The Interior Northwest Landscape Analysis System: A step toward understanding integrated landscape analysis

Preemergence Control of Nine Invasive Weeds with Aminocyclopyrachlor, Aminopyralid, and Indaziflam

“…State and transition models: STMs are a central component of ecological site descriptions that are widely used by managers to illustrate changes in plant communities and associated soil properties, causes of change, and effects of management interventions (Stringham et al 2003;Briske et al 2005; USDA NRCS 2007) including in sagebrush ecosystems (Forbis et al 2006;Barbour et al 2007;Boyd and Svejcar 2009;Holmes and Miller 2010;Chambers et al in press). These models use state (a relatively stable set of plant communities that are resilient to disturbance) and transition (the drivers of change among alternative states) to describe the range in composition and function of plant communities within ESDs (Stringham and others 2003; see Appendix 1 for definitions).…”

Evaluating tradeoffs among ecosystem services in the management of public lands

“…Although complex ecological modeling exercises have been applied to landscape management issues to evaluate an array of spatial and temporal ecosystem services effects resulting from forest management scenarios (e.g., Barbour et al 2007, Spies et al 2007, their high cost and time requirements have so far made them impractical for routine application to the work of national forests. Also, to date these types of landscape analyses have tended to limit prediction ability to management effects likely to result from a few select management scenarios, rather than to the full range of production possibilities available.…”

Landscape analysis: Projecting the effects of management and natural disturbances on forest and watershed resources of the Blue Mountains, Oregon, USA

“…The origins of the INLAS project -its purpose as originally conceived by project leaders -and key results and conclusions are discussed by Barbour et al (2007a). Project scientists selected a core study area in the upper Grande Ronde River watershed in northeastern Oregon, USA, a mostly forested area with public and private land ownership.…”