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RMRS-P-15, Vol. 5: Wilderness science in a time of change conference-Volume
5: Wilderness ecosystems, threats, and management; 1999 May 23-27;
Missoula, MT
Cole, David N.; McCool, Stephen F.; Borrie, William T.; O'Loughlin, Jennifer, comps. 2000. Wilderness science in a time of change conference-Volume 5: Wilderness ecosystems, threats, and management; 1999 May 23-27; Missoula, MT. Proceedings RMRS-P-15-VOL-5. Ogden, UT: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 381 p.
Forty-six papers are presented on the nature and management of threats to wilderness ecosystems. Five overview papers synthesize knowledge and research on wilderness fire, recreation impacts, livestock in wilderness, nonnative invasive plants, and wilderness air quality. Other papers contain the results of specific research projects on wilderness recreation impacts and management, wilderness restoration, fire and its management, and issues related to air, water, and exotic species.
Keywords: air quality, campsites, fire, fish stocking, invasive species, livestock, recreation impact, restoration, trails
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Cover/Contents/Preface
PDF File Size: 375 KWilderness Ecosystems, Threats, and Management
David N. Cole, Stephen F. McCool
PDF File Size: 110 K1. Overviews
Wilderness Fire Science: A State of Knowledge Review
James K. Agee
PDF File Size: 465 KRecreation Impacts and Management in Wilderness: A State-of-Knowledge Review
Yu-Fai Leung, Jeffrey L. Marion
PDF File Size: 275 KImproving Livestock Management in Wilderness
Mitchel P. McClaran
PDF File Size: 175 KImproving Management of Nonnative Invasive Plants in Wilderness and Other Natural Areas
John M. Randall
PDF File Size: 170 KProtecting Wilderness Air Quality in the United States
K. A. Tonnessen
PDF File Size: 600 K2. Recreation Impacts and Management
Effects of Soil Compaction on Root and Root Hair Morphology: Implications for Campsite Rehabilitation
L. Alessa, C. G. Earnhart
PDF File Size: 350 KTwenty-Eight Years of Wilderness Campsite Monitoring in Yosemite National Park
Laurel Boyers, Mark Fincher, Jan van Wagtendonk
PDF File Size: 125 KCamping Impact Management at Isle Royale National Park: An Evaluation of Visitor Activity Containment Policies From the Perspective of Social Conditions
Tracy A. Farrell, Jeffrey L. Marion
PDF File Size: 135 KManaging Coastal Recreation Impacts and Visitor Experience Using GIS
Anna M. T. Gajda, Judson Brown, Grant Peregoodoff, Patrick Bartier
PDF File Size: 220 KThirty-Year Monitoring of Subalpine Meadow Vegetation Following a 1967 Trampling Experiment at Logan Pass, Glacier National Park, Montana
Ernest Hartley
PDF File Size: 200 KAssessing Soil Erosion on Trails: A Comparison of Techniques
Mark C. Jewell, William E. Hammitt
PDF File Size: 175 KSanitation in Wilderness: Balancing Minimum Tool Policies and Wilderness Values
Paul R. Lachapelle
PDF File Size: 130 KWilderness Campsite Conditions Under an Unregulated Camping Policy: An Eastern Example
Yu-Fai Leung, Jeffrey L. Marion
PDF File Size: 150 KThe Consequences of Trampling Disturbance in Two Vegetation Types at the Wyoming Nature Conservancy's Sweetwater River Project Area
Christopher A. Monz, Tami Pokorny, Jerry Freilich, Sharon Kehoe, Dayna Ayers-Baumeister
PDF File Size: 190 KMeadow Response to Pack Stock Grazing in the Yosemite Wilderness: Integrating Research and Management
P. E. Moore, D. N. Cole, J. W. van Wagtendonk, M. P. McClaran, N. McDougald
PDF File Size: 150 KHuman Impact Surveys in Mount Rainier National Park: Past, Present and Future
Regina M. Rochefort, Darin D. Swinney
PDF File Size: 185 KErosion of Mountain Hiking Trail Over a Seven-year Period in Daisetsuzan National Park, Central Hokkaido, Japan
Akemi Yoda, Teiji Watanabe
PDF File Size: 260 K3. Wilderness Restoration
Soil Amendments and Planting Techniques: Campsite Restoration in the Eagle Cap Wilderness, Oregon
David N. Cole, David R. Spildie
PDF File Size: 160 KRestoration of Multiple-Rut Trails in the Tuolumne Meadows of Yosemite National Park
Sean Eagan, Peter Newman, Susan Fritzke, Louise Johnson
PDF File Size: 150 KThe Influence of Wilderness Restoration Programs on Visitor Experience and Visitor Opinions of Managers
Joseph P. Flood, Leo H. McAvoy
PDF File Size: 125 KEffectiveness of a Confinement Strategy in Reducing Pack Stock Impacts at Campsites in the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness, Idaho
David R. Spildie, David N. Cole, Sarah C. Walker
PDF File Size: 175 KWould Ecological Landscape Restoration Make the Bandelier Wilderness More or Less of a Wilderness?
