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Adams, S. B., D. A. Schmetterling, and M. K. Young.  2005.  Instream movement by boreal toads (Bufo boreas boreas).  Herpetological Review 36:  27-33.

Baker, M.B. Jr.; Ffolliott, P.F.; DeBano, L.F.; Neary, D.G. (Editors) Hydrology, Ecology, and Management of Riparian Areas in the Southwestern United States. Lewis Publishers,

Barry, J.J., J.M. Buffington, and J.G. King. 2004. A general power equation for predicting bed load transport rates in gravel bed rivers. Water Resources Research 40: W10401, doi:10.1029/2004WR003190.

Barry, J.J., J.M. Buffington, and J.G. King. 2005. Reply to comment by Claude Michel on "A general power equation for predicting bed load transport rates in gravel bed rivers.” Water Resources Research 41:W07016, doi:10.1029/2005WR004172.

Bisson, P. A., B. E. Rieman, C. H. Luce, P. F. Hessburg, D. C. Lee, J. L. Kershner, G. H. Reeves, and R. Gresswell. 2003. Fire and aquatic ecosystems of the western USA: Current knowledge and key questions. Forest Ecology and Management. 178(1-2): 213-229.

Bisson, P.A., J.M. Buffington, and D.R. Montgomery. 2006. Valley segments, stream reaches, and channel units, in Methods in Stream Ecology. edited by F.R. Hauer and G.A. Lamberti, Academic Press/Elsevier, San Diego, CA, pp. 23-49. 

Brooks, P., D. McKnight, and K. Elder, 2004, Carbon limitation of soil respiration under winter snowpacks: potential feedbacks between growing season and winter carbon fluxes Global Change Biology, 11, 231-238.

Brookshire, E. N. J. and K. A. Dwire. 2003. Controls on patterns of coarse organic particle retention in headwater streams. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 22(1): 17-34.

Buffington, J.M., D.R. Montgomery, and H.M. Greenberg. 2004. Basin-scale availability of salmonid spawning gravel as influenced by channel type and hydraulic roughness in mountain catchments.  Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 61:2085-2096.  Erratum

Bunte, K.; S.R. Abt; J.P. Potyondy; and S.E. Ryan.  2004.  Measurement of coarse gravel and cobble transport using a portable bedload trap.  Journal of Hydraulic Engineering 130(9):879-893.

Burke, M., K. Jorde, J.M. Buffington, J. Braatne, and R. Benjakar. 2006. Spatial distribution of impacts to channel bed mobility due to flow regulation, Kootenai River, USA. Proceedings of the 8th Federal Interagency Sedimentation Conference, Reno, NV, April 2-6, 2006.

Bytnerowicz, A.; O. Badea.; F. Popescu; R. Musselman; M. Tanase; I. Barbu; W. Frączek; N. Gembasu; A. Surdu; F. Danescu; D. Postelnicu; R. Cenusa; C. Vasile. 2005. Air pollution, precipitation chemistry and forest health in the Retazat Mountains, Southern Carpathians, Romania. Environmental Pollution. 137: 546-567.

Calkin, David E.; Hyde, Kevin D.; Robichaud, Peter R.; Jones, J. Greg; Ashmun, Louise E.; Loeffler Dan. 2007. Assessing post-fire values-at-risk with a new calculation tool. Gen. Tech. Rep. RMRS-GTR-205. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 32 p.

Carter, C. and J. N. Rinne. In press. Fire effects on Southwestern Fishes: LC-50s for Ash. International J. of Wildland Fire.

Cline, D., K. Elder, B. Davis, J. Hardy, G.E. Liston, D. Imel, S.H. Yueh, A.J. Gasiewski, G. Koh, R.L. Armstrong, M. Parsons, Overview of the NASA cold land processes field experiment (CLPX-2002), Proc. Int. Symp., 2002 October 24-25, China, Soc. of Photo-Opt. Instrumentation Engineers, Vol. 4894: 361-372, 2003.

Conroy, W. J., R. H. Hotchkiss and W. J. Elliot.  2006.  A coupled upland-erosion and instream hydrodynamic-sediment transport model for evaluating sediment transport in forested watersheds.  Transactions of the American Society of Agriculture and Biological Engineers 49(6):1-10. 

Dattilo, A.J. and C.C. Rhoades. 2005. River cane (Arundinaria gigantea) establishment for riparian restoration in Central Kentucky. Restoration Ecology 13:615-621.

