Goosenest Adaptive Management Area Research and Monitoring
Last updated: August 18, 1997
LONG-TERM STUDIES
Title: Mineral Cycling
Purpose: In a red fir stand answers are sought to: 1) How is
production and circulation of organic matters affected by nitrogen
fertilization and stand density; 2) What influences do thinning and
nitrogen fertilization have on soil formation.
Documentation: will be published sometime in 1998 in Communications
in Soil Science and Plant Analysis Journal and in Canadian Journal
of Forest Research.
Contact: Bob Powers (916) 246-5455 PSW Redding, CA
Title: Thinning Red Fir Saplings
Purpose: To determine influence of several thinning
intensities on growth and development of dense red fire sapling stand.
Documentation: will be published sometime in 1998 in Communications
in Soil Science and Plant Analysis Journal and in Canadian Journal
of Forest Research.
Contact: Bill Oliver (916) 246-5455 PSW Redding, CA
Title: Northern Province Rangeland Condition and Trend Study
Purpose: To complete an analysis of long term vegetation
changes in Rangeland types in the Northern California Province including
the Goosenest AMA.
The Forest Service has established several hundred Condition and
Trend Plots in the 1950's through the 1970S in rangeland communities.
This data will be analyzed to show long term vegetative changes and
trends in various vegetative communities.
Contact: Jim Stout (916)
398-4391
RECENT STUDIES
Title: Bird Associations with Targeted and Desired Forest
Characteristics on the Goosenest Adaptive Management Area
Purpose: is to develop and test multivariate analysis techniques using
a bird census point-count network for predicting the effects of
management activities on landbird populations.
Contact: John Alexander (916) 465-2241 or email: fitzbew@telis.org
John Menke (916) 468-5351
Title: Population Ecology of Northern Goshawks in the California
Cascades.
Purpose: To establish a baseline of territory occupancy,
reproductive success, and survival of adults to subsequently monitor
responses of these population parameters to changes in vegetation.
Contact: Phil Detrich and Brian Woodbridge (916) 842-6131
Title: Prey Delivery and the Fledging Success of the Northern
Goshawk.
Purpose: To investigate the effect of prey delivery on
survival of nestling goshawks and to identity prey required for survival
and reproduction in northern California.
Contact: Robert McCoy (707) 839-8371 or E-mail: R1LMcCoy@aol.com
Title: A Landscape Characterization of Nesting Northern Goshawk
Habitat in Northern California Using GIS and Remote Sensing
Purpose: identify features that were significant to goshawk
nests and provides information about vegetation distribution and
fragmentation within landscape.
Contact: Bonnie Allison (916) 398-4391
Title: Habitat Structure Analysis of Northern Goshawk and
Northern Spotted Owl, Nesting Stands in the Eastern Cascades.
Purpose: identify features or similarities in habitat
resource use of nesting goshawks and northern spotted owls.
Contact: Leslie Rissler (804)-984-4184 University of
Virginia, Charlottsville, VA 22903
Title: Northern Spotted Owl (NSO) Population Density Study
Purpose: to determine territory fidelity and movements within
a small, relatively isolated population of northern spotted owl at the
extreme eastern edge of the subspecies ranges.
Contact: Christy Cheyne (916) 398-4391
Title: Detection of Furbearers in AMA
Purpose: to detect American martin and determine habitat
relationships.
Method: utilize remote sensing cameras and trackplates
Contact: Brian Woodbridge (916) 842-6131
NEW STUDIES (since AMA inception)
Title: Accelerating Old Growth in Eastside Pine
Purpose: Testing how different silviculture treatments and
underburning can accelerate late-seral characteristics development.
Contact: Bill Oliver and Kathy Harcksen (916) 246-5455 PSW
Redding, CA
Title: Habitat Assessment for Big Game Species
Purpose: to complete an inventory and mapping of bitterbrush
range thus implement trials of different browse enhancement techniques and
applications to improve big game forage.
Contact: Jim Stout (916) 398-4391 or Tim Burton (916) 459-1129
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