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Assessing alternatives for fuel reduction treatment and Pacific marten conservation in the southern Cascades and northern Sierra Nevada

Creator:

Credo, Kevin

Abstract:

Forest managers are challenged to restore resilience to forests with an elevated risk of stand-replacing fire by using mechanical thinning and prescribed fire. Implementation of these methods can be constrained by mandates to conserve sensitive wildlife species like the Pacific marten (Martes caurina). Martens avoid simplified forest stands created by...

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Masters Thesis

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| Pretext AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Kevin Credo for the degree of Master of Science in Sustainable
Diel Rest Structure Selection and Multiscale Analysis of Pacific Marten Resting Habitat in Lassen National Forest, California

Creator:

Tweedy, Patrick J.

Abstract:

Forests in the western United States have changed drastically over the past 150 years given a long history of utilization (harvest and grazing) and associated fire exclusion. These actions have altered the composition and structure of these forests as well as affected ecosystem function. Current policies for federal land management...

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Masters Thesis

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for the completion of this project; Kevin Credo, who vastly improved my GIS knowledge as well as a