Videos & Photos 

Brush management mini-documentary produced by College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, UA

Presentation at the Science on the Sonoita Plain Symposium, June 2017


DJI Phantom flight, May 2017

Herbicide application via helicopter


Firefly drone flight.


UAV video, 1 month post-treatment, July 2016
Courtesy of Dr. Greg A. Barron-Gafford

UAV video, 1 month post-treatment, July 2016.
Courtesy of Dr. Greg A. Barron-Gafford

Photos of Foliage Recovery

Posters

archer
Naito AT, SR Archer, P Heilman, and KI Predick
"Brush management and grassland conservation: an ecosystem services perspective"
Presented at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2018, Washington, D.C.
archer
Naito AT, SR Archer, GA Barron-Gafford, DP Guertin, P Heilman, KI Predick, RL Scott, HL Throop, and ER Vivoni
"Brush management: an ecosystem services perspective"
Presented at the USDA Directors Meeting 2018, Washington, D.C.
archer
Archer SR, AT Naito, JA Biederman, GA Barron-Gafford, DP Guertin, P Heilman, KI Predick, RL Scott, TL Swetnam, N Tempelton, HL Throop, ER Vivoni.
"Brush management and ecosystem services: a quantification of trade-offs on Western rangelands."
Presented at 2017 USDA-NIFA Bioeconomy and Agroecosystems meeting, Washington, DC.
goodrich
Goodrich DC, P Heilman, RL Scott, MA Nearing, MS Moran, M Nichols, ER Vivoni, SR Archer, J Biederman, and AT Naito
"The Walnut Gulch - Santa Rita Wildland Watershed-scale LTAR"
Presented at AGU 2015

Presentations

* indicates Naito as lead/corresponding presenter
“Evaluating the impact of brush management on ecosystem services in desert grasslands.” (with SR Archer, P Heilman, and KI Predick). August 2018. Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. *

“An assessment of the watershed-scale impacts of brush management on ecosystem services in southeastern Arizona. Is it worth it?” 15 May 2018. Madrean Conference 2018, Tucson, Arizona, United States. *

“Brush management and ecosystem services: a quantification of trade-offs.” 19 Apr 2018. WSARE Brush Management Workshop #2, Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge, Arizona, United States. *

Brush management and ecosystem services: a quantification of trade-offs on western rangelands." 20-23 Oct, 2017. USDA NIFA Project Director’s Meeting, Tampa, FL

“Brush management: an ecosystem services perspective.” 03 Jun 2017. Science on the Sonoita Plain Symposium 2017, Elgin, Arizona, United States.

“Ecosystem Services on Managed Rangelands: A Watershed-Scale Evaluation of Trade-Offs” (with SR Archer, GA Barron-Gafford, P Heilman, KI Predick, and HL Throop). March 2017. Association of American Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, United States. *

“Getting what you pay for – examining the ecological trade-offs and costs of brush management on the Santa Rita Experimental Range.” February 2017. Saturday Discovery Talk, Santa Rita Experimental Range, Green Valley, Arizona, United States. *

“Evaluating ecosystem services and trade-offs in the context of brush management. (with SR Archer, GA Barron-Gafford, P Heilman, KI Predick, and HL Throop). February 2017. Society for Range Management Annual Meeting 2017, St. George, Utah, United States. *

“Brush management on the Santa Rita Experimental Range: a pre-treatment assessment of ecosystem services”, Research Insights in Semi-Arid Ecosystems (RISE) 13th Annual Symposium, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States. *

“The Walnut Gulch – Santa Rita Wildland Watershed-Scale LTAR Sites” (poster with DC Goodrich, P Heilman, RL Scott, MA Nearing, MS Moran, M Nichols, ER Vivoni, SR Archer, and J Biederman). December 2015. American Geophysical Union Fall meeting, San Francisco, California, United States.

The Project by the Numbers

34

Students involved to-date

24

Women

10

Men

8

Students as nominees
and/or recipients of
department, college, and
University awards

3653

Total hours worked by students in the field and/orlab

352

325

Most hours contributed
by students

8960

Total miles traveled for field work

332

Bagels consumed*

* Project funds were never used for food expenses.
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