Education:
- Ph.D., Ecology and Biology - Utah State University, Logan, Utah. 1981.
Dissertation: Community organization of the arboreal birds in some oak woodlands of western North America.
- B.S., Natural Science - Lewis and Clark College, Portland, Oregon. 1972.
Background:
- From 1985-1988 I taught ecology, biology, and conservation biology at the University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, Washington.
- From 1989-1992 I taught ecology, evolution, and environmental issues at the University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado.
Research Interests:
My research is broadly aimed at developing the knowledge needed to protect and sustain ecological conditions in wilderness, and to develop the strategies and tools for improving the ecological-based management of wilderness nationwide. Wilderness management decisions are based on scientific information as well as on agency policies and social values, and my research reaches into all of these topics.
Current Projects:
- Wilderness Stewardship Reference System
A website that provides immediate access to relevant legislation, legislative history, judicial decisions, and agency policies on a wide range of wilderness issues.
- Predicting Individual Residential Development Near Wilderness For Planning Fuel Treatments
GIS-based statistical modeling to predict where residential development near wilderness is likely to occur, and therefore where the risks of fire escaping wilderness are the highest. These predictions could be used in reducing fuels outside wilderness to decrease the perceived risk of wilderness fire, thereby decreasing the need for suppressing naturally-ignited fires within wilderness.
Selected Publications:
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Landres, P.B. 1995. The role of ecological inventorying and monitoring in managing wilderness. Trends 32:10-13.
Cole, D.N., and P.B. Landres. 1996. Threats to wilderness ecosystems: impacts and research needs. Ecological Applications 6:168-184.
Knight, R.L., and P.B. Landres, editors. 1998. Stewardship Across Boundaries. Island Press, Washington, D.C.
Landres, P.B., R.L. Knight, S.T.A. Pickett, and M.L. Cadenasso. 1998. Ecological effects of administrative boundaries. Pages 39-64 in Stewardship Across Boundaries (R.L. Knight, P.B. Landres, editors). Island Press, Washington, D.C.
Landres, P.B., S. Marsh, L. Merigliano, D. Ritter, and A. Norman. 1998. Boundary effects on wilderness and other natural areas. Pages 117-139 in Stewardship Across Boundaries (R.L. Knight, P.B. Landres, editors). Island Press, Washington, D.C.
Landres, P.B. 1998. Integration: a beginning for landscape-scale stewardship. Pages 337-345 in Stewardship Across Boundaries (R.L. Knight, P.B. Landres, editors). Island Press, Washington, D.C.
Landres, P.B., P.S. White, G. Aplet, and A. Zimmermann. 1998. Naturalness and natural variability: definitions, concepts, and strategies for wilderness management. Pages 41-50 in Wilderness and Natural Areas in Eastern North America: Research, Management, and Planning (D.L. Kulhavy and M.L. Legg, editors). Center for Applied Studies, Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, TX.
Parsons, D.J., and P.B. Landres. 1998. Restoring natural fire to wilderness: how are we doing? Pages 366-373 in Fire in Ecosystem Management: Shifting the Paradigm From Suppression to Prescription (T.L. Pruden and L.A. Brennan, editors). Tall Timbers Fire Ecology Conference Proceedings, No. 20. Tall Timbers Research Stations, Tallahassee, FL.
Landres, P.B., P. Morgan, and F.J. Swanson. 1999. Overview of the use of natural variability concepts in managing ecological systems. Ecological Applications 9:1179-1188.
Watson, A., and P.B. Landres. 1999. Changing wilderness values. Pages 384-388 in Outdoor Recreation in American Life: A National Assessment of Demand and Supply Trends (H.K. Cordell, editor). Sagamore Publishing, Champaign, IL.
Landres, P.B., and S. Meyer. 2000. National wilderness preservation system database: key attributes and trends, 1964-1999. Revised Edition. USDA Forest Service General Technical Report RMRS-GTR-18-Revised Edition, 98 pages. Rocky Mountain Research Station, Ft. Collins, CO.
Miller C.M., P.B. Landres, and P.B. Alaback. 2000. Wildland fuels management: evaluating risks and benefits. Pages 78-87 in Proceedings from Crossing the Millennium: Integrating Spatial Technologies and Ecological Principles for a New Age in Fire Management (L.F. Neuenschwander and K.C. Ryan, technical editors). University of Idaho, Moscow, ID.
Landres, P.B., S. Meyer, and S. Matthews. 2001. The Wilderness Act and fish stocking: an overview of legislation, judicial interpretation, and agency implementation. Ecosystems 4:287-295.
Landres P.B., M. Brunson, and L. Merigliano. 2001. Naturalness and wildness: the dilemma and irony of ecological restoration in wilderness. Wild Earth Winter 10(4):77-82.
Davis, J.C., G.W. Minshall, C.T. Robinson, and P.B. Landres. 2001. Monitoring Wilderness Stream Ecosystems. USDA Forest Service General Technical Report RMRS-GTR-70, 137 pages. Rocky Mountain Research Station, Ft. Collins, CO.
Landres, P.B. 2002. Ecological considerations in using prescribed fire. Pages 35-42 in National Conference on the Social Acceptability of Fuel Treatments on Western Public Lands (J. Burchfield, editor), Bolle Center for People and Forests, University of Montana, Missoula, MT.
Knight, R.L., and P.B. Landres. 2002. Central concepts and issues of biological conservation. Pages 22-33 in Concepts and Applications of Landscape Ecology to Biological Conservation (K. Gutzwiller, editor). Springer-Verlag, New York, NY.
Parsons, D.J., P.B. Landres, and C. Miller. 2003. The dilemma of managing and restoring natural fire and fuels in United States wilderness. Pages 19-26 in Proceedings of Fire Conference 2000: The First National Congress of Fire Ecology, Prevention, and Management (K.E.M. Galley, R.C. Klinger, and N.G. Sugihara, editors). Miscellaneous Publication No. 13, Tall Timbers Research Station, Tallahassee, FL.
Landres, P., J. Alderson, and D.J. Parsons. 2003. The challenge of doing science in wilderness: historical, legal, and policy context. George Wright FORUM 20(3):42-49.
Miller, C., and P. Landres. 2004. Exploring information needs for wildland fire and fuels management. USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station General Technical Report, RMRS-GTR-127. Fort Collins, CO. 36 pages.
Landres, P. 2004. Developing indicators to monitor the "outstanding opportunities" quality of wilderness character. International Journal of Wilderness 10(3):8-11, 20.
Landres, P. 2004. Managing the wild in designated wilderness. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 9:498-499.
Thelen, G.C., J.M. Vivanco, B. Newingham, W. Good, H.P. Bais, P. Landres, A. Caesar, and R.M. Callaway. 2005. Insect herbivory stimulates allelopathic exudation by an invasive plant and the suppression of natives. Ecology Letters 8:209-217.
Contact Information:
Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institute
790 E. Beckwith Ave.
Missoula, MT 59801
Phone: 406-542-4189
Fax: 406-542-4196
E-mail: plandres@fs.fed.us
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