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Site data from observations of post-fire and thinned stands of piñon-juniper woodlands on the Colorado Plateau These data were compiled to evaluate pinyon-juniper regeneration dynamics following stand-replacing wildfire and thinning treatments. Objectives of our study were to investigate vegetation community composition and tree recruitment in post-fire and post-thinning environments. These data represent plant and biological soil crust community composition and climatological records among intact, thinned, and burned pinyon–juniper woodlands. These data were collected in Mesa Verde National Park and Ute Mountain Ute Tribal Park from 6/1/2021 to 6/10/2021 and from 03/1/2022 to 11/30/2022 at two burned and two intact pinyon-juniper ecosystems in Mesa Verde National Park only. These data were collected by the U.S. Geological... Categories: Data; Tags: Botany, Colorado, Echo House (historical), Ecology, Geography, All tags... Information Sciences, Johnson Canyon, Juniperus osteosperma, Long Mesa, Mancos Canyon, Mesa Verde National Park, Montezuma County, Pinus edulis, Soil Sciences, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Ute Mountain Ute Tribal Park, Ute Mountain Ute Tribal Park, Wetherill Mesa, air temperature, biogeography, biological soil crusts, biota, burned forest, climate change, climatological differences, climatological records, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, community composition, community ecology, data release, ecosystem management, elevation, fires, forest ecosystems, forest management, intact forest, natural resource management, net radiation, photosynthetically active radiation, pinyon–juniper woodlands, plants (organisms), relative humidity, soil moisture, soil temperature, thinned forest, thinning management treatments, vascular plants, wildfire, Fewer tags Site characterization and regeneration attributes of managed and unmanaged ponderosa pine sites in the southwestern United States These data consist of environmental covariates, measured plot-level and tree characteristics for seven coniferous tree species across the southwestern United States. The objectives of the study were to assess how growth characteristics of conifer tree species vary across environmental gradients and across the different tree species. These data represent conifer growth under a variety of stand and site characteristics. These data were collected in the summer of 2019, from sites across Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico and Colorado, and collected by field crews directed by Matt Petrie (University of Nevada Las Vegas), Rob Hubbard (USDA Forest Service), Tom Kolb (Northern Arizona University) and John Bradford (U.S. Geological... Categories: Data; Tags: Arizona, Botany, California, Climatology, Colorado, All tags... Ecology, Forestry, Geography, Geomorphology, Idaho, Information Sciences, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, Soil Sciences, South Dakota, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), USGS:645abf44d34ec179a8378de3, Utah, Washington, Wyoming, biogeography, biota, climate change, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, conifer forests, conifer growth, conifer regeneration, conifer tree regeneration, coniferous tree, daily meteorological estimates, data release, dryland forests, ecological processes, ecosystem management, effects of climate change, environment, environmental conditions, environmental covariates, estimates, field inventory and monitoring, field-measured, forest ecosystems, forest management, geoscientificInformation, meteorology, plot sampling, ponderosa forests, predictor variable, recruitment, regeneration failure, simulations, site characteristics, soil moisture, soil resources, soil temperature, southwestern United States, stand characteristics, tree characteristics, tree growth, vegetation, vegetation cover, vegetation type, western United States, Fewer tags Pinyon-juniper basal area, climate and demographics data from National Forest Inventory plots and projected under future density and climate conditions These data were compiled to help understand how climate change may impact dryland pinyon-juniper ecosystems in coming decades, and how resource management might be able to minimize those impacts. Objective(s) of our study were to model the demographic rates of PJ woodlands to estimate the areas that may decline in the future vs. those that will be stable. We quantified populations growth rates across broad geographic areas, and identified the relative roles of recruitment and mortality in driving potential future changes in population viability in 5 tree species that are major components of these dry forests. We used this demographic model to project pinyon-juniper population stability under future climate conditions,... Categories: Data; Tags: Arizona, Botany, California, Colorado, Ecology, All tags... Forestry, Geography, Idaho, Information Sciences, Juniperus monosperma, Juniperus osteosperma, Juniperus scopulorum, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, Pinus edulis, Pinus monophylla, Rocky Mountain juniper, South Dakota, Texas, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States Southwest, Utah, Utah juniper, biogeography, biota, climate change, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, data release, droughts, dryland forests, ecosystem management, effects of climate change, field inventory and monitoring, forest ecosystems, forest inventory plot, forest management, mortality, oneseed juniper, pinyon-juniper forests, pinyon-juniper woodland, plot sampling, population and community ecology, population dynamics, population growth, recruitment, singleleaf pinyon, tree growth, tree mortality, tree recruitment, trees, twoneedle pinyon, vegetation, western United States, Fewer tags A meta-analysis of biodiversity responses to management of southeastern pine forests—opportunities for open pine conservation Open canopy conditions in southeastern pine (Pinus spp.) forests were historically maintained by frequent fire and other disturbances, without which midstory hardwoods create closed canopy conditions limiting value of pine stands for many endemic, disturbance-adapted species. Intensively managed pine forests, which comprise 19% of forests in the southeastern U.S., can emulate historical open pine conditions, providing appropriate vegetation structure and composition for many endemic species. However, exact mechanisms for producing and maintaining open pine conditions and subsequent effects on biodiversity have not been examined across regions and stand ages. To better inform managers about