Edward J. DePuit
Adjunct Professor and Research Team Leader
Research Interests
- Restoration Ecology
- Land Reclamation
- Range Improvements
- Range Plant Ecology
Teaching /Professional Interests
Dr. Ed DePuit is a range plant ecologist with primary expertise and interest in the areas of plant synecology, range improvements and rehabilitation/restoration of drastically disturbed lands. Within these areas, the foci of past/future research has been and remains on improved understanding of basic ecological processes (both vegetational and edaphic) within rangeland ecosystems, and the manipulation of such processes through applied management to attain natural resource goals.
Recent Publications
Schuman, G.E., E.J. DePuit and K.E. Roadifer. 1994. Plant responses to gypsum amendment of sodic bentonite mine spoil. J. Range Manage. 47:206-209.
Andersen, M.R., E.J. DePuit, R.H. Abernethy and L.H. Kleinman. 1992. Value of mountain rye for suppression of annual bromegrasses on semiarid mined lands. J. Range Manage. 45:345-351.
DePuit, E.J. and E.F. Redente. 1988. Manipulation of ecosystem dynamics on reconstructed semiarid lands. Pp. 162-204 (Chapt. 8) in The Reconstruction of Disturbed Arid Lands: An Ecological Approach, ed. E.B. Allen, Westview Press, Boulder, CO.
Educational Background
- Ph.D.
Utah State University - Logan, UT
U.S. Forest Service
Wenatchee Forestry
Science Laboratory
113 N. Western Ave.
Wenatchee, WA 98801
(509) 664-1715
ejdepuit@fs.fed.us