Ecological Restoration Focus Area

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• Ecological Restoration Focus Area
• School of Forestry
• What is ecological restoration?
• What are the environments, skills experiences
  involved in restoration?
• What are the focus area requirements?

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• What is ecological restoration?
• Ecological restoration is the process of
  assisting the recovery of an ecosystem that has
  been degraded, damaged, or destroyed. Society
  for Ecological Restoration 2002. The SER Primer
  on Ecological Restoration. www.ser.org.
• Helping Nature Heal
• Re-introducing an endangered native species
  (California condor, Mexican wolf)
• Re-establishing the natural characteristics of
  rivers that have been affected by dams or
  non-native fish.
• Removing alien species of plants or animals.
• Restoring forests damaged by abuse and severe
  fires.
• The focus is usually large-scale and
  long-termand includes social as well as
  ecological systems.

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San Francisco Chronicle California condor chick
hatches in wild in Arizona Monday, August 18,
2003 GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz. (AP) A
California condor has hatched at the Grand Canyon
-- the first condor born in the wild in Arizona
in decades, officials said Monday. The existence
of the condor nestling was confirmed Saturday by
biologists from the park and the Peregrine Fund,
a nonprofit group that helped spearhead the giant
birds' reintroduction to the wild. California
condors were reintroduced into the wild in
Arizona in 1996. The nestling discovered over the
weekend near the top of a 400-foot cliff in the
Salt Creek drainage was the first in Arizona
since the reintroduction it was the second
surviving nestling overall. "This indeed marks a
monumental event in the restoration of the condor
to the Colorado Plateau," said Joseph Alton,
Grand Canyon National Park superintendent, in a
written statement.
Mexican Gray Wolf
Janet Reed, USFWS
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Salmon Friendly Power in the Pacific Northwest
Humpback Chub from the Colorado River
http//mountain-prairie.fws.gov/coloradoriver/Crhb
c.htm
http//www.salmonpower.org/
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Kaibab National Forest/Grand Canyon National
Park Burned October 1999
Full Restoration
Minimal Thinning
Burn Only
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• Focus Area Requirements
• FOR 382 Ecological Restoration Applications. A
  field-based class offered every fall.
• FOR 380 Ecological Restoration Principles. A
  seminar class offered every spring.
• An elective class, chosen in consultation with
  your advisor, to support your senior project (for
  instance, wildlife ecology or fire ecology).
• An independent senior project, either an
  internship experience (FOR 408) or a research
  project (FOR 485).

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Recent Senior Thesis projects Seedbank Study
on the North Rim before and after a Natural
Wildfire.
Stephanie Powers "The
Effects of Ecological Restoration on Merriam's
Turkey (Meleagris gallpavo merriami) Roost Sites
in the Mt. Trumbull and Mt. Logan Ponderosa Pine
Forest. Steven Martin An Investigation of
Acid Mine Drainage at the Hillside Mine Complex,
Baghdad, Arizona. Sam Bourque Understory
Aspen Regeneration in the Absence of Fire.
Chris Hayes Ground Beetle Habitat Preferences
on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon. Eve
Gilbert The Response of Antelope Bitterbrush to
Pruning Technique on the Kaibab Paiute
Reservation. Kristina Fernandez
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Recent Senior Internship projects Botany
Internship Researching Plant Characteristics and
Traditional and Medicinal Uses of Plants for ERI
Field Guide. Erin Danowski Interpretive Signs
along the Trail to Griffiths Spring Annemari
Romero Internship with Diablo Trust Brett
Crary Internship with the City of Flagstaff
Fuels Management Department Aaron Wilkerson
Internship with the City of Flagstaff Fuels
Management Department Brent Tyc Internship with
the Arizona State Legislature Lindsay Chiquoine
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• Ecological Restoration Institute
• Housed in the Forestry building
• Offers undergraduate work experience and
  educational opportunities to about 30 NAU
  students
• Open to students of any major, but most are in
  Forestry or other environmental fields
• Recruit freshman sophomore students in the
  Spring, 2004, semester
• Contact ROBIN LONG (office in room 30, 3-7187)