RMRS General Technical Reports (GTR)

All General Technical Reports (GTR) printed by the Rocky Mountain Research Station listed in descending order by publication number. Only titles with links are available online.

RMRS-GTR-214WWW: Crossdated fire histories (1650-1900) from ponderosa pine-dominated forests of Idaho and western Montana

RMRS-GTR-213WWW: BehavePlus fire modeling system, version 4.0: Variables

RMRS-GTR-212: Keeping it wild: an interagency strategy to monitor trends in wilderness character across the National Wilderness Preservation System

RMRS-GTR-211: Geographic patterns of at-risk species: A technical document supporting the USDA Forest Service Interim Update of the 2000 RPA Assessment

RMRS-GTR-210: The American public's objectives and beliefs regarding forests and grasslands: 2004 survey results

RMRS-GTR-209: A review of disease-related conflicts between domestic sheep and goats and bighorn sheep

RMRS-GTR-208: Death of an ecosystem: perspectives on western white pine ecosystems of North America at the end of the twentieth century

RMRS-GTR-207: Colorado River cutthroat trout: a technical conservation assessment

RMRS-GTR-206: Options for the management of white pine blister rust in the Rocky Mountain Region

RMRS-GTR-205: Assessing post-fire values-at-risk with a new calculation tool

RMRS-GTR-204: Collaborative management and research in the Great Basin - examining the issues and developing a framework for action

RMRS-GTR-203: Riparian buffer design guidelines for water quality and wildlife habitat functions on agricultural landscapes in the Intermountain West

RMRS-GTR-202: Fire ecology and management of the major ecosystems of southern Utah

RMRS-GTR-201: Using social science to understand and improve wildland fire organizations: an annotated reading list

RMRS-GTR-200: National Fire Plan Research and Development 2004-2005 accomplishment report

RMRS-GTR-199: Assessing post-fire Douglas-fir mortality and Douglas-fir beetle attacks in the northern Rocky Mountains

RMRS-GTR-198: A comprehensive guide to fuels treatment practices for ponderosa pine in the Black Hills, Colorado Front Range, and Southwest

RMRS-GTR-197: Photographic handbook for comparing burned and unburned sites within a dry forested and grassland mosiac: a tool for communication, calibration, and monitoring post-fire effects

RMRS-GTR-196: More than a scenic mountain landscape: Valles Caldera National Preserve land use history

RMRS-GTR-195: A history of forest entomology in the Intermountain and Rocky Mountain areas, 1901 to 1982

RMRS-GTR-194: Research agenda for integrated landscape modeling

RMRS-GTR-193: Value and challenges of conducting rapid response research on wildland fires

RMRS-GTR-192: Nomographs for estimating surface fire behavior characteristics

RMRS-GTR-191: Guidelines for using bedload traps in coarse-bedded mountain streams: Construction, installation, operation, and sample processing

RMRS-GTR-190: The photoload sampling technique: estimating surface fuel loadings from downward-looking photographs of synthetic fuelbeds

RMRS-GTR-189: A tutorial on the piecewise regression approach applied to bedload transport data

RMRS-GTR-188: Erosion Risk Management Tool (ERMiT) user manual (version 2006.01.18)

RMRS-GTR-187: Accomplishing and applying National Fire Plan research and development from 2001-2005

RMRS-GTR-186: Forest descriptions and photographs of forested areas along the breaks of the Missouri River in eastern Montana, USA

RMRS-GTR-185: Vegetation and soil restoration on highly impacted campsites in the Eagle Cap Wilderness, Oregon

RMRS-GTR-184: Building a research legacy -- The Intermountain Station 1911-1997

RMRS-GTR-183: Guidance on spatial wildland fire analysis: models, tools, and techniques

RMRS-GTR-182: Collaborative capacity, problem framing, and mutual trust in addressing the wildland fire social problem: An annotated reading list

RMRS-GTR-181: Forest Inventory and Analysis National Data Quality Assessment Report for 2000 to 2003

