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Red Tree Voles: Examining the Potential Factors Limiting Occupancy and Survival in Young Conifer Forests of the Central Oregon Coast Range

Creator:

Durham, William P.

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Forested landscapes in the Pacific Northwest have changed drastically in the last Century with large-scale wildfires, and increased extent and frequency of commercial timber harvests. Thus, landscapes once dominated by older forest cover types became a matrix of younger forests with patches of older forests dispersed throughout. These younger forests...

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Masters Thesis

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. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-276. Portland, OR: US Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific
Managing for landscape resilience in the frequent-fire forests of central Oregon

Creator:

Platt, Emily K.

Abstract:

Wildfire in dry, frequent-fire forests is a pressing issue for natural resource managers, communities and politicians in the western United States. Area affected by wildfire has climbed steadily over the last twenty years and is expected to increase in the future. Recognition of the importance of both social and biophysical...

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Dissertation

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patterns to silvicultural prescriptions and monitoring. Forest Ecology and Management 291: 442-457
Bridging Ways of Knowing to Model the Dynamics of Fire as an Ecocultural Process on Frequent Fire Landscapes of the Pacific Northwest

Creator:

Greenler, Skye M.

Abstract:

Wildfire impacts have intensified in many ecosystems across the western United States due to the combined impact of fire exclusion, climate change, and land management practices. However, on many of these landscapes, fire is a fundamental ecological process that has shaped vegetation structural and compositional diversity, ecosystem function, landscape pattern,...

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Dissertation