"The 2006 Upper Joseph Creek Restoration Project was successfully completed from July 10 – September 30, 2006. Ninety-one instream structures were modified using an excavator along 9.5- miles of Peavine, Chesnimnus and Devils Run Creeks to allow for complete juvenile fish passage. Twenty-five trees were also either pushed or placed into the stream along those reaches, usually in conjunction with the modified structures, for improved habitat diversity. Sulfur cinquefoil was sprayed with Picloram and Glyphosate along 4.6 miles of the Peavine Trail for a total treatment area of 4 net acres."--Abstract.
"The 2007 Upper Joseph Creek Restoration Project was successfully completed from August - November, 2007. One hundred forty-two instream structures were modified using an excavator along 8.0-miles of Chesnimnus and Elk Creeks to allow for complete juvenile fish passage and appropriate channel form and function to develop. Road decommissioning activities took place along the entire length of the Peavine Trail, from the north-end trail bridge, 4.6 miles downstream to the 4670 road junction. All culverts were removed and replaced with fords or drain dips, the road was narrowed along its entire length, and all previous riparian exclosure fences rebuilt on the east side of the creek."--Abstract.
"This project was designed to improve riparian areas and water quality for threatened steelhead and a variety of other wildlife species within the Joseph Creek Watershed. Twenty-five spring sites were targeted for spring box and trough installation or replacement, trough relocation, and fencing wet or sensitive areas to protect them. These spring site improvements will encourage cattle distribution, pulling use away from riparian areas by offering clean water in the uplands."--From introduction.
Fundamental changes have occurred in all aspects of forestry over the last 50 years, including the underlying science, societal expectations of forests and their management, and the evolution of a globalized economy. This textbook is an effort to comprehensively integrate this new knowledge of forest ecosystems and human concerns and needs into a management philosophy that is applicable to the vast majority of global forest lands. Ecological forest management (EFM) is focused on policies and practices that maintain the integrity of forest ecosystems while achieving environmental, economic, and cultural goals of human societies. EFM uses natural ecological models as its basis contrasting it with modern production forestry, which is based on agronomic models and constrained by required return-on-investment. Sections of the book consider: 1) Basic concepts related to forest ecosystems and silviculture based on natural models; 2) Social and political foundations of forestry, including law, economics, and social acceptability; 3) Important current topics including wildfire, biological diversity, and climate change; and 4) Forest planning in an uncertain world from small privately-owned lands to large public ownerships. The book concludes with an overview of how EFM can contribute to resolving major 21st century issues in forestry, including sustaining forest dependent societies.
