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Creator:: Steinblums, Ivars John
Abstract:: Stream buffer strips are an important tool for protecting the stream environment. This research documents the losses from 40 stream buffer strips, in the Western Cascades of Oregon, established 1 to 15 years before the study. Predictive equations are developed which identify the major reasons for buffer strip losses. Losses...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Creator:: Lammel, Richard Friedrich
Abstract:: Amounts of natural debris in small headwater streams under old growth stands of Douglas-fir vary from 6 1/2 tons per 100 ft. of stream to 26 tons per 100 ft. of stream, depending on terrain and timber characteristics and sequence in the natural accumulation-flushing cycle. Approximately 10% of the weight...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Creator:: Gill, Robert Earl
Abstract:: Many studies have focused on improving our understanding of the effects of timber harvesting activities on soil, water, and fisheries resources. Much of this work has led to the development and widespread use has often resulted in model applications that are outside the bounds in which the models were developed....
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Creator:: Zaborske, Richard R.
Abstract:: The use of mechanized harvest equipment has been increasing as an economical method to harvest small diameter timber. While the use of this equipment is increasing, little is known about associated soil compaction. In particular, little information exists on soil compaction caused by feller--bunchers. This study measured soil compaction caused...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project

Creator:: Chesney, Charles J.
Abstract:: This study focused on extensive soil mass movement occurrence in the Willamette National Forest of western Oregon and on intensive measurements of some physical and biological changes in streams following debris torrents. Debris torrents are a rapid movement of water-charged debris confined to steep headwater channels. The frequency (events/ha/yr) of...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Creator:: Andrus, Charles W.
Abstract:: Implements for tilling compacted forest soils were tested on sites logged with ground-based machines in Oregon. The sites covered a variety of soil conditions ranging from a clay loam to a rock7 2C2 iplemeflts tested included disk harrows (four aies), brusa blades (three sites), standard subsoiler tines (two sites), wing.-...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Creator:: Knight, Stephen M.
Abstract:: Several streams in the mixed conifer cover type of the Ochoco and Blue Mountains of central Oregon were studied to determine what effects selective harvesting of the riparian timber stand had on the amounts and distribution of coarse woody debris (CWD) in the stream. Pristine streams were measured to develop...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Creator:: Heimann, David C.
Abstract:: This study investigated the long-term consequences of timber stand removal on the recruitment, physical characteristics, and spatial distribution of coarse woody debris in small (second- and third-order) streams of the Oregon Coast Range. A chronosequence of stream-stand systems, ranging from 21- to 140-years since disturbance (YSD), were sampled to determine...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Creator:: Sherwood, Kim
Abstract:: Although buffer strips have long been used as a protection tool when logging near streams, long-term studies investigating buffer strip dynamics are rare. Steinblums et al. (1984) inventoried 40 buffer strips 1 to 15 years old in the western Oregon Cascades beginning in the summer of 1975. Numerous site and...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: -- Perhaps the most complex aspect of fish habitat provided by buffer strips is structure, spatially and

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