United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service Intermountain Research Station General Technical Report INT-GTR-315 May 1995

Proceedings: Wildland Shrub and Arid Land Restoration Symposium

Compiled by:
Bruce A. Roundy
E. Durant McArthur
Jennifer S. Haley
David K. Mann

Roundy, Bruce A.; McArthur, E. Durant; Haley, Jennifer S.; Mann, David K., comps. 1995. Proceedings: wildland shrub and arid land restoration symposium; 1993 October 19-21; Las Vegas, NV. Gen. Tech. Rep. INT-GTR-315. Ogden, UT: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Intermountain Research Station. 384 p.

Includes 62 papers dealing with wildland shrubs and restoration of arid lands. The key topics include: overview, restoration and revegetation, ecology, genetic integrity, management options, and field trip.

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About the Compilers...

Bruce A. Roundy is Professor, Department of Botany and Range Science, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT. Associate Professor, School of Renewable Natural Resources, University of Arizona, Tucson.

E. Durant McArthur is Project Leader and Research Geneticist, Shrubland Biology and Restoration Research Work Unit, Shrub Sciences Laboratory, Intermountain Research Station, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Provo, UT.

Jennifer S. Haley is Resource Management Specialist, U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Lake Mead National Recreation Area, Boulder City, NV.

David K. Mann is Program Manager, UWIN Program, Habitat Section, Division of Wildlife Resources, Utah Department of Natural Resources, Salt Lake City, UT.

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CONTENTS

• Introduction: wildland shrub and arid land restoration (PDF - 65 K)

Bruce E. Roundy
E. Durant McArthur

OVERVIEW........................................

• Restoration ecology: limits and possibilities in arid and semiarid lands

Edith B. Allen

• Implications of early Intermountain range and watershed restoration practices

Stephen B. Monsen
E. Durant McArthur

• Landscape dynamics and arid land restoration

Steven G. Whisenant

RESTORATION AND REVEGETATION...................................

• Seed fate of warm-season perennial grasses

Laurie B. Abbott
Bruce A. Roundy
Sharon H. Biedenbender

• Natural methods establishing native plants on arid rangelands (PDF - 65 K)

Jerry R. Barrow
Kris M. Havstad

• Reestablishing cold-desert grasslands: a seeding experiment in Canyonlands National Park, Utah

Jayne Belnap
Saxon Sharpe

• Replacing Lehmann lovegrass with native grasses

S. H. Biedenbender
B. A. Roundy
L. Abbott

• Effects of soil quality and depth on seed germination and seedling survival at the Nevada Test Site

Kevin W. Blomquist
Glen E. Lyon

• Evaluating degraded riparian ecosystems to determine the potential effectiveness of revegetation (PDF - 98 K)

Mark Briggs

• Evaluating roadside revegetation in central Arizona

Margaret A. Brooks

• Restoration of big sagebrush habitat in southeastern Washington

Janelle L. Downs
William H. Rickard
Larry L. Cadwell

• Health of plants salvaged for revegetation at a Mojave Desert gold mine: year two

Raymond Franson

• Characterization of rare plant habitat for restoration in the San Bernardino National Forest

Michael P. Gonella
Maile C. Neel

• Reseeding four sensitive plant species in California and Nevada

H. D. Hiatt
T. E. Olson
J. C Fisher, Jr.

• New arid land revegetation techniques at Joshua Tree National Monument

Mark Holden
Carol Miller

• Regeneration of cold desert pine of N.W. Himalayas (India)- a preliminary study

T. N. Lakhanpal
Sunil Kumar

• Lessons from the past-Gilbert L. Jordan's revegetation research in the Chihuahuan and Sonoran Deserts

Bruce A. Roundy

• Restoring Mojave Desert farmland with native shrubs

Robert D. Slayback
Walter A. Bunter
L. Robert Dean

• Ecosystem restoration: theory, practice, and evidence

Wayne Tyson

• Water requirements for establishing native Atriplex species during summer in southern Arizona

M.Carolyn Watson
Bruce A. Roundy
Steven E. Smith
Hossein Heydari
Bruce Munda

• Beyond twelve percent purity

Bruce L. Welch

• Effects of gravel mulch on emergence of galleta grass seedlings

Von K. Winkel
Juan C. Medrano
Charles Stanley
Matthew D. Walo

• Effects of seedbed preparation, irrigation, and water harvesting on seedling emergence at the Nevada Test Site

Von K. Winkel
W. Kent Ostler
Warren D. Gabbert
Glen E. Lyon

• Results of four revegetation treatments on barren farmland in Owens Valley, California

Irene S. Yamashita
Sara J. Manning

ECOLOGY........................................

