Recent Station Publications: 4th Quarter 2020

The challenge of stewarding public lands and meeting increasing public demands in an era of decreasing fiscal resources, conflicting public values, and significant environmental changes has overwhelmed our existing recreation management model. 

This report outlines the vision, objectives, and scope of the research strategy and presents eight research focus areas and three implementation strategies to guide future research.
Cerveny, Lee K.; Derrien, Monika M.; Miller, Anna B., eds. 2020. A research strategy for enhancing sustainable recreation and tourism on public lands. Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-991. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 102 p.

Humans and wildlife interact in multifaceted ways on public lands with both positive and negative outcomes for each group. 

This report is for public lands planners and managers who need information about how wildlife species respond to recreational activities and to associated changes in their habitats.
Miller, Anna B.; King, David; Rowland, Mary; Chapman, Joshua; Tomosy, Monica; Liang, Christina; Abelson, Eric S.; Truex, Richard L. 2020. Sustaining wildlife with recreation on public lands: a synthesis of research findings, management practices, and research needs. Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-993. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 226 p.

This report traces the flow of California’s 2016 timber harvest through the primary wood products industry and characterizes the structure, condition, and economic impacts of California’s forest products sector.

Periodic survey data collected from the forest products industry provides detailed information on California’s timber resources, wood utilization, and the economic contributions of the industry to the state economy.
Marcille, Kate C.; Morgan, Todd A.; McIver, Chelsea P.; Christensen, Glenn A. 2020. California’s forest products industry and timber harvest, 2016. Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-994. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 58 p.
PNW Science Findings
Going with the flow: new insights into the hydraulics of high-energy fluids. Watts, Andrea; Grant, Gordon. 2020. Science Findings 232. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 5 p.

Crowded and thirsty: fire exclusion leads to greater drought sensitivity in mixed-conifer forests. Watts, Andrea; Meinzer, Frederick (Rick); Spies, Tom; Merschel, Andrew; Voelker, Steven. 2020. Science Findings 233. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 5 p.

Alaska’s forest fish: calculating the value of wild salmon from the Chugach and Tongass National Forests. McDaniel, Josh; Johnson, Adelaide; Bellmore, J. Ryan; Haught, Stormy; Medel, Ron. 2020. Science Findings 234. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 5 p.
Journal Articles by Topic
Climate Change
Climate change mitigation as a co-benefit of regenerative ranching: insights from Australia and the United States. Gosnell, Hannah; Charnley, Susan; Stanley, Paige. 2020. Interface Focus. 10(5): 20200027- .

How to talk with ranchers about drought and climate resilience: lessons from knowledge exchange workshops in Montana. Lassa, Mitch J.; Wilmer, Hailey; Boone, Madison; Brown, Zach; Derner, Justin D.; Peck, Dannele E.; Thissen, Carmen; Marlow, Clayton. 2020. Journal of Extension. 58(5): v58-5rb1.
Ecology, Ecosystems & Environment
Climatic niche limits and community‐level vulnerability of obligate symbioses. Smith, Robert J.; Jovan, Sarah; McCune, Bruce. 2020. Journal of Biogeography. 47(2): 382–395. 

Assessing the rate and reversibility of large‐herbivore effects on community composition in a semi‐arid grassland ecosystem. Wilmer, Hailey; Augustine, David J.; Derner, Justin D.; Milchunas, Daniel G. 2020. Journal of Vegetation Science. 19(1): 94-.
Environment & People
Ranchers and beavers: understanding the human dimensions of beaver-related stream restoration on western rangelands. Charnley, Susan; Gosnell, Hannah; Davee, Rachael; Abrams, Jesse. 2020. Rangeland Ecology & Management. 73(5): 712–723.

The natural environment, plant diversity, and adult asthma: a retrospective observational study using the CDC's 500 Cities Project Data. Donovan, Geoffrey H.; Landry, Shawn M.; Gatziolis, Demetrios. 2021. Health & Place. 67: 102494-.

A review of the Forest Service's National Visitor Use Monitoring (NVUM) Program. English, Donald B.K.; White, Eric M.; Bowker, J.M.; Winter, Susan A. 2020. Agricultural and Resource Economics Review. 49(1): 64–90. 
Fire
Wildfire and prescribed burning impacts on air quality in the United States. Jaffe, Daniel A.; O’Neill, Susan M.; Larkin, Narasimhan K.; Holder, Amara L.; Peterson, David L.; Halofsky, Jessica E.; Rappold, Ana G. 2020. Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association. 70(6): 583–615.

