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Greater Sage-Grouse 12-month Finding

Creator:: Western Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies
Abstract:: Presentation intended to provide basic public information about the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's 12-month finding for the greater sage-grouse, conducted pursuant to the 2004 Endangered Species Act.
Resource Type:: Presentation

Conservation Assessment of Greater Sage-grouse and Sagebrush Habitats

Creator:: Connelly, John W., Knick, Steven T., Schroeder, Michael A., and Stiver, San J.
Resource Type:: Book

Listening to landowners : conservation case studies from Oregon's Willamette Valley

Creator:: Fischer, Paige
Abstract:: Keywords: Willamette Basin, Willamette Valley Ecoregion, habitat conservation
Resource Type:: Other

Willamette Valley-PugetTrough-Georgia Basin ecoregional assessment

Creator:: Floberg, J., Goering, M., Wilhere, George, MacDonald, C., Chappell, C., Rumsey, C., Ferdana, Zack, Holt, A., Skidmore, Peter, Horsman, T., Alverson, E., Tanner, C., Bryer, M., Lachetti, Pierre, Harcombe, A., McDonald, B., Cook, T., Summers, M., and Rolph, D.
Abstract:: This assessment is intended to help conservation agencies, planners and organizations direct their resources to the most important places for supporting the ecoregion's biodiversity.
Resource Type:: Technical Report

A landowner's guide for restoring and managing Oregon white oak habitats

Creator:: Vesely, David and Tucker, Gabe
Abstract:: The primary purpose of this Guide is to encourage private landowners to conserve, and when appropriate, actively manage Oregon white oaks that already exist on their property, and consider planting additional oaks. In the early chapters of the Guide, we describe some of the uses and beneﬁts of this remarkable...
Resource Type:: Other

Restoring rare native habitats in the Willamette Valley : a landowner’s guide for restoring oak woodlands, wetlands, prairies, and bottomland hardwood and riparian forests

Creator:: Campbell, Bruce H.
Abstract:: HUC: 170900. Bounding coordinates: West Bounding Coordinate: -123.769586; East Bounding Coordinate: -121.631074; North Bounding Coordinate: 45.941295; South Bounding Coordinate: 43.350360.
Resource Type:: Other

Monitoring for stream temperature total maximum daily load development

Creator:: Oregon. Department of Environmental Quality
Resource Type:: Other

Josephine County Integrated Fire Plan : November 2004

Creator:: Josephine County (Or.) and University of Oregon. Institute for a Sustainable Environment. Program for Watershed and Community Health
Abstract:: 224 pp. Maps and charts included. Adopted November 8, 2004.
Resource Type:: Technical Report

Ashland Community Wildfire Protection Plan

Creator:: City of Ashland
Abstract:: Ashland Community Wildfire Protection Plan, September 2004. Jackson County, Oregon.
Resource Type:: Working Paper

Report of the workforce capacity workgroup : 2004 protection from fire program review : Oregon Department of Forestry

Creator:: Oregon Fire Program Review Workforce Capacity Workgroup and Institute for Natural Resources
Abstract:: Report completed by the Workforce Capacity Work Group for the 2004 Oregon Fire Program Review. Technical editing by the Institute for Natural Resources at Oregon State University
Resource Type:: Technical Report

Forest Fuels and Hazard Mitigation Work Group Final Report

Creator:: Forest Fuels and Hazard Mitigation Committee
Abstract:: As part of the 2004 Oregon Fire Program Review, the Oregon Department of Forestry (ODF) formed the Forest Fuels and Hazard Mitigation (FFHM) Committee to assess hazardous fuel loading issues, and recommend ways to reduce risk, and improve and strengthen the multiple hazard mitigation strategies in Oregon. A statewide wildfire...
Resource Type:: Technical Report

Fire Protection Coverage Work Group Final Report

Creator:: Oregon Fire Program Review Fire Protection Work Group
Abstract:: About 6 million acres of Oregon wildlands have no organization responsible for suppressing wildfires. Most of these lands are in remote areas of the state with low population density and relatively low resource values. Some wildfires on these lands become large fires that damage adjacent landowner resources and property, threaten...
Resource Type:: Technical Report

Fire Prevention Work Group Final Report

Creator:: Oregon Fire Program Review Fire Prevention Work Group
Abstract:: The purpose of this report is to review existing wildfire prevention activities and recommend strategies to reduce the number and severity of human-caused wildfires in Oregon. Oregon’s forest protection system was created in 1911. At that time, timber harvesting, forest management, and other land-clearing activities were the predominant uses of...
Resource Type:: Technical Report

Oregon wetland planning guidebook

Creator:: Oregon. Department of State Lands, Oregon. Department of Land Conservation and Development, Shapiro & Associates (Seattle, Wash.), and Winterbrook Planning
Abstract:: "This guidebook is intended to serve as a reference to help local governments plan for the protection of wetlands and meeting the requirements of statewide planning goals, particularly Goal 5. This guidebook does not create any new policy; it only seeks to explain existing statutes and administrative rules. Background and...
Resource Type:: Book

Classification of native vegetation of Oregon

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

Native freshwater wetland plant associations of northwestern Oregon

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

Riparian and wetland vegetation of central and eastern Oregon

Creator:: Crowe, Elizabeth A. (Elizabeth Ann), 1963-, Kovalchik, Bernard L., Kerr, Marie Jeannette James, 1968-, Oregon Natural Heritage Information Center, and Institute for Natural Resources
Abstract:: The structure and components of riparian areas influence the rate, amount, and timing of water, nutrients, organic debris, and inorganic materials that enter streams and rivers. The energy of floodwaters and their ultimate volume, timing and erosive power is influenced by the soils, vegetation and geomorphology of fluvial surfaces within...
Resource Type:: Technical Report

Oregon strategy for greenhouse gas reductions

Creator:: Governor's Advisory Group on Global Warming and Institute for Natural Resources
Abstract:: The Governor’s Advisory Group on Global Warming developed this Oregon Strategy for Greenhouse Gas Reduction.1 Governor Ted Kulongoski appointed the Advisory Group early in 2004 to perform this task. This Strategy, if implemented, will complement the agenda of the West Coast Governors’ Global Warming Initiative undertaken by the governors of...
Resource Type:: Technical Report

Rare, threatened and endangered species of Oregon

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