Deems, J., S. R. Fassnacht, and K. Elder, 2006, Fractal distribution of snow depth from LiDAR data, J. Hydromet., 7, 285-297.

Dietrich, W.E., J. McKean, D. Bellugi, T. Perron, In Press. The prediction of shallow landslide location and size using a multidimensional landslide analysis in a digital terrain model. Proceedings 4th Intl. Conf. Debris Flows, Chengdu, China.

Dun, S.; J.Q. Wu; W.J. Elliot; P.R. Robichaud; D.C. Flanagan. 2006. Adapting the Water Erosion Prediction Project (WEPP) model to forest conditions. Written for presentation at the 2006 ASABE Annual International Meeting. Sponsored by ASABE, Portland Convention Center, Portland, OR. 9 - 12 July 2006. ASABE Paper No. 062150. American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers.

Dunham, J., B. Rieman and G. Chandler.  2003.  Influences of temperature and environmental variables on the distribution of bull trout within streams at the southern margin of its range.  North American Journal of Fisheries Management 23:894-904.

Dunham, J., G. Chandler, B. Rieman, and D. Martin.  2005.  Measuring stream temperature with digital data loggers: A user's guide.  General Technical Report.  RMRSGTR-150WWW.  Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station.  15pp.

Dunham, J.B., A.E. Rosenberger, C.H. Luce, and B.R. Rieman. 2007. Influences of wildfire and channel reorganization on spatial and temporal variation in stream temperature and the distribution of fish and amphibians. Ecosystems. 10:335-346.

Dunham, J.B., B.E. Rieman, and G.L. Chandler. 2001. Development of field-based models of suitable thermal regimes for interior Columbia Basin salmonids. Final Report to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Seattle, WA. Interagency Agreement #00-IA-11222014-521.

Dunham, J.B., G.L. Chandler. 2001.  Models to predict suitable habitat for juvenile bull trout in Washington State. Interim Final Report. 

Dwire, K. A. and J. B. Kauffman. 2003. Fire and riparian ecosystems in landscapes of the western USA. Forest Ecology and Management 178 (1-2): 61-74.

Dwire, K. A., J. B. Kauffman, and J. Baham. 2006. Plant species distribution in relation to water table depth and soil redox potential in montane riparian meadows. Wetlands 26 (1): 131 – 146.

Dwire, K. A., J. B. Kauffman, E. N. J. Brookshire and J. Baham. 2004. Plant biomass and species composition along an environmental gradient in montane riparian meadows. Oecologia 139(2): 309-317.

Dwire, K. A., S. E. Ryan, L. J. Shirley, D. Lytjen, N. Otting, and M. K. Dixon. 2006. Influence of herbivory on regrowth of riparian shrubs following a wildland fire. Journal of the American Water Resources Association 42 (1): 201-212.

Dwire, K.A., C.C. Rhoades, and M.K. Young. 2006. Potential effects of fuel management activities on riparian areas. Elliot, W.J. and Audin, L.J., (Eds.). Cumulative Watershed Effects of Fuels Management in the Western United States.

Elder, K., K. Dwire, R. Hubbard, C. Rhoades, S. Ryan, M. Young, L. Porth, M. Dixon and A. Goodbody, 2006, Disturbance and water related research in the western United States, Proc. of Sec. Interagency Conf., Research in the Watersheds, May 16-18, 2006, Coweeta Hydrological Lab, Otto, North Carolina.

Elliot, W. J.  2007.  Predicting background and risk-based sedimentation for forest watershed TMDLs.  Proc of the 10-14 March 2007 Conference on Watershed Management to Meet Water Quality Standards and TMDLs (Total Maximum Daily Loads).  St. Joseph, MI: ASABE.  109-115.

Elliot, W. J., P. R. Robichaud and I. S. Miller.  2007.  Erosion rates from forests and rangelands following fuel management.  Proc of the 10-14 March 2007 Conference on Watershed Management to Meet Water Quality Standards and TMDLs (Total Maximum Daily Loads).  St. Joseph, MI: ASABE.  493-499.

Elliot, W., Hyde, K., MacDonald, L., McKean, J., 2006. Tools for Analysis of CWE of Fuel Management. In, Elliot, W.J. and Audin, L.J., (eds.). Cumulative Watershed Effects of Fuels Management in the Western United States.

Fausch, C., B. Rieman, J. Dunham, and M. Young. 2006. Strategies for conserving native salmonid populations at risk from nonnative invasions: tradeoffs in using barriers to upstream movement. USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, GTR-RMRS-174, Fort Collins, CO.

