Foresters' Perceptions of Windthrow Dynamics in Northern Minnesota Riparian Management Zones

Participatory Forest Management and State Forestry Agencies: Modeling the Perceptions of Foresters

In transition to community-based forest management (CBFM) paradigm, transformation in the role of foresters from ‘controller’ to ‘facilitator ‘, is taken for granted. Given the militaristic culture of forestry agencies in most developing countries, this change is bound to face resistance. Using structural equation modeling technique, this paper examines two dimensions of resistance – disapprova...

Grazed riparian management and stream channel response in southeastern Minnesota (USA) streams.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture-Natural Resources Conservation Service has recommended domestic cattle grazing exclusion from riparian corridors for decades. This recommendation was based on a belief that domestic cattle grazing would typically destroy stream bank vegetation and in-channel habitat. Continuous grazing (CG) has caused adverse environmental damage, but along cohesive-sediment s...

Spatial Distribution of Carbon in the Subsurface of Riparian Zones

determination of maximal singularity free zones in the workspace of parallel manipulator

due to the limiting workspace of parallel manipulator and regarding to finding the trajectory planning of singularity free at workspace is difficult, so finding a best solution that can develop a technique to determine the singularity-free zones in the workspace of parallel manipulators is highly important. in this thesis a simple and new technique are presented to determine the maximal singula...

Recovery of nitrogen cycling in riparian zones after stream restoration using δN along a 25-year chronosequence in northern Sweden

Background and aims Swedish boreal streams were modified to transport timber by pushing boulders to stream sides, creating levees that disconnected streams from riparian areas. Many streams have since been restored and our goal was to understand how this affects riparian nitrogen (N) cycling. Methods We compared the natural abundance of δN isotopes in foliage and roots of Filipendula ulmaria pl...