Polycentric systems for wildfire governance in the Western United States. Kelly, Erin Clover; Charnley, Susan; Pixley, Jodie T. 2019. Land Use Policy. 89: 104214-.

Managing fragmented fire-threatened landscapes with spatial externalities. Lauer, Christopher J; Montgomery, Claire A; Dietterich, Thomas G. 2019. Forest Science. 66(4): 443–456.

Wildfire severity and postfire salvage harvest effects on long‐term forest regeneration. Povak, Nicholas A.; Churchill, Derek J.; Cansler, C. Alina; Hessburg, Paul F.; Kane, Van R.; Kane, Jonathan T.; Lutz, James A.; Larson, Andrew J. 2020. Ecosphere. 11(8): 15-.

Long-term effects of fuels treatments, overstory structure, and wildfire on tree regeneration in dry forests of central Washington. Rossman, Allison K.; Bakker, Jonathan D.; Peterson, David W.; Halpern, Charles B. 2020. Forests. 11(8): 888.

firebehavioR: An R package for fire behavior and danger analysis. Ziegler, Justin P.; Hoffman, Chad M.; Mell, William. 2019. Fire. 2(3): 41.
Forest & Plant Health
Vegetation change over seven years in the largest protected Pacific Northwest bunchgrass prairie remnant. Averett, Joshua P.; Morris, Lesley R.; Naylor, Bridgett J.; Taylor, Robert V.; Endress, Bryan A. 2020. PLOS ONE. 15(1): e0227337-.

Effects of irrigation and phosphorus fertilization on physiology, growth, and nitrogen-accumulation of Scotch broom (Cytisus scoparius). Carter, David R.; Slesak, Robert A.; Harrington, Timothy B.; D’Amato, Anthony W. 2019. Plant Physiology Reports. 24(3): 410–421.


Inventory, Monitoring & Analysis
Toward environmental justice in civic science: youth performance and experience measuring air pollution using moss as a bio-indicator in industrial-adjacent neighborhoods. Derrien, Monika M.; Zuidema, Christopher; Jovan, Sarah; Bidwell, Amanda; Brinkley, Weston; López, Paulina; Barnhill, Roseann; Blahna, Dale J. 2020. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 17(19): 7278-.

Machine learning-based integration of high-resolution wildfire smoke simulations and observations for regional health impact assessment. Zou, Yufei; O’Neill, Susan M.; Larkin, Narasimhan K.; Alvarado, Ernesto C.; Solomon, Robert; Mass, Clifford; Liu, Yang; Odman, M. Talat; Shen, Huizhong. 2019. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 16(12): 2137-.
Natural Resource Management & Use
Can collaborative adaptive management improve cattle production in multipaddock grazing systems?. Derner, Justin D.; Augustine, David J.; Briske, David D.; Wilmer, Hailey; Porensky, Lauren M.; Fernández-Giménez, María E.; Peck, Dannele E.; Ritten, John P. 2021. Rangeland Ecology & Management. 75: 1–8.
Adaptive, multipaddock rotational grazing management: a ranch-scale assessment of effects on vegetation and livestock performance in semiarid rangeland. Augustine, David J.; Derner, Justin D.; Fernández-Giménez, María E.; Porensky, Lauren M.; Wilmer, Hailey; Briske, David D. 2020. Rangeland Ecology & Management. 73(6): 796–810.

Logging-debris and vegetation-control treatments influence competitive relationships to limit 15-year productivity of coast Douglas-fir in western Washington and Oregon. Harrington, Timothy B.; Slesak, Robert A.; Dollins, James P.; Schoenholtz, Stephen H.; Peter, David H. 2020. Forest Ecology and Management. 473: 118288-.

An axiom SNP genotyping array for Douglas-fir. Howe, Glenn T.; Jayawickrama, Keith; Kolpak, Scott E.; Kling, Jennifer; Trappe, Matt; Hipkins, Valerie; Ye, Terrance; Guida, Stephanie; Cronn, Richard; Cushman, Samuel A.; McEvoy, Susan. 2020. BMC Genomics. 21(9): 1–17.

