Miscellaneous

The following pages and links provide a range of information about the Huron Mountains and the Huron Mountain Wildlife Foundation.

The Manierre Award
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THE MANIERRE AWARD

    The endowed Manierre Research Award honors Dr. William Manierre and Anne Manierre for their long support of the Huron Mountain Wildlife Foundation. As accomplished naturalists in their own right, with an intimate knowledge of the Huroon Mts. landscape, the Manierres have provided HMWF researchers with invaluable assistance and insight. Dr. William Manierre's own studies of the bryophytes, lichens, and vascular plants of the Huron Moutain Club lands account for significant portions of the documented biological diversity of the area (see 'ATBI/Species Lists' page).
    The Manierre Award is presented in recognition of a peer-reviewed publication reporting research conducted under the auspices of the Huron Mt. Wildlife Foundation. Since its creation in 2000, the Award has been given to:

2000: Dr. Kerry D. Woods, Bennington College, for his paper, Dynamics in late-successional hemlock-hardwood forests over three decades, published in Ecology (2000) 81:110-126

2001: Dr. Dana L. Richter, Michitan Technological University, for his paper , White pine blister rust in the forests of the Huron Mountain Club, Marquette Co., MI. published in The Michigan Botanist (1998) 37:91-98.

2003: Dr. Mark F. O'Brien, University of Michigan, for his paper, The Odonata of the Huron Mountains, Marquette County, Michigan, published in The Bulletin of American Odonatology (2003) 7(1):1-22. [with E. Bright and M.A. Kielb]

2007: Dr. Bryant C. Scharenbroch, The Morton Arboretum, for two papers derived from his Ph.D. Thesis (University of Wisconsin - Madison), both co-authored with James Bockheim:
    Pedodiversity in an old-growth northern hardwood forest in the Huron Mountains, Upper Peninsula, Michigan. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. (2007) 37:1106-1117
    Impacts of forest gaps on soil properties and processes in old growth northern hardwood-hemlock forests. Plant Soil. (2007) 294:219-233.

2008: Dr. Casey J. Huckins, Michigan Technological University, for two papers presenting long-term studies of the coaster brook-trout:
    Huckins, Casey and Edward A. Baker. 2008. Migrations and biological characteristics of adfluvial coaster brook trout in a south shore Lake Superior tributary. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society
    Huckins, Casey, Edward A. Baker, Kurt D. Fausch, and Jill B.K. Leonard. 2008. Ecology and life history of coaster brook trout and potential bottlenecks in their rehabilitation. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 4:1321-1342
137:1229-1243.

2009: Dr. Philip Myers, University of Michigan, and colleagues used the reference ecosystems of the Huron Mts., along with data-sets from earlier researchers, to document changes in animal communities and to assess hypotheses for causes of those changes, in his paper:
     Myers, Philip, Barbara L. Lundrigan, Susan M.G. Hoffman, Allison Poor Haraminac, and Stephanie H. Seto. 2009. Climate-induced changes in the small mammal communities of the Northern Great Lakes Region. Global Change Biology 15: 1434–1454.

2010: Dr. Randy Kolka, of the Center for Research on Ecosystem Change at the Northern Research Station, U.S. Forest Service, used studies of hydrology and ground water along Fisher Creek to show that nearly the entire summer stream-flow originates as snow-melt, suggesting that climate-change-related changes in snowfall patterns could have large consequences for small streams in the region.
     Kolka, Randy K., Christian P. Giardina, Jason D. McClure, Alex Mayer, Martin F. Jurgensen. 2010. Partitioning hydrologic contributions to an 'old-growth' riparian area in the Huron Mountains of Michigan, USA. Ecohydrology 3:315-324.