Table Of Content8th Biennial Scientific Conference on the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem
Greater Yellowstone
Public Lands
A Century of Discovery, Hard Lessons, and Bright Prospects
October 17-19, 2005
Mammoth Hot Springs Hotel
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
The Eighth Biennial Scientific Conference on the Greater Yellowstone
Ecosystem willfocus onpublic lands issues in Greater Yellowstone.
Thegoaloftheconference is togenerate, in non-technicallanguage, a
publicly-orienteddiscussion ofthe mandates, "cultures," relationships,
andaccomplishments ofthe numerous local, state, andfederal
managementagencies responsiblefor Greater Yellowstone'spublic
lands. Are the "conflictingmandates" ofthese agencies really the
problem they've beenportrayedto be? Whatare theprospectsforlong-
termplanning, scientific information exchange, sustainable recreation,
andcommunityprosperity? Whatnew social andecologicparadigms
andperspectives may serve the needs ofthe region?
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Trdiminarij Agenda
Monday, October 17 Tuesday, October 18
12:30-2:30 8:00-8:45
Rec Hall Rec Hall
Screening of U.S. Forest Service film, Morning Keynote
The Greatest Good Monica Turner, University ofWisconsin-Madison
3:00-3:15
8:45-10:00
Rec Hall
Rec Hall
Introduction and Welcome
Remote Sensing and Landscape Analysis
Ecological Drivers and the Importance of Pristine
3:15-5:00
Ecosystems
Rec Hall Robert Crabtree, Yellowstone Ecological Research
Biocomplexity on Yellowstone's Northern Range: Center
Human Impacts and Natural Ecosystems Remote Sensing as a Tool to Observe Rock Glaciers in
Panel: David Bennett, University of Iowa; David the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem
McGinnis, Montana State University-Billings; Duncan Ian Fairweather, HyPerspectives, Inc.
Patten, Montana State University; William Travis,
University ofColorado at Boulder; and Mark Williams, The Ability of Airborne LiDAR to Measure Tree
Characteristics Across Large Spatial Scales
UniversityofColoradoatBoulder
Brian Seneker, HyPerspectives, Inc.
Map Room
Map Room
Evolution of GYE Resource Policy and Perception
Water Resources and Management
The Death of Environmentalism and Shift Toward
Recreation on the Upper Yellowstone River: A Study of
Community-Created Conservation
Use and Place
Tom Darin,Jackson Hole ConservationAlliance
Norma Nickerson, University ofMontana
Yellowstone, the Winter Wonderland: Contested
A Century of Fisheries Management in Grand Teton
Landscape, Conflicting Meanings
National Park
Michael Yochim, YellowstoneNationalPark
Susan O'Ney, Grand Teton National Park, and Rob
Progressivism Comes to Yellowstone: Theodore Gipson, WyomingFish and Game
RooseveltandProfessionalLandManagementAgencies
Watershed Management Strategy for the Greater
in the Yellowstone Ecosystem
Yellowstone Area
JeremyJohnston, Northwest College
GregBevenger, Shoshone NationalForest
GreaterYellowstoneBisonDistributionandAbundance
in the Early Historical Period
10:15-12:00
PaulSchullery, Yellowstone NationalPark
Rec Hall
6:30-7:30 The Greater Yellowstone Coordinating Committee:
Challenges of Today
Map Room
Panel: BeckyAus, ForestSupervisor, Shoshone National
Welcome Reception Forest; Robert Barbee, former superintendent,
Yellowstone National Park; Barry Reiswig, Refuge
7:30-8:30 Manager, National Elk Refuge; Mary Gibson Scott,
Rec Hall Superintendent, Grand Teton National Park; andJack
Troyer, RegionalForester, USFSIntermountain Region
Opening Keynote
Dale Bosworth, Chief U.S. ForestService UPB
Agenda
^reliminarij
12:00-1:30 Integrating Natural Resource Monitoring Across State
and Federal Agencies
Mammoth Hotel Dining Room
CathieJean, NationalParkService
Superintendent's International Luncheon and Lecture
RegionalEffectsontheYellowstoneMammalianSpecies
HarveyLocke, Canadian Parksand WildernessSociety
Pool
JudsenBruzgul, Stanford University
1:30-2:45
Rec Hall 6:00-7:00
Mammals Spatial and Energy Requirements Map Room
I:
PredictingWhitebark Pine Cone ProductionforGrizzly Evening Reception/Poster Session
BearManagement
EliotMclntire, UniversityofMontana 7:00
Temporal, Spatial, and Environmental Influences on Mammoth Hotel Dining Room
the Demographics of Grizzly Bears in the Greater
A. Starker Leopold Banquet and Lecture
Yellowstone Ecosystem
Mark Haroldson, U.S. Geological Survey, Interagency Jack WardThomas, UniversityofMontana
GrizzlyBearStudyTeam
Wolf Survival and Public Land: Do Wolves Have a
Chance Outside ofReserves?
