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Guide to the Forest Practice Act and Related Laws: Regulation of Timber Harvesting on Private Lands in California
by Sharon E. Duggan and Tara Mueller
"A comprehensive treatise on the applicable state and federal legislation that regulates timber harvesting on private lands in California. Intended as a complete resource for the full range of actors involved, the book covers statutory and regulatory requirements, case law, and agency policies, and includes short articles, charts, graphs, tables, and appendices to help the reader understand complex regulatory processes and how they interrelate. "The Redwood Forest : History Ecology and Conservation of the Coast Redwoods: by Reed F. Noss (Editor), Constance I. Millar (Editor), Donald A. Falk (Editor), Margaret Olwell (Editor)
[See: Welsh, H.H., Jr., T.D. Roelofs, and C.A. Frissell. 2000. Aquatic ecosystems of the redwood region. (316k) Pages 165-199 in R.F. Noss, ed., The Redwood Forest: History, Ecology, and Conservation of the Coast Redwoods. Island Press, Covelo, California.
Thornburgh, D.A., R.F. Noss, D.P. Angelides, C.M. Olson, F. Euphrat, and H.H. Welsh, Jr. 2000. Managing redwoods. (216k) Pages 229-261 in R.F. Noss, ed., The Redwood Forest: History, Ecology, and Conservation of the Coast Redwoods. Island Press, Covelo, California.
Cooperrider, A., R.F. Noss, H.H. Welsh, Jr., C. Carroll, W. Zielinski, D. Olson, S.K. Nelson, and B.G. Marcot. 2000. Terrestrial fauna of redwood forests. (136k) Pages 119-163 in R.F. Noss, ed., The Redwood Forest: History, Ecology, and Conservation of the Coast Redwoods. Island Press, Covelo, California.]
Silvics of North America (USDA)
The seen and unseen world of the fallen tree, Authors: Maser, Chris; Trappe, James M.; [tech. eds.] Date: 1984 Source: Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 56 p.
ON-LINE PUBLICATIONS OF THE REDWOOD SCIENCES LABORATORY: WILDLIFE RESEARCH
Early Classics in Biogeography, Distribution, and Diversity Studies To 1950
Early Classics in Biogeography, Distribution, and Diversity Studies: 1951-1975
(Bibliographies -- requires JSTOR access for some of the papers; others are online)Chipping D, 1999. Timber Harvesting Plan Handbook. California Native Plant Society. Sacramento, CA. ii + 43 pp.
Forestland Incentives (Calif. Resources Agency)
See also: WWW Virtual Library: Forestry
Forestry, Deforestation, Climate and Microclimate
An Overview of 'Dangerous' Climate Change -- Schneider and Lane, 2005
Climate Change Website: http://stephenschneider.stanford.edu
Noss, Reed F. (2001) Beyond Kyoto: Forest Management in a Time of Rapid Climate Change. Conservation Biology 15 (3), 578-590.
Watson, Robert T. Ian R. Noble, Bert Bolin, N. H. Ravindranath, David J. Verardo and David J. Dokken (Eds.):Land Use, Land-Use Change, and Forestry (Summary for Policy Makers). 2000 Special Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Cambridge University Press, UK. pp 375Estimating Cumulative Effects of Clearcutting on Stream Temperatures (USGS)
Stream Network and Stream Segment Temperature Models Software (USGS)
Forests and Climate Change: Canadian International Development Agency Website
The climatic impacts of land surface change and carbon management, and the implications for climate-change mitigation policy -- Marland et al
Potential carbon mitigation and income in developing countries from changes in use and management of agricultural and forest lands -- Niles et al
THE COMPOUNDING EFFECTS OF TROPICAL DEFORESTATION AND GREENHOUSEWARMING ON CLIMATE -- Zhang et al
Wikipedia: deforestation
Forestry, Fish, Water and Watersheds
Report of the Scientific Review Panel on California Forest Practice Rules and Salmonid Habitat, June 1999, Prepared for The Resources Agency of California and the National Marine Fisheries Service, Sacramento, California
Scientific Review Panel
Frank Ligon
Alice Rich, Ph.D.
Gary Rynearson, R.P.F., Coordinator
Dale Thornburgh, Ph.D., R.P.F.
