This guide is intended to assist Forest personnel in managing early seral stands within the Pacific Silver Fir Zone of the Mt. Hood National Forest, by providing descriptions of early seral plant communities, linking them (when possible) to Mt. Hood National Forest Plant associations, and identifying some management considerations. As...
This plant association guide has been developed as an aid for Forest Service resource managers to identify long term stable plant associations found on the Crooked River National Grassland. The guide describes in detail good, fair, and poor range condition on lands seeded to either crested wheatgrass or beardless wheatgrass...
The purpose of this publication is to provide a means by which forest landscapes can be understood as ecological systems, and to use this knowledge to help shape the landscapes created through National Forest land management activities.
The trails included in this book will lead you to mountain-top vistas, lakes, waterfalls and old-growth forests, towering secondgrowth forests, rocky bluffs and alpine meadows. We've included a variety of trails:
• short walks for those seeking fresh air and a place to stretch their legs
• medium length trails...
Growth basal area (GBA) is that basal area at which dominant trees grow at 1.0 inch in diameter per decade at age 100. Diameter growth rate of 1.0 inch per decade is a constant used to compare sites; basal area is a variable used to express stockability. GBA is a...
The objectives of this guide are to provide information to allow users to be able to identify potential natural vegetation types in wetlands (and transitional riparian areas) and to provide information pertinent to the use and management of these
areas. An attempt has been made to describe the successional status...
This classification describes common streamside plant communities and the typical riparian settings in which they are found. The purpose of the guide is to allow an observer to interpret site factors from the vegetation, or to project potential plant community development from
key site factors. It should be useful in...
National Forest Plans have been developed and implemented on the 19 National Forests and one National Grassland in the Pacific Northwest Region, Region 6, of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service. These Plans were developed under the provisions of the National Forest Management Act of 1976 and the National...