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Creator:: Crowe, Elizabeth A. (Elizabeth Ann), 1963-, Kovalchik, Bernard L., Kerr, Marie Jeannette James, 1968-, Oregon Natural Heritage Information Center, and Institute for Natural Resources
Abstract:: The structure and components of riparian areas influence the rate, amount, and timing of water, nutrients, organic debris, and inorganic materials that enter streams and rivers. The energy of floodwaters and their ultimate volume, timing and erosive power is influenced by the soils, vegetation and geomorphology of fluvial surfaces within...
Resource Type:: Technical Report
Full Text:: CENTRAL AND EASTERN OREGON ELIZABETH A. CROWE, BERNARD L. KOVALCHIK AND MARIE J. KERR

Creator:: Grossmann, Emilie B., Kagan, James S., Ohmann, Janet L., May, Heather, Gregory, Matthew Jay, Tobalske, Claudine, and Institute for Natural Resources
Abstract:: This chapter is divided into three main sections. The first section discusses land cover map development. It begins by providing background information on the regional division of labor and the regional land cover legend. It then focuses on our land cover mapping methods, including a description of data sources, the...
Resource Type:: Technical Report
Full Text:: and 7 Authors: Emilie B. Grossmann1* James S. Kagan2* Janet L. Ohmann3* Heather May1

Creator:: Lauten, David J., Castelein, Kathleen A., Farrar, Daniel, Herlyn, Hendrik G., Gaines, Eleanor P., Oregon Natural Heritage Information Center, and Institute for Natural Resources
Abstract:: From 3 April – 23 September 2009 we monitored the distribution, abundance and productivity of the federally Threatened Western Snowy Plover (Charadrius alexandrinus nivosus) along the Oregon coast. From north to south, we surveyed and monitored plover activity at Sutton Beach, Siltcoos River estuary, the Dunes Overlook, North Tahkenitch Creek,...
Resource Type:: Technical Report
Full Text:: Western Snowy Plover along the Oregon Coast - 2009 David J. Lauten, Kathleen A. Castelein, J

Creator:: Lauten, David J., Castelein, Kathleen A., Weston, Susan, Eucken, Krista, Gaines, Eleanor P., Oregon Natural Heritage Information Center, and Institute for Natural Resources
Abstract:: From 2 April – 14 September 2006, we monitored the distribution, abundance and productivity of the federally Threatened Western Snowy Plover (Charadrius alexandrinus nivosus) along the Oregon coast. From north to south, we surveyed and monitored plover activity at Sutton Beach, Siltcoos River estuary, the Dunes overlook, North Tahkenitch Creek,...
Resource Type:: Technical Report
Full Text:: the Western Snowy Plover along the Oregon Coast - 2006 David J. Lauten, Kathleen A

Creator:: Oregon Natural Heritage Information Center and Institute for Natural Resources
Abstract:: ORNHIC maintains extensive databases of Oregon biodiversity, concentrating on rare and endangered plants, animals and ecosystems. The program is managed by OSU, but has been a cooperative project, with significant support from The Department of State Lands, The Nature Conservancy in Oregon, USFWS, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), the...
Resource Type:: Technical Report

Creator:: Oregon Natural Heritage Information Center and Institute for Natural Resources
Abstract:: Once lost, a species can never be recovered, and there is no way of knowing how useful it may have been. We do know that human beings and many of their industries depend on plant and animal products. About 50% of all pharmaceuticals have a natural component as an active...
Resource Type:: Technical Report

Creator:: Kagan, James S., Christy, John A., Murray, Michael P., Titus, Jonathan A., Oregon Natural Heritage Information Center, and Institute for Natural Resources
Abstract:: This classification lists the native plant associations known to occur in Oregon, and includes both successional and climax vegetation types that were an important part of the presettlement landscape of Oregon. It serves as an index to the diversity, distribution and relative rarity of the state's native plant associations, and...
Resource Type:: Technical Report

Creator:: Christy, John A., Oregon Natural Heritage Information Center, and Institute for Natural Resources
Abstract:: This guide provides keys, descriptions, and stand tables for 122 native freshwater plant associations (14 forest and woodland, 28 shrub, 78 herbaceous, 2 nonvascular) in northwestern Oregon, based on analysis of data from 1,992 plots distributed throughout the study area. Descriptions are provided for eight other plant associations for which...
Resource Type:: Technical Report
Full Text:: , Jennifer Lippert, Warren Pavlat, Evelyn Everett, L. Rankin, Kim McMahan, Marie Palumbo, Saxton, 1991); Mt

Creator:: Institute for Natural Resources
Abstract:: In 2008, the Department of Land Conservation and Development (DLCD) asked the Institute for Natural Resources (INR) to assess whether the Oregon Land Use Program, as designed, is helping the state meet its land use goals. More specifically, this intensive but highly time-limited research effort set out to answer the...
Resource Type:: Technical Report
Full Text:: protocol and search strategy; 1 See Behan, J. 2008

Creator:: Institute for Natural Resources
Abstract:: The project focuses on nonequilibrium ecosystem dynamics, a body of scientific research that characterizes and interprets ecosystem change. INR summarizes knowledge from this field, describes ways in which the current management framework may be inconsistent with scientific findings, and helps identify options for future management. This paper is designed to...
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