RMRS-GTR-180WWW: Arc Habitat Suitability Index computer software

RMRS-GTR-179DVD: NDVI and Derived Image Data: 1989-2005

RMRS-GTR-178: Ecology, biodiversity, management, and restoration of aspen in the Sierra Nevada

RMRS-GTR-177: Wood plenty, grass good, water none: Vegetation changes in Arizona's upper Verde River watershed from 1850 to 1997

RMRS-GTR-176: Prehistory and early history of the Malpai Borderlands: Archaeological synthesis and recommendations

RMRS-GTR-175: The LANDFIRE Prototype Project: nationally consistent and locally relevant geospatial data for wildland fire management

RMRS-GTR-174: Strategies for conserving native salmonid populations at risk from nonnative fish invasions: tradeoffs in using barriers to upstream movement

RMRS-GTR-173: Wildlife and invertebrate response to fuel reduction treatments in dry coniferous forests of the Western United States: a synthesis

RMRS-GTR-172: Photo series for quantifying forest residues in managed lands of the Medicine Bow National Forest

RMRS-GTR-171CD: Simulating historical landscape dynamics using the landscape fire succession model LANDSUM version 4.0

RMRS-GTR-170WWW: Establishment record for the Wellner Cliffs Research Natural Area

RMRS-GTR-169: Responses of plant communities to grazing in the southwestern United States

RMRS-GTR-168DVD: Simulating biophysical environment for gradient modeling and ecosystem mapping using the WXFIRE program: model documentation and application

RMRS-GTR-167WWW: Pathology collection of the Rocky Mountain Research Station

RMRS-GTR-166: Nonparametric projections of forest and rangeland condition indicators

RMRS-GTR-165: A spline model of climate for the Western United States

RMRS-GTR-164CD: FIREMON: Fire effects monitoring and inventory system

RMRS-GTR-163WWW: Fire Effects Planning Framework: a user's guide

RMRS-GTR-162: PACFISH/INFISH bilogical opinion (PIBO): Effectiveness monitoring program seven-year status report 1998 through 2004

RMRS-GTR-161: Strategies for monitoring terrestrial animals and habitats

RMRS-GTR-160: Survey responses from the Intermountain West: Are we achieving the public's objectives for forests and rangelands?

RMRS-GTR-159: Survey responses from Region 9: Are we achieving the public's objectives for forests and rangelands?

RMRS-GTR-158: Survey responses from Region 8: Are we achieving the public's objectives for forests and rangelands?

RMRS-GTR-157: Survey responses from Region 5: Are we achieving the public's objectives for forests and rangelands?

RMRS-GTR-156: Survey responses from Region 3: Are we achieving the public's objectives for forests and rangelands?

RMRS-GTR-155WWW: Colorado Front Range fuel photo series

RMRS-GTR-154: Beginnings of range management: an anthology of the Sampson-Ellison photo plots (1913 to 2003) and a short history of the Great Basin Experiment Station

RMRS-GTR-153: Standard fire behavior fuel models: a comprehensive set for use with Rothermel's surface fire spread model

RMRS-GTR-152: Regional data to support biodiversity assessments: terrestrial vertebrate and butterfly data from the Southwest

RMRS-GTR-151: Monitoring selected conditions related to wilderness character: a national framework

RMRS-GTR-150WWW: Measuring stream temperature with digital data loggers: a user's guide

RMRS-GTR-149: A strategic assessment of forest biomass and fuel reduction treatments in Western States

RMRS-GTR-148-WWW: Winter movements and range use of radio-marked Mexican spotted owls: an evaluation of current management recommendations

RMRS-GTR-147: WinXSPRO, a channel cross section analyzer, user's manual, version 3.0

RMRS-GTR-146: Changing times at the Rocky Mountain Forst & Range Experiment Station: Staion history from 1976 to 1997

RMRS-GTR-145: Stereo photo guide for estimating canopy fuel characteristics in conifer stands