Wednesday, October
19
Douglas W. Smith, YellowstoneNationalPark
Map Room
8:00-8:45
Landscapes Viewed in Context
Rec Hall
AirQualityAssessment ofthe GreaterYellowstoneArea
MarkStory, Gallatin NationalForest Morning Keynote
The Geologic Basis ofManagement Agency Diversity in Karen Wade, NationalParkService (ret.)
the GreaterYellowstone Ecosystem
Kenneth Pierce, U.S. GeologicalSurvey (ret.) 8:45-10:00
From Microscope to Telescope: Viewing Yellowstone Rec Hall
from a Global Perspective Mammals
II:
JudithMeyer, MissouriState University Assessment and Management Techniques
Wildlife at a Crossroads: Energy Development in the
3:00-4:45 Upper Green River Basin
Rec Hall JaniceThomson, The WildernessSociety
Fire in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem: Establishing a Spatial Framework and Determining an
Coupling Social Expectations with Ecological Realities Effective Geographic Scale for Wolverine Conservation
Panel: Dan Tinker, University of Wyoming; William in GreaterYellowstone
Romme, Colorado State University; Randy Walsh, RobertInman, Wildlife Conservation Society
ColoradoState University;andNathanKorb, TheNature CarnivoreConservationandSearchDogs:TheValueofa
Conservancy Novel, Non-Invasive Technique in the GYE
Map Room JonBeckmann, Wildlife ConservationSociety
Map Room
The Big Picture: Cross-Boundary Issues in the GYE
Yellowstone: AModel for Ecosystem Research Perspectives on the Past:
MichaelFoos, Indiana UniversityEast Human Influences on GYE Wildlife
Archeological Investigations of Prehistoric Hunting
Prioritization of Conservation Areas in the Greater
Yellowstone Ecosystem Blinds for Bighorn Sheep in Winter Range
WaltAllen, GallatinNationalForest
Holly Copeland, TheNature Conservancy
Agenda
TreCiminary
Ancient Corridors: The Trapper's Point Story of the Cascading Trophic-Level Effects ofthe Reintroduction
Prehistoric Path ofthe Pronghorn of Wolves into Yellowstone National Park on Elk
Meredith Taylor, WyomingOutdoor Council Populations and Willow Communities
GreaterYellowstone Pronghorn: A Nineteenth Century FrancisSinger, U.S. GeologicalSurvey
Historical Context An Alternative Explanation for Willow Height Increase
PaulSchullery, YellowstoneNationalPark Following WolfReintroduction
DonDespain, U.S. GeologicalSurvey
10:15-12:00 Mechanisms foraTrophic Cascade: HypothesisTesting
Rec Hall in Yellowstone's Wolf-Elk-Willow Food Chain
Nathan Varley, UniversityofAlberta
Human Economics and Values in the GYE
Map Room
WeAreFromMars,TheyAreFromEarth: GettingWhat
We Want From Our Relationships with Wild Animals Native Plant Communities:
MaryAnnFranke, Yellowstone NationalPark Monitoring, Management, and Restoration
The Montana Challenge: Remainingthe Last Best Place Through the Historical Lens: An Examination of
for Fish and Wildlife in a ChangingWest Compositional Change in Yellowstone's Bunchgrass
CindySwanson, U.S. ForestService Communities (1958-2002)
Pamela Sikkink, UniversityofMontana
The Role ofConservation in Economic Development
RayRasker, SonoranInstitute Restoring Native Vegetation on Ungulate Winter Range
in and Near Yellowstone National Park
Integrating Landscape-Scale Economic and Ecological MaryHektner, YellowstoneNationalPark
Models in the Greater Yellowstone Area
John Dujfield, UniversityofMontana Multi-Park Invasive Plant Monitoring Protocols with
Applications to the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem
Map Room
Elizabeth Crowe, Montana State University
Fire Ecology: Biotic and Abiotic Factors BiologicalControlofDalmatianToadflax:ASustainable
Insect-Fire Interactions in Yellowstone National Park WeedControlOptionfortheGreaterYellowstoneArea?