Ferguson, Sue A, McKay, Steven J., Nagel, David E., Piepho, Trent, Rorig, Miriam L., Anderson, Casey, Kellog, Lara, 2003.  Assessing Values of Air Quality and Visibility at Risk from Wildland Fires. Research Paper PNW-RP-550.  USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, April 2003.

Foltz, R. B.  2006.  Erosion from All Terrain Vehicle (ATV) Trails on National Forest Lands.  ASABE Meeting Paper 068012, ASABE Annual International Meeting, July 9-12, Portland, OR.

Foltz, R. B. and N. S. Copeland.  2007.  “Evaluating the Efficacy of Wood Shreds for Mitigating Erosion”, Journal of Environmental Management, December 2007.

Foltz, R. B. and N. S. Copeland.  2007.  “Field Testing of Wood-based Biomass Erosion Control Materials on Obliterated Roads”, Annual Meeting ASABE, Minneapolis, MN, July 2007.

Foltz, R. B., H. Rhee, and K. A. Yanosek. 2007.  "Infiltration, Erosion, and Vegetation Recovery Following Road Obliteration", Transactions of the ASABE, Vol 50(6): 1937-1943, December 2007.

Foltz, R. B., K. A. Yanosek, and T. M. Brown.  2006.  “Sediment Concentration and Turbidity Changes During Culvert Removals“, Journal of Environmental Management, December 2006.

Ford, C., R.M. Hubbard, Brian D. Kloeppel, James M. Vose. 2007. In Press. Can Sap Flux be used to predict watershed evapotranspiration?  A comparison of sap flux-based evapotranspiration estimates with catchment-scale water balance. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology.

Gorsevski, P.V., P.E. Gessler, R.B. Foltz, and W.J. Elliot.  2006.  Spatial Prediction of Landslide Hazard Using Logistic Regression and ROC Analysis.  Transactions in GIS, 10(3): 395-415.

Gottfried, G.J.; Neary, D.G.; Ffolliott, P.F.; Decker, D.D. 2007. Impacts of a high-intensity summer rainstorm on two small oak savanna watersheds in the southwestern borderlands. Hydrology and Water Resources in Arizona and the Southwest 36:67-73.

Hubbard, R. M., B. J. Bond, R. Senock and M.G. Ryan. 2002. Effects of branch height on leaf gas exchange, branch hydraulic conductance and branch sap flux in open-grown ponderosa pine. Tree Physiology 22: 575-581.

Hubbard, R. M., V. Stiller, M.G. Ryan and J.S. Sperry. 2001. Stomatal conductance and photosynthesis vary linearly with plant hydraulic conductance in ponderosa pine. Plant, Cell and Environment 24: 113-121.  

Hubbard, R.M., J.M. Vose, B.D. Clinton, K.J. Elliott, and J.D. Knoepp. 2004. Stand restoration burning in oak-pine forests in the southern Appalachians: effects on aboveground biomass and carbon and nitrogen cycling. Forest Ecology and Management 190:311-321.

Hubbard, R.M., M.G. Ryan, C.P. Giardina and H.R. Barnard. 2004. The effect of fertilization on sap flux and canopy conductance in a Eucalyptus saligna experimental forest. Global Change Biology 10: 427-436.

Hubbard, R.M., M.G. Ryan, K. Elder, and C.C. Rhoades. 2005. Seasonal patterns in soil surface CO2 flux under snow cover in 50 and 300 year old subalpine forests. Biogeochemistry 73:93-107.

Hubbart, J. A., T. E. Link, J. A Gravelle, and W. J. Elliot.  2007.  Timber harvest impacts on water yield in the continental/maritime hydroclimate region of the U.S.  Journal of Forestry 53(2):169-180.

Ice, G.G.; Neary, D.G.; Adams, P.W. Effects of wildfire on soils and watershed processes. Journal of Forestry 102:16-20.

Isaak, D.J. and R.F. Thurow.  2006.  Network-scale and temporal variation in Chinook salmon redd distributions:  patterns inferred from spatially continuous replicate surveys.  Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 63:285-296.

Isaak, D.J., R.F. Thurow, B.E. Rieman, and J.B. Dunham.  2007.  Chinook salmon use of spawning patches:  relative roles of habitat quality, size, and connectivity.  Ecological Applications.  17(2):352-364.

