Salal harvester local ecological knowledge, harvest practices and understory management on the Olympic Peninsula, Washington

Human Ecology

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 529-547

  Ballard, Heidi L ^a,b   Huntsinger, Lynn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Gaultheria shallon (salal); Harvest; Local ecological knowledge; Nontimberforest products; Pacific Northwest; Sustainable resource management

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FORESTRY POLICY; FORESTRY PRACTICE; HARVESTING; NONTIMBER FOREST PRODUCT; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; SUSTAINABILITY; TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE;

MASON COUNTY [WASHINGTON]; NORTH AMERICA; OLYMPIC PENINSULA; PACIFIC NORTHWEST; UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON [UNITED STATES];

GAULTHERIA; GAULTHERIA SHALLON;

EID: 33749317246     PISSN: 03007839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10745-006-9048-7     Document Type: Article

References (67)

1. Alcorn, J. B. (1993). Indigenous peoples and conservation. Conservation Biology 7: 424-426.
2. Bailey, J. D., Mayrsohn, C., Doescher, P. S., St. Pierre, E., and Tappeiner, J. C. (1998). Understory vegetation in old and young douglas-fir forests of Western Oregon. Forest Ecology and Management 112 (2): 289-302.
3. Baker, M., and Kusel, J. (2003). Community Forestry in the United States: Past Practice, Crafting the Future, Island, Washington, District of Columbia.
4. Ballard, H. (2004). Impacts of harvesting Salal (Gaultheria shallon) on the Olympic Peninsula, Washington: Harvester Knowledge, Science, and Participation. Dissertation. Dept. of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley. (213 pages).
5. Berkes, F. (1999). Sacred Ecology. Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Resource Management, Taylor and Francis, Philadelphia and London, UK.
6. Berkes, F., and Folke, C. (1998). Linking social and ecological systems for resilience and sustainability. In Berkes, F., and Folke, C. (eds.), Linking Social and Ecological Systems: Management Practices and Social Mechanisms for Building Resilience, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.
7. Berkes, F., Colding J., and Folke, C. (2000). Rediscovery of traditional ecological knowledge as adaptive management. Ecological Applications 10 (5): 1251-1262.
8. Borchers, J., and Kusel, J. (2003). Toward a civic science for community forestry. In Baker, M., and Kusel, J. (eds.), Community Forestry in the United States: Past Practice, Crafting the Future, Island, Washington, District of Columbia.
9. Bromley, D. W. (1994). Economic dimensions of community-based conservation. In Western, D., and Wright, R. M. (eds.), Natural Connections: Perspectives in Community Based Conservation, Island, Washington, District of Columbia, pp. 428-447.
10. Brown, B. A., and Marin-Hernandez, A. (2000). Voices from the Woods: Lives and Experiences of Non-Timber Forest Workers, Jefferson Center for Education and Research, Wolf Creek, California.
11. Calheiros, D. F., Seidl, A. F., and Ferreira, C. J. A. (2000).Participatory research methods in environmental science: Local and scientific knowledge of a limnological phenomenon in the pantanal wetland of Brazil. Journal of Applied Ecology 37 (4): 684-696.
12. Coomes, O. T., and Burt, G. J. (2001). Peasant Charcoal Production in the Peruvian Amazon: Rainforest Use and Economic Reliance. Forest Ecology and Management 140 (1): 39-50.
13. Davis, A., and Wagner, J. R. (2003). Who knows? On the Importance of Identifying "Experts" When Researching Local Ecological Knowledge. Human Ecology 31 (3): 463-489.
14. Endress, B. A., Gorchov, D. L., and Peterson, M. B. (2004). Harvest of the Palm Chamaedorea Radicalis, Its effects on leaf production, and implications for sustainable management. Conservation Biology 18 (3): 822-830.
15. Everett, Y. (1997). Guide to Selected Non-Timber Forest Products of the Hayfork Adaptive Management Area, Shasta-Trinity and Six Rivers National Forests, California. USDA Forest Service Pacific Southwest Research Station. General Technical Report PSW-GTR-162, 1997.
16. Fernandez-Gimenez, M. E. (2000). The role of mongolian nomadic pastoralists' ecological knowledge in rangeland management. Ecological Applications 10 (5): 1318-1326.
17. Folke, C., Berkes, F., and Colding, J. (1998). Ecological practices and social mechanisms for building resilience and sustainability. In Berkes, F., and Folke, C. (eds.), Linking Social and Ecological Systems: Management Practices and Social Mechanisms for Building Resilience, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 414-436.
