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Creator:: Dunn, Christopher J.
Abstract:: Reducing future fire severity is a proposed ecological benefit of salvage logging following wildfire disturbance. Considerable debate continues over the ability of such management practices to achieve this objective given limited understanding of coarse woody detritus (CWD) dynamics, fuel bed alterations, and post-fire vegetative growth. The objective of this study...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: temperatures as low as 200-280 o C in the formation of char, but flaming combustion generally doesn’t occur

Creator:: Shuffield, Chaylon D.
Abstract:: Ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) and lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta var. murrayana) forests of south-central Oregon have been extensively researched over the last century. However, little information has been reported on overstory composition and stand structure shifts associated with fire exclusion within inter-mixed ponderosa pine and lodgepole pine stands of the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: from the Burt K. Snyder Educational Fund (2007-2010), and Gladys and Forrest Cooper Educational Fund

Creator:: Morici, Kat
Abstract:: Wildland fires are an increasingly extensive, expensive, and frequent occurrence in dry forests of the western United States. Fuel reduction treatments are designed to reduce extreme fire behavior, promote resilient forest structure, and facilitate fire control efforts. Although there is widespread recognition that repeated treatments are needed to maintain desired...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Northwest predict an increase in temperatures of 0.1°C to 0.6°C per decade (Mote and Salathé 2010). The

Creator:: Credo, Kevin
Abstract:: Forest managers are challenged to restore resilience to forests with an elevated risk of stand-replacing fire by using mechanical thinning and prescribed fire. Implementation of these methods can be constrained by mandates to conserve sensitive wildlife species like the Pacific marten (Martes caurina). Martens avoid simplified forest stands created by...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: fires, and (c) crown fuels, consisting of branches and leaves of trees and large shrubs that, if dense

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