Browsing by Author "Gannon, Benjamin, author"

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Chaffee County fuel treatment prioritization
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2019-12) Gannon, Benjamin, author; Colorado Forest Restoration Institute, publisher
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Chaffee County fuel treatment prioritization
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2019-12) Gannon, Benjamin, author; Colorado Forest Restoration Institute, publisher
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Chaffee County wildfire risk assessment
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2019-12) Gannon, Benjamin, author; Colorado Forest Restoration Institute, publisher
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Chaffee County wildfire risk assessment
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2019-12) Gannon, Benjamin, author; Colorado Forest Restoration Institute, publisher
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Connecting forests and water fuel treatment assessment and planning tools
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2017-04) Gannon, Benjamin, author; Wolk, Brett, author; Wei, Yu, author; Kampf, Stephanie, author; Jones, Kelly, author; MacDonald, Lee, author; Addington, Rob, author; Cheng, Tony, author; Cannon, Jeffery, author; Colorado Water, publisher
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Hurricane disturbance and vegetation dynamics in the Cordillera Central, Dominican Republic
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2012) Gannon, Benjamin, author; Martin, Patrick, advisor; Lefsky, Michael, committee member; Reich, Robin, committee member
Hurricanes are intense, frequent disturbances in the Caribbean basin, often regarded as important agents in structuring ecological patterns and processes. The topography and vegetation of tropical montane forest landscapes interact with the forces of hurricanes to create complex patterns of disturbance. In this study, remote sensing and field inventory of forests were used to reconstruct wind and rain disturbance from Hurricane Georges in the Cordillera Central, Dominican Republic. Spatial patterns of hurricane disturbance and the relationship of disturbance with the topography, the physical forces of the hurricane, and the biota of the landscape were analyzed using geographic information systems. The effects of hurricanes on forests were addressed by comparing structure and composition across forest types and levels of hurricane severity. Hurricane disturbance was distributed over a small portion of the study area; only 11.3% of the landscape was disturbed by wind and 4.3% was disturbed by rain. Disturbance from wind was concentrated at high elevations to the south of the site's major topographic divide. Pine forest was disproportionately affected both in terms of area disturbed and the severity of effects on forests. The proportion of live undamaged basal area was reduced by 7.1% in cloud forest, 32.0% in mixed pine, and 60.5% in pine forest compared to undisturbed control plots. Whereas effects were most severe in pine forest, pine forest composition was unchanged because of the overriding influence of climate. Cloud forest composition saw minor changes with increasing importance of several early-successional species. In mixed pine forest, areas disturbed by the hurricane saw Pinus occidentalis Swartz decrease in importance, but the low magnitude of this change suggests it may take several hurricanes to convert these communities to cloud forest.
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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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Validating and improving potential operational delineation (POD) boundaries during wildfire: linking fire and fuels planning to incident response
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2023-11) Beeton, Tyler A., author; Caggiano, Michael D., author; Thompson, Matthew P., author; Gannon, Benjamin, author; Colorado Forest Restoration Institute, publisher