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  • Judicial deference and its potential effect on agency science and natural resource management

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    Grisa, Amanda Marie Schenk
    Abstract:
    The USDA Forest Services' actions have come under greater scrutiny by a public that has become increasingly concerned with the legality of their actions. Often, challenges involve the quality of science used in the decision-making. Congress has mandated that the agency use the "best available science" in its decision making...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Amanda Marie Schenk Grisa for the degree of Master of Science in

  • Relationship of Soil Type and Burn Severity to Post-Fire Vegetation Response

    Creator:
    Maclennan, Audrey
    Abstract:
    Public lands in the Pacific Northwest are managed for multiple uses including timber production, recreation and aesthetic value, maintaining wildlife habitat, conserving native species, and carbon storage. Wildfires impact large areas encompassing broad environmental conditions. Interactions among underlying environmental gradients and alteration of overstory competition by fire of varying severities...
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    for the friendship, camaraderie, and trivia nights. I am especially thankful for Amanda Klee and

  • Multi-temporal LiDAR Analysis of Landscape Fire Effects in Southwestern Oregon

    Creator:
    Hoe, Michael
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    Quantitative assessments of post-fire effects are key to improving our understanding of ecosystem resilience. While remote sensing technology has allowed us to assess post-fire landscape effects, we are often limited by the lack of information related to pre-fire forest attributes. As a result, our ability to interpret fire effects in...
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    Masters Thesis
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    , Jon Buzawa, and Amanda Gray for a great field season and high quality work; David Bell, David

  • Trophic cascades and large mammals in the Yellowstone ecosystem

    Creator:
    Painter, Luke E.
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    Reintroduction of wolves to Yellowstone National Park (YNP) in 1995-96 provided a rare opportunity to observe the response of an ecosystem to the return of a top predator, including possible reversal of decades of decline of aspen, cottonwood, and tall willows suppressed by intensive herbivory on elk winter ranges. To...
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    Dissertation
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    faculty, staff and students who made this a great experience, including Cheryll Alex and Amanda Landis

  • Using Point Clouds for Single Tree Forest Inventory at the Beginning and End of the Rotation

    Creator:
    Garms, Cory G.
    Abstract:
    The portability and reduced price of unmanned aerial systems (UAS) in recent years has led to a broad range of new UAS-enabled scientific inquiries, including for forestry. Small, consumer-grade UAS are advantageous for forest measurements due to their portability, ease and safety of deployment, and notably, they are currently the...
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    Dissertation
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    others in the process. Finally, to Amanda, my fiancé and the most important person in my life, thank

  • Urban natural parks in Portland : nature, networks, and community health

    Creator:
    Baur, Joshua W. R.
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    Three trends are occurring today in the United States which inspired this research. First, America is growing increasingly urbanized. Today, more Americans are living in cities than in rural environments, and this pattern is predicted to continue for the foreseeable future. Urban living has benefits, but there are also challenges...
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    , Misty Labahn, Amanda Landis, and Marty Roberts in the Forest Ecosystems and Society office for all

  • Evaluating Multi-objective Trade-offs in Mature Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) Stands of Western Oregon

    Creator:
    Williams, Neil G.
    Abstract:
    Contemporary forest management involves a more extensive and diverse suite of management objectives than was the case throughout much of the Twentieth Century. Heightened public and political awareness of local and global biodiversity decline, and interest in arresting these trends, has increased the emphasis on broad-based biodiversity conservation as an...
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    Dissertation
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    partner, Amanda, for injecting more happiness into my life, part way through my studies, than I thought