RMRS-GTR-144: Big sagebrush: a sea fragmented into lakes, ponds, and puddles

RMRS-GTR-143: Computer simulation modeling of recreation use: current status, case studies, and future directions

RMRS-GTR-142: Assessment of native species and ungulate grazing in the Southwest: terrestrial wildlife

RMRS-GTR-141: Root diseases in coniferous forests of the Inland West: potential implications of fuels treatments

RMRS-GTR-140: Historic range of variability for upland vegetation in the Bighorn National Forest, Wyoming

RMRS-GTR-139: Historic range of variability for upland vegetation in the Medicine Bow National Forest, Wyoming

RMRS-GTR-138: Repeatability of riparian vegetation sampling methods: how useful are these techniques for broad-scale, long-term monitoring?

RMRS-GTR-137: Managing the unexpected in prescribed fire and fire use operations: a workshop on the high reliability organization

RMRS-GTR-136: Restoring western ranges and wildlands, vol. 1-3

RMRS-GTR-135 vol. 2: Assessment of grassland ecosystem conditions in the southwestern United States, volume 2

RMRS-GTR-135 vol. 1: Assessment of grassland ecosystem conditions in the southwestern United States, volume 1

RMRS-GTR-134: Interspecific and intraspecific variation in Pecia engelmannii and its congeneric cohorts: biosystematics, genecology, and climate change

RMRS-GTR-133CD: Guide to Identification of Bankfull Stage in the Northeastern United States

RMRS-GTR-132: Postfire mortality of ponderosa pine and Douglas-fir: a review of methods to predict tree death

RMRS-GTR-131: Sediment transport data and related information for selected coarse-bed streams and rivers in Idaho

RMRS-GTR-130: Vascular plant species of the Comanche National Grassland in southeastern Colorado

RMRS-GTR-129: History of the Priest River Experiment Station

RMRS-GTR-128: Quantifying channel maintenance instream flows: an approach for gravel-bed streams in the Western United States

RMRS-GTR-127: Exploring information needs for wildland fire and fuels management

RMRS-GTR-126: Statistical techniques for sampling and monitoring natural resources

RMRS-GTR-125: Fourwing saltbush (Atriplex canescens) seed transfer zones

RMRS-GTR-124: Revisiting the southern pine growth decline: where are we 10 years later?

RMRS-GTR-123: Fleas and lice of mammals in New Mexico

RMRS-GTR-122: Testing common stream sampling methods for broad-scale, long-term monitoring

RMRS-GTR-121: Guide to effective monitoring of aquatic and riparian resources

RMRS-GTR-120: Science basis for changing forest structure to modify wildfire behavior and severity

RMRS-GTR-119: A review of the Forest Service Remote Automated Weather Station (RAWS) network

RMRS-GTR-118CD: Field guide to forest plants of northern Idaho

RMRS-GTR-117: Wilderness visitors and recreation impacts: baseline data available for twentieth century conditions

RMRS-GTR-116: Fire and fuels extension to the Forest Vegetation Simulator

RMRS-GTR-114/115CD: Hayman Fire case study and summary CD

RMRS-GTR-115: Hayman Fire case study: summary

RMRS-GTR-114: Hayman Fire case study

RMRS-GTR-113: Economic, social, and cultural aspects of livestock ranching on the Española and Canjilon Ranger Districts of the Santa Fe and Carson National Forests: a pilot study

RMRS-GTR-112: Forest Service programs, authorities, and relationships

RMRS-GTR-111WWW: United States state-level population estimates: Colonization to 1999

RMRS-GTR-110: Identification and ecology of old ponderosa pine trees in the Colorado Front

RMRS-GTR-109: Field guide to old ponderosa pines in the Colorado Front Range

RMRS-GTR-108: Accuracy assessment of percent canopy cover, cover type, and size class

RMRS-GTR-107: Statistical strategy for inventorying and monitoring the ecosystem resources of the Mexican States of Jalisco and Colima at multiple scales and resolution levels

