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Experimental Forests, Ranges, and Watersheds in the Northern Rocky Mountains: A Compendium of Outdoor Laboratories in Utah, Idaho, and Montana
- Title:
- Experimental Forests, Ranges, and Watersheds in the Northern Rocky Mountains: A Compendium of Outdoor Laboratories in Utah, Idaho, and Montana
- Creator:
- Schmidt, Wyman C.; Friede, Judy L.
- Date Created:
- 1996-04
- Description:
- In 1992, the Northern Alliance was created by leaders from Utah State University, University of Idaho, University of Montana, and the U.S. Forest Service’s Intermountain and Northern Regions and Intermountain Research Station. The charter of the Northen Alliance states that its purpose is: …to expand cooperation, improve coordination, and further interdisciplinary participation of natural resource scientists, educators, and managers working in partnership to address changes in natural resource priorities. The Alliance will address natural resource situations in the northern Rocky Mountains to identify potential and appropriate management strategies and will develop coordinated research and education programs to support these strategies. A variety of cooperative ventures are anticipated to result from the additional and more intensive cooperation under the Alliance partnership. This compendium—one of the cooperative ventures—responds to information needs expressed by these educators, researchers, and natural resource managers. The increasing emphasis on holistic management of the complex ecosystems in the Northern Rocky Mountains makes it imperative that information developed on the various experimental areas be made readily available. The compendium provides an overview of areas with a rich array of research results and key contacts for ecosystem management learning experiences. The Alliance recognized that no one person or organization has the breadth and depth to provide all the answers for managing these complex and widely diversified ecosystems. The Alliance also recognized that there is a wealth of scientific data and management experience that is too often unknown or not fully recognized for its importance. The most obvious sources of information are the formally established experimental forests, ranges, and watersheds. Information has accumulated from these U.S. Forest Service and university-sponsored experimental areas for much of this century and is available through publications, on-the-ground demonstrations, and other sources such as displays, brochures, videos, and computer programs. Unfortunately, the who, what, when, and where for these experimental areas are not always well known to many who could use the information in their resource management planning, their search for scientific information, their educational pursuits, and their need for “just show me what happens.” The Northern Alliance realized this and saw this compendium as a valuable tool in the development of the Learning Center concept. Learning Centers are an evolving concept in cooperatively gathering and synthesizing information needed for implementing ecosystem management. Long-term ecological research is key to the development of this concept. Experimental areas provide just such needed basic biological and physical science information. Interpretation of this research in the context of current social and economic concerns will establish a scientific focal point of Learning Centers.
- Document Type:
- General Technical Report
- Subjects:
- UIEF USFS USDA compendium UIEF general information USDA
- Location:
- UIEF
- Latitude:
- 46.869607
- Longitude:
- -116.733856
- Publisher:
- United States Forest Service
- Department:
- Forest, Rangeland, and Fire Sciences
- Type:
- Text
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Experimental Forests, Ranges, and Watersheds in the Northern Rocky Mountains: A Compendium of Outdoor Laboratories in Utah, Idaho, and Montana", UIEF Research Exchange, University of Idaho Library Digital Collections, https://www.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/uief/items/uief_0208.html
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- Rights:
- In copyright, educational use permitted.
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