Ecological Site Description Development Workshop
November 15-18, 2005
Jornada Experimental Range,
New Mexico State University,
Las Cruces, NM
These presentations are provided in PDF. If you would like the original PowerPoint presentation, please contact the author. |
- Introduction to ESD Development Workshop - Brandon Bestelmeyer
- Overview, Organization, Components of ESDs - George Peacock, Dan Caudle - ESD: Contents and Data Requirements and Interagency Ecological Site Description Manual
- Steps in Producing ESDs: A Perspective from Arizona - Dan Robinett
- Step 1: Climate, Geomorphology, and Soil Development in Landscapes - Curtis Monger
- Paleoclimate - Curtis Monger
- Step 2: Integrated Map Unit Design: Defining MLRAs, LRUs/CRAs, Soil Map Units, and Ecological Site Development - Arlene Tugel - Ag Handbook 296 Land Resource Regions and Major Land Resource Areas of the US and Soil Survey and Ecological Sites: Integrated Map Unit Design and Interpretation
- The Relationship of Ecological Site Descriptions to the Terrestrial Ecological Unit Inventory (TEUI) of the Forest Service - Wayne Robbie
- Step 3: Vegetation Dynamics In State and Transition Models (STMs): History, Concepts and Examples - Joel Brown
- Beyond Plants: Indicators and Soil Surface Properties in STMs - Arlene Tugel
- Measurements, Calculations, and Database Storage and Retrieval - Laura Burkett, Brandon Bestelmeyer
- Vegetation and Soil Sampling for STM Development - Brandon Bestelmeyer, Dan Robinett
- Mock State-And-Transition Model Workshop: How to Probe Their Minds - George Chavez, Homer Sanchez, Brandon Bestelmeyer
- Developing and Using Ecological Reference Sheets Based on Rangeland Health Indicators - Arlene Tugel, Phil Smith, Homer Sanchez
- Resources and Strategies for ESD Development - Brandon Bestelmeyer
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State and Transition Monitoring Workshop
August 28-30, 2006
Corvallis, Oregon |
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Integrating Soil Properties and Ecological Site Descriptions
September 26-27, 2006
Las Cruces, NM
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This was a meeting of the Interagency Ecological Site Manual Team and included participants from Bureau of Land Management, Forest Service, ARS-Jornada Experimental Range, National Park Service, and Natural Resources Conservation Service. This meeting was hosted by Agricultural Research Service-Jornada Experimental Range, Las Cruces, New Mexico. |
Riparian Ecological Site Description Workshop
August 14-16, 2007
Albuquerque, NM
Photos from the workshop |
- Geomorphic Stream Classification - W. Barry Southerland, Fluvial Geomorphologist, NRCS
- Riparian Workshop I, Geomorphic Components of Riparian Ecosystems - W. Barry Southerland
- Riparian Workshop II, Stream Classification Level II and Departure Analysis - W. Barry Southerland
- Riparian Workshop III, Departure and Potential - W. Barry Southerland
- Soils in the Riparian Complex, Incorporating Soil Dynamics into Ecological Site Descriptions - Kenneth F. Scheffe, NRCS
- Riparian Complex and Vegetation - Tamzen Stringham, OSU
- Channel Succession Riparian Plant Community Dynamics - Tamzen Stringham
- Vegetation Succession and Geomorphic Thresholds - Tamzen Stringham
- Ecological Sites in Riparian Areas - Bob Leinard, NRCS, Retired
- Issues With Riparian Ecological Site Descriptions - Brandon Bestelmeyer, ARS Jornada Experimental Range
Selected Key Terms, Stream Geomorphology - by W. Barry Southerland, Fluvial Geomorphologist
Part 654 - Stream Restoration Design - USDA, Natural Resources Conservation Service |
Understanding and Improving Applications for Wildlife Habitat Management in Sagebrush Ecosystems
October 23-25, 2007
Park City, Utah |
Following the workshop, there were many requests for opportunities to view the high quality presentations provided at the workshop. As a result, speaker presentations are now availbable at: http://rangelands.org/esd_presentations.shtml
We thank the speakers for their efforts at the workshop and their willingness to share their informative presentations.
Workshop organizers have also produced a "Synthesis of the Comments From the Breakout Sessions". This document can be viewed at: http://www.rangelands.org/pdf/esd_summary_recommendation.pdf |
State-and-Transition Models: Triggers, Feedbacks and Thresholds
January
28, 2008
Louisville, Kentucky |
The 2008 Joint Meeting of the Society for Range Management and the American Forage and Grassland Council
- Current Status of the State-and-Transition Framework - Tamzen Stringham, David D. Briske, Brandon T. Bestelmeyer, Pat L. Shaver
- Variation in Ecological Resilience: A Fundamental Concept for Rangeland Ecology - Brandon T. Bestelmeyer, David D. Briske, Joel Brown, Kris M. Havstad, Rhonda K. Skaggs
- Resilience-Based Application of State-and-Transition Models - David D. Briske, Brandon T. Bestelmeyer, Tamzen K. Stringham, Pat L. Shaver
- Soils, Resilience, and State and Transition Models - Jeffrey E. Herrick, Skye Wills, Debra Peters, Arlene Tugel, Brandon Bestelmeyer
- Rangeland Health Indicators: Can they provide early warning signals? - David A. Pyke
- Resilience, Triggers, Feedbacks and Thresholds: A Western Juniper Model - Steven L. Petersen, Tamzen K. Stringham
- Winterfat in the Catlow Valley: Ecological Resilience and State-and-Transition Modeling - Casey A. Matney
- Vulnerability and Triggers in Threshold Development: Models from the Chihuahuan Desert - Brandon T. Bestelmeyer, Jeffrey E. Herrick, Caiti M. Steele
- Plant Community Dynamics in the Northern Great Plains - Recognizing the Impacts of Invasive Species - Jeffrey L. Printz, Stan Boltz
- Resilience and Feedbacks within A Deep Sand Savannah Ecological Site - Pat L. Shaver
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General ESD/S&T presentation
General state-and-transition model presentation
ESD development presentation |
