Stable isotope constraints on the elevation history of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, California

2008 ◽  
Vol 120 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 588-598 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. E. Crowley ◽  
P. L. Koch ◽  
E. B. Davis
Keyword(s):  
Stable Isotope ◽  
Sierra Nevada ◽  
Sierra Nevada Mountains ◽  
History Of

THE LIFE HISTORY OF IPS CALLIGRAPHUS (COLEOPTERA: SCOLYTIDAE) WITH NOTES ON ITS BIOLOGY IN CALIFORNIA

1968 ◽  
Vol 100 (2) ◽  
pp. 145-151 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. L. Wood ◽  
R. W. Stark
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
Sierra Nevada ◽  
Ponderosa Pine ◽  
Abundant Species ◽  
Dendroctonus Brevicomis ◽  
Sierra Nevada Mountains ◽  
British Honduras ◽  
Gallery System ◽  
History Of ◽  
Ips Calligraphus

AbstractIps calligraphus (Germar) is distributed continentally throughout North America, including Guatemala and British Honduras. It has been collected on only rare occasions in California, primarily in the central Sierra Nevada Mountains. Four generations were observed during 1961 and 1962, and average summer development required about 40 days. All stages except the egg were observed in the winter. The unique gallery system exhibits four to six egg galleries, which range in length from 25.4 to 38.1 cm, and radiate characteristically from a large, irregular, nuptial chamber excavated by the male. At Grass Valley, Cal., this bark beetle was observed breeding predominantly in the thick-barked portions of the lower bole. Its galleries are often intermixed with those of Dendroctonus brevicomis LeConte, I. confusus LeConte, I. latidens LeConte, and Melanophila californica Van Dyke in ponderosa pine. I. confusus was the most abundant species of Ips in all localities where I. calligraphus was found.

scholarly journals Erosion rates as a potential bottom‐up control of forest structural characteristics in the Sierra Nevada Mountains

Ecology ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 96 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
David T. Milodowski ◽  
Simon M. Mudd ◽  
Edward T. A. Mitchard
Keyword(s):  
Sierra Nevada ◽  
Structural Characteristics ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Erosion Rates ◽  
Sierra Nevada Mountains

scholarly journals Detection of drought‐induced blue oak mortality in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, California

Ecosphere ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Margarita Huesca ◽  
Susan L. Ustin ◽  
Kristen D. Shapiro ◽  
Ryan Boynton ◽  
James H. Thorne
Keyword(s):  
Sierra Nevada ◽  
Blue Oak ◽  
Sierra Nevada Mountains ◽  
Oak Mortality

Drought year changes in streambank profiles on incised streams in the Sierra Nevada Mountains

Geomorphology ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Lynn Zong ◽  
Sherman Swanson ◽  
Tom Myers
Keyword(s):  
Sierra Nevada ◽  
Sierra Nevada Mountains

Value Messages Collide with Reality: Joseph Kurihara and the Power of Informal Education

2010 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eileen H. Tamura
Keyword(s):  
Sierra Nevada ◽  
Informal Education ◽  
Eastern Slope ◽  
Sierra Nevada Mountains ◽  
Oil Tank

On a cool, crisp winter afternoon in a California desert, at the foot of the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, a crowd of more than two thousand people gathered. Some were curious; more were angry. Before all of them, standing on an oil tank with a microphone and loudspeaker, forty-seven-year-old Joseph Y. Kurihara shouted angry words of defiance. Referring to the generally despised Fred Tayama, who was assaulted the night before, Kurihara bellowed, “Why permit that sneak to pollute the air we breathe? … Let's kill him and feed him to the roving coyotes! … If the Administration refuses to listen to our demand, let us proceed with him and exterminate all other informers in this camp.”

scholarly journals Contrasting prescription burning and wildfires in California Sierra Nevada national parks and adjacent national forests

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 255
Author(s):  
Jon E. Keeley ◽  
Anne Pfaff ◽  
Anthony C. Caprio
Keyword(s):  
Sierra Nevada ◽  
National Parks ◽  
National Park ◽  
National Forests ◽  
Substantial Impact ◽  
Area Burned ◽  
Natural Fires ◽  
Park Service ◽  
History Of ◽  
Lassen Volcanic National Park

History of prescription burning and wildfires in the three Sierra Nevada National Park Service (NPS) parks and adjacent US Forest Service (USFS) forests is presented. Annual prescription (Rx) burns began in 1968 in Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, followed by Yosemite National Park and Lassen Volcanic National Park. During the last third of the 20th century, USFS national forests adjacent to these parks did limited Rx burns, accounting for very little area burned. However, in 2004, an aggressive annual burn program was initiated in these national forests and in the last decade, area burned by planned prescription burns, relative to area protected, was approximately comparable between these NPS and USFS lands. In 1968, the NPS prescription burning program was unique because it coupled planned Rx burns with managing many lightning-ignited fires for resource benefit. From 1968 to 2017, these natural fires managed for resource benefit averaged the same total area burned as planned Rx burns in the three national parks; thus, they have had a substantial impact on total area burned by prescription. In contrast, on USFS lands, most lightning-ignited fires have been managed for suppression, but increasing attention is being paid to managing wildfires for resource benefit.

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