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

Readings for Sept 10 to 24

Hi everyone,
The readings for next week are now uploaded. See you on Wednesday!
Nancy

Sept 10 Overview essays:
Mladenoff, David. “A Tale of Two Forests: The History of the Northern Forest and a Tribute to Forest Stearns.” Edited 2001 transcript of a keynote address given to open the Northern Forest Restoration Workshop at Northland College, Ashland WI October 2000.

Lisa A. Schulte, David J. Mladenoff, Thomas R. Crow, Laura C. Merrick, David T. Cleland, “Homogenization of northern U.S. Great Lakes forests due to land use,” Landscape Ecology 22 (2007) 1089-1103.

Sept 17 After the Ice: 11000 bp to 1650s
Cole, K. L. et al, “Historical landcover changes in the Great Lakes region,” Land Use History of North America (USGS 2003):
http://biology.usgs.gov/luhna/chap6.html

Hotchkiss, S. C., R. Calcote, and E. A. Lynch. 2007. Response of vegetation and fire to Little Ice Age climate change: regional continuity and landscape heterogeneity. Landscape Ecology 22 Supl. 1: 25-41.

Margaret Davis, “Quaternary history and the stability of forest communities,” Ch. 10, pp 132-153 in D. C. West et al, eds, Forest Succession: Concepts and Application (Springer-Verlag, 1981).

Tom Webb III, E J Cushing and H. E, Wright Jr, “Holocene Changes in the Vegetation of the Midwest,” pp 142-165 in Late-Quaternary Environments of the United States, ed H E Wright, Jr, vol 2, The Holocene (U of MN Press, 1983). Optional background reading.

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. “Perspectives on development of definitions and values related to old-growth forests.” Environ. Rev. 11 (2003): s9-s22.

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.

schedule for weekly meetings

Here's the schedule for weekly discussion questions/snacks:
Sept 10: Jane, Bob
Sept 17: Julia, Feng
Sept. 24: Erika and Mike
Oct 8: Trish and Stacy
Oct 15: Brian and Mike
Oct 22: Jon and Erika
Nov. 5: Brian and Kristen
Nov. 12: Tricia Knoof and Jane
Nov. 19: Julia and Bob
Nov 26: Trish and Feng
Dec. 3: Stacy and Kristen

Great Lakes Forest Change Readings

Welcome to Forest and Wildlife Ecology 875

Special Topics: Great Lakes Forest Change
Forest and Wildlife Ecology 875
Fall 2008 Professors Nancy Langston and David Mladenoff
1 credit
Wednesdays, 3:30 to 4:30 pm, A121 Russell Labs
Emails:
Nancy Langston: nelangst @ wisc.edu
David Mladenoff: djmladen @ wisc.edu
Classlist (all the emails of students and faculty enrolled): fwecol875-16-f08 @ lists.wisc.edu

Web address: http://greatlakesforests.blogspot.com/


In this one credit seminar, we will explore the historical and ecological processes shaping forest change in the Great Lakes region. Our overall goal will be to ask: what can environmental historians and historical ecologists add to each other's work? Are there certain kinds of questions about Great Lakes forests that we couldn't answer from within a single discipline?

No writing will be required; students will be expected to participate in discussions, complete readings, and lead a discussion.

We will have one field trip to Sylvania Wilderness October 17-19.

Themes/Periods

A. After the Ice: 11000 bp to 350 bp
B. Contact Era: Fur-traders, migrations of tribes, war, conflict, epidemics (the so-called pre-settlement reference period), establishment of what are now old growth forests 1650-1850
C. Lumber Era 1860s to 1910s
D. Twentieth Century: farming the cutover region, forest recovery, parks and protected areas, intensive forest management
E. What now? Consequences of change, climate change, insect epidemics, restoration, and the future