Isaak, D.J., R.F. Thurow, B.E. Rieman, and J.B. Dunham.  In Press. Relative roles of habitat quality, size, and connectivity on occupancy of spawning patches by Chinook salmon.  Ecological Applications 0:000-000.

Istanbulluoglu, E., D. G. Tarboton, R. T. Pack, and C. H. Luce. 2004. Modeling of the interactions between forest vegetation, disturbances, and sediment yields.  Journal of Geophysical Research, 109, F01009, doi:10.1029/2003JF000041.

Lentile, L.; Morgan, P.; Hardy, C.; Hudak, A.; Means, R.; Ottmar, R.; Robichaud, P.; Kennedy Sutherland, E.; Szymoniak, J.; Way, F.; Fites-Kaufman, J.; Lewis, S.; Mathews, E.; Shovik, H.; Ryan, K. 2007. Value and challenges of conducting rapid response research on wildland fires. Gen. Tech. Rep. RMRS-GTR-193. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 11 p.

Lewis, S.A.; J.Q. Wu; P.R. Robichaud. 2005. Assessing burn severity and comparing soil water repellency, Hayman Fire, Colorado. Hydrological Processes 20: 1-16.

Lewis, S.A.; Robichaud, P.R.; Frazier, B.E.; Wu, J.Q.; Laes, D.Y.M. 2008. Using hyperspectral imagery to predict post-wildfire soil water repellency. Geomorphology 95:192-205.

Lewis, Sarah A.; Lentile, Leigh B.; Hudak, Andrew T.; Robichaud, Peter R.; Morgan, Penelope; Bobbitt, Michael J. 2007. Mapping ground cover using hyperspectral remote sensing after the 2003 Simi and Old wildfires in southern California. Fire Ecology. 3(1):109-128.

Liston, G. E., and K. Elder, 2006: A distributed snow-evolution modeling system (SnowModel). J. Hydromet., 7, 1259-1276.

Liston, G. E., and K. Elder, 2006: A meteorological distribution system for high-resolution terrestrial modeling (MicroMet). J. Hydromet., 7, 217-234.

Luce, C. H. and D. G. Tarboton. 2004. The application of depletion curves for parameterization of subgrid variability of snow. Hydrological Processes 18: 1409-1422.

Luce, C. H., D. G. Tarboton, E. Istanbulluoglu, and R. T. Pack. 2005. Reply to comment by Jonathan J. Rhodes on ‘‘Modeling of the interactions between forest vegetation, disturbances, and sediment yields.’’   J. Geophys. Res., 110, F01013, doi:10.1029/2004JF000279.

Lugo, A.E.; F.J. Swanson; O.R. González; M.B. Adams; B. Palik; C. Kern; R.E. Thill; D.G. Brockway; C. Kern; R. Woodsmith; R. Musselman. 2006. Long-term research at the USDA Forest Service’s Experimental Forests and Ranges. BioScience 56: 39-48.

Mackey, B.H., Roering, J.J., McKean, J., Crosby, B.T., Dietrich, W.E., Submitted. Long-term landslide response to channel network dynamics: spatial analysis using airborne laser swath mapping, South Fork Eel River, California. American Geophysical Union, Geophysical Research Letters.

Magaña, H.A., and Villareal, T.A. 2006. The effects of environmental factors on the growth rate of Karenia brevis (Davis) G. Hansen and Moestrup. Harmful Algae, 5:192-198.

Magaña, H.A., Contreras, C., and Villareal, T.A. 2003. A historic assessment of Karenia brevis in the Western Gulf of Mexico. Harmful Algae, 2:163-171.

McDowell, N., H. Barnard, B.J. Bond, T. Hinckley, R.M. Hubbard, H. Ishii, B. Köstner, F. Magnani, J.D. Marshall, F.C. Meinzer, N. Phillips, M.G. Ryan, and D. Whitehead. 2002. The relationship between tree height and leaf area: sapwood area ratio. Oecologia 132:12-20.

McIntosh, B.A., J.R. Sedell, R.F. Thurow, S.E. Clarke, and G.L. Chandler. 2000. Historical changes in pool habitats in the Columbia River basin. Ecological Applications 10(5):1478-1496. 

McKean, J.A., D.J. Isaak, and C.W. Wright.  2008.  Geomorphic controls on salmon nesting patterns described by a new, narrow-beam terrestrial-aquatic lidar.  Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 6:125-130

McKean, J.; J. Roering. 2004. Objective landslide detection and surface morphology mapping using high-resolution airborne laser altimetry. Geomorphology, 57, 331-351.

