SIXTH PROGRESS REPORT
January 1993 - July1994

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Table of Contents

1. INTRODUCTION
   
   • Goals of Program
   • Program Impacts
   • Joint Hardwood Policy
     
     
2. THE URBAN WILDLAND INTERFACE
   
   • Birds & Fragmentation
   • County Planners Survey
   • Biological Monitoring Along the Wildland/Urban Interface
   • Defining the Wildland-Urban Interface
   • Central Coast Sustainable Landscapes Projects
   • Restoring Oaks on Engineered Slopes
   • Bioregional Planning
     
     
3. HARDWOOD RANGELAND MANAGEMENT IN WILDLAND AREAS
   
   • Tehama County Hardwood Advisory Committee
   • California's Native Grasslands
   • New Economic Enterprises of Oak Woodlands
   • Riparian Issues
   • Alternative Economic Enterprises for Hardwoods
   • Firewood Harvests
   • Factors Affecting Blue Oak Recruitment & Regeneration
   • The California Spotted Owl and Hardwood Rangelands
     
     
4. MONITORING HARDWOOD RANGELANDS
   
   • Long-term Monitoring
   • Short-term Monitoring Effort
   • Developing an Alternative Monitoring Approach
   • Monitoring to Assess the Effectiveness of Hardwood Conservation Efforts
   • Overall Goals
   • Specific Criteria for Evaluating Success of Strategies
     

Edited by Richard B. Standiford and Pamela J. Tinnin. Text written by Cathy Bleier, Barrett A. Garrison, Gregory A. Giusti, Douglas D. McCreary, Sheila Peck, Thomas Scott, Richard B. Standiford, and William Tietje. Design and Layout by Pamela J. Tinnin. Photographs by Thomas Scott, Robert H. Schmidt. Pamela J. Tinnin. Copies available from IHRMP Manager, Department of Forestry & Resource Management, 160 Mulford Hall, University of California, Berkeley, CA 97420.

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"With some exceptions they grow rather slowly and require several centuries to produce the high-class saw timber which our virgin oak forests once furnished in great quantities, but which now is rapidly disappearing."

George B. Sudworth, 1908