In the preparation of this thesis, the writer does not claim to have discovered any great truths or their underlying causes. As the title indicates, the work is a summary of some of the more important investigational activities on the McDonald Forest. This line of endeavor was chosen because it...
Violations of one or more of the assumptions made In analysis of
variance (ANOVA) or linear regression analysis may lead to erroneous
results. Often data will not conform to the assumptions implicit in the
analyses, but transforming the data to a different scale may lead to an
appropriate model. Before...
I evaluated fire occurrence, growth and recruitment and determined the fire history of 21 old and 20 young 8ha stands in Cascade, Siskiyou and mid-Coast mixed conifer and evergreen forests in southwestern Oregon. The rates and patterns of growth were measured and analyzed on 1,079 old-growth and 2,111
young stand...