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Creator:: Hodgins-Carlson, Terry Anne
Abstract:: Published literature about six Pacific Northwest stream systems was contrasted to provide a regional perspective on channel response to disturbance. This investigation was prompted by a combination of recent environmental legislation, mounting social pressures to plan projects at a drainage basin scale, and the difficulty in defining and predicting the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: of Stream Response to Disturbance in the Pacific Northwest. Abstract approved: Dr. Warkentin

Creator:: Castro, Janine M.
Abstract:: Stream management and design recommendations related to the Salmon Habitat Recovery Program in the Pacific Northwest require area specific information concerning appropriate methods of stream classification, bankfull discharge recurrence intervals, and hydraulic geometry relationships. New region specific information, based on field measurements, is presented here. The Rosgen Classification of Natural...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Creator:: Meinke, Robert James
Abstract:: The Mimulus washingtonensis complex is a group of morphologically similar species centered in the Pacific Northwest. All are rare, and most are under consideration for listing as endangered. Morphometric and pollination data were used in developing a revised taxonomy for the group. Five species and two varieties are recognized. Mimulus...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: (Scrophulariaceae) in the Pacific Northwest : implications for conservation biology AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF

Creator:: Mullens, Jo Beth, 1964-
Abstract:: An innovative regional planning institution, the Northwest Power Planning Council, was created to plan for two conflicting water-related resources, fish and wildlife and electrical power. The Council is responsible for regional planning but implementation of those plans is largely the responsibility of four federal agencies and four state governments. As...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Creator:: Fruh, Erica
Abstract:: Concern over the incidental catch of non-targeted species in commercial and recreational fisheries has greatly increased. Public attention, negative publicity, controversies between differing fisheries and gear groups and the reauthorization of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act have led to an increased awareness of the issue. The Pacific halibut...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: fisheries of the Pacific Northwest, which account for the bulk of the halibut bycatch in this region. 1.2

Creator:: United States. Forest Service and United States. Bureau of Land Management
Abstract:: The Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management propose to adopt coordinated ecosystem management direction for the lands they administer within the range of the northern spotted owl. This Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SETS) presents as alternatives the options, with slight modifications, developed by the Forest Ecosystem Management Assessment...
Resource Type:: Technical Report
Full Text:: the Pacific Northwest ... 3&4-11 Description of Terrestrial Forest and Aquatic Ecosystems .. . 3&4-14

Creator:: Ebersole, Joseph Lamar
Abstract:: The restoration of rivers and streams should be based on a strong conceptual framework. Streams are developing systems. As such, streams exhibit temporal behaviors that change with changing stream environments. Underlying the dynamic development of streams is potential capacity. Streams express this capacity as an array of habitats over time...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: restoration attempt ever is underway in watersheds in the Pacific Northwest that historically sustained

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