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Dry coniferous forests within the wildland–urban interface (WUI) in the northwestern US have experienced long-term drought and increasing bark-beetle infestations. An unexamined factor potentially affecting WUI forests are irrigation channels used to convey water to nearby farms. I studied the effects of two irrigation channels (a downslope, open channel and an upslope, recently enclosed channel) on plant community composition, tree water status and growth, and patterns of bark-beetle mortality in a WUI ponderosa pine/Douglas fir forest experiencing drought. Low-lying swale areas below the recently enclosed, upper channel had extensive down dead wood and showed shifts from mesic understory plant species to more xeric species. Tree density and basal area declined in swale areas below both channels. Ponderosa pine below the enclosed channel showed evidence of water stress (low water potentials) and negative growth responses to the channel enclosure. In contrast, hillslope trees below the open channel had higher growth rates and water potentials compared to trees above that channel. Beetle-kill was highest between the two channels, the area most likely affected by upper channel enclosure. The study provides evidence that plant community composition, tree physiology, and patterns of tree mortality in forests may be affected by irrigation channels interacting with small-scale topography.
Les forêts résineuses sèches à l’interface des milieux naturels et urbains (INU) dans le nord-ouest des USA subissent des sécheresses prolongées et une augmentation des épidémies de dendroctone. Les canaux d’irrigation utilisés pour alimenter les fermes en eau peuvent affecter les forêts de l’INU, mais ont été peu étudiés. Dans une forêt de pin ponderosa et de douglas de Menzies soumise à la sécheresse à l’INU, j’ai étudié les effets de deux canaux d’irrigation (un canal ouvert en bas de pente et un canal récemment fermé en haut de pente) sur la composition des communautés de plantes, sur la croissance et l’équilibre hydrique des arbres, ainsi que sur les patrons de mortalité par le dendroctone. Les cuvettes basses en aval du canal fermé avaient beaucoup de débris ligneux au sol et montraient une transition d’espèces végétales de sous-bois mésiques vers des espèces davantage associées aux milieux xériques. La densité des arbres et la surface terrière diminuaient dans les cuvettes en aval des deux types de canaux. Les pins en aval du canal fermé montraient des signes de stress hydrique (faibles potentiels hydriques) et une réponse de croissance négative à la fermeture du canal. À l’opposé, les arbres en aval du canal ouvert avaient des taux de croissance et des potentiels hydriques plus élevés que les arbres en amont. La mortalité par le dendroctone était plus élevée entre les deux canaux, dans la zone la plus affectée par la fermeture du canal en haut de pente. Cette étude montre que la composition des communautés végétales, la physiologie des arbres et les patrons de mortalité des arbres peuvent être affectés par les canaux d’irrigation, en fonction de la topographie fine.
The wildland–urban interface (WUI) is an area where wild, protected public lands are found adjacent to private lands that may include homes, farms or pasture. The WUI comprises approximately 9% of the land area in the US, and includes over 40 million housing units (Radeloff et al. Citation2005; Theobald Citation2010). It may also include important natural and semi-managed ecosystems that buffer more remote, protected lands. Sustainable management of these areas is important for homeowners, forest managers, and the general public. However, research and management in the WUI is challenging because of continuous expansion of housing, rapid environmental changes, and the private/public division in land ownership (Theobald and Romme Citation2007).
In parts of the western US, the WUI is commonly dominated by dry, coniferous forests. In recent decades, these forests have experienced widespread drought and drought-related forest changes (Vose et al. Citation2015) such as bark-beetle infestations (Raffa et al. Citation2008; Kretchun et al. Citation2016) and increasing numbers of fires (Westerling et al. Citation2006; Schoennagel et al. Citation2009). Parts of western Montana, which include the study site considered here, have been identified as being under a ‘triple threat’ of development, beetles, and fire (Kline et al. Citation2013). The US Forest Service has proposed and implemented various management responses to reduce risks of bark-beetle infestation and fire across the west (USDA Citation2004; USFS Citation2011). However, there is still scientific uncertainty about the relative effectiveness of different management treatments (Fettig et al. Citation2007) and some proposed management actions are controversial (Six et al. Citation2014). Given the likelihood of climate change in the coming decades, more research is needed to understand WUI forest responses to drought, bark-beetle infestations, changing forest management, and the interactions between these change agents.
A potentially significant factor affecting WUI forests are irrigation channels used to convey water to nearby pastures and farms. On the eastern front of the Bitterroot Mountains in Montana, irrigation channels are extensive, with multiple diversions and branching channels running laterally off every major creek flowing into the Bitterroot Valley (DNRC Citation1965). Open channels very likely allow excess water to percolate into the soil, providing plants downslope from the channel with an artificial water source (Fernald and Guldan Citation2006; Sueltenfuss et al. Citation2013). In recent years, some landowners are opting to enclose these channels in buried pipes to avoid water losses. Many of these channels have been open and in continuous summer use for decades. Plant communities growing downslope from open channels may be acclimated to artificially moist soil conditions and enclosing a channel probably deprives plant communities of historical levels of soil moisture (Stromberg et al. Citation1996). The combination of both open and recently enclosed channels running across the same landscape may create a complex mosaic of differing and changing soil moisture conditions. This mosaic could have significant effects on plant community structure and composition, which in turn can affect forest resilience to drought, beetle infestation, and fire (Schoennagel et al. Citation2004; Gilliam Citation2007; Raffa et al. Citation2008).