HeatherLynch, Harvard University Marjolein Schat, Montana State University
Linking the Fire Environment to Long-Term Fire
Effects 3:30-4:30
Malcolm McFarland, GrandTeton NationalPark Rec Hall
Analysis of 1988 Post-Fire Forest Conditions in Summary Keynote
Yellowstone National Park from the 2002 Forest
RichardKnight, ColoradoState University
Inventory and Analysis ofWyoming
Mike Thompson, U.S. ForestService
12:00-1:30
Mavimoth Hotel Dining Room
Aubrey L Haines Luncheon and Lecture
Sarah E. Boehme, Whitney Gallery ofWesternArt
1:30-3:15
Rec Hall
Trophic Cascade Research: Perspectives
What Did They Eat?: Browse History of Aspen in
Northern Yellowstone
RoyRenkin, Yellowstone NationalPark
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Greater Yellowstone Public Lands Conference
October 17-19, 2005, Mammoth Hot Springs, Wyoming
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FeaturedSpeafgrs
A. Starker Leopold Lecture Director of Forest Management from 1990 through 1992
Jack Ward Thomas, Ph.D., holds a B.S. in Wildlife Biology before being assigned to the field as a Deputy Regional
fromTexasA&M University,anM.S. inWildlife Sciencefrom Forester. Hewas the Regional Foresterforthe Intermountain
West Virginia University, and an M.F. and Ph.D. in Forestry Region headquartered in Ogden, Utah. Prior to his selection
fromthe UniversityofMassachusetts. Heworked 10yearsfor as Chief, he served as Regional Forester for the Northern
theTexasParksandWildlife Department,and30yearsforthe Region, headquartered in Missoula, Montana. Dale and his
U.S. ForestService (27yearsasaresearchscientistand3years wife, Carma, have two grown children, Kristy and Neil, a
as Chief). He is currently the Boone and Crockett Professor daughter-in-law,Amy, and one grandchild, Reid.
of Conservation at the University of Montana, where he has
taught for seven years. He has authored or co-authored over RichardKnight, Ph.D.,isaProfessorofWildlifeConservation
400 publications in areas including ecology, conservation atColorado State University. Heisinterested inthe ecological
biology, forestry, range management, threatened species effects associated with the conversion of the Old West to a
management, ethics, philosophy, economics, fish and wildlife New West. Before becoming an academic, he worked for
management, and natural resource planning. He has received the Washington Department of Game, developing the
numerous awards, including the Aldo Leopold Medal from nongame wildlife program. Dr. Knight sits on a number of
The Wildlife Society, the Award for Distinguished Service boards, including the Colorado Cattlemen's Agricultural
from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Fellow of the Land Trust and The Natural Resources Law Center. He is
Society of American Foresters, the Gulf Oil Conservation an assigning editor for the journal Conservation Biology,
Award, Distinguished Achievement Award of the Society for and has published several books, including: A New Century
Conservation Biology, and honorary doctorates from Lewis forNaturalResourcesManagement (1995),StewardshipAcross
and Clark College and Lakehead University (Canada). Boundaries (1998), Ranching West of the 100th Meridian
(2002), Aldo Leopold and the Ecological Conscience (2002),
Superintendent's International Lecture and Ecosystem Management:An Adaptive, Community-Based
HarveyLockeservesasstrategicadvisorfortheYellowstone- Approach (2002).
to-YukonConservation Initiative,which he helped create. He
is also a senior advisor to several non-profit environmental Monica G. Turner, Ph.D., is a Professor of Zoology at the
organizations, including the Canadian Parks and Wilderness UniversityofWisconsin-Madison.Dr.TurnergrewupinNew
Society, Tides Canada Foundation, Canadian Boreal York, and first visited Yellowstone in 1978, when she worked
Initiative, and The Wildlands Project. He is a member of at Old Faithful as a ranger-naturalist. As a graduate student,
the World Commission on ProtectedAreas and the executive she worked as a summer intern with the NPS in Washington,
committee ofthe EighthWorldWildernessCongress,and has D.C., and conducted her doctoral research in Virgin Islands
served aspresidentoftheAlbertaLiberal Party. In 1999,Time National Park and Cumberland Island National Seashore.
