A5044129144- Fire effects on ecosystems
- Rangeland and Wildlife Management
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Forest Management and Policy
- Soil erosion and sediment transport
- Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes
- Landslides and related hazards
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Archaeology and Natural History
- Fish Ecology and Management Studies
- Botany, Ecology, and Taxonomy Studies
- Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
- Environmental and Cultural Studies in Latin America and Beyond
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Forest ecology and management
- Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
- Forest Biomass Utilization and Management
- Indigenous Studies and Ecology
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Community Health and Development
- Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights
- Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
- Seedling growth and survival studies
- American Environmental and Regional History
- Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology
Pacific Southwest Research Station
2015-2025
US Forest Service
2006-2023
University of California, Davis
2021
Pacific Northwest Research Station
2015-2018
Santa Rosa Junior College
2017
Natural Resources Conservation Service
2016
American Fork Hospital
2016
United States Department of Agriculture
2014-2015
Rocky Mountain Research (United States)
2006
Rocky Mountain Research Station
2006
With air quality, liability, and safety concerns, prescribed burning managed wildfire are often considered impractical treatments for extensive fuels reduction in western US forests. For California's Sierra Nevada forests, we evaluated the alternative analyzed amount distribution of constraints on mechanical USDA Forest Service land. use current standards guides, feedback from practicing silviculturists, GIS databases, developed a hierarchy biological (i.e., nonproductive forest), legal...
Abstract Recent decades have seen increasing calls for implementing Indigenous Knowledges (IK) in natural resource management (NRM). However, efforts been limited by the cultural incommensurabilities between (1) NRM institutions, which are rooted worldviews that prioritize extraction dominant cultures and assume dominance over nature (2) kincentric reciprocity with environment. This manuscript addresses how transforming institutions enables to better support lifeways. examines institutional...
Long, J. W., and F. K. Lake. 2018. Escaping social-ecological traps through tribal stewardship on national forest lands in the Pacific Northwest, United States of America. Ecology Society 23(2):10. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-10041-230210
Abstract Within governance agencies, academia, and communities alike, there are increasing calls to recognize the value importance of culture within social‐ecological systems better implement Indigenous sciences in research, policy, management. Efforts thus far have raised questions about best ethical practices do so. Engaging with plural worldviews perspectives on their own terms reflects cultural evolutionary processes driving paradigm shifts 3 fundamental areas natural resource...
<p class="p1">For many, citizen science is exciting because of the possibility for more diverse, equitable partnerships in scientific research with outcomes considered meaningful and useful by all, including public participants. This was focus a symposium we organized at 2015 conference Citizen Science Association. Here synthesize points made participants our own reflections. class="p3">Professional has participation problem that part larger equity society. Inequity negative consequences...
The hundreds of Indigenous tribes in the United States harbor diverse perspectives about natural world, yet they share many views that are important for ecosystem restoration efforts. This paper features examples how such have guided through partnerships between tribal communities and U.S. Forest Service western States. Traditional influenced by deepening understanding reference conditions, expanding consideration system dynamics, guiding treatment based upon ethical principles beliefs. More...
Many tribes in California and Oregon value black oak (Quercus kelloggii) as a traditional source of food other values. Over centuries or millennia, Native Americans learned that they could enhance production desired resources by regularly igniting low-intensity surface fires stands oak. Although is likely to remain widespread the future, warming climate, increasingly dense forests, altered fire regimes threaten large, full-crowned mature trees produce crops high-quality acorns provide...
Ethical issues are intrinsic to conducting research regarding society and natural resources, but they often become poignant when engaging in Participatory Action Research. We compiled common persistent challenges into a list of "Questions That Won't Go Away" or "QTWGAs" that relevant people interested participatory benefit communities. discuss these questions the context previously published literature share examples from experience graduate student Fellows who conducted with various...
Abstract Historical and contemporary policies practices, including the suppression of lightning-ignited fires removal intentional ignited by Indigenous peoples, have resulted in over a century fire exclusion across many USA’s landscapes. Within designated wilderness areas, this has clearly altered ecological processes thus constitutes fundamental ubiquitous act trammeling . Through framework that recognizes four orders , we demonstrate substantial, long-term, negative effects on natural...
Abstract Fuel treatments in fire‐suppressed mixed‐conifer forests are designed to moderate potential wildfire behavior and effects. However, the objectives for modifying fire effects can vary widely, from improving suppression efforts protecting infrastructure, reintroducing low‐severity fire, restoring maintaining variable forest structure wildlife habitat. In designing a fuel treatment, managers alter treatment's prescription, placement, extent (collectively “treatment strategy”) optimally...
Abstract Post‐fire catchment and water utility managers throughout the world use predictive models to estimate potential erosion risks aid in evaluating downstream impacts of increased runoff erosion, target critical areas within a fire for applying mitigation practices. Erosion prediction can be complicated by forest road networks. Using novel GIS technology soil modelling, this study evaluated effect roads on surface runoff, sediment yields following wildfire determined that were providing...
Past and current forest management affects wildland fire smoke impacts on downwind human populations. However, mismatches between the scale of benefits risks make it difficult to proactively manage fires promote both ecological public health. Building recent literature advances in modeling health effects, we outline a framework more directly quantify compare based emissions, dispersion, size vulnerability populations across time space. We apply case study demonstrate how different kinds...
Maxwell, C., R. M. Scheller, J. W. Long, and P. Manley. 2022. Forest management under uncertainty: the influence of versus climate change wildfire in Lake Tahoe Basin, USA.. Ecology Society 27(2):15. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-13278-270215
Forest densification, wildfires, and disease can reduce the growth survival of hardwood trees that are important for biological cultural diversity within Pacific Northwest USA. Large, full-crowned hardwoods produce fruit form large cavities used by wildlife were sustained frequent, low-severity fires prior to Euro-American colonization. Shifts in fire regimes other threats could be causing declines in, trees. To better understand whether where such might occurring, we evaluated recent trends...