A Citizen's Call for Ecological Forest Restoration: Forest Restoration Principles and Criteria

DellaSala, Dominick A.; Martin, A. Jeff; Spivak, Randi; Schulke, Todd; Bird, B.; Criley, Marnie L.; Daalen, C. Van; Kreilick, Jake F.; Brown, Robert; Aplet, Greg

doi:10.3368/er.21.1.14

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“…Restorative measures can be active or passive depending on site-specific needs and should always be followed with wellfunded monitoring (DellaSala et al 2003). Examples include removal of livestock, invasive species abatement, road closures and obliteration, and reintroduction of fire.…”

Section: Principle 6 -Reduce Land-use Stressors That Compromise the Ementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Restoration approaches should identify comparable areas of high ecological integrity (e.g., unmanaged CESFs, DellaSala et al 2003) to serve as a baseline or reference condition from which to restore degraded areas (e.g., burned plantations), and then surveillance, implementation, effectiveness, and ecological effects monitoring (Hutto and Belote 2013) should always be an integral part of the restoration activity.…”

Section: Principle 5 -Limit Post-fire Management To Early Seral Foresmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Survival Rates of Northern Spotted Owls in Post-fire Landscapes of Southwest Oregon

Clark

Anthony

Andrews

2011

Journal of Raptor Research

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Section: Principle 6 -Reduce Land-use Stressors That Compromise the Ementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Principle 5 -Limit Post-fire Management To Early Seral Foresmentioning

confidence: 99%

Survival Rates of Northern Spotted Owls in Post-fire Landscapes of Southwest Oregon

Clark

Anthony

Andrews

2011

Journal of Raptor Research

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“…Despite the potential complementarity of forest restoration and fire protection, organizations with these two different overarching goals did not appear to frequently work together or seek information from each other, i.e., more than expected by chance, and organizations with different attitudes toward wildfire did not work together frequently. This finding suggests that despite recent policy initiatives and a growing advocacy movement to integrate protection and restoration goals and strategies (DellaSala 2003, Butler and Goldstein 2010, Wildland Fire Leadership Council 2016, the institutional cultures of fire protection and forest restoration remain distinct, even in the ECE where significant progress has been made on collaboration on forest and, separately, fire management (Davis et al 2012, Oregon Solutions 2013, Summers 2014. This cleavage between forest restoration and fire protection may be a legacy of the long history of state and federal policy that has separated fire protection and forest restoration administratively and prioritized the fire suppression in forested areas (Steelman and Burke 2007), a policy pattern that arguably has yielded insular institutional tendencies that are difficult to change (Sabatier et al 1995, Fischer et al 2016.…”

Section: Implications For Adaptive Capacitymentioning

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Capacity to adapt to environmental change: evidence from a network of organizations concerned with increasing wildfire risk

Fischer¹,

Jasny²

2017

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ABSTRACT. Because wildfire size and frequency are expected to increase in many forested areas in the United States, organizations involved in forest and wildfire management could arguably benefit from working together and sharing information to develop strategies for how to adapt to this increasing risk. Social capital theory suggests that actors in cohesive networks are positioned to build trust and mutual understanding of problems and act collectively to address these problems, and that actors engaged with diverse partners are positioned to access new information and resources that are important for innovation and complex problem solving. We investigated the patterns of interaction within a network of organizations involved in forest and wildfire management in Oregon, USA, for evidence of structural conditions that create opportunities for collective action and learning. We used descriptive statistical analysis of social network data gathered through interviews to characterize the structure of the network and exponential random graph modeling to identify key factors in the formation of network ties. We interpreted our findings through the lens of social capital theory to identify implications for the network's capacity to engage in collective action and complex problem-solving about how to adapt to environmental change. We found that tendencies to associate with others with similar management goals, geographic emphases, and attitudes toward wildfire were strong mechanisms shaping network structure, potentially constraining interactions among organizations with diverse information and resources and limiting opportunities for learning and complex problem-solving needed for adaptation. In particular, we found that organizations with fire protection and forest restoration goals comprised distinct networks despite sharing concern about the problem of increasing wildfire risk.

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“…Since land-use conversion and degradation processes are recent in the Xingu Basin, with extensive undisturbed areas remaining, the natural or unassisted recovery of ecosystems ('passive restoration' sensu [15,16]) was expected to be possible throughout the basin. However, the strong ecological filters or barriers, particularly the long dry season facilitating uncontrolled fires and the African grasses constraining the forest regeneration, meant that intervention was necessary in almost half the areas.…”

Section: One Size Does Not Fit All: Developing Local Technology For Ementioning

confidence: 99%

Ecological restoration of Xingu Basin headwaters: motivations, engagement, challenges and perspectives

Durigan

Guerin

Costa

2013

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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Over the past two decades, the headwaters of the Xingu Basin in the Amazon have been subjected to one of the highest deforestation rates in Brazil, with negative effects on both terrestrial and aquatic systems. The environmental consequences of forest land conversion have concerned the indigenous people living downstream, and this was the first motivation for the Y Ikatu Xingu campaign—‘save the good water of the Xingu’. Among the objectives of the initiative was to restore riparian forests on private land across the basin. For a region where the rivers, rainstorms, forest remnants, distances and farms are huge, the challenges were equally large: crossing the biotic and abiotic thresholds of degradation, as well as addressing the lack of technology, know-how, seeds, forest nurseries, trained personnel and roads, and the lack of motivation for restoration. After 6 years, despite the remarkable advances in terms of technical innovation coupled with a broad and effective social involvement, the restored areas represent only a small portion of those aimed for. The still high costs of restoration, the uncertainties of legislation and also the global economy have been strong forces constraining the expansion of restored forests. Additional efforts and strategies are necessary to overcome these barriers.

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A Citizen's Call for Ecological Forest Restoration: Forest Restoration Principles and Criteria

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Survival Rates of Northern Spotted Owls in Post-fire Landscapes of Southwest Oregon

Survival Rates of Northern Spotted Owls in Post-fire Landscapes of Southwest Oregon

Capacity to adapt to environmental change: evidence from a network of organizations concerned with increasing wildfire risk

Ecological restoration of Xingu Basin headwaters: motivations, engagement, challenges and perspectives

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