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Creator:: Dailey, Michele Meadows
Abstract:: This study delineates and characterizes the distribution of montane meadows in the Willamette National Forest, identifies encroachment patterns in relation to topographic features and proximity to trees in the Chucksney-Grasshopper meadow complex, and examines tree species and age distributions in relation to distance from forest edges or isolated tree clusters...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Romme, 1993; Miller and Halpern, 1998; Lepofsky et al., 2003; Takaoka and Swanson, 2006; Norman and

Creator:: Wörz, Adèle Lorraine
Abstract:: This dissertation uses a new methodological approach for an in-depth analysis of three cartographic works. Studies within the discipline of the history of cartography have followed various methodologies throughout the past century. This dissertation argues that in order to come to a more complete understanding of how maps were produced...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: , Norman. Maps and Civilization: Cartography in Culture and Society. Chicago: University of Chicago Press

Creator:: Medley, Brooke
Abstract:: An integrative method for monitoring glacier geometry change and mass balance is presented and applied to the Pacific Northwest, USA. Acting as a baseline for interpretation of future changes in glacier size and shape, we first derive a new inventory of regional glacier cover using remotely sensed data. To investigate...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: R G E F E A T U R E S O N L Y 1 1 C h ar ac te ri st ic s fo r g la ci er s > 0 .1 k m 2

Creator:: Impara, Peter C.
Abstract:: Fire history and fire regime were interpreted from tree ring analysis of 4320 stumps at 178 sites in a 25 by 55 km area in the central Oregon Coast Range. A total of 27 fire episodes were identified in a 516 year period, with sizes estimated at 18 to 544...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Summer Lightning Strikes in the Central Oregon Coast Range, 1985 - 1993 a-yam air. . L r i MW a !F

Creator:: Paullin, Pamela K.
Abstract:: Although the timber industry was the major economic force in the lives of several generations of Oregon families, very little archaeological investigation has been done on the dozens of abandoned logging camps that are scattered throughout the forests of the Pacific Northwest. This project focuses on Camp 1, a 1920s...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

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