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INT-GTR-315: Proceedings: Wildland Shrub and Arid Land Restoration Symposium; 1993 October 19-21; Las Vegas, NV


Roundy, Bruce A.; McArthur, E. Durant; Haley, Jennifer S.; Mann, David K., comps. 1995. Proceedings: wildland shrub and arid land restoration symposium; 1993 October 19-21; Las Vegas, NV. Gen. Tech. Rep. INT-GTR-315. Ogden, UT: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Intermountain Research Station. 384 p.

Includes 62 papers dealing with wildland shrubs and restoration of arid lands. The key topics include: overview, restoration and revegetation, ecology, genetic integrity, management options, and field trip.

Keywords: rehabilitation, revegetation, revegetation plants, restoration ecology, deserts, desert plants


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Introduction: wildland shrub and arid land restoration
Bruce E. Roundy, E. Durant McArthur
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Overview

Restoration ecology: limits and possibilities in arid and semiarid lands
Edith B. Allen
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Implications of early Intermountain range and watershed restoration practices
Stephen B. Monsen, E. Durant McArthur
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Landscape dynamics and arid land restoration
Steven G. Whisenant
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Restoration and Revegetation

Seed fate of warm-season perennial grasses
Laurie B. Abbott, Bruce A. Roundy, Sharon H. Biedenbender
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Natural methods establishing native plants on arid rangelands
Jerry R. Barrow, Kris M. Havstad
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Reestablishing cold-desert grasslands: a seeding experiment in Canyonlands National Park, Utah
Jayne Belnap, Saxon Sharpe

Replacing Lehmann lovegrass with native grasses
S. H. Biedenbender, B. A. Roundy, L. Abbott

Effects of soil quality and depth on seed germination and seedling survival at the Nevada Test Site
Kevin W. Blomquist, Glen E. Lyon

Evaluating degraded riparian ecosystems to determine the potential effectiveness of revegetation
Mark Briggs
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Evaluating roadside revegetation in central Arizona
Margaret A. Brooks
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Restoration of big sagebrush habitat in southeastern Washington
Janelle L. Downs, William H. Rickard, Larry L. Cadwell
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Health of plants salvaged for revegetation at a Mojave Desert gold mine: year two
Raymond Franson
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Characterization of rare plant habitat for restoration in the San Bernardino National Forest
Michael P. Gonella, Maile C. Neel
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Reseeding four sensitive plant species in California and Nevada
H. D. Hiatt, T. E. Olson, J. C Fisher, Jr.
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New arid land revegetation techniques at Joshua Tree National Monument
Mark Holden, Carol Miller
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Regeneration of cold desert pine of N.W. Himalayas (India)- a preliminary study
T. N. Lakhanpal, Sunil Kumar
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Lessons from the past-Gilbert L. Jordan's revegetation research in the Chihuahuan and Sonoran Deserts
Bruce A. Roundy
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Restoring Mojave Desert farmland with native shrubs
Robert D. Slayback, Walter A. Bunter, L. Robert Dean

Ecosystem restoration: theory, practice, and evidence
Wayne Tyson
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Water requirements for establishing native Atriplex species during summer in southern Arizona
M. Carolyn Watson, Bruce A. Roundy, Steven E. Smith, Hossein Heydari, Bruce Munda
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Beyond twelve percent purity
Bruce L. Welch
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Effects of gravel mulch on emergence of galleta grass seedlings
Von K. Winkel, Juan C. Medrano, Charles Stanley, Matthew D. Walo
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Effects of seedbed preparation, irrigation, and water harvesting on seedling emergence at the Nevada Test Site
Von K. Winkel, W. Kent Ostler, Warren D. Gabbert, Glen E. Lyon
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Results of four revegetation treatments on barren farmland in Owens Valley, California
Irene S. Yamashita, Sara J. Manning
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Ecology