Although irrigation channels are known to recharge groundwater (Stohlgren et al. Citation2007; Dages et al. Citation2009; Dollinger et al. Citation2015) and increase the presence of riparian plant species in the areas below the channel (Sueltenfuss et al. Citation2013), these effects have not been well documented or investigated in pine forests in the western US. In particular, irrigation channels may add complexity to forest responses to long-term drought. Because drought can increase pine beetle outbreaks (Shore and Safranyik Citation2003; Taylor et al. Citation2006), irrigation channels may affect patterns of bark-beetle mortality across a forested landscape, with more severe mortality in drier areas (Kaiser et al. Citation2013). Although the precise mechanistic connection between low water availability and plant defenses is complex and may be non-linear (Herms and Mattson Citation1992), drought and other biotic stresses are known to influence early stages of beetle infestation (Raffa et al. Citation2005, Citation2008) and water deficit can reduce tree defenses to bark-beetles (Mattson and Haack Citation1987; McDowell et al. Citation2008, Citation2011; Tague et al. Citation2013). Open and recently enclosed irrigation channels have been found to affect growth and morphology in conifers (Rigling et al. Citation2003; Feichtinger et al. Citation2014, Citation2015), and growth is generally correlated with defenses in ponderosa pine (Kane and Kolb Citation2010). However, relationships between irrigation channels, tree growth, tree water status, and bark-beetle infestation have not been studied in North American forests. Given the urgency of sustainable management of WUI forests in western Montana and similar areas across the northwestern US, research is needed to study how patterns of plant community composition and tree mortality in forests may be potentially affected by past and current irrigation channel usage
In the forested WUI of western Montana, irrigation channels are located mostly at the interface of private and public lands, a possible impediment to the design of broad-scale studies. However, place-based approaches in ecology (Billick and Price Citation2010) can explore variables (such as irrigation channels, in this case) that have yet to be fully tested at larger scales (Krebs Citation2010). For the current study, I took advantage of pre-existing forest survey data and the fortuitous co-occurrence of one open and one recently enclosed irrigation channel in a forest experiencing long-term drought and bark-beetle infestation. The objectives of the study were to document and characterize changes in plant community composition and tree physiology (growth and water status) and explore the association of those changes with the locations of the two irrigation channels. I also monitored and mapped bark-beetle mortality from 2012 to 2017 to explore patterns of tree mortality in relation to the locations of the two irrigation channels.
Specifically, I asked: (1) Has there been a shift in plant community composition away from mesic/riparian species that may be related to the recently enclosed channel? (2) Do the open and recently enclosed channels affect the water status of ponderosa pine trees directly above and below channels? (3) Is there evidence of channel effects on growth rates of trees? (4) Is the enclosure of the upper channel a possible factor in the pattern of observed beetle-kill in ponderosa pine trees?
Associated with these questions, I hypothesized: (1) a shift in community composition away from mesic understory plant species and trees, especially in swale areas most likely affected by the recently enclosed channel; (2) higher needle water potential in ponderosa pine trees below the open channel compared to trees above that channel, and lower needle water potential in trees below the recently enclosed channel compared to trees above that channel; (3) higher growth rates in trees below the open channel compared to trees above that channel, and a negative growth response to channel enclosure in trees growing below the recently enclosed channel compared to trees above that channel; and (4) higher bark-beetle mortality and evidence of negative growth responses to channel enclosure in beetle-kill areas likely affected by the enclosed channel.
The site is a mixed ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa)/Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) forest on gently sloping terrain within the WUI in the Bitterroot Valley near Hamilton, Montana, that includes private land and adjacent US Forest Service (FS) land slightly upslope, to the west. The private land has a history of forest-based scientific research (see e.g., Pataki et al. Citation2003) supported by memoranda of understanding with the USFS dating back to 1994. My role in continuous monitoring of the site dates from 1998, when a timber inventory was completed for the private property.
The study area and salient features of the site were mapped (; see methods in Appendix 1), and for study purposes the site was divided into three zones: (1) an area downslope from an open irrigation channel (low zone), (2) an area upslope from the open channel, but downslope from a higher channel that was recently enclosed in 2007 (mid zone), and (3) an area upslope from both channels (high zone). In addition, low, depression areas (swales) likely receiving extra water from irrigation channels or natural downslope water movement were distinguished from adjacent hillslopes. The study took advantage of two unpublished baseline vegetation surveys – the 1998 inventory (low zone and lower section of the mid zone) and a combined overstory/understory survey in 2002 (swale and hillslope areas in all zones). The site also includes an area within the FS land (high zone) that was burned in a low-severity prescribed fire in 1997.
Monitoring of beetle-killed trees
A mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae) infestation was first detected in spring 2013. In mid-July 2013, the entire private property area was surveyed carefully to detect ponderosa pine trees killed by mountain pine beetle. All recently killed trees with pitch tubes in the bark were marked and counted. In each July of 2014–2016, the entire private property area was resurveyed, all previously recorded dead trees were revisited, and new beetle-killed trees were marked and recorded. No new beetle-kill was observed in 2017.
Beetle infestation in the public land (FS) followed approximately the same progression; however, beetle-kill trees had been cut on FS land by a local resident from 2012 to 2016, leaving groups of stumps. In other areas on FS land, uncut standing dead and fallen trees were found. The entire FS area was systematically surveyed for these dead stands and stump groups during July 2016 and 2017. Dead trees (standing and down) with pitch tubes were counted as beetle-killed. Fresh stumps were assumed to be beetle-killed, based on the testimony of the woodcutter. An extensive area (2.8 ha) of fallen trees below the upper, enclosed channel (see was not surveyed for beetle-killed trees except for standing dead trees along the perimeter of this area.
Down dead trees above and below upper channel
To characterize the fallen-tree area below the recently enclosed channel, down dead stems longer than 2.5 m were counted and tallied into four size classes along 25 m transects running perpendicular to the slope. Sub-counts of mesic tree species such as black cottonwood (Populus trichocarpa), quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides), and grand fir (Abies grandis) were also recorded. Transects were spaced to adequately sample the extent of the fallen-tree area (five transects below the burn area, five below the unburned area) and corresponding areas above the channel (five transects in the burn area, five outside the burn). Comparisons that included the burn area were analyzed separately from comparisons that included the unburned area. In addition, in 2014, standing mesic tree species, both alive and dead, were counted within 10 m immediately above and below the channel along the section of the channel above the fallen-tree area.
Plant community composition – understory changes
A baseline understory plant study was conducted in early October 2002. Within the three zones, areas were designated as either ‘swale’ or ‘hillslope’ based on observed topography and soil moisture. Within each of these areas, three 10 × 10 m plots were selected randomly, making 18 plots altogether (3 zones x 2 topographic types x 3 replicates). Within each plot, percent cover was estimated visually to the nearest 5% for shrubs and herbaceous plant species and trees were identified and counted.
The understory survey was repeated in early October 2014. Plots in 2014 were located based on written plot descriptions and GPS coordinates from 2002. In both 2002 and 2014, most plants were identified to the species level (see ). Cover for grasses was recorded as one, lumped, % estimate. To validate the designation of ‘swale’ vs. ‘hillslope’, soil volumetric water content was measured in each plot using a Campbell’s HydroSense II probe with 5–7 replicate measurements per plot. All soil moisture data was collected within a two-hour period on the same day in October 2016.
