Frank S. Gilliam and Mark R. Roberts
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- May 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780199837656
- eISBN:
- 9780190267865
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199837656.003.0009
- Subject:
- Biology, Plant Sciences and Forestry
This chapter has three primary objectives. First, it determines via literature review what is known of interaction among forest strata, with a specific focus on overstory-herbaceous layer ...
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This chapter has three primary objectives. First, it determines via literature review what is known of interaction among forest strata, with a specific focus on overstory-herbaceous layer interactions in eastern deciduous forests. It presents contrasting views of the nature of these interactions, from one that sees a quantifiable linkage among strata to one that sees little true interaction occurring. Second, it develops a mechanistic explanation for patterns of linkage in forest ecosystems, with emphasis on eastern deciduous forests. Finally, it examines data from two different forest types—a central Appalachian hardwood forest and a successional aspen forest of northern lower Michigan—for evidence supporting or refuting this explanation.Less
This chapter has three primary objectives. First, it determines via literature review what is known of interaction among forest strata, with a specific focus on overstory-herbaceous layer interactions in eastern deciduous forests. It presents contrasting views of the nature of these interactions, from one that sees a quantifiable linkage among strata to one that sees little true interaction occurring. Second, it develops a mechanistic explanation for patterns of linkage in forest ecosystems, with emphasis on eastern deciduous forests. Finally, it examines data from two different forest types—a central Appalachian hardwood forest and a successional aspen forest of northern lower Michigan—for evidence supporting or refuting this explanation.
Jackson R. Webster, Wayne T. Swank, James M. Vose, Jennifer D. Knoepp, and Katherine J. Elliott
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- May 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780195370157
- eISBN:
- 9780190267933
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780195370157.003.0014
- Subject:
- Biology, Plant Sciences and Forestry
This chapter provides a synthesis of the more than 30 years of research on Watershed 7 (WS 7) at Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory. It argues that findings from WS 7 provide important information on the ...
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This chapter provides a synthesis of the more than 30 years of research on Watershed 7 (WS 7) at Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory. It argues that findings from WS 7 provide important information on the management of southern Appalachians mixed-hardwood forests. The WS 7 study provides an opportunity to conduct detailed research on the effectiveness of previously established best management practices for forest road construction activities, and to evaluate some new road standards meant to reduce erosion and sediment movement. Water yield responses measured following harvest on WS 7 also support the regional use of a previously derived empirical model for predicting short-term annual flow responses for forest management planning in similar hardwood forests. The chapter concludes with a summary of perceptions of long-term changes in economic values and ecological services in a management context.Less
This chapter provides a synthesis of the more than 30 years of research on Watershed 7 (WS 7) at Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory. It argues that findings from WS 7 provide important information on the management of southern Appalachians mixed-hardwood forests. The WS 7 study provides an opportunity to conduct detailed research on the effectiveness of previously established best management practices for forest road construction activities, and to evaluate some new road standards meant to reduce erosion and sediment movement. Water yield responses measured following harvest on WS 7 also support the regional use of a previously derived empirical model for predicting short-term annual flow responses for forest management planning in similar hardwood forests. The chapter concludes with a summary of perceptions of long-term changes in economic values and ecological services in a management context.
Duncan Maysilles
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- July 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780807834596
- eISBN:
- 9781469603155
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/9780807877937_maysilles
- Subject:
- Environmental Science, Environmental Studies
It is hard to make a desert in a place that receives sixty inches of rain each year. After decades of copper mining, however, all that remained of the old hardwood forests in the Ducktown Mining ...
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It is hard to make a desert in a place that receives sixty inches of rain each year. After decades of copper mining, however, all that remained of the old hardwood forests in the Ducktown Mining District of the Southern Appalachian Mountains was a fifty-square-mile barren expanse of heavily gullied red hills—a landscape created by sulfur dioxide smoke from copper smelting and destructive logging practices. This book examines this environmental disaster, one of the worst the South has experienced, and its impact on environmental law and Appalachian conservation. Beginning in 1896, the widening destruction wrought in Tennessee, Georgia, and North Carolina by Ducktown copper mining spawned hundreds of private lawsuits, culminating in Georgia v. Tennessee Copper Co., the U.S. Supreme Court's first air pollution case. In its 1907 decision, the Court recognized for the first time the sovereign right of individual states to protect their natural resources from transborder pollution, a foundational opinion in the formation of American environmental law. The author reveals how the Supreme Court case brought together the disparate forces of agrarian populism, industrial logging, and the forest conservation movement to set a legal precedent that remains relevant in environmental law today.Less
It is hard to make a desert in a place that receives sixty inches of rain each year. After decades of copper mining, however, all that remained of the old hardwood forests in the Ducktown Mining District of the Southern Appalachian Mountains was a fifty-square-mile barren expanse of heavily gullied red hills—a landscape created by sulfur dioxide smoke from copper smelting and destructive logging practices. This book examines this environmental disaster, one of the worst the South has experienced, and its impact on environmental law and Appalachian conservation. Beginning in 1896, the widening destruction wrought in Tennessee, Georgia, and North Carolina by Ducktown copper mining spawned hundreds of private lawsuits, culminating in Georgia v. Tennessee Copper Co., the U.S. Supreme Court's first air pollution case. In its 1907 decision, the Court recognized for the first time the sovereign right of individual states to protect their natural resources from transborder pollution, a foundational opinion in the formation of American environmental law. The author reveals how the Supreme Court case brought together the disparate forces of agrarian populism, industrial logging, and the forest conservation movement to set a legal precedent that remains relevant in environmental law today.
