Aid the U.S. Forest Service in developing management strategies to help preserve the fisher (Martes pennanti). Study will focus on the animal’s winter ecology and foraging behavior.
Project Number: 00-02-016
Funding Round: 1 (1999-2000)
Research Focus Area: Natural Resources
ARI Member Campus: California State University, Fresno
Director: Grubbs, David
Compare the nitrogen-fixing effectiveness of different combina-tions of Rhizobium bacteria infecting native clovers in Sierra Nevada foothills and mountain meadows. Legumes such as clover are important forage plants for cattle and other grazing animals.
Project Number: 00-02-025
Funding Round: 1 (1999-2000)
Research Focus Area: Natural Resources
ARI Member Campus: California State University, Fresno
Director: Harding, Ethelynda
To develop seedlings resistant to a disease called pitch canker in a Monterey pine forest in Santa Cruz County, California. There are 50 acres of native Monterey pine in this area and approximately 35 artificially created Monterey pine plantations that also suffer from pitch canker. Project includes development of seedlings resistant to the disease.
Project Number: 00-03-033
Funding Round: 1 (1999-2000)
Research Focus Area: Natural Resources
ARI Member Campus: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Director: Piirto, Douglas
To model California Coast Redwood forest areas during the transition from even to steady-state uneven-aged management. This will provide forest planners and property owners the information needed to optimize similar transitions.
Project Number: 00-03-050
Funding Round: 1 (1999-2000)
Research Focus Area: Natural Resources
ARI Member Campus: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Director: Gill, Samantha
To study the effects of soil amendments, fire regimes, and seeding mix on medusahead control and site restoration. Medusahead is a late-maturing winter annual grass. Its seedheads and seeds are physically noxious to livestock; its palatability is low because of high levels of silicon dioxide; and its decomposition rate is slow, resulting in the buildup of thick thatch layers.
Project Number: 00-05-011
Funding Round: 1 (1999-2000)
Research Focus Area: Natural Resources
ARI Member Campus: California State University, Chico
Director: Jansen, Henricus
To identify specific pesticides in soil and interior air of selected homes in the Sacramento Valley of California. Information gained will aid in developing a program to minimize home air quality degradation.
Project Number: 00-05-017
Funding Round: 1 (1999-2000)
Research Focus Area: Natural Resources
ARI Member Campus: California State University, Chico
Director: Singh, Lal
To complete modeling priorities of the Riparian Ecosystem Management Model (REMM) software program currently used for simulating hydrology, nutrient dynamics, plant growth, and erosion/sedimentation in streamside ecosystems, to enhance its effectiveness as a management tool.
Project Number: 00-05-021
Funding Round: 1 (1999-2000)
Research Focus Area: Natural Resources
ARI Member Campus: California State University, Chico
Director: Altier, Lee
Employ nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy to study structural components of organic and inorganic materials in the waters of the Sacramento San Joaquin Delta. Information gained can be used to help determine causes of water quality deterioration in the delta.
Project Number: 01-01-006
Funding Round: 2 (2000-2001)
Research Focus Area: Natural Resources
ARI Member Campus: California State University, Fresno
Director: Crawford, Susan M.
To investigate important aspects of the ecology of European Starlings in California s oak woodlands, which are an important foraging and breeding habitat for many native birds. Starlings, an introduced species, have recently colonized these woodlands and have possibly begun to displace native species.
Project Number: 01-02-013
Funding Round: 2 (2000-2001)
Research Focus Area: Natural Resources
ARI Member Campus: California State University, Fresno
Director: Grubbs, David
To model Coast Redwood forest during the transition from even to steady-state uneven-aged management. This will provide forest planners and property owners the information needed to optimize similar transitions.
Project Number: 01-03-005
Funding Round: 2 (2000-2001)
Research Focus Area: Natural Resources
ARI Member Campus: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Director: Gill, Samantha
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