Multivariate analyses were carried out in PC-Ord, version 7 (McCune and Mefford Citation2016; Peck Citation2016). Species were deleted from the data set if they were (a) not in the knowledge base in 2002, (b) absent in 2002 and occurred in 2014 in only one plot with ≤ 5% abundance, or (c) absent in 2014 and possibly misidentified in 2002. Twenty-three species (11.4% of total observations across both years) were deleted based on these criteria, leaving 41 species in the dataset. Data was split by topographic category (swale, hillslope) and species absent in both years within a topographic category were deleted (2 for swale, 11 for hillslope). Species cover values (untransformed) were arranged in two response matrices (39 species x 9 swale plots, 30 species x 9 hillslope plots) and matrices were analyzed using Sorenson distance measure and non-metric multidimensional scaling (NMS) ordination. Two-dimensional NMS solutions were chosen for both response matrices based on stress tests and after verifying consistency of interpretation among several solutions. Ordination axes were rotated to highlight shifts in ordination space locations of plot pairs from 2002 and 2014. Two-way PERMANOVA was used to test for differences in species composition between year and zone. To further interpret PERMANOVA results, indicator species analyses (Dufrêne and Legendre Citation1997) with Monte Carlo tests were used on the combined dataset (all plots, 41 species) to determine species significantly (p < .05) associated with topographic category (swale vs. hillslope) and zones (low, mid, high). Species correlations with NMS axis 1 (after rotation), additional PC-ORD tools (joint plot overlays, overlays of individual species, ‘hilltop’ contour overlays) and examination of the original data matrix facilitated determination of species mainly responsible for differences between 2002 and 2014.
Plant community composition – overstory changes
Mean tree density per 100 m2 plot was calculated for four subcategories (alder [Alnus species], quaking aspen, ponderosa pine, other) and compared between 2002 and 2016 for swale and hillslope plots separately. Percent cover was estimated for down dead trees and shrubs in the 100 m2 plots in 2016, but not in 2002. Separate tree inventories were conducted using 400 m2 plots on the private land in 1998 and again in 2015 (see Appendix 2 for methods). From the 1998 data, six plots (labeled ‘overstory plots’ in falling within both swale and hillslope areas were analyzed within the low zone because no 1998 plots fell within the mid-zone swale area. Mean basal area for total trees (living and dead) was calculated and compared between 1998 and 2015 for swale and hillslope plots separately.
Needle water potential of trees above and below the two irrigation channels
Ponderosa pine trees of similar sizes were selected for water potential measurements above (>10 m from channel) and below both the upper and lower irrigation channels (n = 3–4 trees per zone). The lower channel was studied on 17 July 2014 and the upper channel on 26 July 2016. Each sampling day consisted of six separate sampling times (5:30, 8:30. 11:30, 14:30, 17:30, and 22:45). Within a sampling time period, branches were selected for sampling on the southeast side of trees and were either all sun-exposed or all shaded, depending on time of day. However, this could not be perfectly controlled at the upper channel due to the paucity of healthy, reachable branches on some trees. Branches were cut using an extendable pole pruner at 3.2–4.4 meters from the ground, immediately placed in hydrated ziplock bags, and stored in a cooler until measuring. For a given sampling time, all branches were cut within a 15-minute period, and samples were read within 90 minutes of branch cutting. From each branch, one 1-year-old healthy fascicle was sliced cleanly at the base and water potential was measured using a PMS 600 pressure chamber. Below the lower channel, one sample (at 8.30 am) was unreadable and was not measured. Mean water potential (in MPa) was calculated and compared (above vs. below channel) for each time period.
Diameter growth of living ponderosa pine trees growing above and below irrigation channels and in beetle-infested stands
Cores were extracted from living ponderosa pine trees > 10 m above and similar distances below both channels (1 core per tree, n = 8 at the upper channel, n = 6 at the lower channel) in 2014 and 2017 (upper channel) and in 2015 (lower channel). Healthy (uninfested) living trees within beetle-infested stands (see were also cored in 2014 (n = 13 for both mid and low zones). Field protocols, core processing, measuring, and cross-dating, and age estimation for all trees followed conventional methods (see Appendix 3). Field data for each tree included tree diameter and four bark-depth measurements at coring height (1.37 m). All cores were successfully cross-dated. However two cores from beetle-infested stands (one in mid zone, one in low zone) were omitted from further analysis due to anomalous patterns of growth suppression and release. To calculate tree basal area growth, the inside-bark radius was determined by dividing the diameter at coring height by 2 and subtracting the average bark depth. Annual ring widths from each core were converted to proportions of the total inside-bark radius (Bakker Citation2005) and then converted to annual basal area increments (BAI) by assuming circular basal area with the pith at the center (Biondi and Qeadan Citation2008).
For individual trees, growth responses (Nowacki and Abrams Citation1997; Keeling and Sala Citation2012) to the 2007 upper channel enclosure were calculated as ratios of post-enclosure to pre-enclosure growth using two separate time periods of pre-enclosure growth (ShortPRE, LongPRE), as follows:
where BAI2007–2014 and BAI1999–2006 are the mean annual BAIs in the two eight-year periods post- and pre-enclosure, and BAILT-2006 is the long-term mean annual BAI through the year 2006. Mean long-term growth (BAILT-2006) and mean growth response to channel enclosure (see formulas above) for each sample of trees were calculated and compared for each study (below vs. above for upper and lower channels; mid zone vs. low zone for beetle-kill stands). The start-years for BAILT-2006 were determined by the first year of complete sample sizes for each study. As a reference for interpreting tree growth patterns over time, annual Palmer Hydrologic Drought Indices (PHDI) for the western climatic region of Montana were obtained (NOAA Citation2017) and plotted.
Univariate statistical tests were carried out in SPSS 24.0. Means of all variables – down dead stems, tree density, tree basal area, needle water potential, and tree growth variables (long-term BAI, post-2007 growth responses with both short and long pre-periods) – were tested for normality and homogeneity of variance using Kolmogorov-Smirnov and Levene’s tests, respectively. Variables that did not meet normality assumptions (dead-tree basal area) were transformed using a square-root transformation. A Kolmogorov-Smirnov test was not possible for water potential data because of small sample sizes, but distributions were assumed to be normal based on other research on ponderosa pine near the study area (Sala et al. Citation2005). Differences (above vs. below channels for down wood, needle water potential, and tree growth; between years for tree density and basal area in swale vs. hillslope plots were tested using t-tests, or, in the case of tree density, a paired t-test. Variables that did not pass Levene’s test for homogeneity of variance (down wood, live-tree basal area) were tested with non-parametric Mann-Whitney-U tests. Tree growth variables in beetle-killed stands (mid vs. low zone) were tested with two-way ANOVA with zone and topographic type (swale vs. hillslope) as fixed factors. Multivariate tests (PerMANOVA, Indicator Species Analysis) were carried out in PC-ORD as described above.