Charisse A. Sydoriak, Craig D. Allen, Brian F. Jacobs
PDF File Size: 160 KUnderstanding the Factors That Limit Restoration Success on a Recreation-Impacted Subalpine Site
Catherine Zabinski, David Cole
PDF File Size: 180 K4. Wilderness Fire and Management
Mixed-Severity Fire Regimes in the Northern Rocky Mountains: Consequences of Fire Exclusion and Options for the Future
Stephen F. Arno, David J. Parsons, Robert E. Keane
PDF File Size: 185 KReturning Fire to the Mountains: Can We Successfully Restore the Ecological Role of Pre-Euroamerican Fire Regimes to the Sierra Nevada?
Anthony C. Caprio, David M. Graber
PDF File Size: 500 KContinuing Fire Regimes in Remote Forests of Grand Canyon National Park
Peter Z. Fulé, Thomas A. Heinlein, W. Wallace Covington, Margaret M. Moore
PDF File Size: 510 KDevelopment of Ecological Restoration Experiments in Fire Adapted Forests at Grand Canyon National Park
Thomas A. Heinlein, W. Wallace Covington, Peter Z. Fulé, Margaret M. Moore, Hiram B. Smith
PDF File Size: 170 KRestoring Natural Fire Regimes to the Sierra Nevada in an Era of Global Change
Jon E. Keeley, Nathan L. Stephenson
PDF File Size: 225 KPrescribed Fire as the Minimum Tool for Wilderness Forest and Fire Regime Restoration: A Case Study From the Sierra Nevada, California
MaryBeth Keifer, Nathan L. Stephenson, Jeff Manley
PDF File Size: 70 KFire-Climate Interactions in the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness Area
Kurt F. Kipfmueller, Thomas W. Swetnam
PDF File Size: 170 KThe Challenge of Restoring Natural Fire to Wilderness
David J. Parsons
PDF File Size: 130 KTwentieth-Century Fire Patterns in the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness Area, Idaho/Montana and the Gila/Aldo Leopold Wilderness Complex, New Mexico
Matthew Rollins, Tom Swetnam, Penelope Morgan
PDF File Size: 270 KThe Federal Wildland Fire Policy: Opportunities for Wilderness Fire Management
G.Thomas Zimmerman, David L. Bunnell
PDF File Size: 215 K5. Air, Water, and Exotic Species
Fish Stocking in Protected Areas: Summary of a Workshop
Paul Stephen Corn, Roland A. Knapp
PDF File Size: 115 KVisitor Perceptions and Valuation of Visibility in the Great Gulf Wilderness, New Hampshire
L. Bruce Hill, Wendy Harper, John M. Halstead, Thomas H. Stevens, Ina Porras, Kenneth D. Kimball
PDF File Size: 300 KEffects of Nonnative Fishes on Wilderness Lake Ecosystems in the Sierra Nevada and Recommendations for Reducing Impacts
R. A. Knapp, K. R. Matthews
PDF File Size: 135 KA Survey of Exotic Plants in Federal Wilderness Areas
Marilyn Marler
PDF File Size: 180 KEvaluating Effects of Fish Stocking on Amphibian Populations in Wilderness Lakes
David S. Pilliod, Charles R. Peterson
PDF File Size: 175 KAir Quality Management in U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Wilderness Areas
Ellen M. Porter
PDF File Size: 250 K6. Wilderness Management
Legislative Interpretation as a Guiding Tool for Wilderness Management
Shannon S. Meyer
PDF File Size: 130 KSeeking a Scientific Approach to Backcountry Management in Yellowstone National Park
S. Thomas Olliff, Sue Consolo Murphy
PDF File Size: 125 KGrizzly Bears as a Filter for Human Use Management in Canadian Rocky Mountain National Parks
Derek Petersen
PDF File Size: 210 KThe Development of the 1999 Management Plan for the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area (Australia)
Nicholas Sawyer
PDF File Size: 140 K
Wilderness Management Planning in an Alaskan National Park: Last Chance to Do It Right?
Michael J. Tranel
PDF File Size: 250 K7. Dialogue Session Summary
Naturalness and Wildness: The Dilemma and Irony of Managing Wilderness
Peter B. Landres, Mark W. Brunson, Linda Merigliano, Charisse Sydoriak, Steve Morton
PDF File Size: 180 K
Title: RMRS-P-15,
Vol. 5: Wilderness science in a time of change conference-Volume
5: Wilderness ecosystems, threats, and management; 1999 May 2327;
Missoula, MT
Publish Date: May 14, 2004
Last Update: January
21, 2010