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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.

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Our Future Forests: Beyond Bark Beetles

mountain-pine-beetle.png “Our Future Forests: Beyond Bark Beetles,” is a 10-part series produced by the U.S. Forest Service and the University of Wyoming Ruckelshaus Institute. The series documents the effects of the mountain pine beetle epidemic, the response to the outbreak, and looks forward to recovery, and "the next forest." All filming was done in the Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests. Video topics include mountain pine beetle biology, recreation, fire, watershed, volunteers, elk, timber and regeneration. To view the series, click here.

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