Martha's Vineyard Forest Restoration - related articles

Complete Transcripts of Vineyard Gazette Articles

Clearing the Forest: a Commentary

State Forest Tapped for Massive Clearing

Harvard Forest Expert Describes Clearing the Way for Restoration

Longtime Island Conservationist Calls for More Public Process

Harvard Forest Report on the Manuel F Correllus State Forest on Martha's Vineyard

http://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/publications/pdfs/vineyard.pdf

HF Articles on MV and the Coastal Region

Foster, D., B. Hall, S. Barry, S. Clayden, and T. Parshall. 2002. Cultural, environmental, and historical controls of vegetation patterns and the modern conservation setting on the island of Martha's Vineyard, U.S.A. Journal of Biogeography 29: 1381-1400.

Foster, D. R. and G. Motzkin. 2003. Interpreting and conserving the openland habitats of coastal New England: insights from landscape history. Forest Ecology and Management 185: 127-150.

Motzkin, G. and D. R. Foster. 2002. Grasslands, heathlands and shrublands in coastal New England: historical interpretations and approaches to conservatism.Journal of Biogeography 29: 1569-1590.

Motzkin, G., R. Eberhardt, B. Hall, D. Foster, J. Harrod, and D. MacDonald. 2002. Vegetation variation across Cape Cod, Massachusetts: environmental and historical determinants.Journal of Biogeography 29: 1439-1454.

Parshall, T. and Foster. D. 2002. Fire on the New England landscape: regional and temporal variation, cultural and environmental controls.Journal of Biogeography 29: 1305-1317.

Harvard Forest Articles Interpreting Sandplain Ecosystems

Motzkin, G., D. R. Foster, A. Allen, J. Harrod, and R. D. Boone. 1996. Controlling site to evaluate history: vegetation patterns of a New England sand plain.Ecological Monographs 66: 345-365.

Motzkin, G., W. A. I. Patterson, and D. R. Foster. 1999. A historical perspective on pitch pine-scrub oak communities in the Connecticut Valley of Massachusetts.Ecosystems 2: 255-273.

Harvard Forest Articles applying Landscape History to Conservation

Foster, D. R. 2000. From bobolinks to bears: interjecting geographical history into ecological studies, environmental interpretation, and conservation planning.Journal of Biogeography 27: 27-30.

Foster, D. R. and G. Motzkin. 1998. Ecology and conservation in the cultural landscape of New England: lessons from nature's history. Northeastern Naturalist 5: 111-126.

Foster, D. R. 2001. Conservation lessons and challenges from ecological history..Forest History Today Fall 2000: 2-11.