Restoration & Management Notes
Volume 13(1), Summer 1995

This issue of R&MN contains a special section--Pacific Northwest Reports. It was compiled by Guest Editor Anne Mockler.

Editorial

• Good Restoration by William R. Jordan III

Pacific Northwest Reports

• Stream Restoration and Environmental Education: The Adopt-A-Stream Foundation by Tom Murdoch
  The Adopt-A-Stream Foundation has performed a decade of pioneering work aimed at educating people living in the watersheds of the Pacific Northwest.
• Ecological Approaches to Riparian Restoration by Boone Kaufmann, Richard Case, Danna Lytjen, Nick Otting and Dian L. Cummings
  The authors argue that for riparian areas "...passive restoration is all that is needed to achieve restoration goals. Active restoration, where necessary, must be implemented in such a way as to facilitate the recovery of natural ecosystem function."
• A Seattle-Area Volunteer-Based Plant-Rescue Program by Jo Goeldner
  King County's Native Plant Salvage Program is a model for other communities who want a volunteer force to rescue plants for use in local restoration projects.
• Youth Conservation Corps Carries Out Streambank Project by Esther Lev
  Youths from the North Portland Youth Conservation Program restore an urban stream.
• Prairies in Portland by Mark Griswold Wilson
  Volunteers turn a parking lot into an oasis for butterflys and portions of closed landfill into a shortgrass prairie.
• The Willamette Valley Natural Areas Network by Mark V. Wilson, Edward R. Alverson, Deborah L. Clark, Richard H. Hayes, Cheryl A. Ingersoll and Maura B. Naughton
  Members of the network are working together to foster public understanding of Willamette Valley ecosystems, to build support for prescribed burning and other management tools, and to restore and protect native habitats, especially prairies.
• High Alpine Restoration Work at McDonald Basin by Debbie Whitall
  Check-dams and native plants are being used to revegetate severly-eroded, 45-percent slopes in the Rogue River National Forest.
• Restoring Fire-Dependent Ponderosa Pine Forests in Western Montana by Stephen F. Arno, Michael G. Harrington, Carl E. Fiedler and Clinton E. Carlson
  After decades of fire-suppression and in the aftermath of the Yellowstone fires, these researchers are studying ways to bring the natural disturbance of fire back to western forests. Olympic National Forest Partnerships for Slope Repair and Erosion Control by Lisa Lewis
  Fixing slope failures along logging roads provides opportunities for learning, diplomacy, and community-building.
• Riparian Habitat Restoration at Hart Mountain Antelope Refuge by W.H. Pyle
  National Wildlife Refuge begins landscape-scale restoration experiments to explore recovery of arid lands degraded by decades of livestock grazing.
• Integrated Planning for Wetland Restoration and Mitigation by Thomas Hruby and Michael Scuderi
  A Special Area Management Plan outlines a way to coordinate restoration planning for 2,500 acres of wetlands that lie in the path of agricultural, industrial, and residential development.
• Stream Habitat Surveys: A Tool for Stream Enhancement by Vic Kaczynski
  Detailed hydrologic surveys of more than 13,000 miles of streams provide a valuable tool for prioritizing and planning stream enhancement projects.
• Pushing Back Juniper by Richard F. Miller
  Controlling the spread of Western juniper is the first step toward restoring several historic plant communities in the Intermountain region of eastern Oregon, northeastern California, southwestern Idaho, and northwestern Nevada.
• South Slough Coastal Watershed Restoration by Steven S. Rumrill and Craig E. Cornu
  Rumrill and Cornu discuss the need, and the difficulty, of restoring upland, riparian, and wetland habitats within the context of the entire coastal watershed landscape.
• A Restoration Scenario for the Klamath River Basin by Wendall Wood
  Restoring thousands of acres of farmland to tule marsh is a gigantic challenge for restorationists and federal agencies working in southern Oregon.
• Ecosystem Management: A New Paradigm for Forest Management by Timothy A. White
  Ecosystem management--the ecological buzzword of the '90s--is a major topic of conversation at the 7th Annual Society for Ecological Restoration Conference in Seattle.

Other Articles

• North American Conference on Savannas and Barrens by Roger C. Anderson and M. Rebecca Anderson
  A report from the First North American Conference on Savannas and Barrens, which was held 15-16 October, 1994 at Illinois State University. Copies of the proceedings are available from Karen Holland, USEPA, Great Lakes National Program Office, 77 West Jackson Blvd., Chicago, IL 60604-3590.
• Eastern Mixed Mesophytic Forest Restoration by David J. Robertson and Mary C. Robertson
  The Robertsons tell the story of the Pennypack Ecological Restoration Trust and its work restoring a small, forested tract in the northeastern suburbs of Philadelphia.
• The Resurrection of Brewery Creekby Thomas M. Bennwitz
  Rehabilitation of this 150-year-old mine site in southwestern Wisconsin required the cooperation of 25 programs and organizations, dozens of private property owners, and the use of video-imaging technology.
• Developments in River and Stream Restoration in Germany by Marit Larson
  Larson reflects on the year she spent studying how Germans are restoring their waterways and upon the German idea of Leitbild--an ideal that recognizes both native biodiversity and human needs.
• Native Plants for Recreation and Conservation in Mexico by Ileana Espejel and Lina Ojeda
  A survey of plants from the coastal areas of Baja California and the Yucatan Peninsula summarizes their potential for restoration and natural landscaping purposes.
• American Beautyberry for Borrow Pit Reclamation in South Carolina by Harris Martin and Gary Sick
  Test plantings prove that American beautyberry, a hardy, drought-tolerant shrub, can be used to reclaim the acidic, infertile soils characteristic of surface-mined sites.
• A Combination in Behalf of Restoration: The Coalition to Restore Urban Waters by Moira Mcdonald
  The Coalition to Restore Urban Waters is a group of 250 citizen-based, grassroots organizations working together to restore urban waterays--and urban communities.
• Women and Restoration by Nancy Freehafer
  Do women and men approach the work of restoration differently? The results of Freehafer's informal survey of Chicago-area volunteers indicates that some women believe they do.

Notes

Book Reviews

• Restoring Prairie Wetlands: An Ecological Approach by Susan M. Galatowitsch and Arnold G. van der Valk. Reviewed by Ned H. Euliss, Jr.
• Trees...the Green Testament by Ya'akov Kirschen. Reviewed by Michael L. Rosenweig
• Wild Forests: Conservation Biology and Public Policy by William S. Alverson, Walter Kuhlmann and Donald M. Waller. *
• Fading Forests: North American Trees and the Threat of Exotic Pests by Faith Thompson Campbell and Scott E. Schlarbaum. *
• Everglades: The Ecosystem and its Restoration. Steven M. Davis and John C. Ogden, editors. *
• Greener Roadsides (A newsletter). Bonnie Harper-Lore, editor. *
• Applied Wetlands Science and Technology. Donald M. Kent, editor. *
• Sustainable Forestry: Philosophy, Science and Economics by Chris Maser. *
• Restoring the Tallgrass Prairie: An Illustrated Manual for Iowa and the Upper Midwest by Shirley Shirley. *
• Ecosystem Management: Additional Actions Needed to Adequately Test a Promising Approach by the staff of the U.S. General Accounting Office. *

* Reviewed by Dave Egan