Historical and current forest and range landscapes in the interior Columbia River Basin and portions of the Klamath and Great Basins / Paul F. Hessburg [and others].

Format:

Book

Government document

Contributor:

Hessburg, Paul F.

Pacific Northwest Research Station (Portland, Or.)

United States. Bureau of Land Management

Series:

Interior Columbia Basin Ecosystem Management Project--scientific assessment

General technical report PNW ; 458.

General technical report PNW ; GTR-458

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Landscape assessment--Northwest, Pacific.

Landscape assessment.

Forest landscape management--Northwest, Pacific.

Forest landscape management.

Forest ecology--Northwest, Pacific.

Forest ecology.

Range ecology--Northwest, Pacific.

Range ecology.

Pacific Northwest.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations, maps.

Other Title:

Linking vegetation patterns and landscape vulnerability to potential insect and pathogen disturbances.

Place of Publication:

Portland, Or. : U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station : U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, [1999]-

Summary:

Management activities of the 20th century, especially fire exclusion, timber harvest, and domestic livestock grazing, have significantly modified vegetation spatial patterns of forests and ranges in the interior Columbia basin. Compositional patterns as well as patterns of living and dead structure have changed. Dramatic change in vital ecosystem processes such as fire, insect, and pathogen disturbances, succession, and plant and animal migration is linked to recent change in vegetation patterns. Recent change in vegetation patterns is also a primary reason for current low viability and threatened, endangered, or sensitive status of numerous native plant and animal species. Although well intentioned, 20th-century management practices have not accounted for the larger patterns of living and dead vegetation that enable forest ecosystems to function in perpetuity and maintain their structure and organization through time, or for the disturbances that create and maintain them. Knowledge of change in vegetation patterns enhances resource manager and public awareness of patterns that better correspond with current climate, site conditions, and native disturbance regimes, and improves understanding of conditions to which native terrestrial species have already adapted.

Contents:

pt. 1. Linking vegetation patterns and landscape vulnerability to potential insect and pathogen disturbances.

Notes:

Title from PDF title screen (FS, viewed Sept. 3, 2009).

"September 1999"--Pt. 1.

Includes bibliographical references (pt. 1, pages 297-310).

Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.

Other Format:

Print version: Historical and current forest and range landscapes in the interior Columbia River Basin and portions of the Klamath and Great Basins.

Microfiche: Historical and current forest and range landscapes in the interior Columbia River Basin and portions of the Klamath and Great Basins.

OCLC:

475653333

Access Restriction:

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