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Communicating the wildland fire message : an investigation of agency outreach strategies

Creator:: Toman, Eric Lee
Abstract:: Wildfire impacts have increased in recent years. The management response outlined by recent policy initiatives (e.g., the National Fire Plan, Healthy Forests Restoration Act) emphasizes the use of prescribed fire and mechanized thinning to reduce the risk of future fire events. These policies also call for an unprecedented level of...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: activities, contemporary fire management aims to proactively manage forest structure with two main

Citizen perspectives on hazardous fuel reduction in the Blue Mountains : findings and implications from panel research

Creator:: Toman, Eric Lee
Abstract:: Forests in the Blue Mountains region of eastern Oregon and Washington are facing a large-scale forest health crisis. Poor forest conditions have greatly increased the risk of catastrophic wildfire. Resource managers in the Wallowa-Whitman, Umatilla, and Malheur National Forests are utilizing prescribed fire and mechanized thinning treatments to reduce hazardous...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: 15. Realistic role for the public in federal forest management 16. Experiences and interactions

Public acceptance of disturbance-based forest management : a study of the attentive public in the Central Cascades Adaptive Management Area

Creator:: Mallon, Angela L.
Abstract:: Growing emphasis on ecosystem and landscape-level forest management across North America has spurred an examination of alternative management strategies which focus on emulating dynamic natural disturbance processes, particularly those associated with forest fire regimes. This topic is the cornerstone of research in the Blue River Landscape Study (BRLS) taking place...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: presented on May 30, 2006. Title: Public Acceptance of Disturbance-Based Forest Management: A Study of

Assessing public opinions of wildlife management : influences of perceptions and public involvement methods

Creator:: Johnson, Karin Kajsa N.
Abstract:: Involving the public in wildlife management is important to achieve effective and acceptable policies. An accurate assessment of public opinion can be complicated by the public's prior knowledge, perceptions, and the method of public input used. This paper evaluates some factors which may have influenced a public involvement project the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

On-site public evaluations on the use of prescribed fire and mechanical thinning

Creator:: Reed, Michelle A.
Abstract:: The forest health of the Blue Mountains of eastern Oregon and Washington has sustained great impacts primarily caused by disease and insect epidemics. In order to restore forest health and reduce fuel loads, management tools like prescribed fire and mechanical chinning are being tested by forest managers in the region'...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: ....................................... 54 9. Public agreement on legitimacy of management practices and trust in Forest Service to

Public knowledge, preferences and involvement in adaptive ecosystem management

Creator:: Williams, Robert Lawrence
Abstract:: Few studies analyze the relationship between ecological knowledge and public preferences for natural resource management options. The Central Cascades Adaptive Management Area (CCAMA) and McKenzie watershed of western Oregon provides an opportunity to examine the relationship. This research project employs a mixed model approach to explore public knowledge of forest...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: the degree of Master of Science in Forest Resources presented on September 12, 2001. Title: Public

People in the forests : interactions between community and forest health in Wallowa County

Creator:: Kelly, Erin Clover
Abstract:: Forests of the Inland West have been experiencing forest health problems arising from over a hundred years of fire suppression, logging, grazing, and mismanagement. Rural communities, meanwhile, have seen escalating unemployment, an exodus of young families, and a dearth of middle-income jobs. The objectives of this thesis are to: 1)...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Citizen knowledge and opinions about watershed management in the South Santiam Basin in Oregon

Creator:: Wright, Angela Schaefer
Abstract:: Watershed management is widely recognized as an important component of healthy ecosystems and its success depends on cultivating the good will, stewardship values, and participation of citizens. Because much of the streamside land in Oregon is in private ownership activities on public lands will not be enough to protect salmon...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: 5 Community-Based Resource Management and Watershed Councils 10 Public Knowledge 11 Tnist and

A choice experiment analysis of public preferences for conservation of biological diversity in the Oregon Coast Range

Creator:: Garber-Yonts, Brian E.
Abstract:: Ecosystem management has become an increasingly mainstream paradigm for natural resource management. Nowhere is this more evident than on the public and private forestland of the Pacific Northwest. While ecosystem management has become a widely accepted principle of resource management, substantial questions remain about its implementation. A case in point...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Mental and biophysical terrains of biodiversity : conservation of oak woodland on family forest

Creator:: Fischer, Alexandra Paige
Abstract:: This research analyzes how family forest owners conceptualize biodiversity in one high-conservation value area of oak woodland in the Willamette Valley of Western Oregon. Oregon white oak (Quercus garyanna) woodland, one of the most biologically diverse ecotypes in the state of Oregon, is in decline. Much of the oak ecotype...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: . "Balancing act": Active management of biodiversity ..................... 73 "Letting the forest win

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Communicating the wildland fire message : an investigation of agency outreach strategies

Citizen perspectives on hazardous fuel reduction in the Blue Mountains : findings and implications from panel research

Public acceptance of disturbance-based forest management : a study of the attentive public in the Central Cascades Adaptive Management Area

Assessing public opinions of wildlife management : influences of perceptions and public involvement methods

On-site public evaluations on the use of prescribed fire and mechanical thinning

Public knowledge, preferences and involvement in adaptive ecosystem management

People in the forests : interactions between community and forest health in Wallowa County

Citizen knowledge and opinions about watershed management in the South Santiam Basin in Oregon

A choice experiment analysis of public preferences for conservation of biological diversity in the Oregon Coast Range

Mental and biophysical terrains of biodiversity : conservation of oak woodland on family forest

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