• Growth factors for woody perennials at western Sonoran Desert wash revegetation

Bertin W. Anderson
Joseph A. Atkins
Roger D. Harris

• Spatial and temporal variability of microbes in selected soils at the Nevada Test Site

J. P. Angerer
V. K. Windel
W. K. Ostler
P. F. Hall

• Effects of afterripening on cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum) and squirreltail (Elymus elymoides) germination

Julie Beckstead
Susan E. Meyer
Phil S. Allen

• The soil beneath shrubs before and after wildfire: implications for revegetation

R. R. Blank
J. A. Young
F. L. Allen

• Dryland degradation: symptoms, stages, and hypothetical cures

W. R. J. Dean
Suzanne J. Milton
Morné du Plessis
W. Roy Siegfried

• Plant succession on disturbed sites in four plant associations in the northern Mojave Desert

W. D. Gabbert
B. W. Schultz
J. P. Angerer
W. K. Ostler

• A bitterbrush dieback in the upper Gunnison River Basin, Colorado Composition and distribution of blackbrush (Coleogyne ramosissima) communities in southern Nevada

J. Arthur Hayes
Simon A. Lei
Lawrence R. Walker

• Responses of big sagebrush and spiny hopsage to increasing water stress

Steven O. Link
Michael E. Thiede
R. Dave Evans
Janelle L. Downs
Glendon W. Gee

• Association of native grasses and overstory species in southern Arizona

Margaret Livingston
Bruce A. Roundy
Steven E. Smith

• Desert rodents in disturbed shrub communities and their effects on plant recruitment

William S. Longland

• Factors influencing recruitment of forage plants in arid Karoo shrublands, South Africa

Suzanne J. Milton
W. R. J. Dean

• Blackbrush biology: insights after three years of a long-term study

Burton K. Pendleton
Susan E. Meyer
Rosemary L. Pendleton

• Effect of prolonged drought on vegetation associations in the northern Mojave Desert

Brad W. Schultz
W. Kent Ostler

• Species and community response to above normal precipitation following prolonged drought at Yucca Mountain, Nevada

Brad W. Schultz
W. Kent Ostler

• Predicting plant growth rates from dark respiration rates: an experimental approach (PDF - 65 K)

Bruce N. Smith
C. Mel Lytle
Lee D. Hansen

• Structure of woody riparian vegetation in Great Basin National Park

Stanley D. Smith
Kevin J. Murray
Frederick H. Landau
Anna M. Sala

• Differential establishment of perennial grass and cheatgrass following fire on an ungrazed sagebrush/juniper site

Robin J. Tausch
Jeanne C. Chambers
Robert R. Blank
Robert S. Nowak

• Juniper decline in Natural Bridges National Monument and Canyonlands National Park

Darrell J. Weber
David Gang
Steve Halls
David L. Nelson

GENETIC INTEGRITY........................................

• Genetic integrity: Why do we care? An overview of the issues (PDF - 65 K)

Jayne Belnap

• Molecular analysis of genetic diversity: advantages and limitations

D. J. Fairbanks
W. R. Andersen

• Restoration, revegetation, and the importance of genetic and evolutionary perspectives (PDF - 198 K)

Yan Linhart

• Genetic variation and revegetation strategies for desert rangeland ecosystems

Bruce D. Munda
Steven E. Smith

• Verification of germplasm origin and genetic status by seed certification agencies

Stanford A. Young

MANAGEMENT OPTIONS........................................

• Growing and harvesting fourwing saltbush (Atriplex canescens [Pursh] Nutt.) under saline conditions

Earl F. Aldon
J. Rafael Cuoazes Doria

• Is hackberry a viable rehabilitation species for Idaho rangelands?

Ann M. DeBolt
Bruce McCune

• Browsing by native ungulates: effects on shrub and seed production in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (PDF - 700 MB)

Charles E. Kay

• Return of the native-a look at select accessions of North American Lewis flax

Stanley Kitchen

• Propagating bitterbrush twigs for restoring shrublands

V. M. Kituku
W. A. Laycock
J. Powell
A. A. Beetle

• Restoring shrub quality in a sagebrush-bitterbrush vegetation type of south-central Wyoming

V. M. Kituku
J. Powell
R. A. Olson

• Applications of the water balance approach for estimating plant productivity in arid areas

L. J. Lane
T. E. Halonson
K. V. Bostick

• Visual perceptions of management on arid lands (PDF - 65 K)

Arthur W. Magill

• Plant inventory, succession, and reclamation alternatives on disturbed lands in Grand Teton National Park

E. Durant McArthur
A. Clyde Blauer
Stephen B. Monsen
Stewart C. Sanderson

• 'Rocker' tanglehead (Heteropogon contortus [L.] Beauv. ex Roem. and J. A. Schultes): an improved cultivar for conservation

Mark J. Pater

• Prescribed burning on upper Sonoran rangelands

Dan Robinett

• 'Lassen' antelope bitterbrush

Nancy L. Shaw
Stephen B. Monsen

• Interaction between native and seeded introduced grasses for 23 years following chaining of juniper-pinyon woodlands

Scott C. Walker
Richard Stevens
Stephen B. Monsen
Kent R. Jorgensen

FIELD TRIP........................................

• Land reclamation on the Nevada Test Site-a field tour

Von K. Winkel
W. Kent Ostler

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