FSML: Research and Facilities Planning Workshops at the Angelo Coast Range Reserve, Mendocino, California, 2002-2003

加州大学伯克利分校的鲍尔博士和吕比博士获得了一笔赠款，在位于加州门多西诺县的大学安杰洛海岸山脉保护区举办两个规划讲习班。 这些研讨会将为校园提供对保护区设施的专家评估，以研究生态系统如何运作，栖息地如何退化，以及如何在保护濒危物种的政府规则和法规框架内最好地进行研究。 这些研讨会将使校园能够以一种谨慎和知情的方式规划保护区的未来，就像在高盛基金的支持下，在那里建立了一个新的120万美元的“环境科学中心”一样。为了确保保护区研究计划的成功，三个特定研究领域的专家将被邀请到安杰洛参加两个不同的规划研讨会。 专家们将评估保护区设施，并评估它们是否足以支持河流和流域研究、树冠生物学和沉积物/生境退化研究。 加州大学伯克利分校的研究人员也将参加。 两个小组都将作报告，检查设施，会见校园管理人员，并参加促进讨论。 向该小组提出的中心问题如下：“鉴于目前的设施和已提出的具体研究方向，安杰洛的设施是否足够，如果不够，你建议做些什么来改善它们？“最后，到访的专家会提交书面报告，评估有关设施是否足以推行这些研究计划，并提出改善建议。”安杰洛海岸山脉保护区包含了加州最大的未砍伐的沿海针叶林，以及一条主要河流的两条鲑鱼支流的整个流域。 随着自然保护区在自然景观中变得越来越孤立，在发展的压力下，它们越来越多地成为某些物种的“救生艇”避难所。 了解生态系统如何运作、变化和退化，对于保护和管理这些物种，以及保护区边界以外更受威胁环境中的物种至关重要。 因此，为规划讲习班提供的资金将支持继续在安杰洛进行的科学研究的全球影响力，并使研究人员、教育工作者和政府代表参与调查紧迫的环境威胁。

A grant has been awarded to Drs. Power and Luby at the University of California, Berkeley, to conduct two planning workshops at the University's Angelo Coast Range Reserve, located in Mendocino County, California. These workshops will supply the campus with expert assessments of the facilities at the reserve for conducting research in how ecosystems function, how habitats become degraded, and how best to conduct research within the framework of governmental rules and regulations that protects endangered species. These workshops will allow the campus to plan the future of the Reserve in a careful and informed manner, just as a new, $1.2 million "Center for Environmental Science" is built there, with support from the Goldman fund. In order to ensure the success of the reserve's research initiatives, experts in three specific research areas will be invited to Angelo to participate in the two different planning workshops. Experts will evaluate reserve facilities, and assess whether or not they are adequate to support research in river and watershed studies, tree canopy biology, and sediment/habitat degradation studies. Researchers for the UC Berkeley campus would also attend. Both groups would make presentations, examine the facilities, meet campus administrators, and participate in facilitated discussions. The central question asked of the group would be the following: "Given the current facilities, and the specific research directions that have been proposed, are the facilities at Angelo adequate, and if not, what do you recommend be done to improve them?" In the end, the visiting experts would submit a written report in which they offered an assessment of the adequacy of the facilities for implementing these research initiatives and recommendations for improvements. The Angelo Coast Range Reserve contains the largest tract of unlogged coastal conifer forest remaining in the state of California, as well as the entire watersheds of two salmon-bearing tributaries of a major river. As natural reserves become more and more isolated in the andscape, with pressure from development, they increasingly serve as "lifeboat" refuges for certain species. Understanding how ecosystems function, change, and become degraded is important for protecting and managing these species, as well as for species residing in more threatened settings outside the borders of reserves. Funding for the planning workshops will therefore support efforts to continue the global influence of scientific studies conducted at Angelo, and involve researchers, educators, and government representatives in efforts to investigate pressing environmental threats.