18. Gadgil, M., Berkes, F., and Folke, C. (1993). Indigenous knowledge for biodiversity conservation. Ambio 22: 151-156.
19. Gasteyer, S., and Flora, C. B. (2000). Measuring ppm with tennis shoes: Science and Locally Meaningful Indicators of Environmental Quality. Society & Natural Resources 13 (6): 589-597.
20. Gilchrist, H. G., and Robertson, G. J. (2000). Observations of marine birds and mammals wintering at Polynyas and ice edges in the Belcher Islands, Nunavut, Canada. Arctic 53 (1): 61-68.
21. Gunderson, L., Holling, C. S., and Light, S. (1995). Barriers and Bridges to the Renewal of Ecosystems and Institutions, Columbia University Press, New York.
22. Hansis, R. (2002). Case study, workers in the woods: Confronting rapid change. In Jones, E. J., McLain, R. J., and Weigand, J. (eds.), Nontimber Forest Products in the United States, University of Kansas, Kansas.
23. He, F., and Barclay, H. J. (2000). Long-term response of understory plant species to thinning and fertilization in a Douglas-fir Plantation on Southern Vancourver Island, British Columbia. Canadian Journal of Forestry 30: 566-572.
24. Henderson, J. A., Peter, D. H., Lester, R. D., and Shaw, D. C. (1989). Forested Plant Associations of the Olympic National Forest. Pacific Northwest Region Technical Paper 001-88. USDA Forest Service, Portland, 502 pp.
25. Holling, C. S. (1978). Adaptive Environmental Assessment and Management, Wiley, London.
26. Holling, C. S., and Meffe, G. K. (1996). Command and control and the pathology of natural resource management. Conservation Biology 10 (2): 328-337.
27. Holling, C. S., Berkes, F., and Folke, C. (1998). Science, sustainability and resource management. In Berkes, F., and Folke, C. (eds.), Linking Social and Ecological Systems: Management Practices and Social Mechanisms for Building Resilience, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 342-362.
28. Huntington, H. P. (2000). Using traditional ecological knowledge in science: Methods and applications. Ecological Applications 10 (5): 1270-1274.
29. Jansson, A., and Hammer, M. (1999). Patches and Pulses as fundamental characteristics for matching ecological and cultural diversity: The Baltic Sea Archipelago. Biodiversity and Conservation 8 (1): 71-84.
30. Jones, E. J., McLain, R. J., and Weigand, J. (eds.) (2002). Nontimber Forest Products in the United States. University Press of Kansas, Kansas.
31. Kerns, B. K., Pilz, D., Ballard, H., and Alexander, S. J. (2003). Managing for nontimber forest resources. In Johnson, A. C., Haynes, W., and Monserud, R. A. (eds.), Compatible Forest Management: Case Studies from Alaska and the Pacific Northwest, Kluwer, Boston, Massachusetts.
32. Klooster, D. J. (2002). Toward adaptive community forest management: Integrating local forest knowledge with scientific forestry. Economic Geography 78 (1): 43-70.
33. Kohm, K. A., and Franklin, J. F. (1997). Creating a Forestry for the 21st Century: The Science of Ecosystem Management, Island, Washington, District of Columbia.
34. Lee, K. N. (1993). Compass and Gyroscope: Integrating Science and Politics for the Environment, Island, Washington, District of Columbia.
35. Ludwig, D., Hilborn, R., and Walters, C. (1993). Uncertainty, resource exploitation and conservation: Lessons from history. Science 260 (17): 36.
36. Lynch, K., and McLain, R. J. (2003). Floral Greens and Access Issues on the Olympic Peninsula, Washington. General Technical Report.
37. Mackinson, S. (2001). Integrating local and scientific knowledge: An example in Fisheries Science. Environmental Management 27 (4): 533-545.
38. Mallory, M. L., Gilchrist, H. G., Fontaine, A. J., and Akearok, J. A. (2003). Local ecological knowledge of ivory gull declines in Arctic Canada. Arctic 56 (3): 293-298.
39. Mason County Chamber of Commerce (2005). Job Market: A SnapShot. [http://www.sheltonchamber.org/x174.xml] accessed April 4, 2005.
40. McCay, B. J., and Acheson, J. M. (1987). The Question of the Commons. The Culture and Ecology of Communal Resources, University of Arizona, Tuscon.
41. McLain, R. J., and Jones, E. J. (1997). Challenging 'community' definitions in sustainable natural resource management: The case of wild mushroom harvesting in the USA. IIED Gatekeeper Series no. SA68: International Institute for Environment and Development.
42. McLain, R. J., and Lee, R. G. (1996). Adaptive management-promises and pitfalls. Environmental Management 20 (4): 437-448.