Beetle-killed trees were detected in all three zones (, . The mid zone had the highest occurrence of beetle-killed trees (18.4 trees/ha) compared to the low zone (10.1 trees/ha) and high zone (7.1 trees/ha). The low-zone beetle-kill occurrence was lower (7.8 trees/ha) when the area directly along the road was excluded. Within the mid zone, the private land section had more beetle-killed trees (25.1 trees/ha) than the FS zone (11.7 trees/ha).
Down dead trees above and below upper channel
The fallen-tree area below the recently enclosed upper channel had ~12 down dead stems per 25 m transect compared to ~1 stem per transect above the channel (). Differences were significant for comparisons both including and not including the burn area (Mann-Whitney-U tests, p = .008). Six dead black cottonwood stems were found below the channel, whereas no mesic down dead species were identified above the channel. Directly below the channel, 25 standing dead mesic species were found (16 black cottonwood, 2 grand fir, 7 quaking aspen), whereas 4 living mesic species (3 black cottonwood, 1 grand fir) were found directly above the channel (within 10 m).
Changes in plant community composition – understory
Soil moisture measurements confirmed that 100 m2 swale plots in the low and mid zones, but not the high zone, had significantly higher volumetric water content than hillslope plots (, t-tests, p < .05). For understory plants in swale plots, the final two-dimensional NMS ordination () had a final stress = 11.43 (randomized test p = .004) and explained .533 and .327 of the variance on axes 1 and 2, respectively (cumulative variance explained = .871). Differences between years and zones were significant (PerMANOVA, p = .039 for year, p < .000 for zone). The ordination space was rotated to highlight shifts between 2002 and 2014, with increasing abundance of mesic spp in the positive direction and xeric species in the negative direction along axis 1. Shifts away from mesic species were evident for all mid plots, for 2 out of 3 low plots, but not for high plots (arrows in ). Seven mesic species correlated positively with axis 1 (r2 > 0.200), five of which were indicator species for swale areas in general (). Six xeric species correlated negatively with axis 1 (r2 > 0.200). The community composition shifts between years appeared to be driven, in the mid zone, by decreases in horsetail (Equisetum hyemale) and willow (Salix species), and increases in Oregon grape (Mahonia repens), spotted knapweed (Centauria maculosa), and snowberry (Symphoricarpos albus); and in the low zone, by decreases in red raspberry (Rubus idaeus) and wintergreen (Pyrola asarifolia). includes shaded overlays showing the portion of the ordination space where these species have their peak abundances (Peck Citation2016).
For the hillslope understory plots (ordination not shown), differences were significant between zones (PerMANOVA, p < .000), but not between years. For the entire study site, significant indicator species included, for the high zone, yarrow (Achillia mellifolium), grasses, and snowberry; and for the low zone, strawberry (Fragaria species), bedstraw (Galium boreale), and raspberry (). No understory species were significant indicators of the mid zone.
Changes in plant community composition – overstory
Total density of living trees declined significantly in 100m2 swale plots (all zones pooled, , p = .008) between 2002 and 2016. Tree species with the largest density decreases in living stems were alder, quaking aspen, and black cottonwood. There was no significant difference between 2002 and 2016 in density of living trees in the hillslope plots (. Although % cover of down dead woody plant species was not recorded in 2002, in 2016 low-zone understory swale plots had 5–20% down dead stems (willow, quaking aspen, black cottonwood) and mid-zone understory swale plots had 40–70% down dead stems (willow, quaking aspen).
In low-zone 400 m2 swale plots, basal area of living trees significantly declined from 1998 to 2015 (, Mann-Whitney-U test, p = 0.026) and dead trees significantly increased (t-test, p = .014). All 400 m2 swale plots in 2015 had standing dead, compared to only one plot with a single dead tree in 1998. Largest components of standing dead in 2015 were black cottonwood, ponderosa pine, and quaking aspen. Standing dead grand fir, sub-alpine fir (Abies lasiocarpa), and Douglas fir were also present in 2015 but not in 1998. In low-zone 400 m2 hillslope plots, there were no significant differences between 1998 and 2015 in basal area of living or dead trees (Mann-Whitney-U tests, .
Needle water potential in ponderosa pine trees above and below channels
At the lower (open) channel, mean water potential in ponderosa pine needles was higher below the channel during morning hours and night-time periods (. Differences were statistically significant at 5.30pm (p = .034), 11.30am (p = .002), and 10.45pm (p = .001). At the upper (enclosed) channel, mean water potential was lower below the channel during morning hours and night-time periods (; however, differences were statistically significant only at 8.30am (p = .035).
Diameter growth and growth responses in ponderosa pine trees
At the upper channel, differences in long-term mean annual BAI between trees above and below the channel were non-significant (). However, post-2007 growth responses were significantly lower below the channel. Results were similar using both long (t-test, p = .022) and short (t-test, p = .003) pre-2007 time periods. At the lower channel, long-term mean annual BAI was significantly higher below the channel (, t-test, p = .006) and growth responses to upper channel enclosure were non-significant. In beetle-kill stands, growth response based on the short (eight-year) pre-2007 time period was significantly lower for mid-zone trees than for low-zone trees (ANOVA, p = .025), but other comparisons were non-significant (. There was no significant difference between growth responses of swale vs. hillslope trees across the two zones and no significant interaction between zone and topographic type.
To my knowledge, this is the first study to investigate effects of irrigation channels in a western US WUI forest. The results of the case study suggest that plant community composition, tree water status and growth, and patterns of tree mortality, including mortality from mountain pine beetle infestation, may be affected by the locations of open and recently enclosed irrigation channels, interacting with small-scale topography (swales vs. hillslopes). The vegetation changes documented here illustrate the potential for irrigation channels to produce a mosaic of effects that may be overlooked by forest managers and land owners in WUI forests. Although the overall pattern of beetle-kill at the site is likely driven by multiple factors (Raffa et al. Citation2008), higher beetle-kill and more negative growth responses in the mid zone at this site raise the possibility that channel enclosure may decrease tree growth and affect patterns of bark-beetle mortality. The study should inspire further research into whether irrigation channels could be playing a role in vegetation changes and forest resilience to drought and insect infestation across broader WUI forested areas in the region.
