Recent emphasis on range improvement of sagebrush-bunch-grass
types in Oregon has underscored the need for better understanding
of their importance to deer winter range management. The
objectives of this study were to evaluate the impact of various sagebrush
control practices on the composition, production, and utilization
of deer forage plants...
The main objective of this investigation was to evaluate relationships
between the production and utilization of forage and deer
browsing of hand-planted Douglas-fir seedlings. A secondary purpose
was to study some effects of selected physical and biological
site factors on the survival and growth of fir seedlings.
Field work was...
The study was conducted over approximately 191,000 acres in central Klamath County, Oregon. The research had three objectives: first, to describe and classify the seral and near-climax vegetation by using polyclimax principles; secondly, to determine the southern extension of five plant associations and one plant associes as previously described by...
As the management of range lands is intensified or as improvement
activity is increased, a critical need is seen to refine the
understanding of the ecology of these lands. If soil surveys on range
lands are to be meaningful and useful, the relationship between the
fundamental ecological units and the...
A study was initiated in 1961 to characterize seral plant
communities in a part of the Cedar Creek drainage in the Tillamook
Burn. Stratification of vegetation into ecological units was a necessary
first step in conifer-animal damage studies supported by the
Oregon State Game Commission.
Reconnaissance information was recorded in...
The winter and summer growth of varieties of tall fescue
(Festuca arundinacea Schreb.) that had originated from the Mediterranean region (Oregon 1000 and Tunisia) and northern Europe (Alta)
were studied outdoors in the Mediterranean climate of western Oregon,
and in greenhouses and controlled environment chambers. Treatments
of temperature, photoperiod and...
Snowbrush (Ceanothus velutinus), red alder (Alnus rubra), and
bitterbrush (Purshia tridentata) are three important nitrogen- fixing
nonleguminous species. They commonly grow in association with
commercially important conifers in western United States and conceivably
could be utilized to add nitrogen to forest ecosystems. Nitrogen
15 gas was used to study nitrogen...
Forest associations, secondary succession, and relationships
of plant communities to Roosevelt elk were investigated. Stratification
of vegetation into ecological units and an understanding of secondary
succession by habitat-type were a necessary first step in investigations
into browsing of conifers by elk. The study was jointly conducted
by the Oregon State...