Montesi, J., K. Elder, R. A. Schmidt, and R. Davis, 2004, Sublimation of intercepted snow within a subalpine canopy at two elevations, J. Hydromet., 5, 763-773.

Montgomery, D.R., Schmidt, K.M., Dietrich, W.E., McKean, J. Accepted With Revisions. Instrumental record of debris flow initiation during natural rainfall. American Geophysical Union, Journal of Geophysical Research.

Musselman, R.C.; A. S. Lefohn; W.J. Massman; R.L. Heath. 2006. A critical review and analysis of the use of exposure- and flux-based ozone indices for predicting vegetation effects. Atmospheric Environment 40: 1869-1888.

Musselman, R.C.; Korfmacher, J.L. 2007. Air quality and snow chemistry at a snowmobile staging area in a Rocky Mountain subalpine forest, Snowy Range, Wyoming. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment131:321-334.

Musselman, R.C.; W.J. Massman; J.M. Frank; J.L. Korfmacher. 2005. The temporal dynamics of carbon dioxide under snow in a high elevation Rocky Mountain subalpine forest and meadow. Arctic, Antarctic and Alpine Research 37(4): 527-538.

Musselman, R.C.; W.L. Slauson. 2004. Water chemistry of high elevation Colorado lakes.  Biogeochemistry 71: 387-414.

Nagel, D., 2005.  Estimating Valley Confinement with DEM Data to Support Cutthroat Trout Research. 2005 Resource Management Tools and Geospatial Conference, Phoenix, Arizona, April 18 – 22.

Nagel, D., 2007. Comparison of Two Models for Identifying Low Gradient, Unconfined Streams and Valley Bottom Extent, In Support of Stream Temperature Modeling Associated with Fire Effects. FS/BLM Geospatial 2007, Portland, OR.

Nagel, D., C. Luce, and B. Gutiérrez Teira, 2004.  Use of Thematic Mapper Satellite Imagery, Hemispherical Canopy Photography, and Digital Stream Lines to Predict Stream Shading in the Boise River Basin.  The 19th Annual Northwest GIS Users Conference, Sun Valley, Idaho, September 26-29, 2004.

Nagel, D., C. Luce, J. King, B. Rieman and J. Dunham, 2003.  Debris Flow Mapping Through Time, Data Management using ArcGIS and Implications for Fish Research. FS Geospatial ’03, Colorado Springs, CO.

Nagel, D., C. Luce., D. Isaak, and B. Rieman, 2007.  Toward Stream Temperature Prediction at the Drainage Basin Scale, A GIS and Remote Sensing Approach. The 22nd Annual Northwest GIS Users’ Conference and Training

Nagel, D., J. Buffington, and D. Isaak, 2006.  Comparison of Methods for Estimating Stream Channel Gradient Using GIS.  The 21st Annual Northwest GIS Users’ Conference and Training, Spokane, WA, September 13-15.

Neary, D.G. 2006. A global view of forest fires and desertification: Environmental and socio-economic consequences. Conferência Internacional sobre Incêndios e Desertificaçã, Lisbon, Portugal, 30 October 2006, Comissão Nacional de Coordenação do PANCD (Programa de Acção Nacional de Combate à Desertificação), General Directorat of Forestry Resources, Portugal. Programa de Acção Nacional de Combate à Desertificação Proceedings. 4 p

Neary, D.G.; Gottfried, G.J. Beyers, J.L.; Ffolliott, P.F. 2006. Floods and sediment yields from recent wildfires in Arizona. Proceedings of the 8th Federal Interagency Sediment Conference, Las Vegas, NV April 3-6, 2006. CD-ROM

Neary, D.G.; Gottfried, G.J.; Ffolliott, P.F. 2006. Effects of prescribed fire on oak savannas in the American Southwest. In: Viegas, D.X. (ed.) Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Forest Fire Research. CD ROM, Elsevier, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 13 p.

Neary, D.G.; Overby, S.T. 2006. Wildfire and post-fire erosion impacts on forest ecosystem carbon and nitrogen: an analysis. In: Viegas, D.X. (ed.) Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Forest Fire Research. CD ROM, Elsevier, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 12 p.

Neary, D.G.; Ryan, K.C.; DeBano, L.F. Fire effects on soil and water. USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, General Technical Report RMRS-GTR-42, Volume 4: Fort Collins, CO.

