Readings for Sept 24-Oct. 19

Sept 24: Old Growth and retrospective studies
Frelich, Lee, Meredith Cornett, and Mark White. “Controls and reference conditions in forestry: the role of old-growth and retrospective studies.” Journal of Forestry (2005): 339-344.

Frelich, Lee and Peter Reich, “Old Growth in the Great Lakes Region,” in Eastern Old Growth Forests, ed. Mary Byrd Davis, Washington, DC: Island Press, 1996.

Part 2 Cultural Contact and Natural Disturbance Regimes: 1650s to 1850s
Oct 1 (no class meeting)

Oct 8,
Charles Cleland, pp. 1-34 of Rites of Conquest (1992)

Tyrrell, Lucy and Thomas Crow. “Structural characteristics of old-growth hemlock-hardwood forests in relation to age.” Ecology 75 (1994): 370-386.

Oct 15
Richard White, The Middle Ground, introduction and Refugees chapters.

Jesuit readings and fur traders’ diaries from Up Country

Schulte, Lisa and David Mladenoff, “Severe wind and fire regimes in northern forests: historical variability at the regional scale.” Ecology 86 (2005): 431-445.

Frelich, Lee and Craig Lorimer, “Natural disturbance regimes in hemlock-hardwood forests of the upper Great Lakes region,” Ecological Monographs 61 (1991): 145-164.

FIELD TRIP READINGS
Margaret B. Davis, Randy R. Calcote, Shinya Sugita, and Hikaru Takaharab, “Patchy Invasion and the Origin of a Hemlock–Hardwoods Forest Mosaic,” Ecology: 79 (1998): 2641–2659. (needs uploading)

Mladenoff, D. J., M. A. White, J. Pastor, and T. R. Crow 1993. Comparing spatial pattern in unaltered old-growth and disturbed forest landscapes. Ecological Applications 3:294-306.

Charlie Rasmussen, thesis on Sylvania