A series of dramatic changes has occurred at the study site since 1998 and 2002. In swale areas of the mid zone, shifts toward a less mesic understory community, the extensive fallen-tree area, the loss of tree density, and observations of dead riparian tree species in the vicinity of the upper channel all suggest drying of soil moisture as a plausible cause. Similar patterns were found in swale areas of the low zone. The location of these effects in swale areas below channels, but not in hillslope areas or in the high zone above both channels, is indicative of channel effects. In addition, several species in decline at the site, such as cottonwood, alder, aspen, and willow, are specifically associated with areas of high soil moisture in this forest type (Habeck Citation1987; Burns and Honkala Citation1990). Similar responses, including mortality events and shifts in forest species composition, have been observed due to human-caused water table changes (Stromberg et al. Citation1996; Scott et al. Citation1999; Caskey et al. Citation2015), but effects associated with recently enclosed irrigation channels have not been documented.
The low zone has been potentially affected by both channels. Although a high water table persists in some parts of the low zone, it is possible that enclosure of the upper channel, plus ongoing drought, may be causing drying of some previously wet areas in the low zone. Negative effects of waterlogged soils (Crow Citation2005) or natural self-thinning processes (Westoby Citation1984) may also be partially responsible for mortality of trees in the low zone, especially where tree densities may have been high before the study due to early-succession stand-age coupled with extra soil moisture. The results suggest that combined effects of open and enclosed channels may be patchy, likely a combination of fine-scale topography and drainage, proximity to channels, and stand age.
Water potential measurements above and below both channels show that channels could also be affecting water availability for ponderosa pine trees in proximity to the channels. At the open (lower) channel, water potentials were significantly higher in trees directly below the channel during times (morning and evening) when measurements are most likely reflecting soil moisture differences. At midday, water potentials converged to a similar minimum value in both treatments, indicating a general tolerance threshold for ponderosa pine (Maherali and DeLucia Citation2000). This pattern was not observed at the enclosed, upper channel. In fact, results at the upper channel suggest negative effects on water potentials in trees below the channel. The upper channel results may have been influenced by sampling challenges (see Methods). However, it is also possible that negative effects on water potential were underestimated because the trees below the upper channel potentially most affected by channel enclosure were already dead at the time of sampling. Channel effects on the water status of ponderosa pine have not been investigated in other studies. However, the water potential patterns observed here are consistent with studies of water deficit on ponderosa pine (Maherali and DeLucia Citation2000), and effects of stream diversions on other species (Stromberg and Patten Citation1990; Smith et al. Citation1991).
Tree growth rates above and below the channels also indicate likely channel effects. At the lower, open channel, trees below the channel had significantly higher long-term growth rates ( likely due to extra water from channel seepage. At the upper channel, growth response results indicate that enclosure has had significant negative effects on growth below the channel. Similar responses are seen in other studies (Stromberg and Patten Citation1990; Feichtinger et al. Citation2014) although none that investigated irrigation channels in WUI forests of the US.
Consistent with the possibility of channel effects on the water status and growth of trees, healthy trees in beetle-killed stands in the mid zone showed a significant and more negative post-enclosure growth response compared to the similar trees in the low zone, using the short (1999–2006) pre-enclosure period (. It is likely that growth differences between the mid and low zones would have been even greater with greater representation of swale areas in the samples. Also, because beetle-killed trees were not cored, there may have been stronger but undetected negative post-2007 growth responses in trees that died compared to trees that survived the beetle infestation within the same stands. The significant difference in growth response between mid and low zones could be an effect of general drought ( offset by extra water from the open channel ameliorating drought effects in the low zone.
The vegetation changes and tree physiological responses associated with irrigation channels in this study are an important context for the observed pattern of beetle-kill across the site (. Based on a total enumeration of beetle-killed trees in all three zones, beetle-kill was highest in the mid zone (), which is the area most likely affected by the enclosure of the upper channel. In fact, beetle-kill may have been even higher than reported here, because it is likely that many of the dead trees in the fallen-tree area of the mid zone were also killed by beetles. In addition, beetle-kill in the mid zone was substantially higher in the private section of the mid zone compared to the FS area where stumps were counted, suggesting that beetle-kill was not overestimated due to stump counts. The higher beetle-kill in the mid zone is consistent with the larger negative growth responses to channel enclosure and extensive areas of down dead trees in the mid zone.
It should be noted that beetle infestations are multi-causal, landscape-level processes (Raffa et al. Citation2008). At this site, beetle-kill was extensive in all zones, including areas directly below the open lower channel. Beetle-kill also occurred in the high zone, and along the road in the low zone; areas not likely affected by channels at all. Therefore, it is difficult to fully assess the causality of channel enclosure with regard to the higher beetle mortality in the mid zone. However, the possibility that irrigation channels may affect bark-beetle mortality via drying effects is consistent with other research (Kaiser et al. Citation2013) and plausible given the results found here. Further research is needed to test this connection.
This study took advantage of long-term datasets and a place-based approach to explore the possible effects of irrigation channels on a WUI forest. The results are suggestive of important channel effects at this site. Although the findings require corroboration by further testing at broader spatial scales, the patterns observed here warrant the attention of WUI forest managers and land owners. The sustainability of dry coniferous forests in the WUI of the northwestern US is at substantial risk due to increasing fire, drought, and beetle infestation (Kline et al. Citation2013). Mapping locations of irrigation channels may aid in interpreting existing patterns of plant community composition and patterns of vegetation changes and tree mortality. Forest managers should also consider the locations of irrigation channels when making predictions about forest resilience to drought and bark-beetles.
Special thanks to Gregory D. Peters for completing the understory survey and all plant identification in 2014. Jim Miller provided valuable assistance with plant identification in 2002, and many other field tasks in 2012–2017. Dakota Snyder and Ryan Baker-Urzua assisted in summer field work in 2014 and 2015 respectively, and were supported by SUNY New Paltz Student Association Research Grants. Paul M. Keeling, Andrew A. Keeling, and Charles D. Keeling assisted in the field in 1998. Additional thanks to the USDA Forest Service, Stevensville Ranger District, for permits and help with historical information.
