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Creator:: Hanus, Mark L.
Abstract:: The focusing of public attention on the practices of forest managers has resulted in the need for new tools to help explain the results of these practices. The traditional tools of tables and graphs of numerical values require a significant investment in learning the forestry profession. Once the investment is...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Creator:: Semeliss, Wade Alan
Abstract:: A dynamic programming algorithm (MS PATH) was used to develop a stand level optimization model, FPS Optimizer. The model incorporates a late-seral constraint on the profit maximizing objective function utilizing a four-descriptor structural index as a proxy. This index, the 'Old-Growth Index', rates the late-seral structural quality of a given...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: forest. 3 Late-seral wildlife habitat at the stand level Characteristics and justification A

Creator:: Kassim, Abd. Rahman
Abstract:: The silviculture of mixed dipterocarp forests of Peninsular Malaysia can potentially be improved by developing quantitative tools and guidelines for this forest type. This thesis addresses three key objectives; 1) to test the hypothesis that a maximum size-density relationship can be identified in hill dipterocarp forests of Peninsular Malaysia, 2)...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: forests. Malayan Forest Record no. 23, Forestry Department Kuala Lumpur. Yong, T. K. 1990. Growth and

Creator:: Hershey, Kit
Abstract:: This study describes the composition and structure of forests within the immediate vicinity of Northern spotted owl (Strix occidentalis caurina) nest sites in the Klamath, Coast, and Cascade provinces of western Oregon and the Olympic province, Washington. I compared forest stand data collected at 105 nest sites with data from...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: located on 2 ranger districts of the Siuslaw National Forest and 7 resource areas of the Coos Bay

Creator:: Stuart-Smith, A. Kari
Abstract:: By emulating natural disturbances such as wildfire, managers hope to maintain biodiversity in managed forests. Leaving residual (live) trees in harvested areas is key to this strategy. However, the effectiveness of this approach is unknown. I surveyed songbirds in 176 stands in the Rocky Mountains of southeastern British Columbia, Canada,...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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