Wilderness science in a time of change conference-Volume 5: Wilderness ecosystems, threats, and management; 1999 May 23-27; Missoula, MT

Abstract

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.

Titles contained within Wilderness science in a time of change conference-Volume 5: Wilderness ecosystems, threats, and management; 1999 May 23-27; Missoula, MT

• Wilderness ecosystems, threats, and management
• Wilderness fire science: A state of knowledge review
• Recreation impacts and management in wilderness : A state-of-knowldege review
• Improving livestock management in wilderness
• Improving management of nonnative invasive plants in wilderness and other natural areas
• Protecting wilderness air quality in the United States
• Effects of soil compaction on root and root hair morphology: implications for campsite rehabilitation
• Twenty-eight years of wilderness campsite monitoring in Yosemite National Park
• Camping impact management at Isle Royale National Park: An evaluation of visitor activity containment policies from the perspective of social conditions
• Managing coastal recreation impacts and visitor experience using GIS
• Thirty-year monitoring of subalpine meadow vegetation following a 1967 trampling experiment at Logan Pass, Glacier National Park, Montana
• Assessing soil erosion on trails: A comparison of techniques
• Sanitation in wilderness: Balancing minimum tool policies and wilderness values
• Wilderness campsite conditions under an unregulated camping policy: An eastern example
• The consequences of trampling disturbance in two vegetation types at the Wyoming Nature Conservancy's Sweetwater River project area
• Meadow response to pack stock grazing in the Yosemite wilderness: Integrating research and management
• Human impact surveys in Mount Rainier National Park : past, present, and future
• Erosion of mountain hiking trail over a seven-year period in Daisetsuzan National Park, central Hokkaido, Japan
• Soil amendments and planting techniques : campsite restoration in the Eagle Cap Wilderness, Oregon
• Restoration of multiple-rut trails in the Tuolumne meadows of Yosemite National Park
• The influence of wilderness restoration programs on visitor experience and visitor opinions of managers
• Effectiveness of a confinement strategy in reducing pack stock impacts at campsites in the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness, Idaho
• Would ecological landscape restoration make the Bandelier Wilderness more or less of a wilderness?
• Understanding the factors that limit restoration success on a recreation-impacted subalpine site
• Mixed-severity fire regimes in the northern Rocky Mountains: consequences of fire exclusion and options for the future
• Returning fire to the mountains: can we successfully restore the ecological role of pre-Euroamerican fire regimes to the Sierra Nevada?
• Continuing fire regimes in remote forests of Grand Canyon National Park
• Development of ecological restoration experiments in fire adapted forests at Grand Canyon National Park
• Restoring natural fire regimes to the Sierra Nevada in an era of global change
• Prescribed fire as the minimum tool for wilderness forest and fire regime restoration: a case study from the Sierra Nevada, California
• Fire-climate interactions in the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness area
• The challenge of restoring natural fire to wilderness
• Twentieth-century fire patterns in the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness Area, Idaho/Montana, and the Gila/Aldo Leopold Wilderness Complex, New Mexico
• The federal wildland policy: opportunities for wilderness fire management
• Fish stocking in protected areas: summary of a workshop
• Visitor perceptions and valuation of visibility in the Great Gulf Wilderness, New Hampshire
• Effects on nonnative fishes on wilderness lake ecosystems in the Sierra Nevada and recommendations for reducing impacts
• A survey of exotic plants in federal wilderness areas
• Evaluating effects of fish stocking on amphibian populations in wilderness lakes
• Air quality management in U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service wilderness areas
• Legislative interpretation as a guiding tool for wilderness management
• Seeking a scientific approach to backcountry management in Yellowstone National Park
• Grizzly bears as a filter for human use management in Canadian Rocky Mountain national parks
• The development of the 1999 management plan for the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area (Australia)
• Wilderness management planning in an Alaskan national park: last chance to do it right?
• Naturalness and wilderness: the dilemma and irony of managing wilderness

Citation

Cole, David N.; McCool, Stephen F.; Borrie, William T.; O''Loughlin, Jennifer. 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.