Neville, H., D.J. Isaak, R.F. Thurow, J.B. Dunham, and B.E. Rieman. 2006. Fine-scale natal homing and localized movement as shaped by sex and spawning habitat in Chinook salmon: insights from spatial autocorrelation analysis of individual genotypes. Molecular Genetics 15:4589-4602.

Neville, H., Isaak, D., Thurow, R., Dunham, J., Rieman, B.  2006.  Microsatellite variation reveals weak genetic structure and retention of genetic variability in threatened Chinook salmon (Onchorynchus tshawytscha) within a Snake River watershed.  Conservation Genetics  DOI 10.1007/s10592-006-9155-4. 

Overton, C.K. and S.P. Wollrab, B.C. Roberts [and others]. 1997. R1/R4 (Northern/Intermountain Regions) fish and fish habitat standard inventory procedures handbook. INT-GTR-346. Ogden, Utah: USDA Forest Service: 1-72.   Full Text available on CD    Description

Overton, C.K., G.L. Chandler, J.A. Pisano. 1994. Northern/Intermountain Regions' fish habitat inventory: grazed, rested, and ungrazed reference stream reaches, Silver King Creek, California.

Overton, C.K., J.D. McIntyre, R. Armstrong [and others]. 1995. User's guide to fish habitat: descriptions that represent natural conditions in the Salmon River Basin, Idaho. INT-GTR-322. Ogden, Utah: USDA Forest Service: 1-142.  Full Text available on CD

Overton, C.K., M.A. Radko, R.L. Nelson. 1993. Fish habitat conditions: Using the Northern/Intermountain regions inventory procedures for detecting differences on two differently managed watersheds. USDA Forest Service: Intermountain Research Station. General Technical Report INT-300. August 1993. 

Perron, T., Dietrich, W., Howard, A., McKean, J., Pettinga, J. 2003. Ice-driven creep on Martian debris slopes. Geophysical Research Letters, 30(14), 1747, doi:10.1029/2003GL017603.

Peterson, D. P., B. E. Rieman, J. B. Dunham, K. D. Fausch, and M. K. Young.  In press.  Analysis of tradeoffs between threats of invasion by nonnative trout and intentional isolation for native westslope cutthroat trout.  Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences.

Rader RB, Belish T, Young MK, Rothlisberger J. 2007. The scotopic visual sensitivity of four species of trout: a comparative study. Western North American Naturalist: Vol. 67, No. 4 pp. 524–537

Reese, H., Lillesand, T., Nagel, D., Stewart, J., Goldmann, R., Simmons, T., Chipman, J., and Tessar, P., 2002.  Statewide Land Cover Derived from Multi-seasonal Landsat TM Data: A Retrospective of the WISCLAND Project.  Remote Sensing of Environment  82(2-3):224-237.

Reeves, G.H., P.A. Bisson, B.E. Rieman, L.E. Benda. 2006. Postfire Logging in Riparian Areas. Conservation Biology. 20(4):994-1004.

Rhoades, C.C. 2007. Influence of American chestnut (Castanea dentata) on chemistry and nitrogen availability of fine and coarse-texture soils. Pedobiologia 50:553-562.

Rhoades, C.C. and K.A. Dwire. 2007. Biogeochemistry of groundwater seeps in Rocky Mountain headwater streams. (in preparation).

Rhoades, C.C., A.J. Meier, and A.J. Rebertus. 2004. Soil properties in fire-consumed log burnout patches in a central Missouri oak savanna. Forest Ecology and Management 192:277-284.

Rhoades, C.C., D. Entwistle, and D. Butler. 2006. Initial streamwater chemistry response to wildfire in Colorado’s Front Range. Fowler, D.L. (ed.). Proceedings Second Interagency Conference on Research in the Watersheds. Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory, Otto, NC.

Rhoades, C.C., K. Elder, and E. Greene. 2007. The influence of a dust event on the chemistry of Rocky Mountain snopack. (in preparation).

Rieman, B.E. and G.L. Chandler. 1999. Empirical evaluation of temperature effects on bull trout distribution in the northwest. Final Report to: U.S. EPA, Contract 12957242-01-0, Boise, Idaho.

Rieman, B.E., D.C. Lee, G. Chandler, and D. Myers. 1997. Does wildfire threaten extinction for salmonids: responses of redband trout and bull trout following recent large fires on the Boise National Forest. Pages 47-57 In, J. Greenlee (editor). Proceedings of the Conference on Wildfire and Threatened and Endangered Species and Habitats, November 13-15, 1995, Coeur d'Alene Idaho. International Association of Wildland Fire, Fairfield, Washington.

