[PDF] Inventory Of Longleaf Pine Natural Communities In North Carolina eBook

Author : Shibu Jose
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 21,24 MB
Release : 2006-05-18
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0387296557

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The longleaf pine ecosystem, once one of the most extensive ecosystems in North America, is now among the most threatened. Over the past few centuries, land clearing, logging, fire suppression, and the encroachment of more aggressive plants have led to an overwhelming decrease in the ecosystem’s size, to approximately 2.2% of its original coverage. Despite this devastation, the range of the longleaf still extends from Virginia to Texas. Through the combined efforts of organizations such as the USDA Forest Service, the Longleaf Alliance, and the Nature Conservancy, extensive programs to conserve, restore, and manage the ecosystem are currently underway. The longleaf pine ecosystem is valued not only for its aesthetic appeal, but also for its outstanding biodiversity, habitat value, and for the quality of the longleaf pine lumber. It has a natural resistance to fire and insects, and supports more than thirty threatened or endangered plant and animal species, including the red-cockaded woodpecker and the gopher tortoise. The Longleaf Pine Ecosystem unites a wealth of current information on the ecology, silviculture, and restoration of this ecosystem. The book also includes a discussion of the significant historical, social, and political aspects of ecosystem management, making it a valuable resource for students, land managers, ecologists, private landowners, government agencies, consultants, and the forest products industry. About the Editors: Dr. Shibu Jose is Associate Professor of Forest Ecology and Dr. Eric J. Jokela is Professor of Silviculture at the School of Forest Resources and Conservation at the University of Florida in Gainesville. Dr. Deborah L. Miller is Associate Professor of Wildlife Ecology in the Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation at the University of Florida in Milton.

Author : T. Parker Ivy
Publisher : Рипол Классик
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 14,80 MB
Release : 1923
Category : History
ISBN : 5871511341

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With prefatory remarks on the political and geological history of North Carolina and The Sandhills. Including a summary of the flora and fauna

Author : Tycho de Boer
Publisher :
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 48,16 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :

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"Over the last three centuries, the Green Swamp in southeastern North Carolina has served as home to many communities and industries. It is also home to tremendous biodiversity and rare species, including the highest concentration of insectivorous plants in the world and the endangered red-cockaded woodpecker." "The modern industrial incarnations of what have historically been two of the Lower Cape Fear's staple economic activities - forest industries and hog farming - have come under increased fire from environmentalist groups that decry the ongoing transformation of the area at the hands of large corporations. While communal values and practices at times mitigate the environmental and human ravages of capitalist economic development, the communities' cultural identities are nevertheless imagined, constructed, and maintained in ways that facilitate capitalist enterprise and direct the use and transformation of nature and community in accordance with the ideological premises of the capitalist worldview." "In this fascinating case study, Tycho de Boer highlights the complex relationship between the swamp, local inhabitants, and outside entrepreneurs as the community becomes aware of the competing goals of conservation and competition on the global market. Tracing the growth of agriculture and the turpentine and lumber industries from the mid-seventeenth century to the present, this work examines their impact, including the destruction of longleaf pine forests. In what at first appears to be counter-intuitive, this study also reveals how businesses in this region took a leading role in managing the environment. What emerges is an understanding of the uneasy balance between conservation and commerce."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Shibu Jose
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 14,94 MB
Release : 2007-09-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 0387306870

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This book unites a wealth of current information on the ecology, silviculture and restoration of the Longleaf Pine ecosystem. The book includes a discussion of the significant historical, social and political aspects of ecosystem management, making it a valuable resource for students, land managers, ecologists, private landowners, government agencies, consultants and the forest products industry.

Author : Richard D. Rheinhardt
Publisher :
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 50,43 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Wetland mitigation
ISBN :

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Phase 1 of this study evaluated 50 North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) wetland compensatory mitigation sites and 11 reference sites in 1999. The Phase 2 component (this report) examines five of the compensatory mitigation sites to provide a more in-depth analysis. The objective of the two reports is to help NCDOT and wetland regulatory agencies develop a framework to improve NCDOT's compensatory mitigation, to enhance communication between NCDOT and regulatory agencies, and to benefit wetland restoration overall. The authors encountered problems with various definitions (restoration, preservation, enhancement, etc.) that are not compatible with current scientific understanding of ecosystem functioning. This has led to avoiding the potential for improving the condition of severely altered wetlands because they meet the jurisdictional definition in spite of a highly degraded condition. Elsewhere, socioeconomic limitations may prevent complete restoration. In such cases, partial restorations may be better than none at all. For example, preservation through purchase or conservation easements of headwater streams and their buffers in a partially degraded condition would provide opportunities for improving water quality. Undue reliance on criteria for hydrology over criteria for soil, in extreme cases, has led to soil excavation that reduced survivorship of planted seedlings and lowered recruitment capacity. In general, reference sites have been little utilized to design restorations and to gauge success. Depending on initial conditions, the restoration of wetland structure and function may take many decades to achieve maturity. Presently, all monitoring stops once permit conditions have been met. Institutional memory then rests almost entirely with personnel in the NCDOT organization. To encourage long-term research, regulatory agencies must be willing to provide mitigation credit for establishing reference sites and to conduct long-term research in comparing them with a variety of restoration practices. To avoid unintentional shifting of distribution among one set of hydrogeomorphic classes to others, it will be necessary to track restoration at drainage basin scales according to hydrogeomorphic wetland classes. Many of these suggestions will require acceptance by regulatory agencies and implementation by all parties. Regulatory agencies would have to be willing to accept success criteria based on data from reference wetlands.