scholarly journals (Re)Centering socioenvironmental justice: Thinking about co-management of and access to parks and protected areas in the United States

2021 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Cait M. Henry ◽  
Lydia Kiewra ◽  
Eleanor M. Knight ◽  
Camila Rojas ◽  
Jacyln R. Rushing
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Protected Areas ◽  
The United States ◽  
Parks And Protected Areas

scholarly journals Identifying Corridors among Large Protected Areas in the United States

PLoS ONE ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. e0154223 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Travis Belote ◽  
Matthew S. Dietz ◽  
Brad H. McRae ◽  
David M. Theobald ◽  
Meredith L. McClure ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Protected Areas ◽  
The United States ◽  
Large Protected Areas

scholarly journals What Is Threatening Forests in Protected Areas? A Global Assessment of Deforestation in Protected Areas, 2001–2018

Forests ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 539 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher M. Wade ◽  
Kemen G. Austin ◽  
James Cajka ◽  
Daniel Lapidus ◽  
Kibri H. Everett ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Land Cover ◽  
Protected Areas ◽  
Democratic Republic Of Congo ◽  
Anthropogenic Activities ◽  
The United States ◽  
Tree Cover ◽  
Forest Loss ◽  
Global Trends ◽  
The Impact

The protection of forests is crucial to providing important ecosystem services, such as supplying clean air and water, safeguarding critical habitats for biodiversity, and reducing global greenhouse gas emissions. Despite this importance, global forest loss has steadily increased in recent decades. Protected Areas (PAs) currently account for almost 15% of Earth’s terrestrial surface and protect 5% of global tree cover and were developed as a principal approach to limit the impact of anthropogenic activities on natural, intact ecosystems and habitats. We assess global trends in forest loss inside and outside of PAs, and land cover following this forest loss, using a global map of tree cover loss and global maps of land cover. While forests in PAs experience loss at lower rates than non-protected forests, we find that the temporal trend of forest loss in PAs is markedly similar to that of all forest loss globally. We find that forest loss in PAs is most commonly—and increasingly—followed by shrubland, a broad category that could represent re-growing forest, agricultural fallows, or pasture lands in some regional contexts. Anthropogenic forest loss for agriculture is common in some regions, particularly in the global tropics, while wildfires, pests, and storm blowdown are a significant and consistent cause of forest loss in more northern latitudes, such as the United States, Canada, and Russia. Our study describes a process for screening tree cover loss and agriculture expansion taking place within PAs, and identification of priority targets for further site-specific assessments of threats to PAs. We illustrate an approach for more detailed assessment of forest loss in four case study PAs in Brazil, Indonesia, Democratic Republic of Congo, and the United States.

Discovering archaeological landscapes in parks and protected areas

2019 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 99-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert S Bristow ◽  
Anna Therien
Keyword(s):  
New England ◽  
Protected Areas ◽  
National Park ◽  
Human Impacts ◽  
Remote Sensing Data ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cultural Resources ◽  
Resource Monitoring ◽  
Park Service ◽  
Parks And Protected Areas

Monitoring cultural resources in parks and protected areas is greatly enhanced using Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR). For this example, a pilot inventory of cultural resources is illustrated for the United States National Park Service lands that protect the Appalachian Trail in Massachusetts. In Massachusetts, the trail stretches 145.2 kilometers (90.2 miles) and is protected by nearly 2052 hectares (5070 acres) of land. To aid in the resource monitoring, these remote sensing data are corroborated with historic records to identify the historical archaeological resources in the corridor. The inventory are then added to existing management plans to help protect the national park with a more complete understanding of the historical human impacts in the backcountry of New England.

A Chinese approach to protected areas: A case study comparison with the United States

2017 ◽  
Vol 210 ◽  
pp. 101-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abraham J. Miller-Rushing ◽  
Richard B. Primack ◽  
Keping Ma ◽  
Zhi-Qiang Zhou
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Protected Areas ◽  
The United States

scholarly journals Assessing Ecosystem Condition: Use and Customization of the Vegetation Departure Metric

Land ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 28
Author(s):  
Randy Swaty ◽  
Kori Blankenship ◽  
Kimberly R. Hall ◽  
Jim Smith ◽  
Megan Dettenmaier ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Protected Areas ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
The United States ◽  
Degree Of Conversion ◽  
Reference Condition ◽  
Ecosystem Change ◽  
Current State ◽  
Ecosystem Condition ◽  
Conservation And Management

Assessment of ecosystem change often focuses on the degree of conversion and representation in networks of protected areas. While essential, these factors alone do not provide a holistic index of ecosystem conditions. Metrics that compare the current state of ecosystems to a meaningful reference condition can help identify “hidden” risks, lost functions, and provide conservation and management-relevant insights. Here we review a departure metric that can be used to measure ecosystem conditions and its implementation for all lands in the United States by the LANDFIRE Program. We then use two case studies to demonstrate how manually calculating the departure metric is used to explore under- and over-representation of structural stages. Finally, we document the assumptions, interpretation, and limitations of the departure metric, and discuss its current and possible future applications.

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