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United States Department of Agriculture
Forest Service
Intermountain Research Station
General Technical Report INT-GTR-315
May 1995
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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.
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
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
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
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
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........................................
Jayne Belnap
- Molecular analysis of genetic diversity: advantages and
limitations
D. J. Fairbanks
W. R. Andersen
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
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
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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