RMRS-GTR-106WWW: BehavePlus fire modeling system, version 4.0: User's Guide

RMRS-GTR-105: Coarse woody debris: managing benefits and fire hazard in the recovering forest

RMRS-GTR-104: Indicators of rangeland health and functionality in the Intermountain West

RMRS-GTR-103: Lichen communities indicator results from Idaho: baseline sampling

RMRS-GTR-102, vol. I and II: Management and techniques for riparian restorations: roads field guide

RMRS-GTR-101CD: Landscape dynamics and forest management

RMRS-GTR-100: Santa Rita Experimental Range digital database: user's guide

RMRS-GTR-99: Stopover ecology of landbirds migrating along the middle Rio Grande in spring and fall

RMRS-GTR-98: Mistletoes of North American conifers

RMRS-GTR-97: Ecology, siliviculture, and management of Black Hills ponderosa pine

RMRS-GTR-96: Users guide to the Most Similar Neighbor Imputation Program Version 2

RMRS-GTR-95: Survey results of the American public's values, objectives, beliefs, and attitudes regarding forests and grasslands

RMRS-GTR-94: Silt fences: an economical technique for measuring hillslope soil erosion

RMRS-GTR-93CD: Silt happens: gathering erosion data

RMRS-GTR-92: Integrating ecosystem sampling, gradient modeling, remote sensing, and ecosystem simulation to create spatially explicit landscape inventories

RMRS-GTR-91: Cascading effects of fire exclusion in the Rocky Mountain ecosystems: a literature review

RMRS-GTR-90: The nature of flow and sediment movement in Little Granite Creek near Bondurant, Wyoming

RMRS-GTR-89: Arid and semiarid land stewardship: A 10-year review of accomplishments and contributions of the lnternational Arid Lands Consortium

RMRS-GTR-88WWW: Recovery history of greenback cutthroat trout: population characteristics, hatchery involvement, and bibliography

RMRS-GTR-87: Development of coarse-scale spatial data for wildland fire and fuel management

RMRS-GTR-86: Using terrestrial ecosystem survey data to identify potential habitat for the Mexican spotted owl on National Forest System lands: A pilot study

RMRS-GTR-85: Riparian and wetland plant community types of the Shoshone National Forest

RMRS-GTR-84: A field guide for forest indicator plants, sensitive plants, and noxious weeds of the Shoshone National Forest, Wyoming

RMRS-GTR-83: Guide to the willows of Shoshone National Forest

RMRS-GTR-82: Projected use of grazed forages in the United States: 2000 to 2050

RMRS-GTR-81: Mechanisms of range expansion and removal of mesquite in desert grasslands of the Southwestern United States

RMRS-GTR-80: GIS applications to wilderness management: potential uses and limitations

RMRS-GTR-79, vol. 5: Linking wilderness research and management-volume 5. Understanding and managing backcountry recreation impacts on terrestrial wildlife: an annotated reading list

RMRS-GTR-79, vol. 4: Linking wilderness research and management - volume 4. Understanding and managing invasive plants in wilderness and other natural areas: An annotated reading list

RMRS-GTR-79, vol. 3: Linking wilderness research and management - volume 3. Recreation fees in wilderness and other public lands: An annotated reading list

RMRS-GTR-79, vol. 2: Linking wilderness research and management - volume 2. Defining, managing, and monitoring wilderness visitor experiences: An annotated reading list

RMRS-GTR-79, vol. 1: Linking wilderness research and management - volume 1. Wilderness fire restoration and management: An annotated reading list

RMRS-GTR-78CD: An ecological characterization of the Greater Yellowstone Area

RMRS-GTR-77CD: High mountain lake Research Natural Areas in Idaho

RMRS-GTR-76WWW: Models of vegetation change for landscape planning: a comparison of FETM, LANDSUM, SIMPPLLE, and VDDT

RMRS-GTR-75: Forest Health monitoring in the Interior West: A baseline summary of forest issues, 1996-1999