Growth factors for woody perennials at western Sonoran Desert wash revegetation
Bertin W. Anderson, Joseph A. Atkins, Roger D. Harris
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Spatial and temporal variability of microbes in selected soils at the Nevada Test Site
J. P. Angerer, V. K. Windel, W. K. Ostler, P. F. Hall
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Effects of afterripening on cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum) and squirreltail (Elymus elymoides) germination
Julie Beckstead, Susan E. Meyer, Phil S. Allen
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The soil beneath shrubs before and after wildfire: implications for revegetation
R. R. Blank, J. A. Young, F. L. Allen
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Dryland degradation: symptoms, stages, and hypothetical cures
W. R. J. Dean, Suzanne J. Milton, Morné du Plessis, W. Roy Siegfried
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Plant succession on disturbed sites in four plant associations in the northern Mojave Desert
W. D. Gabbert, B. W. Schultz, J. P. Angerer, W. K. Ostler
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A bitterbrush dieback in the upper Gunnison River Basin, Colorado Composition and distribution of blackbrush (Coleogyne ramosissima) communities in southern Nevada
J. Arthur Hayes, Simon A. Lei, Lawrence R. Walker
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Responses of big sagebrush and spiny hopsage to increasing water stress
Steven O. Link, Michael E. Thiede, R. Dave Evans, Janelle L. Downs, Glendon W. Gee
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Association of native grasses and overstory species in southern Arizona
Margaret Livingston, Bruce A. Roundy, Steven E. Smith
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Desert rodents in disturbed shrub communities and their effects on plant recruitment
William S. Longland
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Factors influencing recruitment of forage plants in arid Karoo shrublands, South Africa
Suzanne J. Milton, W. R. J. Dean
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Blackbrush biology: insights after three years of a long-term study
Burton K. Pendleton, Susan E. Meyer, Rosemary L. Pendleton
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Effect of prolonged drought on vegetation associations in the northern Mojave Desert
Brad W. Schultz, W. Kent Ostler
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Species and community response to above normal precipitation following prolonged drought at Yucca Mountain, Nevada
Brad W. Schultz, W. Kent Ostler
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Predicting plant growth rates from dark respiration rates: an experimental approach
Bruce N. Smith, C. Mel Lytle, Lee D. Hansen
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Structure of woody riparian vegetation in Great Basin National Park
Stanley D. Smith, Kevin J. Murray, Frederick H. Landau, Anna M. Sala
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Differential establishment of perennial grass and cheatgrass following fire on an ungrazed sagebrush/juniper site
Robin J. Tausch, Jeanne C. Chambers, Robert R. Blank, Robert S. Nowak
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Juniper decline in Natural Bridges National Monument and Canyonlands National Park
Darrell J. Weber, David Gang, Steve Halls, David L. Nelson
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Genetic Integrity

Genetic integrity: Why do we care? An overview of the issues
Jayne Belnap
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Molecular analysis of genetic diversity: advantages and limitations
D. J. Fairbanks, W. R. Andersen
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Restoration, revegetation, and the importance of genetic and evolutionary perspectives
Yan Linhart
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Genetic variation and revegetation strategies for desert rangeland ecosystems
Bruce D. Munda, Steven E. Smith
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Verification of germplasm origin and genetic status by seed certification agencies
Stanford A. Young
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Management Options

Growing and harvesting fourwing saltbush (Atriplex canescens [Pursh] Nutt.) under saline conditions
Earl F. Aldon, J. Rafael Cuoazes Doria
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Is hackberry a viable rehabilitation species for Idaho rangelands?
Ann M. DeBolt, Bruce McCune
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Browsing by native ungulates: effects on shrub and seed production in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem
Charles E. Kay
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Return of the native-a look at select accessions of North American Lewis flax
Stanley Kitchen
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Propagating bitterbrush twigs for restoring shrublands
V. M. Kituku, W. A. Laycock, J. Powell, A. A. Beetle
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Restoring shrub quality in a sagebrush-bitterbrush vegetation type of south-central Wyoming
V. M. Kituku, J. Powell, R. A. Olson
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Applications of the water balance approach for estimating plant productivity in arid areas
L. J. Lane, T. E. Halonson, K. V. Bostick
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Visual perceptions of management on arid lands
Arthur W. Magill
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Plant inventory, succession, and reclamation alternatives on disturbed lands in Grand Teton National Park
E. Durant McArthur, A. Clyde Blauer, Stephen B. Monsen, Stewart C. Sanderson
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'Rocker' tanglehead (Heteropogon contortus [L.] Beauv. ex Roem. and J. A. Schultes): an improved cultivar for conservation
Mark J. Pater
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Prescribed burning on upper Sonoran rangelands
Dan Robinett
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'Lassen' antelope bitterbrush
Nancy L. Shaw, Stephen B. Monsen
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Interaction between native and seeded introduced grasses for 23 years following chaining of juniper-pinyon woodlands
Scott C. Walker, Richard Stevens, Stephen B. Monsen, Kent R. Jorgensen
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Field Trip

Land reclamation on the Nevada Test Site-a field tour
Von K. Winkel, W. Kent Ostler
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Title: INT-GTR-315: Proceedings: Wildland Shrub and Arid Land Restoration Symposium; 1993 October 19-21; Las Vegas, NV
Publish Date: July 5, 1996
Last Update:
October 5, 2006

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