No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.
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In 1998, sampling points were determined in advance on a map, and located in the field by pacing distances from property lines and known landmarks. A point-sampling method (Avery and Burkhart Citation2001) using a 20-factor forester’s cruise angle was used to count ‘in’ trees > 12.7 cm DBH. Living and standing dead trees were identified to species and recorded in four diameter categories. Saplings (DBH < 12.7 cm, > 1.37 m ht) were also counted in fixed circular plots around the points (area = 81.4 m2). In 2015, approximate point locations were determined by using the same map and pacing methods from 1998. Fixed circular plots (area = 400 m2) were used in 2015, and all living and standing dead trees > 2 cm DBH falling within the plot were recorded, with DBHs. Seedlings (trees < 2 cm DBH, and less than head height) and saplings (trees < 2 cm DBH, and > 1.37 m tall) were also recorded.
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SD : In The 20% Solution, you reveal that MROP supplies only account for about twenty percent of the average organization’s overall supply budget. Why then should businesses focus their cost savings efforts here?
JR: First, because in most organizations, this represents a fertile area for cost-savings that have never been identified or exploited, while most other areas have been repeatedly mined. Second, this 20% of spend represents a highly disproportionate (about 80%) share of cost, time and effort throughout the supply chain.
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JR: The database is the foundation for any effective cost control or cost reduction program. You cannot control or reduce what you cannot measure. Moreover, the database enables you to identify the greatest savings opportunities and set appropriate priorities.
SD : Two other prerequisites you discuss are goal setting and process feedback and control. What are some of the common performance measures organizations pursuing MROP cost reduction use and what target goals do they first establish?
JR: All goals should have these characteristics: 1.) reflect what management seeks to achieve e.g. reduction in costs, transactions, staff, errors, time, inventory, etc. 2.) quantify desired results and relate them to cost drivers e.g. cut maintenance spending by $10,000 per kwh produced 3.) be measurable against the database so that accomplishment can be determined and 4.) be significant enough to justify the time and effort to be invested.
SD : Joel, having met the prerequisites for an MROP cost reduction initiative, what are the critical, high level steps typically taken to execute the project?
JR: Management must back the program; responsibility must be specifically assigned; adequate resources should be allocated; and results should be measured against objectives. I would strongly suggest that key suppliers be made part of the initiative.
SD : You’ve provided readers with a great list of cost savings opportunities to assess in both the ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ savings areas within The 20% Solution. As a bonus for our StrategyDriven readers, are there one or two additional areas you would recommend they explore?
JR: In the present economic climate, there are a great deal of assets being made redundant due to cutbacks, closings, bankruptcies, downsizings, etc. I would suggest looking for good used or surplus materials in secondary markets rather than buying new.
SD : Joel, you suggested that an MROP cost reduction initiative could be used as a developmental opportunity for an up and coming manager. Such a project certainly requires a leader to work cross functionally with the business’s many line and support organizations. What other developmental opportunities does an MROP cost reduction initiative afford its project manager?
JR: Most top management does not come from a procurement background and does not realize the significant potential of an innovative/change-driven procurement function to dramatically affect corporate cash flow, investment and earnings, as well as risk/reward relationships. Someone who can learn to identify, dramatize and communicate the benefits of such a program to top management can move much further and faster in the organization than is typical. This is addressed in The 20% Solution.
SD : Joel, your website, www.the20percentsolution.com provides additional resources for those seeking to pursue MROP cost reductions. Would you tell us a bit about the website and its content?
JR: If you click on the Resources Section of the website, you will find substantial additional insights into corollary topics such as innovation, changing the strategic role of purchasing and other examples of cost-savings techniques, as well as my availability to assist those who wish to pursue these programs.
The StrategyDriven team would like to thank Joel Roth not only for sharing his time but also for his beyond the scope of the book insights on streamlining the MROP supply chain process. We found The 20% Solution to be particularly valuable because it provides actionable insights and real world examples for achieving cost reductions and process streamlining, both of which make an organization more effective. Additionally, Mr. Roth’s use of self assessments, performance goals, and feedback and control systems compliment many of the best practice recommendations found on the StrategyDriven website; all of which make The 20% Solution a StrategyDriven recommended read.
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Introduction Informational socializing of modern adolescents influences the form of communication as the main source of development and self-determination as the major developmental factor in adolescence. The investigation of links between personal features and moral values and Internet involvement allows defining the problem of correlations between personal and cognitive component of development and prevent cyberbulling and communication on-line risks.
The Objective of the study is to investigate the correlation between basic attitude and moral values of adolescents and the productivity of cognitive processing of social information on the Internet. The hypothesis of the study is the assumption that adolescents with a positive attitude to the mediated world and a high level of moral values reveal greater productivity of cognitive methods of processing social information obtained on the Internet. One of the goals of the research was to identify the relationship between basic beliefs and the Internet addiction in adolescents.
Methods and sampling. The study used the following methods: 1. Basic Belief Scale by R. Yanoff-Bulman (Kalmykova, Padun, 2002); 2. Methods of diagnosing moral values "Fair-Care" (S. Molchanov, A. Podolsky); 3) the author's method of cognitive assessment of social information on the Internet, based on the Crick and Dodge model (Crick, Dodge, 1994); 4. Method of diagnosing Internet-dependent behavior by S.H.Chen. The population aged 13 to 18 years accounted 175 adolescents (49% males and (51% females).
Results. Three groups of adolescents were different in the nature of basic assumptions and the level of development of moral values optimists, pessimists, and ego-centered pessimists, and Internet addicted. Comparative analysis of the cognitive methods of processing social information on the Internet, as well as signs of Internet addiction was carried out.
Conclusions: The hypothesis that positive attitude to the mediated world and belief that they control life, a high level of moral values associated with more productive cognitive methods of processing social information on the Internet has received confirmation. A group of adolescents identified as “pessimists” (perception of the world as hostile, negative image of themselves, lack of confidence in the world and success, low level of moral values) reveal signs of Internet addiction in behaviour.
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Background. Within the conditions of information socialization that is transforming communication and placing high demands on the ability of the individual to search, select, critically comprehend social information for decision-making and carrying out moral choices, a new social situation has developed. The research of the relationship between cognitive methods of processing social information on the Internet and shaping the worldview and ideas about the moral regulation in adolescents makes it possible to study the patterns of personality development in the unity of the cognitive and value-moral spheres.