RMRS-GTR-74: Sampling surface and subsurface particle-size distributions in wadable gravel-and cobble-bed streams for analyses in sediment transport, hydraulics, and streambed monitoring

RMRS-GTR-73: Physiological attributes of 11 Northwest conifer species

RMRS-GTR-72: Benefit transfer of outdoor recreation use values: A technical document supporting the Forest Service Strategic Plan (2000 revision)

RMRS-GTR-71WWW: Watershed management contributions to land stewardship: A literature review

RMRS-GTR-70: Monitoring wilderness stream ecosystems

RMRS-GTR-69: Research Natural Areas on National Forest System lands in Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Utah, and Western Wyoming: A guidebook for scientists, managers, and educators

RMRS-GTR-68: Rangeland resource trends in the United States

RMRS-GTR-67WWW: FireFamily Plus user's guide, version 2.0

RMRS-GTR-66: Annual design-based estimation for the annualized inventories of forest inventory and analysis: sample size determination

RMRS-GTR-65: FireWorks curriculum featuring ponderosa, lodgepole, and whitebark pine forests

RMRS-GTR-64: Constructing temporary sampling platforms for hydrologic studies

RMRS-GTR-63: Evaluating the effectiveness of postfire rehabilitation treatments

RMRS-GTR-62: Assessment and response to bark beetle outbreaks in the Rocky Mountain area

RMRS-GTR-61CD: Data base for early postfire succession in Northern Rocky Mountain forests

RMRS-GTR-60: Status, ecology, and consrvation of the southwestern willow flycatcher

RMRS-GTR-59: The impact of climate change on America's forests

RMRS-GTR-58: Faunal characteristics of the Southern Rocky Mountains of New Mexico: implications for biodiversity analysis and assessment

RMRS-GTR-57: Reliability of confidence intervals calculated by bootstrap and classical methods using the FIA 1-ha plot design

RMRS-GTR-56: Wilderness recreation use estimation: a handbook of methods and systems

RMRS-GTR-55: Modeling large woody debris recruitment for small streams of the Central Rocky Mountains

RMRS-GTR-54: Managing for enhancement of riparian and wetland areas of the Western United States: an annotated bibliography

RMRS-GTR-53: Fish and other aquatic resource trends in the United States

RMRS-GTR-52: Determining atmospheric deposition in Wyoming with IMPROVE and other national programs

RMRS-GTR-51: Juniper seed sources in the Great Plains

RMRS-GTR-50: Disturbance and climate change in United States/Mexico borderland plant communities: a state-of-the-knowledge review

RMRS-GTR-49: Forest Insect and Disease Tally System (FINDIT) user manual

RMRS-GTR-48: Bird communities of gambel oak: a descriptive analysis

RMRS-GTR-47: Monitoring the vegetation resources in riparian areas

RMRS-GTR-46CD: Mapping vegetation and fuels for fire management on the Gila National Forest Complex, New Mexico: Version 1.0

RMRS-GTR-45: Representativeness assessment of research natural areas on National Forest System lands in Idaho

RMRS-GTR-44: A bank-operated traveling-block cableway for stream discharge and sediment measurements

RMRS-GTR-43: Ecology and conservation of the cactus ferruginous pygmy-owl in Arizona

RMRS-GTR-42, vol. 6: Wildland fire in ecosystems: fire and nonnative invasive plants

RMRS-GTR-42, vol. 5: Wildland fire in ecosystems: effects of fire on air

RMRS-GTR-42, vol. 4: Wildland fire in ecosystems: effects of fire on soils and water

RMRS-GTR-42, vol. 3: Wildland fire in ecosystems: effects of fire on cultural resources and archeology

RMRS-GTR-42, vol. 2: Wildland fire in ecosystems: effects of fire on flora

RMRS-GTR-42, vol. 1: Wildland fire in ecosystems: effects of fire on fauna

RMRS-GTR-41: Ground sample data for the conterminous U.S. land cover characteristics database

RMRS-GTR-40WWW: A user guide for the sign sizing program

RMRS-GTR-39: Past and future freshwater use in the United States

RMRS-GTR-38: Historic avalanches in the northern Front Range and the central and northern mountains of Colorado

RMRS-GTR-37: Coram Experimental Forest: 50 years of research in a western larch forest

RMRS-GTR-36WWW: An analysis of PILT-related payments and likely property tax liability of Federal resource management lands

RMRS-GTR-35: White pine in the American West: a vanishing species-can we save it?

