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Conservation Science and Leadership Course Reading

Week 1: Overview, Wildlife and Habitat Conservation

Maletzke, B. T., R. B. Wielgus, D. J. Pierce, D.A. Martorello, D. W. Stinson. 2016. A Meta-Population Model to Predict Occurrence and Recovery of Wolves. The Journal of Wildlife Management 80:368–376.

Mann, C. C. 2013. State of the Species. Orion Magazine. https://orionmagazine.org/article/state-ofthe-species/. Pp. 1-19.

Roest, A. I. 1991. A Key-Guide to Mammal Skulls and Lower Jaws. A nontechnical introduction for beginners. Mad River Press Inc. Eureka, CA. 39 pages.

Tewksbury, J. J. , J. G. T. Anderson, J. D. Bakker, T. J. Billo, P. W. Dunwiddie, M. J. Groom, S.E. Hampton, S. G. Herman, D. J. Levey, N. J. Machnicki, C. Martínez Del Rio, M. E. Power, K. Rowell, A. K. Salomon, L. Stacey, S. C. Trombulak, And T. A. Wheeler. 2014. Natural History’s Place in Science and Society. BioScience XX: 1–11.

Suggested Readings from Scott Fitkin, District Wildlife Biologist for the Washington Dept. of Fish and Wildlife:

Becker, S.A., T. Roussin, W. Jones, E. Krausz, S. Walker, S. Simek, D. Martorello, and A. Aoude. 2016. Washington Gray Wolf Conservation and Management 2015 Annual Report. Pages WA-1 to WA-24 in U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Rocky Mountain Wolf Program 2015 Annual Report. USFWS, Ecological Services, 585 Shepard Way, Helena, Montana, 59601.

Aubry, K. B., J. Rohrer, C. M. Raley, and S. Fitkin. 2016. Wolverine Distribution and Ecology in the North Cascades Ecosystem Final Progress Report (February 9, 2016). Collaboration by the U.S. Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, Olympia, WA; U.S. Forest Service, Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest, Winthrop, WA; and Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife,Winthrop, WA.

Suggested Readings from John Rohrer, US Forest Service Wildlife Program Manager:

J. Akins. Xxx. Ecology & Conservation: The Cascade Red Fox. Ph.D. Candidate, Mammalian Ecology and Conservation Laboratory, University of California, Davis.

H. W. Greene. 2003. Appreciating Rattlesnakes. Wild Earth-Facing the Serpent. Cornell University, NY. Pp 1-5.

United States District Court for the District of Montana Missoula Division. 2016. Case 9:14-cv-00246-DLC Document 108 Filed 04/04/16 Pp. 1-85. Court ruling that USFWS was “arbitrary and capricious” in reversing its proposal to list the North American wolverine as threatened under the Endangered Species Act.

Week 2: Fire-Adapted Ecosystems and Effects of Climate Change

Meigs, G. W., Zald, H. S., Campbell, J. L., Keeton, W. S., & Kennedy, R. E. 2016. Do insect outbreaks reduce the severity of subsequent forest fires?. Environmental Research Letters, 11(4), 045008. DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/11/4/045008.

Peterson, D. W. and B. Kerns. 2016. Predicting the Unpredictable: Potential Climate Change Impacts on Vegetation in the Pacific Northwest. Science Findings, USDA Forest Service, Pacific NW Research Station, Wenatchee, WA. http://www.fs.fed.us/pnw/publications/scifi.shtml.

Trumbore, S., P. Brando, H. Hartmann. 2015. Forest health and global change. Science 349:814-818.

Urban, M. C. 2015. Accelerating extinction risk from climate change. Science 348:571-573.

Suggested Readings from Connie Mehmel, US Forest Service forest entomologist:

Six, D. l. and B. J. Bentz. 2006. Temperature Determines Symbiont Abundance in a Multipartite Bark Beetle-fungus Ectosymbiosis. Mycrobial Ecology. Pp 1-7.

Leech, S. M., P. Lara Almuedo, and G. O’Neill. 2011. Assisted Migration: adapting forest management to a changing climate. BC Journal of Ecosystems and Management 12:18-34.

Suggested Readings from Susan Prichard, forest ecologist with USDA Forest Service Pacific Wildland Fire Sciences Laboratory:

Hessburg, P. F. and J. K. Agee. 2003. An environmental narrative of Inland Northwest United States forests, 1800–2000. Forest Ecology and Management 178:23–59.

Prichard, S. J. and M. C. Kennedy. 2014. Fuel treatments and landform modify landscape patterns of burn severity in an extreme fire event. Ecological Applications, 24. pp. 571–590.

Week 3: Riparian Ecosystems and Restoration

Naiman, R. J., C. A. Johnston, and J. C. Kelley. 2006. Alteration of North American Streams by Beaver. BioScience, 38:753-762.

Suggested Readings from Kent Woodruff, US Forest Service Wildlife Biologist:

K. Woodruff. 2015. Methow Beaver Project Accomplishments 2015. U.S. Forest Service, Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest, Winthrop, WA. 27pp.

Lots of resources here: http://methowsalmon.org/beaverproject.html.

Suggested Readings from Izzie Tween, Masters student in Environmental Science at Washington State University:

Tween, I. 2016. Environmental Impact of the European Beaver Castor fiber Review Essay. Pp1-8.

Handout from Melanie Rowland, environmental lawyer: Riparian and aquatic habitat protection.

Suggested Readings from Michael Humling, Fish Biologist with the US Fish & Wildlife Service:

You can access a plethora of reports issued by the US Fish & Wildlife Service Mid-Columbia Fish & Wildlife Service Office here.

Suggested Reading from Jan Hersey, writer, citizen scientist, and unabashed science groupie:

Dakin, S. Editor. Skills for Practical Writing, A Workbook for Training in Work-related Writing. The Center for Business and Technical writing. North Carolina Writers’ Network. Contact for more information or a copy of this workbook, Jim Sheedy, Program Director, jim@ncwriters.org.

Week 4: Biodiversity, Student Projects and Presentations

Caro, T., J. Darwin, T. Forrester, C. Ledoux-Bloom, and C. Wells. 2011. Conservation in the Anthropocene. Conservation Biology. 26:185–188.

Lugo, A. E. 2015. Forestry in the Anthropocene. Science, 349:771. www.sciencemag.org.

Nelson, P. B. 2002. Perceptions of Restructuring in the Rural West: Insights from the “Cultural Turn”. Society and Natural Resources, 15:903-921.

Suggested Readings from Dave Stokes, Associate Professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at the University of Washington, Bothell:

D. L. Stokes, E. D. Church, D. M. Cronkright, and S. Lopez. 2014. Pictures of an Invasion: English Holly (Ilex aquifolium) in a Semi-Natural Pacific Northwest Forest. Northwest Science, 88:75-93. 2014.

D. L. Stokes, D. G. Cook, and J. A. Meisler. 2016. Saving all the Pieces: an Inadequate Conservation Strategy for an Endangered Amphibian in an Urbanizing Area. Draft Manuscript. Pp 1-47.

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