43. McLain, R. J., Christensen, H. H., and Shannon, M. A. (1998). When amateurs are the experts-amateur mycologists and wild mushroom politics in the Pacific Northwest, US. Society & Natural Resources 11 (6): 615-626.
44. Molina, R., Vance, N., Weigand, V., Pilz, D., and Amaranthus, M. (1998). Special forest products: Integrating social, economic, and biological considerations into ecosystem management. In Kohm, K. A., and Franklin, J. F. (eds.), Creating a Forestry for the 21st Century: The Science of Ecosystem Management, Island, Washington, District of Columbia.
45. Murphree, M. (1993). Communities as resource management institutions. IIED Gatekeeper Series No. 36: International Institute for Environment and Development.
46. Nabhan, G. P. (2000). Interspecific relationships affecting endangered species recognized by O'odham and Comcaac Cultures. Ecological Applications 10 (5): 1288-1295.
47. Nyhus, P., Sumianto, J., and Tilson, R. (2003). Wildlife knowledge among migrants in Southern Sumatra, Indonesia: Implications for Conservation. Environmental Conservation 30 (2): 192-199.
48. Olsson, P., and Folke, C. (2001). Local ecological knowledge and institutional dynamics for ecosystem management: A study of Lake Racken Watershed, Sweden. Ecosystems 4 (2): 85-104.
49. Ostrom, E. (1990). Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
50. Pattengill-Semmens, C. V., and Semmens, B. X. (2003). Conservation and management applications of the reef volunteer fish monitoring program. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 81 (1-3): 43-50.
51. Pierotti, R., and Wildcat, D. (2000). Traditional ecological knowledge: The third alternative (commentary). Ecological Applications 10 (5): 1333-1340.
52. Pinkerton, E. (1998). Integrate management of a temperate montane forest ecosystem through wholistic forestry: A British Columbia Example. In Berkes, F., and Folke, C. (eds.), Linking Social and Ecological Systems: Management Practices and Social Mechanisms for Building Resilience, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.
53. Savage, M. (1995). Pacific northwest special forest products: An industry in transition. Journal of Forestry 93 (3): 6-11.
54. Schlosser, W., Blatner, K., and Chapman, R. (1991). Economic and marketing implications of special forest products harvest in the coastal pacific northwest. Western Journal of Applied Forestry 6 (3): 67-72.
55. Shannon, M. A., and Antypas, A. R. (1996). Civic science is democracy in action. Northwest Science 70 (1): 66-69.
56. Shindler, B., and Cheek, K. A. (1999). Integrating citizens in adaptive management: A propositional analysis. Conservation Ecology 3 (1): 9.
57. Sillitoe, P. (1998). The development of indigenous knowledge: A new applied anthropology. Current Anthropology 39 (2): 223-252.
58. Stevenson, M. G. (1996). Indigenous knowledge in environmental assessment. Arctic 49 (3): 278-291.
59. Thomas, S. C., Halpern, C. B., Flak, D. A., Liguori, D. A., and Austini, K. A. (1999). Plant diversity in managed forests: Understory responses to thinning and fertilization. Ecological Applications 9 (3): 864-879.
60. Ticktin, T., and Johns, T. (2002). Chinanteco management of Aechmea Magdalenae: Implications for the use of TEK and TRM in management plans. Economic Botany 56 (2): 177-191.
61. Turner, N. J., Ignace, M. B., and Ignace, R. (2000). Traditional ecological knowledge and wisdom of aboriginal peoples in British Columbia. Ecological Applications 10 (5): 1275-1287.
62. Usher, P. J. (2000). Traditional ecological knowledge in environmental assessment and management. Arctic 53 (2): 183-193.
63. Von Hagen, B., and Fight, R. (1999). Opportunities for conservation-based development of nontimber forest products in the Pacific Northwest, General Technical Report, PNW-GTR-473. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, Portland, Oregon.
64. Walters, C. (1986). Adaptive Managment of Renewable Resources, McGraw-Hill, New York.
65. Washington Department of Natural Resources (2003). Sustainable forestry Draft Environmental Impact Statement, Chapter 3. [www.dnr.wa.gov/htdocs/ fr/sales/sustainharvest/deis_section/chap_3.pdf] accessed March 21, 2005.
66. Washington Native Plant Society (2004). West Lowland Forest Ecoystem. [http://www3.thingstodo.com/states/WA/nationalparks/olympic/ecology.htm] accessed March 21, 2005.
67. Western, D., and Wright, M. (eds.), (1994). Natural Connections: Perspectives in Community-Based Conservation. Island, Washington, District of Columbia.