options for providing... Categories: Data, Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: Biodiversity, Conservation planning, Forest management, LCC Network Science Catalog, Loblolly pine, All tags... Mid-roatation, Population and Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Publication, Socio-economics/Ecosystem Services, Southeastern U.S., Stand establishment, biota, completed, economy, planningCadastre, Fewer tags Final Report: Predicting Snow Water Equivalence (SWE) and Soil Moisture Response to Restoration Treatments in Headwater Ponderosa Pine Forests of the Desert LCC The U.S. Forest Service plans to conduct forest restoration treatments through the Four Forest Restoration Initiative (4FRI) on hundreds of thousands of acres of ponderosa pine forest along the Mogollon Rim of Arizona over the next 20 years with the goals of reducing wildfire hazard and improving forest health. The 4FRI’s key objective is to thin and burn the forests to create within-stand openings that “promote snowpack accumulation and retention which benefit groundwater recharge and watershed processes at the fine (1 to 10 acres) scale.” However, little is known about how these openings created by restoration treatments affect snow water equivalence (SWE) and soil moisture, which are key parts of the water balance... Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2013, AL-04, AZ-01, Academics & scientific researchers, Applications and Tools, All tags... Arizona, Centennial Forest, Coconino National Forest, Conservation NGOs, Conservation Planning, Data Acquisition and Development, Desert Landscape Conservation Cooperative, EARTH SCIENCE > TERRESTRIAL HYDROSPHERE > SNOW/ICE > SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT, Federal resource managers, Four Forest Restoration Initiative (4FRI) area, GIS, Gus Pearson Natural Area, Informing Conservation Delivery, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Presentation, Publication, Report, Report, Training/Outreach/Workshop, Tribes, United States, Verde River Basin, biota, climate change, completed, forest management, forest structure, forest thinning, ponderosa pine forests, remote sensing, restoration, snow, snowpack, soil moisture, water, wildfire, Fewer tags Estimated tree mortality, basal area, climate, and drought conditions for ponderosa pine in forest inventory plots across the western U.S. These data consist of environmental covariates and estimated plot-level mortality of ponderosa pine trees. Environmental covariates include growing season temperature and soil moisture, and values are summarized into long-term mean conditions, and anomalies observed between forest inventory sampling events for each plot. Data also include plot locations (with uncertainty introduced by the US Forest Service to maintain private property rights), plot basal area, and several variables related to estimated mortality rate of ponderosa pine trees under various assumptions about basal area conditions. Categories: Data; Tags: Arizona, Botany, California, Climatology, Colorado, All tags... Ecology, Forestry, Geography, Idaho, Information Sciences, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Utah, Washington, air temperature, basal area, basal area conditions, biota, climate change, droughts, environmental changes, environmental covariates, estimated mortality rate, estimated plot-level mortality, field sampling, forest ecosystems, forest inventory, forest inventory plot, forest inventory sampling events, forest management, forest sampling, forestry, forests, growing season soil moisture, growing season temperature, long-term ecological monitoring, long-term mean conditions, mortality, pine forests, plot basal area, plot locations, plot sampling, ponderosa pine forest, ponderosa pine trees, sampling, soil moisture, tree mortality, vegetation, western United States, Fewer tags Predicting Snow Water Equivalence (SWE) and Soil Moisture Response to Restoration Treatments in Headwater Ponderosa Pine Forests of the Desert LCC Northern Arizona University will build upon the U.S. Forest Service Four Forest Restoration Initiative in Northern Arizona to investigate how restoration efforts can affect the water volume available in the snowpack and soil moisture in the Desert LCC. This project will result in a tool that can be used to predict the water volume in snowpack and soil moisture response to various forest treatments. Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2013, AL-04, AZ-01, Academics & scientific researchers, Applications and Tools, All tags... Arizona, Centennial Forest, Coconino National Forest, Conservation NGOs, Conservation Planning, Data Acquisition and Development, Desert Landscape Conservation Cooperative, EARTH SCIENCE > TERRESTRIAL HYDROSPHERE > SNOW/ICE > SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT, Federal resource managers, Four Forest Restoration Initiative (4FRI) area, GIS, GIS, Gus Pearson Natural Area, Informing Conservation Delivery, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Presentation, Project, Publication, Report, Training/Outreach/Workshop, Tribes, United States, Verde River Basin, biota, climate change, climate change, completed, forest management, forest management, forest structure, forest structure, forest thinning, forest thinning, onGoing, ponderosa pine forests, ponderosa pine forests, remote sensing, remote sensing, restoration, restoration, snow, snow, snowpack, snowpack, soil moisture, soil moisture, water, water, wildfire, wildfire, Fewer tags Bird Responses to Young Stand Thinning in Western Oregon in 2013 The US Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, and Oregon State University established the Young Stand Thinning and Diversity Study (YSTDS) in 1990 to demonstrate and test options for young stand management in western Oregon. The YSTDS is designed to determine if different thinning, underplanting, and snag creation treatments in 35-50 year-old plantations can accelerate the development of late-seral conditions. The study was implemented on 4 replicate blocks, each consisting of an untreated Control stand and 1 each of the following stand-level thinning treatments: (1) a Light Thin treatment, approximating the timber industry standard, with about 260 residual trees per hectare (tph; 100/acre); (2) a Heavy... Categories: Data; Tags: Botany, Ecology, Forestry, Oregon State University, Pacific Northwest Research Station, All tags... USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Western Oregon, Wildlife Biology, Willamette National Forest, biodiversity, biota, environment, forest management, late-seral habitat, thinning, wildlife, young forests, Fewer tags