Canada magazine named him one ofCanada's leaders forthe She has studied fire, vegetation, and ecosystem processes in
twenty-first century. Yellowstone since 1988, and is also studying elk movement
and habitat use. She was a member ofthe National Research
Aubrey L. Haines Lecture Council committee that evaluated ungulate management in
Sarah E. Boehme, Ph.D., has served as the John S. Bugas Yellowstone (Ungulate Dynamics on Yellowstone's Northern
Curator, Whitney Gallery of Western Art, at the Buffalo Range, 2002, National Academy Press). Currently, she is co-
Bill Historical Center in Cody, Wyoming, since 1986. She editor-in-chiefofEcosystems, an editorial board memberfor
earnedherB.A. from Sarah Lawrence College and holds an Bioscience,andamemberofthe RapidResponseTeamofthe
M.A. and Ph.D. in History ofArtfrom Bryn MawrCollege. Ecological Society of America. She has received awards for
Dr. Boehme has authored or co-authored several books and distinguished scholarship, and was elected to membership in
catalogues on Western American art, and has has lectured the National AcademyofSciences in 2004.
extensively on topics in western art and artists including
Thomas Moran, Frederic Remington, and Charles M. Karen Wade retired in 2003 as director of the Inter-
Russell. She serves on the Frederic Remington examination mountain Region for the National Park Service. Her NPS
committee. career included assignments at Mesa Verde National Park,
Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine,
Keynote Lectures Guadalupe Mountains National Park, Wrangell-St. Elias
Dale N. Bosworth became the fifteenth Chief of the U.S. National Park and Preserve, and Great Smoky Mountains
Forest Service on April 12, 2001. Dale was born in Altadena, National Park. Karen serves on the board of the Sonoran
California, and grew up there in a Forest Service family. He Institute, and helped found Earth Care Connection, USA, a
began his career in 1966, as a forester. He worked as a line mentoring organization for women in conservation. She was
officer on several national forests and in planning positions part ofthe team that developed the NPS's Natural Resource
in the West. He worked in the Washington Office as Deputy Challenge.
Information
Reservations and Facilities Dining
The conference will be held at the historic Mammoth Hot The Mammoth Hot Springs Hotel and Restaurant will close
Springs Hotel, at park headquarters. The Mammoth Hotel tothepubliconMonday,October17.Afterthat,thehoteland
and Restaurant will be open for conference activities only. restaurant will be open only to registered conference par-
Camping is available on a first-come, first-served basis at the ticipants choosing OptionA. For attendees choosing Option
Mammoth Campground. Alternative camping, lodging, and B, the nearest restaurants, grocery, and hotel accommoda-
dining facilities are available five miles from Mammoth in tions are located five miles north of Mammoth in Gardiner,
Gardiner, Montana. Montana.
Poster Session
Posters will be displayed in the Mammoth Hotel Lobby. Set-
upwillbeginat1:00 onMonday,October17.Take-downmust
be completedby3:00 onWednesday, October 19.
Sponsors of this special event include:
Yellowstone Association
Yellowstone National Park
Draper Museum of Natural History, Buffalo Bill Historical Center
Grand Teton National Park
UW-NPS, Research Office, and Ruckelshaus Institute, University ofWyoming
Rocky Mountains Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit
Greater Yellowstone Coordinating Committee:
National Park Service
(Grand Teton NP,John D. Rockefeller, Memorial Parkway, Yellowstone NP)
Jr.,
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
(National Elk Refuge, Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge)
U.S. Forest Service
(Beaverhead-Deerlodge NF, Bridger-Teton NF, Caribou-Targhee NF,
Custer NF, Gallatin NF, Shoshone NF)
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