L-A-D Foundation - Our Publications

General Information (most of the items described here are available from the Foundation):

Pioneer Forest--a tri-fold pamphlet highlighting the forest. Reprinted in 1997.

Directory of Missouri Natural Areas--This publication is periodically updated and published by the Missouri Natural Areas Committee. Each of the Foundation's areas is listed. Copies may be obtained by writing either the Missouri Department of Conservation, P.O. Box 180, Jefferson City, MO 65102, or the Missouri Department of Natural Resources, P.O. Box 176, Jefferson City, MO 65102.

Missouri's Virgin Pine Walk & Pioneer Forest Interpretive Drive--designed as a self-guiding resource, this 16-page booklet offers useful insights into one of Missouri's old-growth "pineries" and the adjacent 2-mile long interpretive drive through Pioneer Forest.

Roger Pryor Pioneer Backcountry--This is one of the Midwest's destinations for primitive outdoor recreation. Totaling 61,000 acres, this area is part of the larger Pioneer Forest where the Himont Trailhead, a former fire tower location, connects hikers with extensive backpacking routes into Brushy Creek, the Current River, and the 300-mile long Ozark Trail through southern Missouri.

The Pioneer Video.

Our Research Information:

 A case study in sustainable forest management. Iffrig, G.F., C.E. Trammel, and T.C. Cunningham. 2004. Pages 193-204 in Susan L. Flader, editor, Toward Sustainability for Missouri Forests. General Technical Report NC-239, USDA Forest Service, North Central Forest Experiment Station, St. Paul, MN. 251p. A pdf file of General Technical Report is available at the following web address:    http://permanent.access.gpo.gov/websites/www.ncrs.fs.fed.us/pubs/gtr/gtr_nc239.pdf

•  Detailed overview of the design and description of single-tree selection forest management as used on Pioneer Forest. Data for the period 1957-    1997 are presented showing volume measurements for seven major species groups and basal area by diameter class from 6 inches to 24 inches or greater. Economic advantages of this system of forest management are demonstrated by looking at market price increases from Pioneer Forest for the period 1950-1999. Using this information an economic model is applied to an average acre of Ozark forestland managed for the most recent 24-year period (1975-99) using clearcutting versus single-tree selection harvest.  From the two management scenarios, including management costs for conducting each sale, the authors showed a nearly doubled rate of return by using single-tree selection harvests

Annotated bibliography of research and information on Pioneer Forest and other properties of the L-A-D Foundation. G.F. Iffrig. Annually updated.

• Containing more than 160 entries this collection of works includes research publications, books, articles from various periodicals, and other information which has been written about the lands of the L-A-D Foundation.

Missouri's pioneer in sustainable forestry. S.L. Flader. Forest History Today Spring/Fall (2004): 2-15. [PDF file]  

• Although dated 2004 this paper is still soon-to-be published by Forest History Today. It is part of a more detailed history which Flader has been at work on for the past several years. She has interviewed Leo and his staff as well as reviewed historical files and Leo's own collection of personal papers at the Western Historical Manuscripts Collection housed on the University of Missouri-Saint Louis campus. Here she shares a wealth of information as well as historical photographs from the Pioneer Forest archives. Flader chronicles Pioneer's long history beginning in the 1950s. She reviews the adopted method of management known as single-tree selection harvesting and the disfavor it received beginning in the 1960's as even-aged management became the focus of state and federal land management efforts. Flader also presents the more recent history and the recognition that has come to Pioneer Forest by way of a host of research projects, all pointing favorably toward the management and its effects on the forest and its biota.