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Chaparral history, dynamics, and response to disturbance in southwest Oregon : insights from age structure

Creator:

Duren, Olivia

Abstract:

Fuels management on Bureau of Land Management lands in SW Oregon, USA, is motivated by the needs to reduce fire hazard and restore ecosystems thought to be impacted by fire suppression. Chaparral is one of the most characteristic vegetation communities of SW Oregon's interior valleys, and extensive acreages within this...

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Masters Thesis

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structure of two obligate- seeding shrubs, Arctostaphylos viscida C. Parry and Ceanothus cuneatus (Hook
The effects of two fuel reduction treatments on chaparral communities in southwest Oregon

Creator:

Sikes, Kendra G.

Abstract:

Fuel reduction treatments are being applied to public lands, affecting significant acreage at considerable expense. This study compares the short term effects on a chaparral plant community of two different fuel reduction methods, brush mastication and "hand piling and burning" (HPB). Ceanothus cuneatus dominated the southwestern Oregon study sites where...

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Masters Thesis