Historical Environmental Variation in Conservation and Natural Resource Management

Foreword, x

Preface, xii

Acknowledgments, xiv

SECTION 1 BACKGROUND AND HISTORY, 1
JOHN A. WIENS

1 Setting the stage: theoretical and conceptual background of historical range of variation, 3
WILLIAM H. ROMME, JOHN A. WIENS, AND HUGH D. SAFFORD

2 Development of historical ecology concepts and their application to resource management and conservation, 19
WAYNE PADGETT, BARBARA SCHRADER, MARY MANNING, AND TIMOTHY TEAR

SECTION 2 ISSUES AND CHALLENGES, 29
HUGH D. SAFFORD

3 Challenges in the application of historical range of variation to conservation and land management, 32
GREGORY D. HAYWARD, THOMAS T. VEBLEN, LOWELL H. SURING, AND BOB DAVIS

4 Historical ecology, climate change, and resource management: can the past still inform the future? 46
HUGH D. SAFFORD, GREGORY D. HAYWARD, NICOLE E. HELLER, AND JOHN A. WIENS

5 What is the scope of "history" in historical ecology? Issues of scale in management and conservation, 63
JOHN A. WIENS, HUGH D. SAFFORD, KEVIN MCGARIGAL, WILLIAM H. ROMME, AND MARY MANNING

6 Native Americans, ecosystem development, and historical range of variation, 76
GREGORY J. NOWACKI, DOUGLAS W. MACCLEERY, AND FRANK K. LAKE

7 Conservation and resource management in a changing world: extending historical range of variation beyond the baseline, 92
STEPHEN T. JACKSON

SECTION 3 MODELING HISTORIC VARIATION AND ITS APPLICATION FOR UNDERSTANDING FUTURE VARIABILITY, 111
ROBERT E. KEANE

8 Creating historical range of variation (HRV) time series using landscape modeling: overview and issues, 113
ROBERT E. KEANE

9 Modeling historical range of variability at a range of scales: an example application, 128
KEVIN MCGARIGAL AND WILLIAM H. ROMME

SECTION 4 CASE STUDIES OF APPLICATIONS, 147
GREGORY D. HAYWARD

10 Regional application of historical ecology at ecologically defi ned scales: forest ecosystems in the Colorado Front Range, 149
THOMAS T. VEBLEN, WILLIAM H. ROMME, AND CLAUDIA REGAN

11 Incorporating concepts of historical range of variation in ecosystem-based management of British Columbia's coastal temperate rainforest, 166
ANDY MACKINNON AND SARI C. SAUNDERS

12 Incorporating HRV in Minnesota national forest land and resource management plans: a practitioner's story, 176
MARY SHEDD, JIM GALLAGHER, MICHAEL JIMÉNEZ, AND DUANE LULA

13 Applying historical fire-regime concepts to forest management in the western United States: three case studies, 194
THOMAS E. DEMEO, FREDERICK J. SWANSON, EDWARD B. SMITH, STEVEN C. BUTTRICK, JANE KERTIS, JEANNE RICE, CHRISTOPHER D. RINGO, AMY WALTZ, CHRIS ZANGER, CHERYL A. FRIESEN, AND JOHN H. CISSEL

14 Using historical ecology to inform wildlife conservation, restoration, and management, 205
BETH A. HAHN AND JOHN L. CURNUTT

15 River floodplain restoration experiments offer a window into the past, 218
RAMONA O. SWENSON, RICHARD J. REINER, MARK REYNOLDS, AND JAYMEE MARTY

16 Streams past and future: fluvial responses to rapid environmental change in the context of historical variation, 232
DANIEL A. AUERBACH, N. LEROY POFF, RYAN R. MCSHANE, DAVID M. MERRITT, MATTHEW I. PYNE, AND THOMAS K. WILDING

17 A framework for applying the historical range of variation concept to ecosystem management, 246
WILLIAM H. ROMME, GREGORY D. HAYWARD, AND CLAUDIA REGAN

SECTION 5 GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES, 263
JOHN A. WIENS

18 Ecological history guides the future of conservation: lessons from Africa, 265
A.R.E. SINCLAIR

19 Ecological history has present and future ecological consequences – case studies from Australia, 273
DAVID LINDENMAYER

20 A view from the past to the future, 281
KEITH J. KIRBY

21 Is the historical range of variation relevant to rangeland management? 289
BRANDON T. BESTELMEYER

22 Knowing the Fennoscandian taiga: ecohistorical lessons, 297
YRJÖ HAILA

SECTION 6 CHALLENGES FOR THE FUTURE, 305

23 Reflections on the relevance of history in a nonstationary world, 307
JULIO L. BETANCOURT

24 The growing importance of the past in managing ecosystems of the future, 319
HUGH D. SAFFORD, JOHN A. WIENS, AND GREGORY D. HAYWARD

Index, 329

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