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Creator:: Institute for Natural Resources
Abstract:: Development of the prototype website is an integral part of OWEB’s strategy for information systems development. Specifically, the Board, INR, and the Department of Administrative Services Information Resources Management Division (DAS) were directed by the Legislature to develop a statewide information system for natural resources. In addition, the Oregon Geographic...
Resource Type:: Technical Report
Full Text:: North Coast Basin Watershed Councils 1. Necanicum Watershed Council 2. Ecola Creek Watershed Council

Creator:: Institute for Natural Resources, Lurie, Sue, Duncan, Sally, Ewing, Amy, Ecosystem Economics, and Central Oregon Intergovernmental Council
Abstract:: Ecosystem services markets represent potential revenue streams for small- and medium-scale rural agricultural and forest producers, many of whom have faced significant economic downturns over the past several decades. Demand for ecosystem services (ES) in the form of investments by public agencies, mitigation funds from regulated entities, and voluntary payments...
Resource Type:: Technical Report
Full Text:: Economics LLC Katrina Van Dis Central Oregon Intergovernmental Council Sue Lurie, Sally Duncan and

Creator:: Institute for Natural Resources, Lurie, Sue, Duncan, Sally, Ecosystem Economics, and Central Oregon Intergovernmental Council
Abstract:: This report is laid out as a progressive exploration of how the economics of ES production interacts with finance, broadly construed, in actual credit transactions. The inquiry proceeds in several steps. First, the economics of ecosystem services production is explored to provide critical context for potential financing approaches. This section...
Resource Type:: Technical Report
Full Text:: Resources Oregon State University Katrina Van Dis Central Oregon Intergovernmental Council for

Creator:: Achterman, Gail, Williamson, Ken, Lundy, Jim, Klingeman, Peter C., Jarvis, Todd, Littlefield, Sam, 1980-, and Institute for Natural Resources
Abstract:: The purpose of this study is to summarize the technical information on aggregate mining in Oregon including updates of supply and demand since the last comprehensive forecasting of aggregate demand completed by Whelan (1995). Aggregate is a term that numerous definitions, but as used herein, aggregate is sand, gravel, and...
Resource Type:: Technical Report
Full Text:: Willamette River Basin This report has been prepared by a team lead by Gail Achterman, Director of the

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
Full Text:: Natural Heritage Advisory Council U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service U.S. Forest Service Bureau of Land

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...
Resource Type:: Technical Report
Full Text:: watershed rather than smaller units distributed across a number of watersheds may limit press disturbance

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:: Riggers Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board Ardis Stevenson Former CIAC Chair/author of Clackamas

Creator:: Burnett, Kelly M., Giannico, Guillermo R., Behan, Jeff, and Institute for Natural Resources
Abstract:: A systematic review of evidence was conducted concerning the effects of large wood placement on salmonids. In contrast to a general literature review, a narrowly focused question was targeted. The question was formulated before the review commenced and specified the subject, treatment, and outcomes of interest. The primary review question...
Resource Type:: Technical Report
Full Text:: basin) of interest to decision makers. Furthermore, little is known about the riparian or watershed

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
Full Text:: Department of Fish and Wildlife Oregon Department of State Lands Oregon Natural Heritage Advisory Council

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
Full Text:: = Blue Mountains, BR = Northern Basin and Range, CB = Columbia Basin, CR = Coast Range, EC = East

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