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<br />Elaine Jones was an unusually efficient and effective secretary during <br />the first 3 years. She helped the forest ecosystems team leader. <br />the SJEP coordinator and all project personnel, including graduate <br />research assistants, in innumerable ways. In the last year of the <br />project Donna Denham served in the same way through the pressures and <br />concerns of the Final Report. Other typists for forest ecosystems <br />were Peggy Reid, Carol Stacey, and Marilyn Baker. <br /> <br />Administrators at,CSU were most supportive. Dr. George Olson, Associate <br />Vice-President for Research arranged for the CSU contribution of half <br />of the indirect costs in 1974-75. Jim Brown, Contracts and Grants <br />Administrator, was a skilled and helpful guide in the early days of the <br />project. Mary Jane Price replaced him later and gave project funds the <br />personal attention that insured good fiscal management. Work study <br />funds from the Office of Financial Aids supplied many hours of student <br />assistance, without cost to the SJEP, part time in the winter and full <br />time in summer. <br /> <br />President Rexer Berndt, of Fort Lewis College provided dormitory rooms <br />at much reduced cost during the later leaner years. He also provided <br />a staff that was unusually cooperative. They included Tony Ferdinando, <br />Physical Plant mechanic, who kept an ancient and essential four wheel <br />drive Travelall in top condition and saw to it that we had it when <br />needed, sometimes even in preference to Fort Lewis College staff. Al <br />Murdock, Physical Plant Supervisor. provided garage space for snow- <br />mobiles and other equipment and always willingly cooperated with any <br />request. <br /> <br />Local residents were helpful. Mr. Lester Seeley, a rancher whose cattle <br />allotment included the Missionary Ridge study area, was hospitable and <br />offered all his field facilities for our use. He was a friend of the <br />entire field group. Mr. and Mrs. James Corbett were a special link <br />with the community at the bottom of the Missionary Ridge road. <br /> <br />And finally, several agencies provided funds for associated projects <br />which contributed to the understanding of the SJEP. The US/IBP <br />Coniferous Forest Biome financed a liaison which permitted forest <br />ecosystems scientists to visit similar ecologic study sites in <br />Washington and Oregon. They also provided for interchange of data. <br />The US/IBP Grasslands Biome gave advice at the beginning of the study. <br />The US Office of Water Resources Research funded a related research <br />project on prediction of snow depths and water equivalent on Missionary <br />Ridge. The National Science Foundation supported basic research on the <br />relations of silver to microorganisms and on water relations in spruce. <br />The National Center of Atmospheric Research and the Bureau of Reclamation <br />provided funds for studies of effect of silver on soil bacteria. <br />The US Forest Service financed research by SJEP investigators on <br />the phytosociology of spruce-fir and aspen forests throughout the central <br />Rockies, and an nutrient cycling in certain forests of the central Rocky <br />Mountains. McIntire-Stennis funds through the U.S. Department of <br />Agriculture financed related projects on spruce phenology and spruce <br />physiology. <br /> <br />Tundra Ecosystems <br /> <br />The presence of the INSTAAR team in the San Juan Mountains resulted In the <br />development of a series of complementary and associated research, the <br />combined funding level exceeding the amount of the San Juan Ecology Project's <br />subcontract to the University of Colorado. It is important to acknowledge <br />here that the primary stimulus to this development was the SJEP itself. <br />Granting agencies include the National Aeronautics and Space Administration <br />(NASA), the National Science Foundation, the United States Army Research <br />Office (Durham), the states of Colorado and Washington Highway Departments <br />and the Federal Department of Transportation. Several institutions collaborated <br />in various stages of the work, including the Purdue University Laboratory for <br />the Application of Remote Sensing (LARS), the National Forest Service, the <br />United States Tundra Biome International Biological Programme (IBP), the <br />Colorado Geological Survey, the United States Corps of Engineers, Cold <br />Regions Research and Engineering Laboratories (CRREL), and various county <br />governments (principally San Juan, Ouray, and San Miguel counties) under <br />the aegis of Colorado House Bill 1041. Muc.h of this research activity is <br />still continuing; in particular avalanche research and snow hydrology and <br />the mapping of natural hazards (including avalanche, landslide, mudflow and <br />rockfall) on a county-wide basis. Ihis latter, funded by NASA Office of <br /> <br />viii <br />