Land Inventories

Statistics

Rangeland Status/Health

Forest Fire Assessments

Program Scientists

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Featured Science

* Idaho’s Forest Products Industry: A Descriptive Analysis

* Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) Symposium 2008; October 21-23, 2008; Park City, UT

* Prefield methods: streamlining forest or nonforest determinations to increase inventory efficiency

* Conterminous U.S. and Alaska Forest Type Mapping Using Forest Inventory and Analysis Data

* Strategies for monitoring terrestrial animals and habitats

* Mapping forest inventory and analysis data attributes within the framework of double sampling for stratification design

* Challenges of socio-economically evaluating wildfire management on non-industrial private and public forestland in the western United States

Human Dimensions

Jeep overlooking mountains

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Program Research Subject Areas

Sustainable Relationships

Watershed Restoration

Hazardous Fuels

Shared Public Lands

Land Management

Program Scientists

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Featured Science

* Managing risk with chance-constrained programming

* Factors influencing large wildland fire suppression expenditures

* Public purpose recreation marketing: a focus on the relationships between the public and public lands

* Wildfire risk and home purchase decisions

* Social and economic issues of the Hayman Fire

Wildlife & Terrestrial Ecosystems

Scientist with bird

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Program Research Subject Areas

Public Use Effects

Terrestrial Habitats

Livestock Grazing

Global Climate Change

Insect Outbreaks

Disease Outbreaks

Biodiversity

Natural/Prescribed Fires

Human/ Fish & Wildlife Interaction

Plant Communities

Species Abundance/Distribution

Management Decisions

Aquatic Communities

Program Scientists

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Featured Science

* Invasive plant architecture alters trophic interactions by changing predator abundance and behavior

* The Value of Opinion in Science and the Forest Service Research Organization

* Wildlife monitoring across multiple spatial scales using grid-based sampling

* Modeling the effects of environmental disturbance on wildlife communities: avian responses to prescribed fire

* Status and Ecology of Mexican Spotted Owls in the Gila Region, New Mexico

* Northern goshawk habitat: an intersection of science, management, and conservation

* Predicting the effects of forest management on lynx populations

Putting Science Into Practice

R1/R4 Fish Technology Transfer
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Climate Change Resource Center
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Joint Fire Sciences Program
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Regions & Stakeholder Projects
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R1 Climate Change
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Southwest Research
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Columbia River Basin Deputy Team
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FRAMES

RMRS Hot Topics

Sudden Aspen Death

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Climate Change
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Bark Beetles
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Middle Rio Grande Basin 2008 Research Report

Goodies

Climate Change Resource Center
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Data & Resources
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Riparian Digest
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