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An integrated study of mechanical forest fuel reduction: quantifying multiple factors at the stand level

Creator:: Bolding, Michael Chad, 1977-
Abstract:: Recent catastrophic wildfires have forced the forest management community to develop new strategies for reducing forest fuels. Tightly spaced understory trees often create a fire ladder allowing surface fires to encroach into the crowns of overstory trees. This situation can lead to intensive, catastrophic, stand-replacement forest fires. Mechanical removal or...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Comparitive snow accumulation and melt during rainfall in forest and clearcut plots in western Oregon

Creator:: Berris, Steven Neil
Abstract:: A study was conducted to compare snow accumulation and melt during rainfall in adjacent forest and clearcut plots in the transient snow zone of the western Cascade Range in Oregon. Snow accumulation differences were determined by comparing the water equivalents of forest and clearcut snowpacks. During rain-on-snow periods, energy balances...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Northwest Forest and Range Experiment Station through Cooperative Agreement Supplement PNW-81-310. TABLE

Inter-relationships of vegetation, hydrology and micro-climate in a young, Douglas-fir forest

Creator:: Barnard, Holly Rene
Abstract:: The links between forests, streamflow, and climate are poorly understood. Despite hundreds of studies over the past 60 years, fundamental questions of forests' effects on the hydrologic cycle remain unanswered. The hydrological cycle involves mutually-dependent biological and physical processes that operate at multiple scales of time and space, and this...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: as interacting ecohydrological processes in semiarid landscapes. Ecology, 85, 288-297. Nuttle, W

Spatially-explicit prediction of recoverable harvesting residues

Creator:: Schmidt, Christian F. W.
Abstract:: In order to decide whether or not to develop biomass energy facilities and where to best locate them, developers and investors need accurate assessments of fuel supply. This includes information about the distribution and concentration of fuel throughout the assessment area, the quality of fuel (form, moisture content, contaminant content,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Scaling hydrologic impacts from road segments to a small watershed

Creator:: Royer, Timothy Adam
Abstract:: The impact of forest roads on the hydrology of forested watersheds has long been studied. While forest roads have been reported to alter storm runoff at the road segment scale, the potential for changes to be detectable at the small watershed scale has been debated. The purpose of this study...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: agricultural soil. Forested watersheds in the Pacific Northwest (PNW) are further distinguished by steep

The intrusion of logging debris into artificial gravel streambeds

Creator:: Garvin, William Fredrick
Abstract:: The objective of this study was to quantitatively describe the intrusion of logging debris into artificial gravel streambeds during conditions of low stream flow with a stable streambed, and begin an analysis of the effect of high flow and unstable streambeds. This study was initiated because prior studies indicated that...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Buffer strip dynamics in the Western Oregon Cascades

Creator:: Sherwood, Kim
Abstract:: Although buffer strips have long been used as a protection tool when logging near streams, long-term studies investigating buffer strip dynamics are rare. Steinblums et al. (1984) inventoried 40 buffer strips 1 to 15 years old in the western Oregon Cascades beginning in the summer of 1975. Numerous site and...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: wildlife species. From studies outside the PNW, it appears that reducing plant diversity in the riparian

Hydro-biogeochemical coupling at the hillslope and catchment scale

Creator:: van Verseveld, Willem J.
Abstract:: The specific objectives of this dissertation are to determine subsurface flow behaviors across different antecedent wetness conditions from a top-down perspective and to mechanistically assess the hydrological controls on DOC and N transport at the hillslope and catchment scale. The study area is a small catchment where hillslopes issue directly...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Reducing sediment production from forest roads during wet-weather use

Creator:: Toman, Elizabeth Myers
Abstract:: Forest roads produce fine sediment with traffic during wet weather. If the forest road is connected to a stream it can be a source of turbidity and fine sediment that may be detrimental to aquatic organisms especially salmonids. The goal of this work was to investigate turbid runoff during wet-weather...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Uncertainty, risk and forest management on the Tillamook State Forest : a case study

Creator:: Stander, Hendrik C.
Abstract:: Forest management is typically associated with a high degree of uncertainty, since it relies on predictions of natural growth processes over long periods of time. A number of methods exist for mitigating the risk associated with this uncertainty, but few have the ability to explicitly minimize risk. This study will...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: ......................................................................... 288 5.3.1 Uncertainty and Forest Management

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An integrated study of mechanical forest fuel reduction: quantifying multiple factors at the stand level

Comparitive snow accumulation and melt during rainfall in forest and clearcut plots in western Oregon

Inter-relationships of vegetation, hydrology and micro-climate in a young, Douglas-fir forest

Spatially-explicit prediction of recoverable harvesting residues

Scaling hydrologic impacts from road segments to a small watershed

The intrusion of logging debris into artificial gravel streambeds

Buffer strip dynamics in the Western Oregon Cascades

Hydro-biogeochemical coupling at the hillslope and catchment scale

Reducing sediment production from forest roads during wet-weather use

Uncertainty, risk and forest management on the Tillamook State Forest : a case study

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