Browsing by Author "Brown, Peter M., author"

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Front Range Roundtable, Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Project: 2018 ecological, social and economic monitoring plan
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2018-10) Barrett, Kevin J., author; Brown, Peter M., author; Clement, Jessica, author; Cannon, Jeffery, B., author|Wolk, Brett, author; Cheng, Antony S., author; Colorado Forest Restoration Institute, publisher
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Historical and modern disturbance regimes, stand structures, and landscape dynamics in piñon?juniper vegetation of the Western U.S.
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2008-06-04) Romme, William H., author; Allen, Craig D., author; Bailey, John D., author; Baker, William L., author; Bestelmeyer, Brandon T., author; Brown, Peter M., author; Eisenhart, Karen S., author; Floyd-Hanna, Lisa, author; Huffman, David W., author; Jacobs, Brian F., author; Miller, Richard F., author; Muldavin, Esteban H., author; Swetnam, Thomas W., author; Tausch, Robin J., author; Weisberg, Peter J., author; Colorado Forest Restoration Institute, publisher
Piñon?juniper is one of the major vegetation types in western North America. It covers a huge area, provides many resources and ecosystem services, and is of great management concern. Management of piñon?juniper vegetation has been hindered, especially where ecological restoration is a goal, by inadequate understanding of the variability in historical and modern ecosystem structure and disturbance processes that exists among the many different environmental contexts and floristic combinations of piñon, juniper and associated species. This paper presents a synthesis of what we currently know, and don't know, about historical and modern stand and landscape structure and dynamics in three major and fundamentally different kinds of piñon?juniper vegetation in the western U.S.: persistent woodlands, savannas, and wooded shrublands. It is the product of a workshop that brought together fifteen experts from across the geographical range of piñon?juniper vegetation. The intent of this synthesis is to provide information for managers and policy?makers, and to stimulate researchers to address the most important unanswered questions.
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Principles and practices for the restoration of ponderosa pine and dry mixed-conifer forests of the Colorado Front Range
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2018-01) Addington, Robert N., author; Aplet, Gregory H., author; Battaglia, Mike A., author; Briggs, Jennifer S., author; Brown, Peter M., author; Cheng, Antony S., author; Dickinson, Yvette, author; Feinstein, Jonas A., author; Pelz, Kristen A., author; Regan, Claudia M., author; Thinnes, Jim, author; Truex, Rick, author; Fornwalt, Paula J., author; Gannon, Benjamin, author; Julian, Chad W., author; Underhill, Jeffrey L., author; Wolk, Brett, author; USDA, publisher
Wildfires have become larger and more severe over the past several decades on Colorado's Front Range, catalyzing greater investments in forest management intended to mitigate wildfire risks. The complex ecological, social, and political context of the Front Range, however, makes forest management challenging, especially where multiple management goals including forest restoration exist. In this report, we present a science-based framework for managers to develop place-based approaches to forest restoration of Front Range ponderosa pine and dry mixed-conifer forests. We first present ecological information describing how Front Range forest structure and composition are shaped at multiple scales by interactions among topography, natural disturbances such as fire, and forest developmental processes. This information serves as a foundation for identifying priority areas for treatment and designing restoration projects across scales. Treatment guidelines generally reduce forest densities and surface and crown fuels, enhance spatial heterogeneity across scales, and retain drought- and fire-tolerant species, old trees, and structures important for wildlife. Implementation of these guidelines is expected to enhance forest resilience to disturbance and climate change, as well as sustain important ecosystem services. Finally, this report emphasizes the importance of adaptive management and learning through monitoring and experimentation to address uncertainties inherent in the restoration process.
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Sampling protocols: Front Range Forest Reconstruction Network (FRFRNet)
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2012-05) Battaglia, Michael A., author; Brown, Peter M., author; Gannon, Benjamin M., author; Colorado Forest Restoration Institute, publisher
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The Front Range Forest Reconstruction Network: reconstructing forest structure and fire history in montane Front Range forests to inform restoration activities
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2012-12) Fornwalt, Paula J., author; Brown, Peter M., author; Huckaby, Laurie S., author; Battaglia, Michael A., author; Cheng, Antony S., author; Colorado Forest Restoration Institute, publisher