Fort Valley Experimental Forest-A Century of Research 1908-2008 (P-53)
Authors: | Susan D. Olberding, Margaret M. Moore |
Year: | 2008 |
Type: | Proceedings |
Station: | Rocky Mountain Research Station |
Source: | Proceedings RMRS-P-53CD. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 408 p. |
Abstract
One hundred years ago, the USFS began its forest research program in a two-room cabin near Flagstaff, Arizona, with one staff person, Gustaf A. Pearson. The site became known as the Fort Valley Experiment Station and was the first in a national network of research sites developed to address uncertainties regarding the rehabilitation and conservation for forest and range lands in the nation. Fort Valley's name has changed over the century and for today's reader, Fort Valley Experimental Forest (FVEF) is used. The conference recognized pioneering silvicultural, range, and watershed research and how the work continues today. Invited papers and contributed poster papers were presented during the first day of the conference. The second day's schedule included field trips and the dedication of new monuments at the historic Fort Valley Experimental Forest headquarters. The conference consisted of USFS retired researchers, current scientists, and students that addressed issues affecting the perpetuation of the ponderosa pine forest of the Southwest.Titles contained within Fort Valley Experimental Forest-A Century of Research 1908-2008 (P-53)
- Opening remarks for the Fort Valley Centennial Celebration (P-53)
- "It was a young man's life": G.A. Pearson (P-53)
- Historical review of Fort Valley studies on stand management (P-53)
- Forest regeneration research (P-53)
- Fire and fuels research at Fort Valley and Long Valley Experimental Forests (P-53)
- Range management research, Fort Valley Experimental Forest (P-53)
- Contributions of silvicultural studies at Fort Valley to watershed management of Arizona's ponderosa pine forests (P-53)
- The Fort Valley Experimental Forest, ponderosa pine, and wildlife habitat research (P-53)
- Memories of Fort Valley From 1938 to 1942 (P-53)
- Plant recruitment in a northern Arizona ponderosa pine forest: Testing seed- and leaf litter-limitation hypotheses (P-53)
- Forty years later at Taylor Woods: Merging the old and new (P-53)
- "Growing trees backwards": Description of a stand reconstruction model (P-53)
- The Hill plots: A rare long-term vegetation study (P-53)
- Characteristics of buckbrush shrubs exposed to herbivores after seven years of protection (P-53)
- Revisiting Pearson's climate and forest type studies on the Fort Valley Experimental Forest (P-53)
- A visual progression of the Fort Valley Restoration Project treatments using remotely sensed imagery (P-53)
- Early thinning experiments established by the Fort Valley Experimental Forest (P-53)
- Historical and contemporary lessons from ponderosa pine genetic studies at the Fort Valley Experimental Forest, Arizona (P-53)
- Forest structure and tree recruitment changes on a permanent historical Cinder Hills plot over a 130-year period (P-53)
- Pine regeneration following wildland fire (P-53)
- The U.S. Geological Survey Paleomagnetics Laboratory at Fort Valley Experimental Forest-1970-1991 (P-53)
- Growth of a 45-year-old ponderosa pine plantation: An Arizona case study (P-53)
- The resin composition of ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) attacked by the roundheaded pine beetle (Dendroctonus adjunctus) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae, Scolytinae) (P-53)
- A century of meteorological observations at Fort Valley Experimental Forest: A cooperative observer program success story (P-53)
- Dynamics of buckbrush populations under simulated forest restoration alternatives (P-53)
- Understanding ponderosa pine forest-grassland vegetation dynamics at Fort Valley Experimental Forest using phytolith analysis (P-53)
- Tree ecophysiology research at Taylor Woods (P-53)
- Forest and range research on the "Wild Bill Plots" (1927-2007) (P-53)
- Ecological restoration experiments (1992-2007) at the G.A. Pearson Natural Area, Fort Valley Experimental Forest (P-53)
- Total carbon and nitrogen in mineral soil after 26 years of prescribed fire: Long Valley and Fort Valley Experimental Forests (P-53)
- A century of cooperation: The Fort Valley Experimental Forest and the Coconino National Forest in Flagstaff (P-53)
- 93 years of stand density and land-use legacy research at the Coulter Ranch Study Site (P-53)
- Fort Valley's early scientists: A legacy of distinction (P-53)
- Vascular plant checklist of the Chimney Spring and Limestone Flats prescribed burning study areas within ponderosa pine experimental forests in northern Arizona (P-53)
- Effects of ecological restoration alternative treatments on nonnative plant species establishment (P-53)
- Roots of research: Raphael Zon and the origins of forest experiment stations (P-53)