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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:: Photographs (by author): Cover: Polytrichum commune Association Following page: Sagittaria latifolia

Creator:: Institute for Natural Resources, NatureServe, Parametrix, CH2M HILL, and Transposition Research Board of the National Academies
Abstract:: This report is intended to help transportation and environmental professionals apply ecological principles early in the planning and programming process of highway capacity improvements to inform later environmental reviews and permitting. Ecological principles consider cumulative landscape, water resources, and habitat impacts of planned infrastructure actions, as well as the localized...
Resource Type:: Technical Report
Full Text:: . Department of the Interior John T. Gray II, Senior Vice President, Policy and Economics, Association of

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:: rank of each association, the ecoregion in which it occurs, its status as wetland or upland, and

Creator:: Institute for Natural Resources and Oregon. Department of Forestry
Abstract:: Oregon’s Protection from Fire Program is among the premier wildfire protection programs in the western U.S. and the largest program within the Oregon Department of Forestry (ODF). The program provides wildfire protection on about 15.8 million acres of mostly privately-owned Oregon forestland. Private and state interests in protecting Oregon forests...
Resource Type:: Technical Report
Full Text:: : Knowledges, Skills and Abilities BN3: Budget Note #3 Work Group NASF: National Association of State

Creator:: Institute for Natural Resources, Behan, Jeff, and Lynn, Kathy
Abstract:: Many Oregon communities face serious and growing risks from wildfires. These fires are increasingly large and severe after many decades of fire suppression and land use changes, flammable fuel buildups and interactions with climate. The wildland-urban interface (WUI) continues to expand as people relocate to rural areas where they often...
Resource Type:: Technical Report
Full Text:: precautions for land-use in forested areas. The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) and the

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:: Adaptive Management Area. Bottom: The Warner Creek burn on the Willamette National Forest (in 2000

Creator:: OSU Chemical Engineering Department, Institute for Natural Resources, and Oregon Wood Innovation Center
Abstract:: The Oregon University System, working in partnership with the Oregon Economic & Community Development Department, commissioned a bio-fuels industry readiness survey for Oregon. This report serves as one component of the readiness survey. The report has three primary sections: • An overview of the current forest products industry in Oregon...
Resource Type:: Technical Report
Full Text:: Association, Salem OR Greg Latta, Faculty Research Assistant, Forest Economist, Department of Forest

Creator:: Institute for Natural Resources
Abstract:: The Willamette Basin Conservation Project was created to help people and programs work together toward positive results in Oregon’s Willamette Basin for people, lands, communities, waters and native species.
Full Text:: first compiled information on historical landscape condi- tions, prior to large scale European

Creator:: Institute for Natural Resources
Abstract:: Draft final report
Resource Type:: Technical Report
Full Text:: having less impact on commercial forestry than other factors such as changes in national and

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:: having less impact on commercial forestry than other factors such as changes in national and

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