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Improperly constructed or maintained roads near riparian and wetland areas may degrade these valuable sites. Degradation affects many aspects of the riparian and wetland ecosystems. This field guide presents information in a practical, user friendly format to help resource managers and professionals. Well-documented evaluation and monitoring strategies are critical in riparian road restoration projects. Learning from mistakes as well as successes helps to improve and protect valuable riparian and wetland sites. This two-volume field guide covers the management and techniques for riparian...

The National Proceedings contains articles presented at regional meetings during 1999, 2000, and 2001. 1999: The joint meeting of the Northeastern and Western Forest and Conservation Nursery Associations was held at the Gateway Conference Center in Ames, Iowa, on July 12-15. Hosts were the Iowa Department of Natural Resources, Cascade Forestry Nursery, and the USDA Forest Service. The meeting theme was Nursery Challenges for the New Millennium. Morning technical sessions were followed by afternoon tours of the Pioneer Seed Biotechnology Labs, the Bear Creek Riparian Buffer Project area,...

As a particularly modern modality for making and resisting claims bout the use and meaning of places leisure has a prominent role in the politics of place. This is particularly evident in land use politics in the western U.S., which serves as a launching point for examining the ways in which leisure makes competing claims on a place. Within leisure studies initial interest in place ideas focused on leisure places as sources of identification and affiliation that lend meaning and purpose to life. More recently the field has witnessed a growing appreciation for how leisure places create and...

Place ideas take a more holistic and embedded view of socio-ecological reality and have begun to influence many aspects of resource management, from ecosystem management to community-based collaboration. The flux we might call post-utilitarian forestry can be understood as a renegotiation of a long-standing dialectic tension in Western thought between universalist and particularist views of knowledge. This paper proposes that post-utilitarian forestry seeks to balance the universalist-particularist dialectic by re-placing resource management in three ways: providing a broader and more...

Over the past three decades, the use of qualitative research methods has become commonplace in social science as a whole and increasingly represented in tourism and recrearion research. In tourism, for example, Markwell and Basche (1998) recently noted the emergence of a pluralistic perspective on science and the growth of research employing qualitative frameworks. Similarly in recreation, a recent analysis of the Journal of Leisure Research indicated that 28% of the articles from 1992-1996 employed qualitative approaches, compared to only 1.5% for the period 1978-1982 (Weissinger,...

The need restore energetic reserves at stopover sites constrains avian migration ecology. To describe that constraint, we examined relationships among mass gained by Wilson's Warblers (Wilsonia pusilla) during stopover, abundance of Wilson's Warblers (i.e. capture rate), and arthropod abundance during autumn migration. We found that amount of mass gained by Wilson's Warblers during stopover declined as a function of their abundance. We found no relationship between mass gained by Wilson's Warblers and arthropod abundance. Abundance of Wilson's Warblers was positively associated with...

Our ability to link the breeding locations of individual passerines to migration stopover sites and wintering locations is limited. Stable isotopes of hydrogen contained in bird feathers have recently shown potential in this regard. We measured hydrogen stable-isotope ratios (deltaD) of feathers from breeding, migrating, and wintering Wilson's Warblers. Analyses of feathers from museum specimens collected throughout the western portion of the breeding range indicate that deltaD values are significantly negatively related to latitude of collection (R2=0.52), which is an indication that...

This chapter begins with a review of the influence of moisture on the combustion of forest fuels and how fuel characteristics determine the moisture content level of these fuels. It summarizes current understanding of the amount of water these fuels can hold, gain and loss of this water, and how the governing processes have been described mathematically. Only fuels associated with or originating from vascular plants (grasses, shrubs, and trees as opposed to mosses and worts that lack internal structure for transporting water) are considered. The discussion of live fuels emphasizes the...

This guidebook is intended to familiarize land resource managers, scientists, educators, and others with Research Natural Areas (RNAs) managed by the USDA Forest Service in the Northern Rocky Mountains and Intermountain West. This guidebook facilitates broader recognition and use of these valuable natural areas by describing the RNA network, past and current research and monitoring, management, and how to use RNAs.

First, my thanks to Dr. Ullar Rannik for his interest and insights in my recent study of spectral corrections and associated eddy covariance flux loss (Massman, 2000, henceforth denoted by M2000). His comments are important and germane to the attenuation of low frequencies of the turbulent cospectra due to recursive filtering and block averaging. Dr. Rannik addresses two specific issues.