Research Literature for Park Break 2008
Indiana Dunes: Wildland Urban-Interface
WILDLAND URBAN-INTERFACE (WUI) refers to the area where structures and other human development meet or intermingle with undeveloped wildland. WUI area exist wherever residential, industrial, or agricultural structures are located within or adjacent to trees and other combustible vegetation. In the WUI, structures and vegetation are sufficiently close so that a wildland fire could spread to structures or a structure fire could ignite vegetation.
In a parks context, WUIs imply possible tensions between the mandates of park management and the interests of residents of the WUI area, as well as opportunities for new collaborative approaches to challenges posed by the burgeoning numbers of people living in WUIs.
*More readings may be added at the request of speakers.
Required Readings:
Byappanahalli, M., Fowler, M. Shively, D., & Whitman, R. (2003). Ubiquity and Persistence of Escherichia coli in a Midwestern Coastal Stream. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. Aug. 2003, Vol. 69(8). p. 4549-4555.
Crompton, J. L.
(2006). George Melendez
Wright: Pugsley Bronze Medal 1936. Twentieth Century Champions of Parks and
Conservation Volume I. The Pugsley Medal Recipients 1928-1964. Urbana,
Illinois. Sagamore Publishing, (267-270).
Cowles, Henry C. The Ecological Relations of the Vegetation on the Sand Dunes of Lake Michigan. Part I.- Geographical Relations of the Dune Floras. Botanical Gazette. Vol. 27, No.2. (Feb. 1899), pp. 95-117.
Grundel, Ralph, Pavlovic, Noel B., & Sluis, William (2006). Groundlayer vegetation gradients across oak woodland canopy gaps. Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society, 133(2), 2006. pp. 225-239.
Grundel, Ralph, & Pavlovic, Noel B. (2007). Resource availability, matrix quality, microclimate, and spatial pattern as predictors of patch use by the Karner blue butterfly. Biological Conservation, 135-144.
Grundel, Ralph, & Pavlovic, Noel B. (2008). Using conservation value to assess land restoration and management alternatives across a degraded oak savanna landscape. Journal of Applied Ecology, 2008, 45, 315-324.
Kyle, G.T., & Graefe, A.R. (2007).
Introduction to the issues confronting the management of urban-proximate natural
resource recreation areas. Journal of Park and Recreation Administration,
25(4), 1-5.
Schuett, M.A., Lu, J., Fannin, D, & Bowser, G. (2007). The wildland urban interface and the national forests of East Texas. Journal of Park and Recreation Administration, 25(4), 6-24.
Whitman, R. L., Nevers, M. B., & Byappanahalli, M. N. (2006). Examination of the Watershed-Wide Distribution of Escherichia coli along Southern Lake Michigan: an Integrated Approach. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. Nov. 2006, Vol. 72(11). p. 7301-7310.
Recommended Readings:
Leong, K.M., Decker, D.J., Forester, J., Curtis P.D., & Wild, M.A. (2007). Expanding problem frames to understand human-wildlife conflicts in urban-proximate parks. Journal of Park and Recreation Administration, 25(4), 62-78.
Smil, Vaclav (2006). 21st Century Energy: Some Sobering Thoughts. OECD Observer. (December 2006). No. 258/59, pp. 22-23.
Stewart, W., Barkley, J., Kerins, A., Gladdys, K., & Glover, T. (2007). Park development on the urban-agricultural fringe. Journal of Park and Recreation Administration, 25(4), 117-138.
Mutz, K.M., Bryner, G.C., & Kenney, D.S. (eds.). (2002). Justice and natural resources: Concepts, strategies and applications. Washington, DC: Island Press.
U.S. CODE
WILDLAND-URBAN INTERFACE
Required Readings:
Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, IN, 16 U.S.C. §§ 460u-460u-26.
Title16 – Conservation
Chapter1 - National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores
Subchapter LXXIX – Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore
§ 460u. Establishment; description of area
§ 460u-1. Acquisition of property
§ 460u-2. Direction for establishment; publication in Federal Register; continuing acquisition of lands
§ 460u-3. “Improved property” and “appropriate map” defined; terms and conditions for rights of use and occupancy
§ 460u-4. Repealed.]
§ 460u-5. Owner’s retention of right of use and occupancy for residential purposes
§ 460u-6. Administration
§ 460u-7. Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore Advisory Commission
§ 460u-8. State jurisdiction
§ 460u-9. Authorization of appropriations; general management plan; submittal to Congressional committees; feasibility study
§ 460u-10. Rights-of-way and easements; existing property rights of Northern Indiana Public Service Company
§ 460u-11. Legal cooling, process, or surface drainage into Little Calumet River; Federal, State or local air and water pollution standards not affected
§ 460u-12. Repealed.]
§ 460u-13. Acquisition of area IC; owner consent required
§ 460u-14. Plan, lands acquired, land acquisition program; submittal to Congressional committees
§ 460u-15. Rights-of-way; public access to Little Calumet River
§ 460u-16. Road construction cooperative agreements with landowners north of Little Calumet River; prevention of soil erosion; minimization of aural and visual impact
§ 460u-17. Lands within area IE used for solid waste disposal
§ 460u-18. Study of areas IIIA, IIIC, and IIA; report to Congressional committees
§ 460u-19. Acquisition of land outside present boundaries; notice to Congressional committees; publication in Federal Register
§ 460u-20. Paul H. Douglas Ecological and Recreational Unit and Center for Environmental Education
§ 460u-21. Public access study
§ 460u-22. Consideration of property owner’s hardship in property acquisition
§ 460u-23. Acquisition of interest in area VIIA
§ 460u-24. Little Calumet River and Burns/Portage Waterway
§ 460u-25. Cooperative agreement with Gary, Indiana
§ 460u-26. Units VIID and IM