The Colorado Plateau II : biophysical, socioeconomic, and cultural research /

"The publication of The Colorado Plateau: Cultural, Biological, and Physical Research in 2004 marked a timely summation of current research in the Four Corners states. This new volume, derived from the seventh Biennial Conference on the Colorado Plateau in 2003, complements the previous book by...

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Corporate Author: Biennial Conference of Research on the Colorado Plateau Northern Arizona University
Other Authors: Mattson, David J (David John), Van Riper, Charles, III, 1946-
Format: Conference Proceeding Book
Language:English
Published: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, [2005], ©2005
Tucson : c2005
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : biophysical, socioeconomic, and cultural research on the Colorado Plateau / Charles van Riper III and David J. Mattson
  • 1 The Colorado Plateau economy : shifting patterns and regional disparities / Walter E. Hecox and F. Patrick Holmes
  • 2. Public knowledge, opinion, and support of forest restoration : a survey of residents in northern Arizona / David Ostergren and Elizabeth J. Ruther
  • 3. Attitudes toward and perceptions of mountain lions : a survey of northern Arizona residents / Elizabeth J. Ruther and David M. Ostergren
  • 4. Demonstration and test of a spatial decision support system for forest restoration planning / Haydee M. Hampton, Ethan N. Aumack, John W. Prather, Yaguang Xu, Brett G. Dickson and Thomas D. Sisk
  • 5. Modeling the effects of forest restoration treatments on sensitive wildlife taxa : a GIS-based approach / John W. Prather, Haydee M. Hampton, Yaguang Xu, Brett G. Dickson, Norris L. Dodd, Ethan N. Aumack and Thomas D. Sisk
  • 6. Using decision tree modeling in gap analysis land cover mapping : preliminary results for northeastern Arizona / Sarah Falzarano, Kathryn Thomas and John Lowry
  • 7. Land-use history of three Colorado Plateau landscapes : implications for restoration goal-setting / Gary P. Nabhan, Susan Smith, Marcelle Coder and Zsuzsi Kovacs
  • 8. Indications of large changes in mixed conifer forests of Grand Canyon National Park / John L. Vankat, D. Coleman Crocker-Bedford, Don R. Bertolette, Paul Leatherbury, Taylor Mckinnon and Carmen L. Sipe
  • 9. Apparent increases in mixed conifer characteristics since 1935 in ponderosa pine-mixed conifer transition forests of Grand Canyon National Park / D. Coleman Crocker-Bedford, John L. Vankat, Don R. Bertolette, Paul Leatherbury, Taylor Mckinnon and Carmen L. Sipe
  • 10. Apparent reductions in large-diameter trees since 1935 in ponderosa pine forests of Grand Canyon National Park / D. Coleman Crocker-Bedford, John L. Vankat, Don R. Bertolette, Paul Leatherbury, Taylor Mckinnon and Carmen L. Sipe
  • 11. Species-based vegetation mapping : an example from the Grand Canyon / Kenneth L. Cole and John A. Cannella
  • 12. A quantitative model of avian community and habitat relationships along the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon / Mark K. Sogge, David Felley and Mark Wotawa
  • 13. Annotated species list of birds of the Colorado River corridor in the Grand Canyon : 1993-1995 / David L. Felley and Mark K. Sogge
  • 14. Implications of Merriam's Turkey age, gender, cause-specific mortality, and reproduction on population demographics based on population modeling / Brian F. Wakeling and Charles H. Lewis
  • 15. Morphologic characteristics of a transplanted population of Gould's Turkeys with comparisons to Merriam's Turkeys / Shelli Dubay, Brian Wakeling and Tim Rogers
  • 16. Vertebrates of Montezuma Castle National Monument : present status and historical changes / Charles A. Drost
  • 17. Movement patterns and natural history of western diamond-backed rattlesnakes at Tuzigoot National Monument, Arizona / Erika M. Nowak
  • 18. Beetles of Salt Creek Canyon, Canyonlands National Park, Utah / Louis L. Pech, Timothy B. Graham, Holly Demark and Jennifer Mathis
  • 19. Landscape habitat selection by female mule deer in a partially restored ponderosa pine forest in northwest Arizona / Stan C. Cunningham, Stephen S. Germaine, Heather L. Germaine and Susan R. Boe
  • 20. An evaluation of mule deer harvest estimates on the North Kaibab, Arizona / Amber A. Munig and Brian Wakeling
  • 21. Recent trends in North American mountain lion populations : a hypothesis / James C. Devos, Jr. and Ted Mckinney
  • 22. Patterns of carnivore co-occurrence on the north Rim, Grand Canyon National Park / Sarah E. Reed and Elaine F. Leslie
  • 23. Help for the looted rockshelters of the Colorado Plateau in a new century of archaeology : new Basketmaker II research on the great comb ridge / Francis E. Smiley and Michael R. Robins
  • 24. Fire effects research and preservation planning at Wuaptki and Walnut Canyon National Monuments, northeast Arizona / Ian Hough, Jeri DeYoung and David Barr
  • 25. Archaeological survey of new land acquired by Walnut Canyon National Monument, northern Arizona / Kimberly Spurr and L. Theodore Neff
  • 26. Using cultural resources as part of the plan : Grand Canyon management and implications for resource preservation / Janet R. Balsom, J. Grace Ellis, Amy Horn and Lisa M. Leap
  • 27. Fire and springs : reestablishing the balance on the White Mountain Apache Reservation / Jonathan Long, Mae Burnette and Candy Lupe
  • 28. A protocol for rapid assessment of southwestern stream-riparian ecosystems / Lawrence E. Stevens, Peter B. Stacey, Allison L. Jones, Don Duff, Chad Gourley and James C. Catlin
  • 29. Determining watershed boundaries and area using GPS, DEMs, and traditional methods : a comparison / Boris Poff, Duncan Leao, Aregai Tecle and Daniel G. Neary.