Project Details & Resources highlight selected Leopold Institute research projects and their associated publications and products. Project Details & Resources are ongoing and will include future projects as they become available. To view brief summaries of all Leopold Institute Research Projects, see our Searchable Project Database.

Ecosystem Disturbance

Fire - Ecological Research

• Can Wildland Fire Use (WFU) Restore Historical Fire Regimes In Wilderness And Other Unroaded Lands?  [F002]
  Carol Miller and Brett Davis

• Effects of Prescribed and Wildland Fire on Aquatic Ecosystems in Western Forests  [F003]
  David Pilliod

• Learning From the Past: Retrospective Analyses of Fire Behavior in Yosemite and Sequoia-Kings Canyon National Parks  [F006]
  Carol Miller and Brett Davis

Fire - Risk Assessment

• Wildland Fuels Management: Evaluating and planning risks and benefits  [F001]
  Anne Black, Carol Miller and Peter Landres

• Fire Effects Planning Framework  [F005]
  Anne Black

Fire - Social Research

• Assessing High Reliability in the federal Wildland Fire Community  [F017]
  Kathleen Sutcliffe, Anne Black, Michelle Barton, Dierdre Dether, Dave Thomas, and Wildland Fire Lessons Learned Center

• Technical and Social Influences to the Success of Fire Science Delivery  [F016]
  Vita Wright and Michael Patterson

Recreation

• Visitor Research in Heavily Used Wilderness  [F007]
  David Cole, Troy Hall, Rudy Schuster, and U.S. Forest Service: Pacific Northwest Region
• Wilderness Visitor Experiences in Oregon and Washington  [F007_B]

• Campsite restoration techniques  [F008]
  David Cole, Cathy Zabinski, and U.S. Forest Service: Missoula Technology Development Center

• Computer simulation modeling of recreation use: developing a practical management tool  [F009]
  David Cole, Randy Gimblett, Bob Manning, Steve Lawson, National Park Service, and Rocky Mountain Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit

• Baseline data collection and monitoring: trends in recreation use and impacts  [F010]
  David Cole, Troy Hall, Pam Foti, Doug McEwen, U.S. Forest Service, and Grand Canyon National Park

• Wilderness recreation management techniques: compiling and integrating scientific and experiential knowledge  [F011]
  David Cole and Arthur Carhart Wilderness Training Center

• Recreation ecology research: expanding, synthesizing and sharing knowledge  [F012]
  David Cole and Yu-Fai Leung

• Dilemmas of wilderness management: exploring conflicting values  [F013]
  David Cole

Wilderness Management Issues

• Wilderness Character Monitoring  [F014]
  Peter Landres

• Beyond Naturalness: Goals for Protected Area Ecosystems  [F018]
  David Cole and Laurie Yung

Applying Research

• The Linking Wilderness Research and Management Series of Annotated Reading Lists  [F004]
  Vita Wright, Amy Cilimburg, Brian Glaspell, Marion Hourdequin, Sophie Osborn, Alison Perkins, Annette Puttkammer, Doug Tempel, and Brett Walker

• Technical and Social Influences to the Success of Fire Science Delivery  [F016]
  Vita Wright and Michael Patterson

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