Restoring the West: Peaks to Valleys: Innovation Land Management for the Great Basin
October 27-28, 2009, Utah State University, Logan, Utah | www.restoringthewest.org
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Tuesday Session - October 27, 2009
Bob Nowak
Professor, University of Nevada, Reno
Ecohydrology in the Great Basin: Plants and Water in Arid Ecosystems
Mark Brunson
Department Head and Professor, Utah State University
Myth, Metaphor, and the Social Dimensions of Restoration in the Great Basin
Jeanne Chambers
Research Ecologist, USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Reno
Jim Grace
Research Ecologist, U.S. Geological Survey, National Wetlands Research Center
Jack Schmidt
Professor, Utah State University
River Restoration in the Great Basin - What Can We Really Hope to Achieve?
Brett Roper
Aquatic Ecologist, USDA Forest Service and Utah State University
Matt Germino
Associate Professor, Idaho State University
Exotic and Native Herbs in Sagebrush Steppe: Diagnoses, Prognoses, and Prescriptions for Restoration
Frank McCormick
Program Manager, Air, Water, and Aquatic Environments Science Program, USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Boise
Annie Loosen
Teton Science Schools
An Approach to Landscape Scale Aspen Inventory and Assessment: Applications in the Great Basin
Peter Weisberg
Associate Professor, University of Nevada, Reno
Pinyon and Juniper Woodland Expansion: Can a Historical Perspective Guide Management of Future Landscape Change? (PowerPoint only)
Duncan Patten
Research Professor, Montana State University
Ecology and Restoration of Riparian Vegetation in the Arid and Semiarid West: Lessons Learned
Wednesday Session - October 28, 2009
Julio Betancourt
Senior Scientist, National Research Program, Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
Connie Millar
Research Paleoecologist, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station
Adapting to Climate Change in Great Basin Mountain Ecosystems
Andrea Brunelle
Associate Professor, University of Utah
Paleoecological Data and their Utility in Ecosystem Restoration
Stan Kitchen
Research Botanist, USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station
Patty Champ
Economist, USDA Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station
Pricing the Priceless: Valuing Nonmarket Goods and Ecosystem Services
Jack Connelly
Principal Wildlife Research Biologist, Idaho Department of Fish and Game
Carl Wambolt
Emeritus Professor, Range Science, Montana State University
Fire Ecology of Sagebrush Systems: To Burn or Not to Burn for Wildlife Habitat (presentation unavailable)
Dean Pearson
Research Ecologist, USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station
Kate Dwire
Research Riparian Ecologist, USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station
Wildfire and Fuel Treatments in Riparian Areas of the Interior West
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