Science and Research.

The following publications contain a wealth of scientific information about forestry and forest management in the Intermountain West.

• Alexander, Robert R.  1987. Ecology, Silviculture, and Management of the Engelmann Spruce-Subalpine Fir Type in the Central and Southern Rocky Mountains.  Agriculture Handbook No. 659. USDA, Forest Service.  144 pages.
• Bark Beetle Symposium, Snowbird, Utah. 2005. Bark Beetle Outbreaks in Western North America: Causes and Consequences.
• Clow, Richmond L., 1998.  Timber Users, Timber Savers: Homestake Mining Company and the First Regulated Timber Harvest.  South Dakota History. Volume 22, No. 3, Fall 1992.
• DeBlander, Larry T. 2002. Forest Resources of the Black Hills National Forest. USDA, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station.
• DeByle, Norbert V.; Winokur, Robert P., editors. 1985. Aspen: Ecology and management in the western United States. General Technical Report RM-119. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station. 283 p.
• Ecological Restoration Institute. 2013. The efficacy of hazardous fuel treatments: A rapid assessment of the economic and ecologic consequences of alternative hazardous fuel treatments.  Northern Arizona University. 28 pp.
• Fairfax, S.K. 1996. Thinking the unthinkable: States as public land managers. Hastings West-Northwest Journal of Environmental Law & Policy 3:249-263
• Floyd, D.W., ed., et al. 1999. Forest of Discord: Options for Governing Our National Forests and Federal Public Lands. Society of American Foresters, Bethesda, MD. (August 8, 2000)
• Gibson, Ken, Sandy Kegley, Barbara Bentz. 2009. Forest Insect & Disease Leaflet 2. Mountain Pine Beetle. USDA, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region (R6), Portland, OR.
• Graham, R.T. 1994. “Silviculture, fire and ecosystem management.” Journal of Sustainable Forestry 2:339-351
• Graham, R.T., A.E. Harvey, T.B. Jain, and J.R. Tonn. 1999. The Effects of Thinning and Similar Stand Treatments on Fire Behavior in Western Forests. General Technical Report PNW-GTR-463, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, Portland, OR.
• Graham, R.T., S. McCaffrey, T.B. Jain. 2004. Science Basis for Changing Forest Structure to Modify Wildfire Behavior and Severity. USDA, Forest Service. Rocky Mountain Research Station. General Technical Report RMRS-GTR-120.
• Graham, R.T., T.B. Jain, Mark Loseke. 2009. Fuel Treatments, Fire Suppression, and Their Interactions With Wildfire and its Effects: The Warm Lake Experience During the Cascade Complex of Wildfires in Central Idaho, 2007. USDA, Forest Service. Rocky Mountain Research Station. General Technical Report RMRS-GTR-229.
• Griffin, P.C., and L.S. Mills.  2007. Precommercial Thinning Reduces Snowshoe Hare Abundance in the Short Term.  Journal of Wildlife Management.  71(2).
• Grubb, T.G., A.E. Gatto, L.L. Pater, D.K. Delaney. 2012.  Response of Nesting Northern Goshawks to Logging Truck Noise,Kaibab National Forest, Arizona.
• Hawksworth, Frank G., and O.J. Dooling.  1984.  Lodgepole Pine Dwarf Mistletoe.  USDA, Forest Service.  Forest Insect and Disease Leaflet 18.  12 pages.
• Holsten, E.H., R.W. Their, A.S. Munson, and K.E. Gibson.  1999.  The Spruce Beetle.  USDA, Forest Service.  Forest Insect and Disease Leaflet 127.  12 pages.
• Laverty, L. and Williams, J. 1999. Protecting People and Sustaining Resources in Fire-Adapted Ecosystems: A Cohesive Strategy.  USDA, Forest Service.
• Increasing the Pace of Restoration and Job Creation on Our National Forests. 2012. USDA, Forest Service.
• Lynch, Dennis L., W.H. Romme, and M. L. Floyd. 2000. “Forest restoration in southwestern ponderosa pine.” Journal of Forestry 98(8):17-24. 2000 Lynch, Forest Restoration in Southwestern Ponderosa Pine. JOF. August 2000.
• Lynch, Dennis L. Kurt Mackes. 2001. Wood Use in Colorado at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century. USDA, Forest Service. Rocky Mountain Research Station. Research Paper RMRS-RP-32.