Rieman, B.E., D.J. Isaak, D. Myers, S. Adams, C. Luce, D. Horan, D. Nagel. 2007. Anticipated effects of climate warming on bull trout within the Interior Columbia River Basin. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society. 136: 1552-1565.

Rieman, B.E., J.B. Dunham, and J. Clayton.  2006.  Emerging concepts for management of river ecosystems and challenges to applied integration of physical and biological sciences in the Pacific Northwest.  Journal of River Basin Management 4(2):85-97.

Rieman, B.E., J.T. Peterson, and D.E. Myers.  2006.  Have brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) displaced bull trout (Salvelinus confluentus) along longitudinal gradients in central Idaho streams?  Canadian Journal of Fish and Aquatic Sciences  63:63-78.

Rieman, D.E., Isaak, D., Adams, S., Horan, D., Nagel, D., Luce, C., and D. Myers. 2007. Anticipated climate warming effects on bull trout habitats and populations across the Interior Columbia River Basin. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 136:1552-1565.

Rinne J. N and G. Jacoby.  2005. Aquatic Biota, Fishes. Invertebrates.   Pp 135-143.  In:  Neary D. G., Ryan, K.;  Landsberg, J.; Debano, L. F. (technical editors). Wildland Fire in Ecosystems:  Effects of on soil and water.  USDA Forest Service General Technical Report RM-42, Fort Collins CO.

Rinne, J. N.  2005.  Changes in Fish assemblages in the Verde River, Arizona, pp 115-126. In, Rinne, J. N.; Hughes, R. M.; Calamusso, B. (editors)  . Historical changes in fish assemblages of large rivers in the Americas.  American Fisheries Society Symposium 45.   Bethesda, MD   611 pp.

Rinne, J. N.  In press. Long term trends in  hydrology and fish assemblages in the upper Verde River, Arizona.  J. Freshwater Ecology.

Rinne, J. N. and B. Calamusso.   2006.  Southwestern trouts.  Conservation with reference to physiography, hydrology, distribution and threats. American Fisheries Society Symposium 53:  63- 77.  Bethesda, MD.

Rinne, J. N. and D. Miller. 2006. Hydrology, geomorphology and management: Implications for sustainability of southwestern native fishes. Reviews in Fisheries Biology.

Rinne, J. N., R. M. Hughes, and B. Calamusso. (editors).  2005.  Historical changes in fish assemblages of large rivers in the Americas. American Fisheries Society Symposium 45.     American Fisheries Society,  Bethesda, MD.  611 pp.

Robichaud, P. R., W. J. Elliot, F. B. Pierson, D. E. Hall, C. A. Moffet and L. E. Ashmun.  2007.  Erosion Risk Management Tool (ERMiT) user manual (version 2006.01.18). Gen. Tech. Rep. RMRS-GTR-188.  Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station.  24 p.

Robichaud, P.R.; J.L. Beyers; D.G. Neary. 2005. Chapter 10: Watershed rehabilitation. In: Neary, D.G.; K.C. Ryan; L.F. DeBano, eds. Wildland fire in ecosystems: effects of fire on soils and water. Gen Tech Rep RMRS-GTR-42-vol.4. Ogden, UT: USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 179-197.

Robichaud, P.R.; T.R. Lillybridge; J.W. Wagenbrenner. 2006. Effects of postfire seeding and fertilization on hillslope erosion in north-central Washington, USA. Catena 67: 56-67.

Robichaud, P.R.; W.J. Elliot. 2006. Protection from erosion following wildfire. Written for presentation at the 2006 ASABE Annual International Meeting. Sponsored by ASABE, Portland Convention Center, Portland, OR. 9 - 12 July 2006. ASABE Paper No. 068009. American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers.

Roering, J. J.; P. Almond.; P. Tonkin; J. McKean. 2004. Constraining climatic controls on hillslope dynamics using a coupled model for the transport of soil and tracers: Application to loess-mantled hillslopes, South Island, New Zealand.  J. Geophys. Res., Earth Surface Processes, 109, F01010, doi:10.1029/2003JF000034.

Roering, J., Almond, P., Tonkin, P., McKean, J., 2002. Soil transport driven by biological processes over millennial time scales. Geology, 30(12), 1115-1118.

