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Filtering by: Subject Land use, Rural -- Oregon, Eastern Advisor Bliss, John C. Language English [eng]

Land ownership and forest cover in the Oregon Coast Range : spatial pattern and social ground-truthing

Creator:

Stanfield, Brooks J.

Abstract:

We use qualitative and quantitative methods to explore social and spatial relationships between land ownership and forest cover in the Oregon Coast Range. Using a Geographic Information System (GIS) and regression analysis, we tested for spatial relationships between the structure of land ownership and forest cover across 66 watersheds in...

Resource Type:

Masters Thesis

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the Oregon Coast Range. We found that forest cover diversity increased with land ownership diversity