Dr. Ken Fulgham

Department Chair

Departments of Rangeland Resources and Wildland Soils and Forestry and Watershed Management

 

 

 

 

 

Contact Information

Office: NR 220

Email: kof1@humboldt.edu

Ph. (707) 826-4127

 

 

Personal and Research Interests:

Long-term recovery of sagebrush-grass ecosystems to prescribed burning in the Clearlake Hills, Modoc County. Twenty year vegetation sampling of two burn units.

Habitat management with grazing and fertilization for Aleutian Canada Geese.

Western Juniper Ecological Site Descriptions for Lassen and Modoc Counties, CA. Study during 2005-2007 in cooperation with UCCE staff at UC Davis.

 

Education and Degrees:

B.S. -- 1970, Range Management, Humboldt State University
M.S. -- 1972, Range Science, New Mexico State University
Ph.D. -- 1978, Range Science, Utah State University

 

Courses Taught:

1. Rangeland Resources in a Modern Society
2. Rangeland Resources Principles and Field Experience
3. Rangeland Plant Communities
4. Rangeland Ecology Principles
5. Techniques in Rangeland Resources
6. Rangeland Analysis
7. Introduction to Animal Nutrition
8. Introduction to Animal Science
9. Rangeland Development & Improvements
10. Rangeland & Ranch Planning
11. Forestland Grazing
12. Grazing Influences
13. Advanced Study of Rangeland Plants
14. Rangeland Resources Seminar
15. Advanced Study of Rangeland Resources
16. Wildland Fire Use
17. Natural Resources Conservation
18. Research Proposal Writing
19. Agrostology
20. Natural Resource Policy and Law

 

Select Publications:

George, M.R., R.E. Larsen, N.K. McDougald, K.W. Tate, J.D. Gerlach, and K.O. Fulgham. 2004. Cattle grazing has varying impacts on stream-channel erosion in oak woodlands. California Agriculture, Vol. 58, No. 3, pp. 138-143.

Fulgham, K.O. and D.N. Waller. 2004. Origin and development of California rangelands. Presentation at technical session: History – Pleistocene to Present. Society for Range Management Annual Meeting, Casper, WY.

George, M.R., R.E. Larsen, N.K. McDougald, K.W. Tate, J.D. Gerlach, and K.O. Fulgham. 2002. Influence of Different Seasons and Intensities of Grazing on Channel Morphology of Intermittent Streams. J. Range Management 55:551-557.

Levine, L., M. Bacca, and K.O. Fulgham. 2002. Plant zonation in a Shasta County salt spring supporting the only known population of Puccinellia howellii (POACEAE). Madrono 49:178-185.

Fulgham, K.O. 2002. Restoring and managing western public range and grasslands. Invited paper to the Public Lands Foundation Annual Meeting. Sacramento, CA.

Larsen, R.E., M.R. George, N.K. McDougald, K.W. Tate, and K.O. Fulgham. 2001. Evaluation of Different Seasons and Intensities of Grazing Along Intermittent Stream Channels at the San Joaquin Experimental Range. Session P: Soils, Hydrology & Impacts on Water Quality. 54th Annual Meeting, Society for Range Management. Kailua-Kona, HI.

Larsen, R.E., M.R. George, N.K. McDougald, K.W. Tate, and K.O. Fulgham. 1999. Evaluation After Four Years of Different Seasons and Intensities of Grazing on erosion Along Intermittent Stream Channels at the San Joaquin Experimental Range. The Seventh National Nonpoint Source Monitoring Workshop: “Linking Water and Habitat Improvements to Land Treatments. 12-17 September 1999. Morro Bay, CA.

Jackson, R.D., K.O. Fulgham, and B.H. Allen-Diaz. 1998. (Published in Fall 1999). Quercus garryana Hook. (Fagaceae) Stand Structure in Areas with Different Grazing Histories. Madrono, Vol 45, No. 4, pp 275-282.

D.A. Hosack and K.O. Fulgham. 1998. Black bear damage to regenerating conifers in Northwestern California. J. Wildl. Res., Vol 1, No. 1, pp 32-37.

Larsen, R.E., M.R. George, N.K. McDougald, K.W. Tate, and K.O. Fulgham. 1998. Preliminary Results from the Evaluation of Different Seasons and Intensities of Grazing on the Erosion of Intermittent Streams at the San Joaquin Experimental Range. IN: Pillsbury, N.H., J. Verner, and W.D. Tietje, technical editors. Proceedings of a Symposium on California Oak Woodlands: ecology, management, and urban interfaces; 19-22 March 1996; San Luis Obispo, CA. Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-GTR-160. Pacific Southwest Research Station, Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Albany, CA. P. 331-337.

Larsen R.E., M.R. George, N.K. McDougald, K.W. Tate, and K.O. Fulgham. 1998. Evaluation of Different Seasons and Intensities of Three Years of Grazing Treatments on Erosion Along Intermittent Stream Channels at the San Joaquin Experimental Range. Proceedings of a Specialty Conference on Rangeland Management and Water Resources sponsored by the American Water Resources Association, the Society for Range Management, and the Soil & Water Conservation Society of America; 27-29 May 1998, Reno, NV.

Fulgham, K.O., L. Levine, and M. Bacca. 1997. CALTRANS Project Final Report on Contract No. 02E326: Autecological study of Puccinellia howellii (Howell's Alkaligrass) located in three mineralized springs found within CALTRANS right-of-way in Shasta County, CA. 90 pp.

 

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