. Edward J. DePuit Research Team Leader US Forest Service Wenatchee Forestry Science Laboratory 1133 N. Western Ave. Wenatchee, WA 98801 509-662-4315 ext.222 Adjunct Professor

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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.

Representative 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.