The Objective of the research is to identify cognitive methods of processing social information on the Internet as a factor of developing a picture of the world in adolescent users with varying degrees of involvement and the risk of Internet addiction and moral regulation of relationship between them.
Hypothesis. Cognitive methods of processing information on the Internet are connected with the level of Internet addiction - a high level of Internet addiction corresponds to the low efficiency of cognitive methods of processing information. These methods influence the emerging system of major beliefs and worldview characteristics, and level of sensitivity to situations of moral choice.
Design. The author’s method of assessing social information on the Internet based on Crick and Dodge model (1994), Chen method for diagnosing Internet-addictive behaviour, «The scale of basic beliefs of the person» of R. Yanoff-Bullman (Kalmykova , Padun, 2002), and the author’s method of assessing moral aspects were used. The study involved 84 adolescents from 13 to 18 years (46% males and 54% females).
Results. A comparative analysis of the effectiveness of cognitive processing cycles was conducted and gender differences were revealed. The relationship between Internet addiction and the effectiveness of cognitive processing methods of information on the Internet is verified. The significance of interpretation, behaviour assessment and the ability to construct social adaptive behaviour in communication to shape the major beliefs and moral attitude in adolescence are shown.
Conclusion. There are differences in the effectiveness of cognitive processing cycles of information. High efficiency of short-term, long-term, medium-term perspectives and behavioural responses and the ability to choose adequate social behavior corresponds to a relatively low productivity of interpretation. Internet addiction is interrelated with the low productivity of interpretation. Moral attitude is mediated by the age features of adolescent self-awareness and is related to the effectiveness of information interpretation, the evaluation of behavioural consequences and the choice of appropriate ways of social interaction.
The paper describes the research results of relationship between personal autonomy and responsibility level in adolescence. The theoretical idea of unity of freedom and responsibility can be regarded as link between personal autonomy and level of responsibility in adolescence. The hypothesis of correlation between level of responsibility and autonomy in adolescence is realized. The sample includes 368 school students aged from 13 to 17, Moscow, Russia. The questionnaire to diagnose autonomy defines emotional, cognitive, intellectual and behavioural components of autonomy. The second questionnaire describes the responsibility level using the example of different moral dilemmas. The results of the empirical research describe the hypothesis on the relationship between personal autonomy and level of responsibility. Personal autonomy includes value, emotional, cognitive and behavioural components. Cluster groups with different levels of autonomy are defined: high autonomy, intellectual autonomy, low autonomy and disharmonic type of autonomy. Higher level of a number of autonomy components correlates with higher level of responsibility. Analysis of moral norm deviation shows that type and content of moral dilemma play an important role in responsibility acceptance. Gender differences in level of responsibility is defined in the following way: females show higher level of responsibility than males.
The paper discusses the possibilities and limitations of vocational guidance in the social volunteering system. The essence of volunteer work is closely related with assistance to desperate people in searching for the meaning of living, often coinciding with labour activity that are deemed in terms of “the main matter of life” and “the leading activity”. For adolescents, it is the choice of career, and for adults, it is the work proper (i.e. an essential condition for personal self-realization). The problem of “forced volunteering” for experts in vocational guidance also means that they often have to work voluntarily and unselfishly outside the official guidelines. To clarify the terms «volunteer» and «a person in desperate need of help» the study used the method of analyzing the documents, e.g. the Regulations on Social Volunteering, the generalization of psychological sources, the initial survey of university students as active supporters of the volunteer movement, On the essence of volunteering and the place of career guidance in selfless social work. Vocational guidance is not excluded from the general system of volunteerism, but has an insufficiently defined status and low popularity among participants in social volunteering. Also, the problem of «forced volunteering» of experts in career counseling, which often requires voluntary and unselfish performance of quality work outside the framework of official instructions, is also indicated. Simultaneously, positive aspects of such disinterested career initiatives are noted, in particular, less control by the official inspectors (or customers) and, accordingly, greater freedom of creativity than when someone else does the work.
Most modern psychologists who deal with preschool age emphasize the development of executive functions as one of the most important factors in this age. The paper compares two most important and common approaches to disclosing and diagnosing voluntariness in the preschool age: the model of executive functions «unity with diversity» of A. Miyake and the skills theory of L.A. Venger. The model of the executive functions considers three main components of executive functions: working memory; flexibility of attention or switching; restraining control. The basis of cognitive abilities theory is the concept of cultural facilities (sensory standards, visual models, etc.) that are being developed throughout the preschool period. In accordance with these two diagnostic complexes were drawn up, aimed at diagnosing voluntariness in preschool years. The study involved 48 children aged 5-6 years, kindergarten students (24 girls and 24 boys) conducted in Moscow, Russia. The results showed that despite a variety of theoretical approaches to early childhood and voluntariness they reverberate the same reality.
The most revealing methods (the results of which you can predict the eventual consequences) were elaborated: the method of «Inhibition» (subtest of neuropsychological diagnostic complex techniques NEPSY-II, Korkman et al, 2007) in the case of A. Miyake model, and methods of «Schematization» in the abilities theory of L.A. Venger (Venger, Kholmovskaya, 1978).
The paper analyzes the relationship between adult siblings, their specificity and diversity, examples of relation typologies of adult siblings by American and Indian psychologists are adduced. The modern view of the attachment to the mother in adults and the conditions required for establishing close, trusting interpersonal relationships are briefly described. A succinct overview of modern foreign research in these fields of research is given. The national sample (N = 277) identified and described four types of relations between adult siblings: emotionally-positive (heart, harmonious) ones account 39 per cent of the sample; ambivalent (heart, conflictcompetitive ones account 32 per cent; debarred (not close, not conflict-competing) ones account 18 per cent; conflict (not close, competing conflict-up to hostile) ones account 11 per cent.
Comparison of the three typologies of adult sibling relationships (Russian, US and Indian). The intercouple comparison shows the reciprocity of sibling relationships in adulthood. The results of the empirical research reveal complex relationship features attachment to the mother with the nature of the relationship between siblings in adulthood. Thus there are adults with a reliable type of attachment to the mother with debarred or even conflicting relationships with older siblings, while adult sibling relationships are determined not totally emotional of the early relationship with the mother, and also depend on the sibling’s personality traits and personal history of relations. The influence of the attachment type to the mother is shaped in childhood and can be applied to the relationship between adult siblings.

