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This plant profile for Eriogonum fasciculatum provides information on species distribution; taxonomic relationships; ecological and evolutionary considerations for restoration; growth form and distinguishing traits; habitat characteristics; projected future suitable habitat; growth, reproduction and dispersal; biological interactions; ecological genetics; seed characteristics, germination requirements and processing; and plant uses including agriculture, restoration, and traditional products, plus an extensive bibliography. It is part of Riverside-Corona Resource Conservation District's...

Background: Satellite-based aboveground forest biomass maps commonly form the basis of forest biomass and carbon stock mapping and monitoring, but biomass maps likely vary in performance by region and as a function of spatial scale of aggregation. Assessing such variability is not possible with spatially-sparse vegetation plot networks. In the current study, our objective was to determine whether high-resolution lidar-based and moderate-resolution Landsat-base aboveground live forest biomass maps converged on similar predictions at stand- to landscape-levels (10 s to 100 s ha) and whether...

The Interagency Native Plant Materials Development Program outlined in the 2002 United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and United States Department of Interior (USDI) Report to Congress encouraged use of native plant materials for rangeland rehabilitation and restoration where feasible. The Great Basin Native Plant Project is a cooperative project lead by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Plant Conservation Program and the United States Forest Service (USFS), Rocky Mountain Research Station that was initiated to provide information that will be useful to managers when making...

1 Red turpentine beetle Dendroctonus valens LeConte is a non-aggressive bark beetle in North America that attacks weakened or recently dead pines, as well as their fresh logs or stumps. Fire-injured ponderosa pines releasing stress-induced ethanol are often attacked. The oleoresin from these trees frequently contains 3-carene as a major component mixed with 𝛼- or 𝛽-pinene. 3-Carene lures usually attract more D. valens than 𝛼- or 𝛽-pinene lures or 1 : 1 : 1 mixtures, whereas the attraction of ethanol+3-carene lures has never been tested.2 Funnel traps with ethanol, 3-carene or ethanol+3-care...

The influences of human and physical factors on species invasions have been extensively examined by ecologists across many regions. However, how habitat fragmentation per se may affect forest insect and disease invasion has not been well studied, especially the related patterns over regional or subcontinental scales. Here, using national survey data on forest pest richness and fragmentation data across United States forest ecosystems, we examine how forest fragmentation and edge types (neighboring land cover) may affect pest richness at the county level. Our results show that habitat...

The genus Lumbricus L. was the first described genus of earthworms, with L. terrestris as its type species. The genus can be easily distinguished because it is the only lumbricid genus with a tanylobic prostomium, with the exception of the North American native Bimastos eiseni (Levinsen). With six known Lumbricus species introduced in North America (Reynolds & Wetzel, 2012), Lumbricus rubellus is one of the most widespread. In addition, L. rubellus has been associated with negative ecological effects as result of its invasion (Greiner et al. 2012). The Great Smoky Mountains National Park...

Exotic (= alien, non-native) forest insects are moved between countries in many ways, but primarily through wood packaging material (WPM; e.g., pallets and crating) and live plants. Other means include international trade in logs, firewood, processed wood items, passenger baggage, mail, as well as hitchhiking on such items as shipping containers, ships, aircraft, and machinery (Meurisse et al. 2018). Historically, WPM has commonly contained bark- and woodinfesting insects because it was often made from recently cut trees with some bark retained, which is attractive to many borers that...

Many forest-dependent animals require complex branch and bole structural features as substrates for nesting, and these features may take decades or centuries to develop. In young forests, lack of suitable nest substrates may limit occurrence and abundance of arboreal rodents. To test this hypothesis, we measured the response of arboreal rodents to installation of 429 artificial nest platforms at 17 young forest sites in the Coast Range of Oregon, United States. We compared the percentage of 100-m2 plots at sites containing nests before and after installation of nest platforms, and examined...

Sagebrush false dandelion is distributed from south-central British Columbia to northern California, northern Nevada and Utah, largely east of the Cascade and Sierra Nevada mountains, and eastward across western and central Montana and northwestern Wyoming (CPNWH 2017; SEINet 2017; USGS 2017).PDF UPDATED: FEBRUARY 2024.

Royal penstemon occurs from the eastern slopes of the Cascade and Sierra Nevada Mountains eastward across central and southeastern Washington, eastern Oregon, and southwestern Idaho, and south through eastern California and Nevada to higher elevations in mountain ranges on the northern edge of the Mojave Desert (USDA NRCS 2017). A few populations are found in Utah.PDF UPDATED: APRIL 2024.