SA@OSU Home
→
Department of Forest Engineering, Resources and Management
→
Theses, Dissertations and Student Research Papers (Sustainable Forest Management, Forest Engineering, & Forest Management)
→
Browsing Theses, Dissertations and Student Research Papers (Sustainable Forest Management, Forest Engineering, & Forest Management) by Title

Browsing Theses, Dissertations and Student Research Papers (Sustainable Forest Management, Forest Engineering, & Forest Management) by Title

Now showing items 1-20 of 75

Accuracy and suitability of several stand sampling methods in riparian zones

Marquardt, Theresa (2010-02-22)

Stand structure in headwater riparian areas of western Oregon is highly variable making quantification of structural attributes within these stands difficult. A reliable sampling design is important to characterize and m ...
Applying the McDonaldization thesis and norm activation model to examine trends and effects of commercial outdoor recreation and tourism in Juneau, Alaska

Janson, Sera (2008-12-16)

As recreation and tourism visitation increases and government budgets decrease, public land management agencies are using private commercial operators as an alternative source of offering products and services. Changes ...
Assessing the sustainability of management practices for planted forests across an environmental gradient in New Zealand

Kiyvyra, Alicia L. (2008-07-28)

Sustainable management of planted forests requires maintenance of soil function to promote 1) root growth; 2) storage and cycling of water and nutrients; 3) optimal gas exchange; and 4) biological activity. Soil qua ...
Assessment of Airborne Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) for use in common forest engineering geomatic applications

Craven, Michael B. (2011-06-16)

Airborne Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) has become a popular remote sensing technology to create digital terrain models and provide forest inventory information. However, little research has been done to investigate ...
Belowground carbon storage and soil organic matter quality following fertilizer and herbicide applications in ponderosa pine plantations along a site-quality gradient in northern California

McFarlane, Karis J., 1979- (2007-08-15)

Belowground carbon (C) storage and quality of soil organic matter (SOM) in forest soils have implications for sustainable forest management and C sequestration, but how these pools change in response to management is p ...
Boating in Alaska's Prince William Sound : modeling and assessment of recreational use

Wolfe, Phillip E. (2007-08-28)

This study measures the recreational boating use in Prince William Sound, Alaska. Improved access conditions to the Sound over the last decade coupled with a statewide increase in outdoor recreation participation among ...
Building social capital through community-agency collaboration : a survey of residents in northeast Washington

Maier, Carolin (2012-05-02)

Over the past half century, the USDA Forest Service has increasingly faced diverse and often competing demands for forest resources, ranging from recreation, to ecosystem services, and timber supply. Building positive ...
Carbon flux patterns on U.S. public timberlands under alternative timber harvest policies

Shanks, Alyssa (2008-03-20)

This study considers trade-offs between timber harvest and carbon sequestration on National Forest and other public lands by contemporaneously linking a model of public harvest and inventory to a carbon accounting syst ...
A characterization of seasonal pools in Central Oregon's high desert

Dlugolecki, Laura (2010-03-22)

Seasonal wetlands in arid and semi-arid lands provide an important source of surface water in otherwise dry lands. Central Oregon's high desert, located in the Northern Great Basin (NGB) is dotted with hundreds of season ...
Characterizing early-seral competitive mechanisms influencing Douglas-fir seedling growth, vegetation community development, and physiology of selected weedy plant species

Dinger, Eric J. (2012-05-17)

Three studies were conducted to characterize and present early-seral competition between Douglas-fir seedlings and the surrounding vegetation communities during Pacific Northwest forest establishment. The first experim ...
Citizen-agency interactions : an investigation of postfire environments

Olsen, Christine Shaw (2008-05-15)

Wildfire management has grown increasingly complex in recent years, particularly in the West and in the Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) where a steady population growth has resulted in greater risk to people and propert ...
Comparison and analysis of small area estimation methods for improving estimates of selected forest attributes

Goerndt, Michael E. (2010-03-29)

One of the most common practices regarding estimation of forest attributes is the partitioning of large forested subpopulations into smaller areas of interest to coincide with specific objectives of present and future ...
Complexity of food web interactions in a large mammal system

Eisenberg, Cristina (2012-02-22)

Food webs consist of a combination of bottom-up (resource-driven) and top-down (predator-driven) effects. The strength of these effects depends on the context in which they occur. I investigated food web (trophic) relati ...
Conifer regeneration, understory vegetation and artificially topped conifer responses to alternative silvicultural treatments

Huff, Tristan (2008-09-18)

Historically, between 40-60% of the Coast Range of Oregon was comprised of structurally diverse, old forests initiated by disturbances of various spatial scales ranging from thousands of acres (large fires) to the size ...
Contemporary forest road management with economic and environmental objectives

Thompson, Matthew P. (2009-04-17)

One of the basic questions facing transportation planners and road managers is how to provide and maintain a road system that provides efficient access to the forest while limiting adverse effects roads can have on water ...
Converting forest biomass to energy in Oregon : stakeholder perspectives on a growing movement

Stidham, Melanie (2008-01-16)

Within Oregon there is considerable interest in the possibility of converting woody biomass to energy. This interest stems from three converging factors: the desire to reduce the threat of uncharacteristic wildfire by r ...
A decision framework for the implementation of appropriate logging practices in developing countries : case study -- Ethiopia

Spong, Ben (2007-08-27)

In many areas of the developing world, the continued overexploiting forest resources has the potential to have significant detrimental impacts be placed on sustainable forest management (SFM) can help communities and org ...
Direct stakeholder perceptions of collaboration, indicators, and compliance associated with the wilderness best management practices in Tracy Arm-Fords Terror Wilderness, Alaska

Pomeranz, Emily F. (2011-12-08)

Increasingly popular methods for managing impacts of tourism in nature-based settings include collaborative and voluntary codes of conduct. In southeast Alaska, for example, the Tourism Best Management Practices (TBMP) i ...
Dissolved nitrogen in surface waters and nitrogen mineralization in riparian soils within a multi-land use basin

Evans, Daniel M. (2007-06-05)

The growing population of Oregon’s Willamette River Basin places an increasing demand on the basin’s surface waters. Watershed-scale research addressing spatial trends of dissolved nitrogen (DN) and its relationship wi ...
Economic modeling of tropical deforestation in Antioquia (Colombia), 1980-2000 : an analysis at a semi-fine scale with spatially explicit data

Orrego, Sergio A. (2009-05-12)

This dissertation used land rent theory and an economic model of land-use conversion to examine the main drivers of the deforestation occurred in Antioquia,Colombia, between 1980 and 2000. Land-cover information at a sem ...