Ryan, S.E. and M.K. Dixon.  Forthcoming.  Spatial and temporal variability in stream sediment loads using examples from the Gros Ventre Range, Wyoming, USA.  To be published as a chapter in Gravel Bed Rivers VI,  conference held in Lienz, Austria, Sept 2005.

Ryan, S.E. and W.W. Emmett.  2002. The Nature of Flow and Sediment Movement at Little Granite Creek near Bondurant, Wyoming.  General Technical Report RMRS-GTR-90. Ogden, UT.  USDA Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station.  48 p.

Ryan, S.E.; K. Bunte; and J.P. Potyondy. 2005.  Breakout Session 2:  Bedload Transport Measurement, Data Uncertainty, and New Technologies.  Proceedings of the Federal Interagency Sediment Monitoring Instrument and Analysis Research Workshop, September 9-11, 2003, Flagstaff, AZ.  USGS Circular 1276.  pp. 16-28.

Ryan, S.E.; L.S. Porth; and C.A. Troendle.  2002.  Defining phases of bedload transport using piecewise regression. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms  27:971-990.

Ryan, S.E.; L.S. Porth; and C.A. Troendle. 2005.  Coarse sediment transport in mountain streams in Colorado and Wyoming, USA.  Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 30:269-288.

Ryan, S.E.; M.K. Dixon; and K.A. Dwire.  2006 The use of turbidity sensors for monitoring sediment loads following wildfire.  Proceedings of the 8th Interagency Sedimentation and 3rd Interagency Hydrologic Modeling Conference, Reno, NV, April 2-6, 2006. Available on CD.

Schmetterling, D. A., and M. K. Young.  In press.  Summer movements of Boreal Toads (Bufo boreas boreas) in two western Montana basins.  Journal of Herpetology.

Spigel, K.M.; Robichaud, P.R. 2007. First-year post-fire erosion rates in Bitterroot National Forest, Montana. Hydrolpgical Processes 21(8): 998-1005.

Switalski, T. A., J. A. Bissonette, T. H. DeLuca, C. H. Luce, and M. A. Madej. 2004. Benefits and impacts of road removal.  Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 2(1): 21-28.

Thurow, R.F., B.E. Rieman, D.C. Lee, P.J. Howell, and R.D. Perkinson. In Press. Distribution and Status of Redband Trout in the Interior Columbia River Basin and Portions of the Klamath River and Great Basins. Pages 00-00 in R.K. Schroeder and J.D. Hall, editors. Proceedings of the Inland Rainbow Trout Workshop. Oregon Chapter, American Fisheries Society, Corvallis.

Thurow, R.F., J.T. Peterson, and J.W. Guzevich. 2006. Utility and validation of day and night snorkel counts for estimating bull trout abundance in 1st to 3rd order streams. North American Journal of Fisheries Management. 26:117-132.

Tonina, D., and J.M. Buffington, 2007, Hyporheic exchange in gravel bed rivers with pool-riffle morphology: Laboratory experiments and three-dimensional modeling, Water Resources Research, 43: W01421, doi:10.1029/2005WR004328.

Trammell, T.L.E., C.C. Rhoades, and P.A. Bukaveckas. 2004. Effects of prescribed burns on nitrogen, phosphorus, and base-cation loss from forest-glade habitats in central Kentucky. Restoration Ecology 12:596-603.

Trujillo, E., J. Ramirez and K. Elder, 2007, Topographic, meteorologic, and canopy controls on the scaling characteristics of the spatial distribution of snow depth fields, Wat. Res. Res., 43.

Villareal, T.A. and Magaña, H.A. 2001. A red tide monitoring program for Texas coastal waters. Final Report Texas Parks and Wildlife pp. 77.

Whiteley, A., P. Spruell, B. Rieman and F. Allendorf. 2006. Fine-scale genetic structure of bull trout at the southern distribution limit. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 135:1238-1253. 

Young, M. K., E. A. Mace, E. T. Ziegler, and E. K. Sutherland.  2006. Characterizing and contrasting instream and riparian coarse wood in western Montana basins.  Forest Ecology and Management 226:  26-40.

Young, M. K., G. T. Allison, and K. Foster.  2007.  Observations of boreal toads (Bufo boreas boreas) and Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in south-central Wyoming and north-central Colorado.  Herpetological Review 38:  146-150.

Young, M. K., P. M. Guenther-Gloss, and A. D. Ficke.  2005.  Predicting cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus clarkii) abundance in high-elevation streams: revisiting a model of translocation success.  Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 62:  2399-2408.

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