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Ryan Reynolds Covers 'GQ' October 2010
Here’s what the 33-year-old Buried and Green Lantern actor had to share:
On the success of Van Wilder: “It made me the party guy. I would walk into a bar and people would start lining up the shots. You could sum up my career at that point as a free shot at a bar. I know it affected me more than I’m revealing, because I know that I went years without even saying the words ‘Van Wilder.’ Even now, when I say it, it’s a bit of a big moment for me.”
On spending two weeks in a coffin to shoot Buried:“I’ll never, ever in my life complain on a set again after being on that set. Sixteen, seventeen days of doing that… It was such a state of emotional distress.”
On how things changed when he married Scarlett Johansson: “Things change when you get married in general. But in terms of being a couple that’s in a public situation and speculated about and all that nonsense, it’s changed a little bit. I’m a little more guarded, I think. I’m a little bit more wary of having my relationship turning into a soap opera. I’ve just unilaterally not addressed it. That’s kind of been the fail-safe for me.”
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Lyrics: First verse Did you ever hear the story of Ragged, Jagged Jack? Here he comes down the street with a pack on his back. He comes in the morning, and he comes at night, And he gobbles up ev'ry thing in sight, He wakes up the neighborhood for miles around, He's a reglar alarm clock, always wound. he gets beneath your window when you try to get to sleep, And yells in a voice so loud and deep, Chorus Any rags? Rags? Any rags, any bones, any bottles today, There's a big black rag picker coming this way, Any rags? Rags? Any rags, any bones, any bottles today, It's the same old story, in the same old way. Second verse If you happen for to leave a thing out all night, you get up in the morn and it's gone from yer sight. You'll know then that Ragged jack has been that way. He's a very bad omen, people say. He stole all his furniture, he stole his wife, If he'd steal from his friend he'd steal yer life. he never gets molested as he daily walks about, But things disappear when he yells out:
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A bottle of rosé that will never give you a hangover! Wouldn't you love to see this finished as a standup for your bar area?
Whispering Angel Bottle, B-02 (18m)
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And take advantage of a great feature called “autocommands” for… the automation part.
Autocommands are Vim’s way of executing arbitrary commands when specific events happen. Entering a window, quitting insert mode, loading a buffer with a specific filetype are some of the many events available.
An autocommand usually looks like that:
autocmd event pattern command
autocmd is the command that defines an autocommand,
event can be a single event or a comma-separated list of events,
pattern is a simple pattern describing what [todo] and
command is what we want to happen.
Scrolling through the list at
:help autocommand-events we find
BufWritePost which looks like it can be used after
:cwindow. Let’s try it:
autocmd BufWritePost *.c silent make|cwindow
Phew! That was easy…
But we are not finished with autocommands yet. The way that feature is implemented makes it easy for autocommands to “pile up” when we source our
vimrc during a session and provoke performance issues. To avoid side effects, we should wrap our autocommands in an
augroup and empty it before define our actual autocommands. The whole boilerplate looks like this:
augroup groupname autocmd! autocmd event pattern command augroup END
augroup c autocmd! autocmd BufWritePost *.c silent make|cwindow augroup END
From there, one can configure many things to suit his needs: what program to run when doing
:grep, how to parse the output of those comands so that it can be used in the quickfix list, for what filetype to use what setting… but that will be the subject of another chapter.


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Celebrate Ontario Public Library Week (October 20 - 25)
Join us with children's author Sharon Jennings, a contributor to the Franklin stories!
Aboyne Branch 519.846.0190 Monday, October 20 10:30 am
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Join us for fun balloon twisting as Five the magician puts on an amazing magic show.
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Join us for a literacy concert using puppets, songs, spelling games and dancing to show children of all ages reading is fun!
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Emma Stone and Andrew Garfield Are in 'No Rush to Get Engaged'
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"They just love spending time together," says a pal of the actor, 29.
To relax, the couple of more than a year caught Cirque du Soleil's Los Angeles show on Oct. 16 and braved a "Paranormal Activity 4" screening five days later.
In general, "They are absolutely adorable together," another insider tells Us Weekly. "They both seem to have their heads on straight ... They are the most normal couple I have seen."
Romantic bliss aside, Stone, 24, isn't clamoring for any wedding activity just yet.
"There's no rush to get engaged," adds a confidant. "They are both young and ambitious."
This article originally appeared on Usmagazine.com: Emma Stone and Andrew Garfield Are in "No Rush to Get Engaged"
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E. V. Le Roux is a full time writer and currently lives in East Meadow, New York. She was born in the Bronx, New York. Moved to Brooklyn, New York before the age of five then to Freeport, New York at the age of 15, graduated from Freeport High School.
Mother of three and grandmother of 12, she has much to be grateful for. Ms. Le Roux credits her family and friends for being the inspiration of much of her work in both fiction and non-fiction.
In her early years Ms. Le Roux won awards for her costume designs and paintings. Her paintings have found a home in several countries as well as the United States. Ms. Le Roux taught art to children and adults at a private studio in Great Neck, New York and her own studio in Rockville Centre, New York.
Her obsession for reading anything she could get her hands on at a young age created the desire to write. Fulfilling her hearts desire became a reality with her first published anthology and several of her non-fiction works.


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Now that Roquan Smith is under contract, the Chicago Bears can start getting him ready to take over as the inside linebacker of the future.
Ryan Pace invested the eighth-overall pick in a player he believes can be a game-changer for his defense, but even the most polished prospects need some time to adjust to the NFL game.
Smith is already behind schedule, but the Bears’ extended preseason makes it feel like he’s missed more than he has.
The team still has three exhibition games on the calendar, two of which should provide plenty of much-needed live reps for Smith.
Had he been with the team, the rookie linebacker likely wouldn’t have played in the Hall of Fame game, and he would have been unlikely to play more than a series or two last week against the Cincinnati Bengals.
The biggest thing Smith missed was time on the practice field, but he’s smart enough not to have wasted these last three weeks.
He’s had Vic Fangio’s playbook all summer, and he proved at Georgia that he knows how to keep his body in peak condition.
The eighth-overall pick also already practiced with the defense during OTAs, so he won’t be coming back to anything brand new at Halas Hall.
A player of his caliber shouldn’t need a lot of time to emerge as the best option for the starting job, despite Nick Kwiatkoski’s development.
It should only take Smith a few weeks to be ready to lead his defense from the middle. The real question is whether the Bears will hand him the keys or if he’ll have to wait his turn as punishment for his holdout.

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