Robert W. Hastings
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- March 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781604732719
- eISBN:
- 9781604734706
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781604732719.003.0021
- Subject:
- History, Environmental History
This chapter describes cypress-tupelo swamps and adjacent bottomland hardwood forests in the Pontchartrain basin. The major vegetation type of the Pontchartrain basin forested wetlands is bald ...
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This chapter describes cypress-tupelo swamps and adjacent bottomland hardwood forests in the Pontchartrain basin. The major vegetation type of the Pontchartrain basin forested wetlands is bald cypress (Taxodium distichum) and tupelo (Nyssa aquatic and N. sylvatica) swamps. These cypress-tupelo swamps are characteristic of coastal Louisiana and the Southeast where wetlands occur with salinities averaging below about 4 ppt. However, several different community types may be recognized based upon the dominant trees.Less
This chapter describes cypress-tupelo swamps and adjacent bottomland hardwood forests in the Pontchartrain basin. The major vegetation type of the Pontchartrain basin forested wetlands is bald cypress (Taxodium distichum) and tupelo (Nyssa aquatic and N. sylvatica) swamps. These cypress-tupelo swamps are characteristic of coastal Louisiana and the Southeast where wetlands occur with salinities averaging below about 4 ppt. However, several different community types may be recognized based upon the dominant trees.
Duncan Maysilles
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- July 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780807834596
- eISBN:
- 9781469603155
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/9780807877937_maysilles.5
- Subject:
- Environmental Science, Environmental Studies
This chapter describes how, in 1837, there was only one way to approach Ducktown from the west: along a footpath that began in the Tennessee Valley and then climbed up and over Little Frog Mountain ...
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This chapter describes how, in 1837, there was only one way to approach Ducktown from the west: along a footpath that began in the Tennessee Valley and then climbed up and over Little Frog Mountain before descending into the Ducktown Basin. It is easy to imagine that a weary traveler might have stopped at some open place along the crest to take a breather and to scan the vista before moving on. The traveler would have seen a great expanse of Southern Appalachian hardwood forest, predominantly oak, chestnut, hickory, and tulip poplar, stretching across the floor of the Ducktown Basin and up the slopes of the surrounding mountains. The sweep of the woods was occasionally broken by the cabins and fields of the few Cherokees who dwelt there, a limited sign of human presence that served to emphasize the dominance of forest and mountains.Less
This chapter describes how, in 1837, there was only one way to approach Ducktown from the west: along a footpath that began in the Tennessee Valley and then climbed up and over Little Frog Mountain before descending into the Ducktown Basin. It is easy to imagine that a weary traveler might have stopped at some open place along the crest to take a breather and to scan the vista before moving on. The traveler would have seen a great expanse of Southern Appalachian hardwood forest, predominantly oak, chestnut, hickory, and tulip poplar, stretching across the floor of the Ducktown Basin and up the slopes of the surrounding mountains. The sweep of the woods was occasionally broken by the cabins and fields of the few Cherokees who dwelt there, a limited sign of human presence that served to emphasize the dominance of forest and mountains.
William L. Shea
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- July 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780807833155
- eISBN:
- 9781469605098
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/9780807898680_shea.13
- Subject:
- History, American History: Civil War
This chapter describes Prairie Grove as a town covered with an extension of the hardwood forest that filled the flood plain of the Illinois. A longtime resident wrote that the thicket atop the hill ...
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This chapter describes Prairie Grove as a town covered with an extension of the hardwood forest that filled the flood plain of the Illinois. A longtime resident wrote that the thicket atop the hill was so dense a “man on horseback could only be seen at intervals.” One of the peculiarities of an Ozark forest is that several species of trees retain their desiccated foliage through the winter. Consequently, the woods on and around Prairie Grove provided soldiers in both armies with a measure of concealment even in December. This was especially convenient for the Confederates, whose somber gray and butternut uniforms closely matched nature's wintry palette.Less
This chapter describes Prairie Grove as a town covered with an extension of the hardwood forest that filled the flood plain of the Illinois. A longtime resident wrote that the thicket atop the hill was so dense a “man on horseback could only be seen at intervals.” One of the peculiarities of an Ozark forest is that several species of trees retain their desiccated foliage through the winter. Consequently, the woods on and around Prairie Grove provided soldiers in both armies with a measure of concealment even in December. This was especially convenient for the Confederates, whose somber gray and butternut uniforms closely matched nature's wintry palette.