William Trush, Ph.D.A SCIENTIFIC BASIS FOR THE PREDICTION OF CUMULATIVE WATERSHED EFFECTS (UC Committee on Cumulative Watershed Effects)
The Klamath Resource Information System (KRIS)
How fine sediment in riverbeds impairs growth and survival of juvenile salmonids
Kenwyn B. Suttle, Mary E. Power, Jonathan M. Levine, and Camille McNeely
Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA
Proceedings of the Conference on Coastal Watersheds: The Caspar Creek Story
Robert R. Ziemer, Technical CoordinatorNorth Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board: TMDLs
What a long strange trip it's been - or - Who took the synthesis out of analysis? (Reid et al.)
ON-LINE PUBLICATIONS OF THE REDWOOD SCIENCES LABORATORY: WATERSHED AND FISHERIES RESEARCH
Calculation of cutting rate for Bear Creek watershed (source: Review of the Palco SYP), and the Final Report and Effects on Beneficial Uses of Water (Elk, Stitz, Bear, Jordan, Freshwater)
Spence et al. 1996. An Ecosystem Approach to Salmonid Conservation. December 1996, published by Man Tech Environmental Research Services for NMFS. Contact the Portland, OR, NMFS office to request a hard copy. 503 231-2308.
Salmonid Guidelines for Forestry Practices in California (NMFS)
Forestry, Politics, Law, Science and Ethics
CEQA (California Environmental Quality Act)
"The Documents in the Case" -- a compilation (by Redwoods Forever) of documents which may usefully be quoted in public comment on CDF practices. These documents highlilght the inadequacies of the current Forest Practice Rules, as implemented, to adequately protect our forests and rivers, and the habitat of threatened salmon and other species.
Environmental Literacy and the Citizen-Scientist
Should Scientists Advocate Public Policy?Real Science vs. Weird Science: The Interior Department's Manipulation of Science for Political Purposes
ETHICS FOR NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGERS by Jack Ward Thomas, Chief, USDA Forest Service. Written when serving as Chief Research Wildlife Biologist, USDA Forest Service, La Grande, Oregon
Report on Timber Harvesting and Water Quality by the California Senate Office of Research
Timber Harvest Plans - A Flawed Effort to Balance Economic and Environmental Needs (Report #126, June 1994) Little Hoover Commission
POST-NORMAL SCIENCE - Environmental Policy under Conditions of Complexity (Link) - "In relation to policy, 'the environment' is particularly challenging. It includes masses of detail concerning many particular issues, which require separate analysis and management. At the same time, there are broad strategic issues, which should guide regulatory work, such as those connected with 'sustainability'. Nothing can be managed in a convenient isolation; issues are mutually implicated; problems extend across many scale levels of space and time; and uncertainties and value-loadings of all sorts and all degrees of severity affect data and theories alike... We are now witnessing the emergence of a new approach to problem-solving strategies in which the role of science, still essential, is now appreciated in its full context of the uncertainties of natural systems and the relevance of human values."
Democratic Expertise: Integrating Knowledge, Power, and Participation
E. J. Woodhouse, Dean Nieusma: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
"No lesson seems to be so deeply inculcated by the experience of life as that you should never trust experts." - Robert, Lord SalisburyKey Open Government Laws: The primary four laws that regulate the public's access to government and government records are the Ralph M. Brown Act, the California Public Records Act, the Bagley-Keene Open Meeting Act, and the Freedom of Information Act.
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Wildlife, Forests, and Forestry: Principles of Managing Forests for Biological Diversity: Malcolm L. Hunter, Diane Bowman (Illustrator)
Maintaining Biodiversity in Forest Ecosystems : Malcolm L. Hunter (Editor)
Fundamentals of Conservation Biology: Malcolm L. Hunter, Andrea Sulzer (Illustrator)
Forest Mensuration: Husch, Miller, Beers
Forests and Forestry: Holland, Rolfe, Anderson
Introduction to Forestry: Sharpe, Hendee, Sharpe
Regulation of Logging in California, 1945-75: Arvola
Logging the Redwoods: Carranco, Labbe
Essentials of Forestry: Stoddard, Stoddard
Dictionary of Forestry: Helms
The Forest and the Trees: Robinson
Harper-Collins Dictionary of Environmental Science: Jones, Robertson, Forbes, Hollier
Philosophy and Environmental Crisis: Blackstone
Should Trees Have Standing?: Stone
California Forestry Handbook: Arvola
Saving the Marin-Sonoma Coast: Griffin
Assembling California: McPhee
Fluvial Processes in Geomorphology: Leopold, Wolman, Miller
Forest Soils: Wilde
The Dying of the Trees: Little
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