John Stuart

Professor

Dendrology and Fire Ecology

 

 

 

 

 

Contact Information:

Office: 115 Natural Resources Bldg.

Email: jds2@humboldt.edu

Ph. 707.826.3823

 

Personal and Research Interests:

My greatest satisfaction as a forestry teacher has been to help students explore, discover, and investigate forests and woodlands. I have been teaching forestry for 30 years and have focused on dendrology, forest ecology, and fire ecology. These courses are field oriented and have provided considerable personal and professional fulfillment over the years.

While my primary focus has been teaching undergraduates, I have been fortunate to work with an accomplished group of graduate students. These students have mostly worked in the areas of vegetation classification and mapping, fire ecology, dendrology, and human impacts on forested ecosystems.

Outside of teaching, I enjoy spending time with my family, hiking, skiing, exploring new landscapes and cultures, and dabbling in photography.

 

Education and Degrees:

Ph.D. University of Washington, Forest resources

M.S. Univ. California , Berkeley , Wildland resource science

B.S. Univ. California, Berkeley , Forestry

 

Courses Taught:

FOR 230 Dendrology

FOR 231 Forest Ecology

FOR 307 California Forests & Woodlands

FOR 321 Fire Ecology

FOR 479 Forestry Capstone

 

Select Publications:

Stuart, J. D., and S. L. Stephens. 2005. Fire in the North Coast Bioregion. in N. Sugihara, J. van Wagtendonk, J. Fites-Kaufmann, K. Shaffer, and A. Thode, editors. Fire in California ecosystems. University of California Press, Berkeley, CA. In Press.

Hanson, J. J., and J. D. Stuart. 2005. Vegetation responses to fire created edges in a Douglas-fir/hardwood forest. Forest Ecology and Management 214:266-278.

Mahony, T. M., and J. D. Stuart. 2005. Status of vegetation classification in redwood ecosystems. in Redwood Region Forest Science Symposium, March 15-17, 2004. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service General Technical Report PSW-GTR-194, Rohnert Park, CA.

Martin, S. R., J. D. Stuart, P. Halbert, and M. Rizzardi. 2005. Effect of 70 Years of Recreational Car Camping on Vigor of Old Growth Coast Redwood and Douglas-fir. in Redwood Region Forest Science Symposium, March 15-17, 2004. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Sevice General Technical Report PSW-GTR-194, Rohnert Park, CA.

Oneal, C. B., L. Fox, J. D. Stuart, and S. J. Steinberg. 2004. Modern fire history of the coast redwood forest. in Mixed severity fire regimes: ecology and management. Association for Fire Ecology, Spokane, WA.

Stuart JD, Lee CA, Steinberg SJ, McGovern I. 2003. Vegetation alliances and associations of the Whiskeytown National Recreation Area. Final report submitted to Whiskeytown National Recreation Area and the McIntire-Stennis program (McIntire-Stennis #122).Arcata, CA: Humboldt State University. 144 p.

Stuart JD, Carpenter CN. Dec. 6, 2002. Predictive mapping of the potential geographic distribution of woody plants native to northern California.  Final report submitted to McIntire-Stennis program, McIntire-Stennis #122, Department of Forestry, Humboldt State University.

Key, J. L., and J. D. Stuart. 2001, Effects of clearcuts and site preparation on fire severity, Dillon Creek Fire 1994. Y. Everett, ed. Klamath Basin fish and water management symposium, May 22-25, 2001.

Stuart JD and Sawyer JO. 2001. Trees and shrubs of California. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. 467 p.

Mahony TM and Stuart JD. 2001. Old-growth forest associations in the northern range of coastal redwood. Madroño 47(1):53-60.

Stuart JD and Salazar LA. 2000. Fire history of white fir forests in the coastal mountains of northwestern California. Northwest Science 74(4):280-285.

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