Common integrating factor in softwood log exports from the United States. Sun, Changyou; Daniels, Jean M.; Marcille, Kate C. 2020. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 50(5): 447–456.
Wildlife & Fish
Diverse, equitable, and inclusive scientific societies: progress and opportunities in the Society for Freshwater Science. Abernethy, Erin F.; Arismendi, Ivan; Boegehold, Anna G.; Colón-Gaud, Checo; Cover, Matthew R.; Larson, Erin I.; Moody, Eric K.; Penaluna, Brooke E.; Shogren, Arial J.; Webster, Alex J.; Woller-Skar, M. Megan. 2020. Freshwater Science. 39(3): 363–376.

Introduced beaver improve growth of non‐native trout in Tierra del Fuego, South America. Arismendi, Ivan; Penaluna, Brooke E.; Jara, Carlos G. 2020. Ecology and Evolution. 10(17): 9454–9465.

Linkages between temperature, macroinvertebrates, and young-of-year coho salmon growth in surface-water and groundwater streams. Campbell, Emily Y.; Dunham, Jason B.; Reeves, Gordon H. 2020. Freshwater Science. 39(3): 447–460.

Patterns of river discharge and temperature differentially influence migration and spawn timing for coho salmon in the Umpqua River basin, Oregon. Lovell Ford, Rachel M.; Flitcroft, Rebecca L.; Lewis, Sarah L.; Santelmann, Mary V.; Grant, Gordon E. 2020. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society. 149(6): 695–708.

Habitat of the endangered salt marsh harvest mouse (Reithrodontomys raviventris) in San Francisco Bay Marcot, Bruce G.; Woo, Isa; Thorne, Karen M.; Freeman, Chase M.; Guntenspergen, Glenn R. 2020. Ecology and Evolution. 10(2): 662–677.

AFS Roots: mothers of fishes. Murphy, Christina A.; Zatkos, Lauren; Antonelli, Kelsi; Cárdenas, A. Brent; Linkem, Christina; Manning, Michael; Olivos, Juan Andres; Penaluna, Brooke E.; Pollock, Amanda; Arismendi, Ivan. 2020. Fisheries. 45(7): 369–376.

Predator–prey interactions in the canopy. Linnell, Mark A.; Lesmeister, Damon B. 2020. Ecology and Evolution. 10(16): 8610–8622.

Glacier retreat and Pacific salmon. Pitman, Kara J; Moore, Jonathan W; Sloat, Matthew R; Beaudreau, Anne H; Bidlack, Allison L; Brenner, Richard E; Hood, Eran W; Pess, George R; Mantua, Nathan J; Milner, Alexander M; Radić, Valentina; Reeves, Gordon H; Schindler, Daniel E; Whited, Diane C. 2020. BioScience. 70(3): 220–236.

Automated identification of avian vocalizations with deep convolutional neural networks. Ruff, Zachary J.; Lesmeister, Damon B.; Duchac, Leila S.; Padmaraju, Bharath K.; Sullivan, Christopher M. 2020. Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation. 6(1): 79–92.

Relationships between salt marsh vegetation and surface elevation in Coos Bay estuary, Oregon. Santelmann, Mary V.; Boisjolie, Brett A.; Flitcroft, Rebecca; Gomez, Megan. 2019. Northwest Science. 93(2): 137–154.

Tracking native small mammals to measure fine-scale space use in grazed and restored dry woodlands. Spirito, Florencia; Rowland, Mary; Wisdom, Michael; Tabeni, Solana. 2020. Global Ecology and Conservation. 24: e01348-.

Spatiotemporal dynamics in vital rates of Humboldt’s flying squirrels and Townsend’s chipmunks in a late-successional forest. Weldy, Matt; Epps, Clinton W; Lesmeister, Damon B; Manning, Tom; Forsman, Eric D. 2019. Journal of Mammalogy. 101(1): 187–198. 

Beyond sticks and stones: integrating physical and ecological conditions into watershed restoration assessments using a food web modeling approach. Whitney, Emily J.; Bellmore, J. Ryan; Benjamin, Joseph R.; Jordan, Chris E.; Dunham, Jason B.; Newsom, Michael; Nahorniak, Matt. 2020. Food Webs. 25: e00160.

AFS roots: Emmeline Moore, all things to all fishes. Zatkos, Lauren; Murphy, Christina A.; Pollock, Amanda; Penaluna, Brooke E.; Olivos, J. Andres; Mowlds, Emilee; Moffitt, Christine; Manning, Michael; Linkem, Christina; Holst, Lisa; Cárdenas, A. Brent; Arismendi, Ivan. 2020. Fisheries. 45(8): 435–443.
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