USDA Forest Service Experimental Forests and Ranges

Part I. Introduction.- Deputy Chief of FS Research, Raphael Zon, Memo to Forest Service Chief Pinchot, May 6, 1908.- Map of USDA Forest Service Experimental Forest and Ranges.- Chapter 1. A Grand Experiment: USDA Forest Service Experiment Forest and Ranges.- Chapter 2. Forest Service Experimental Forests and Long-term Data Sets: Stories of their Meaning to Station Directors.- Part II. Research Trajectories in Forest Ecology, Management, and Silviculture for Conifers.- Chapter 3. The Value of Old Forests: Lessons from the Forest Service Reynolds Research Natural Areas.- Chapter 4. Restoring a legacy: Long-leaf pine research at the Forest Service Escambia Experimental Forest.- Chapter 5. Northern Conifer Research: Multiple Species and Multiple Values.- Chapter 6. Fire and Thinning Research on Forest Service Blacks Mountain Experimental Forest.- Part III. Research Trajectories in Forest Ecology, Management, and Silviculture for Hardwoods.- Chapter 7. Uneven-aged management after a half-century of research on the Forest Service Fernow Experimental Forest in West Virginia.- Chapter 8. An Alternative to Clearcutting: A Partnership between Scientists on the Fernow Experimental Forest and Land Managers on the Monongahela National Forest.- Chapter 9. Development of the Selection System in Northern Hardwood Forests: An 80 Year Research Legacy with Impacts across Borders.- Part IV. Research Trajectories in Wildlife, Fauna, Insects.- Chapter 10, The Starkey Experimental Forest and Range: Long-Term Research to meet the needs of Managers.- Chapter 11. Evolution of a Short-Term Study of Lodgepole Pine Dwarf Mistletoe Vectors that turned Into a Long-Term Study of the Remarkable Gray Jay on the Fraser Experimental Forest, Co, 1982-2009.- Chapter 12. Subterranean Termite Control Examinations on Current And Former Experimental Forests and Ranges.-

At the time of writing, the Editors are all scientists with the USDA Forest Service in Research and Development Mission Area. Drs. Deborah C. Hayes, Ralph C. Crawford and Ann P. Hoover are National Program Leaders in Ecosystem Science, Rangeland Science and Social Science, respectively. They are located in the Forest Service Headquarters in Washington D.C. Dr Susan L. Stout is a Project Leader and Research Silviculturist with the Forest Service Northern Research Station in Irvine, PA.

"This book provides an extensive summary of these facilities. There is an overview of each facility, including history, accomplishments, major research/contributions, and experimental findings. ... Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students through professionals/practitioners." (D. H. Pfister, Choice, Vol. 52 (9), May, 2015)