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Creator:: Pickard, Brian R.
Abstract:: Forested lands of western Oregon provide aquatic habitat for many fish and riparian dependent species, including a wide variety of salmon species. Current policies set riparian protections using fixed buffers on streams for federal and private lands based on stream type or size. These buffers can create a series of...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: suggests riparian conservation strategies that key stream and riparian protection to aquatic ecosystem

Creator:: Meininger, William Scott
Abstract:: The increased demand for wood and fiber from a continually shrinking land base has resulted in the use of intensively managed forest plantations. The concentration of timber production on the most suitable sites allows the world's demand for forest products to be met on less land and enable native forests...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Engineering presented on December 19, 2011 Title: The Influence of Contemporary Forest Management on Stream

Creator:: Comfort, Emily Julia, 1974-
Abstract:: There is a perceived trade-off between fire risk reduction and northern spotted owl habitat protection in dry-conifer forests in southwestern Oregon. Management options for balancing this trade-off need to be sought at the landscape level. Applied landscape ecology suggests three important features to consider are (1) patch size and configuration...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Protection in the Dry Conifer Forests of Southern Oregon. Abstract approved

Creator:: Ensley, Jona L.
Abstract:: Dedicated to the preservation and promotion of many of the nation’s most threatened and endangered species, the W.L. Finley National Wildlife Refuge is highly invested in the management of some of the last remaining upland prairies once prevalent throughout Oregon's Willamette Valley. More than a century of land fragmentation, fire...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Wildlife Refuge by Jona L. Ensley A THESIS submitted to Oregon State University in partial

Creator:: Zégre, Nicolas P.
Abstract:: This dissertation is a collection of three manuscripts that serve to fill the knowledge gaps and advance methods of detecting the effects of contemporary forest harvesting in experimental catchment studies. While there is a preponderance of studies evaluating the environmental effects of forest harvesting in the western United States, few...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: local and down- stream streamflow and sediment changes following contemporary harvesting practices

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