7 Chapter Soil factors are an important consideration for successful wildland range development or improvement programs. Even though many soil improvement and amelioration practices are not realistic for wildlands, their evaluation is an important step in selection of adapted plant materials for revegetation. This chapter presents information for wildland managers on: the importance of soils ph...

Bryophytes are ecologically essential to northern ecosystem restoration after disturbance. In this study, native bryophytes were used revegetate two Arctic sites. Different propagation types (small, medium, large fragments) and substrates (crushed rock, lake sediment, processed kimberlite in Canada; volcanic silt loam crushed lava rock Iceland) with erosion control treatments (with without chee...

Activities associated with agriculture, grazing, and the energy industry have altered large tracts of native rangeland in North America. Pipelining causes intense local disturbance by removal vegetation alterations to soil horizons. Following a disturbance, reclamation is required return land equivalent capability. Revegetation usually seeding and/or agronomic (non-native, dominant) species. Th...