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Restoration
News
Newsletter of the Ecological Restoration Institute,
Northern
Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ
Winter 2006 - 2007 |
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The
Pinaleño Partnership: Cooperation in Southeastern Arizona
Jesse
Abrams
Collaborating on restoration treatments can be a difficult
balancing act and not for the faint-hearted, as this young woman standing on one
foot on a loose log is demonstrating!
The necessity for collaboration when planning and implementing
restoration treatments is well established, but it can be difficult to achieve
even among the most amenable group. However, Jesse Abrams, research specialist
at the ERI, reports here on the beginnings of exactly the type of collaboration
needed for restoration treatments, right in the middle of an area of extreme
political polarization – Mount Graham, Arizona. For more information on this
promising effort, please click on this link.
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Alumni Corner
Robin Long
 
  
Our alumni continue to lead adventuresome lives. Find out
what a few of them are up to by clicking on this link.
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National Conference on Restoring Frequent-fire Landscapes
of the West
Kathy Mitchell 
On a field trip to Fort Valley Experimental
Forest, NAU Forestry Professor and ERI Associate Director Pete Fulé (right,
foreground) discusses forest restoration with conference attendees.
The ERI co-hosted a very successful conference last
October on restoring frequent-fire landscapes of the West. Find out more about
what happened by clicking here.
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Learning Through the U.S. Forest Service Student Career Enhancement
Program
Jon Lamb 
Jon Lamb, ERI undergraduate
research assistant, in front of one of the trees he loves enough to make a
career out of managing a whole forest of them.
Jon Lamb,
one of our undergraduate research assistants, participated in a Student Career
Enhancement Program (SCEP) experience last summer where he did further research
on Defensible Fuel Profile Zones (DFPZ). You don't know what a DFPZ is? Well
then, click here to find out.
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New
Faces at the ERI
Mark Daniels
  
Do you know these folks? Even if you do, or
think you do, click here to find out what makes them "tick."
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Environmental Education Internship at Willow
Bend
Angelina Robinson 
Angelina Robinson,
undergraduate research assistant at the ERI.
Angelina Robinson, undergraduate research assisant, completed her
internship with our partner organization, Willow Bend Environmental Education
Center. Angelina's project was focused on the local effects to
slow climate change and promote sustainability. To find out more, please click
here.
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“Dusty Elves” Spread Holiday Cheer
Mark
Daniels 
Various wooden toys made by the "Dusty
Elves."
With donated wood providing "the dust," and the
sweat of volunteers providing "the glue," there's a place in Flagstaff just as
heart-warming as Gepetto's toyshop in Pinocchio or Santa's toyshop at the North
Pole! Several ERI employees volunteer each holiday season to make wooden toys
for needy children in Flagstaff. For more information about this wonderful
effort, click here.
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Change from Within: ERI Students as Ambassadors to the Forest
Service
Ryan Nosek 
Ryan Nosek, ERI undergraduate research
assistant (right) is getting ready to tackle the mop-up stage of a prescribed
fire in the wildand-urban interface.
Ryan Nosek took a
summer internship with the Kaibab National Forest to learn about fire by
working with it. Find out what he learned by clicking here.
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New
ERI Web site Features!
Chuck
Bullington 
A screen print of the homepage of
ERI.
The pace of changes to ERI's
web site has been picking up lately. If you haven't been to the web site in
awhile, you may be in for a pleasant surprise. To find out what has changed and
to provide comments, please click here.
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New
Literature of Interest to Restoration Ecologists in the
Southwest
Judy Springer
Just like it sounds, a list of many of the recent publications
about restoration ecology. To see what titles you might need to add to your
personal library click here.
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Please send your comments, and your story
ideas to: Judith.Springer[at]nau.edu or Dave.Egan[at]nau.edu .
If you
wish to add someone to our newsletter list or if you wish to be removed, please
contact: Linsey.Baker[at]nau.edu or Karen.Gilbreath[at]nau.edu .
Thanks for your
interest in what we are doing and thinking! Here's a parting shot for
those hardy souls who read these things right to the end!
Thanks to Mark Daniels who took this picture
looking down on a snowy scene in Hart Prairie, north of Flagstaff. The
lenticular clouds are draping across the tops of the many cinder cones
in the area (like a Salvador Dali painting), and the setting winter sun is
creating a soft illumination for a sublime winter landscape.
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