The forest products industry often uses intermediate-support cable logging
systems to transport logs from the harvest site to a staging area. A method is presented to assist in the analysis and design of these cable sys ...
Three culverts, judged to be fish barriers, were replaced with "stream
simulation" culverts on the Fremont National Forest of south central Oregon. The
culvert sites are located in the Fort Rock Basin in streams that a ...
Synthetic adhesives like phenol formaldehyde (PF) and isocyanates dominate the
wood based structural panel market. The raw materials that makeup these adhesives
are based on petroleum and natural gas. The sustainabilit ...
A one-mile section of a newly constructed forest road in Northwest Oregon was analyzed for various aspects of subgrade and surface strength and their association with the formation of ruts during the first hauling season ...
Two hilislope sites in the central Oregon Coast Range were instrumented and monitored for winter precipitation and saturated and unsaturated subsurface conditions. The study sites were near-ridge depressions typically kn ...
Heavy timber framing relies primarily on bracing to withstand lateral loads due to earthquakes and wind events. Bracing configurations in heavy timber framed buildings vary widely and include cross bracing, knee bracing, ...
A computer program, SAW3DG, was developed to optimize log breakdown
using 3-dimensional log and internal defect shapes. The program was based on
SAW3D, a log breakdown optimization program considering only 3-dimensiona ...
A study was conducted to investigate the influence of root reinforcements on soil
strength and the initiation of static liquefaction in forest soils. The design and operation
was developed of an apparatus capable of mo ...
Oregon's forestry industry has and will continue to be a vital component of Oregon's economy, with twenty-two percent of Oregon's 1986 gross state product and thirty-nine percent of Oregon's 1986 gross manufacturing prod ...
This paper presents an evaluation of the cable loading
support capacity of red alder, Alnus rubra Bong., Sitka
spruce, Picea sitchensis (Bong.) Carr, and western hemlock,
Tsuga heterophylla (Raf.) Sarg., tail trees. C ...
Consider the bole of a tree to consist of a linear elastic material that is
orthotropic with respect to the cylindrical coordinates. When the bole of a tree is
subjected to resultant loads in the directions of the Cart ...
The Lookout Creek Earthflow is located in the Cascade Mountain
Range in western Oregon. The Cascade Mountains are mainly volcanic
in origin, and deposits in and around the slide have a complex geomorphic
history,, aff ...
A hypothesis used to explain the relationship between timber harvesting
and landslides is that tree roots add mechanical support to soil, thus increasing
soil strength. Upon harvest, the tree roots decay which reduces ...
Object Watershed Link Simulation (OWLS) is a physically based watershed model. In the OWLS
model, a watershed is defined as a three-dimensional object with linkages between cells and their
attributes (e.g., area, slope ...
Peakflow frequency analysis is used in forest hydrology for designing stream crossing structures such as culverts and bridges. The traditional approach to
frequency analysis is based on the assumption that the observed ...
The purpose of this paper is to determine the dynamic tensions
that occur in the guyl ines and pendulum lines of a tethered logging
bal loon. A scale model was used to represent the tethered logging
balloon.
During t ...
New species introductions have been associated with the movement of
people for thousands of years. For instance, horses were introduced into North
America by Spanish explorers, while pigs were introduced by the Polynes ...
This research investigates the direct and downstream impacts of clearcut harvest units on
stream temperature as a part of the Hinkle Creek Paired Watershed Study. The Hinkle Creek
watershed is located in the foothills ...
The impact of forest roads on the hydrology of forested watersheds has long been studied. While forest roads have been reported to alter storm runoff at the road segment scale, the potential for changes to be detectable ...
Mass wasting events are a principal form of erosion that occurs on steep forest land throughout the Pacific Northwest. Numerous studies have reported that tree roots help stabilize steep forest land. A complete
understa ...