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Planning for Large-Scale Ecosystem Changes
Index
1. Can we plan for large-scale ecosystem changes?
2. What do we mean by change?
3. What is "large-scale"?
4. The big picture
5. Economic impacts
6. How we got here
7. Disturbances
8. Can we manage fire-prone ecosystems without fire?
9. Setting the stage for a new stand
10. Stem exclusion stage
11. 100 years-mixed severity fire
12. Secondary cohort
13. Legacy trees
14. A mosaic after 5,000 years
15. 100 years-overstory loss
16. Secondary cohort development
17. Legacy trees
18. Research informs
19. What have we learned?
20. Expect bark beetles
21. Bark beetle pathology
22. Mountain pine beetle galleries
23. Mountain pine beetle ecology
24. Language of insects
25. Verbenone trials
26. Clerid beetles
27. Three-toed woodpeckers
28. This tree is toast
29. Thinning works
30. Crown fire potential
31. Aspen needs fire
32. Work with nature
33. Think globally...
34. Whitebark pine sunset
Notes:
The stage is set for bark beetle outbreaks.