RMRS-GTR-34WWW: User's guide to FBASE: relational database software for managing R1/R4 (Northern/Intermountain Regions) fish habitat inventory data

RMRS-GTR-33: Wildlife resource trends in the United States

RMRS-GTR-32: Habitat relationships of landbirds in the Northern Region, USDA Forest Service

RMRS-GTR-31: Abundance and characteristics of snags in western Montana forests

RMRS-GTR-30WWW: Ecology and Conservation of Lynx in the United States

RMRS-GTR-29: History of watershed research in the Central Arizona Highlands

RMRS-GTR-28: Growth of ponderosa pine stands in relation to mountain pine beetle susceptibility

RMRS-GTR-27CD: NDVI and derived image data: data archives 1998

RMRS-GTR-26CD: Vegetation Greenness and fire danger images: image archives; greenness 1989-1998; fire danger 1996-1998

RMRS-GTR-25: Small mammals of the Bitterroot National Forest: a literature review and annotated bibliography

RMRS-GTR-24: Percent canopy cover and stand structure statistics from the Forest Vegetation Simulator

RMRS-GTR-23: Eighty-eight years of change in a managed ponderosa pine forest

RMRS-GTR-22: The Northern Goshawk in Utah: Habitat Assessment and Management Recommendations

RMRS-GTR-21: Monitoring wilderness stream ecosystems

RMRS-GTR-20: Riparian reference areas in Idaho: a catalog of plant associations and conservation sites

RMRS-GTR-19: Forest reference conditions for ecosystem management in the Sacramento Mountains, New Mexico

RMRS-GTR-18: National Wilderness Preservation System database: key attributes and trends, 1964 through 1999

RMRS-GTR-17: Vascular plant species of the Pawnee National Grassland

RMRS-GTR-16: Ecology and management of sand shinnery communities: a literature review

RMRS-GTR-15: Miller Creek Demonstration Forest ecology activities - a teachers supplement to the field guide

RMRS-GTR-14: Plant-herbivore interactions in Atriplex: current state of knowledge

RMRS-GTR-13: Multiple resource evaluations on the Beaver Creek Watershed: an annotated bibliography (1956-1996)

RMRS-GTR-12: A management-oriented classification of pinyon-juniper woodlands of the Great Basin

RMRS-GTR-11: Peatlands on National Forests of the Northern Rocky Mountains: Ecology and Conservation

RMRS-GTR-10: Field guide to Intermountain sedges

RMRS-GTR-9CD: NDVI and Derived Image Data: Data archives 1997

RMRS-GTR-8CD: Vegetation Greenness and Fire Danger Images: Image Archives; greenness 1989-1997; Fire danger 1996-1997

RMRS-GTR-7: Miller Creek Demonstration Forest: A Forest Born of Fire; a Field Guide

RMRS-GTR-6: An Assessment Methodology for Determining Historical change in Mountain Streams

RMRS-GTR-5: From the Rio to the Sierra: An Environmental History of the Middle Rio Grande Basin

RMRS-GTR-4: Guidelines for evaluating air pollution impacts on wilderness within the Rocky Mountain Region: Report of a workshop, 1990

RMRS-GTR-3: Development of Input Data Layers for the FARSITE Fire Growth Model for the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness Complex, USA

RMRS-GTR-2CD: Landtype associations of the Northern Region 1997: A first approximation

RMRS-GTR-1: The brown-headed cowbird and its riparian-dependent hosts in New Mexico