• Lynch, Dennis L. 2004. What Do Forest Fires Really Cost? Journal of Forestry (September 2004).  2004 Lynch, What Do Forest Fires Really Cost, JOF Sept 2004.
• Menlove, Jim. 2008. Forest Resources of the Shoshone National Forest. USDA, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station.
• National Best Management Practices for Water Quality Management on National Forest Systems Lands. Volume 1: National Core BMP Technical Guide.  2012 USDA, Forest Service. FS-990a.
• North, Malcolm, P. Stine, K. O’Hara, W. Zielinski, and S. Stephens. 2009.  An Ecosystem Management Strategy for Sierran Mixed Conifer Forests. USDA, Forest Service. Pacific Southwest Research Station. General Technical Report PSW-GTR-220.
• O’Laughlin, Jay.  2000.  Trust Concepts Applied to the Federal Public Lands: A New Approach for Sustaining Human Communities and Biological Diversity.  Presentation to Federal Lands Task Force Working Group, Boise, Idaho.
• Oliver, C.D., D.E. Ferguson, A.E. Harvey, H.S. Malany, J.M. Mandzak, and R.W. Mutch. 1994. “Managing ecosystems for forest health: An approach and the effects on uses and values.” Journal of Sustainable Forestry 2:113-133.
• Omi, Phillip N., and E. J. Martinson.  2002.  Effect of Fuels Treatment on Wildfire Severity.  Western Forest Fire Research Center.  Colorado State University.
• Peterson, David L.; J.K., Agee; G.H. Aplet; D. P. Dykstra; R.T. Graham; J.F. Lehmkuhl; D.S. Pilliod; D.F. Potts; R.F. Powers; J.D. Stuart. 2009. Effects of Timber Harvest Following Wildfire in Western North America. USDA, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. General Technical Report PNW-GTR-776.
• Robichaud, Peter R., J. L Byers, D.G. Neary.  2000. Evaluating the Effectiveness of Postfire Rehabilitation Treatments. General Technical Report RMRS-GTR-63.  Fort Collins: USDA, Forest Service. Rocky Mountain Research Station. 85p.
• Schmid, J.M. and R.H. Frye.  1977.  Spruce Beetle in the Rockies.  USDA, Forest Service.  General Technical Report RM-49.  38 pages.
• Schmid, J.M., S.A. Mata, R.R. Kessler, J.B. Popp. 2007. The Influence of Partial Cutting on Mountain Pine Beetle-Caused Tree Mortality in Black Hills Ponderosa Pine Stands. USDA, Forest Service. Rocky Mountain Research Station. Research Paper RMRS-RP-68.
• Shepperd, Wayne D., Michael A. Battaglia. 2002. Ecology, Silviculture, and Management of Black Hills Ponderosa Pine. USDA, Forest Service. Rocky Mountain Research Station. General Technical Report RMRS-GTR-97.
• Smith, W. Brad, Patrick D. Miles. Charles H. Perry, and Scott A. Pugh. 2010. Forest Resources of the United States, 2007.  USDA, Forest Service. General Technical Report WO-78.
• Steed, Jim. 2008. Forest Resources of the Medicine Bow National Forest. USDA, Forest Service. Rocky Mountain Research Station.
• Thompson, Michael T., J.A. Duda, L. T. DeBlander, J.D. Shaw, C. Witt, T.A. Morgan, M.C. Amacher.  2010.  Colorado’s Forest Resources, 2002-2006. USDA, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. Resource Bulletin RMRS-RB-11.
• Troendle, Charles A. M.S. Wilcox, G.S. Bevenger, L.S. Porth. 2001. The Coon Creek Water Yield Augmentation Project: implementation of timber harvesting technology to increase streamflow.  Forest Ecology and Management, Volume 143 (2001) 179-187.
• U.S. General Accounting Office (US-GAO). 1997. Forest Service Decision-Making: A Framework for Improving Performance. GAO/RCED–97-71. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C.
• U.S. General Accounting Office (US-GAO). 1999. Western National Forests: A Cohesive Strategy is Needed to Address Catastrophic Wildfire Threats. GAO/RCED-99-65. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C.
• Western Forestry Leadership Coalition. 2010.  The True Cost of Wildfire in the Western U.S.
• Western Wood Products Association Economic Service Department. Yearly Publication.  Statistical Yearbook of the Western Lumber Industry. Portland, OR.
• Wildland Fire Leadership Council. 2012. A National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy Phase II National Report.