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  • Plant community recovery after high severity wildfire and post-fire management in the Klamath Region

    Creator:
    Lopez Ortiz, Maria Jose
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    Disturbance and microclimate interact to play a central role influencing the composition and structure of plant communities. In this thesis, I examined plant community composition and structure twenty years after high severity wildfires with and without post-fire management (salvage logging, fuel treatment, tree planting, and shrub release) under contrasting microclimatic...
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    Masters Thesis
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    . Sugihara, J. W. Van Wagtendonk, K. E. Shaffer, J. Fites- Kaufman, and A. E. Thode, editors. Fire in

  • Validation of elk distribution models at Sled Springs Wildlife Demonstration Area, northeast Oregon

    Creator:
    Coe, Priscilla K.
    Abstract:
    Landscape models for elk distribution developed at Starkey Experimental Forest and Range from 1993-1995 were tested on another landscape during 2003-2005 at Sled Springs Wildlife Demonstration Area. Using location data obtained from 23 wild elk captured and fitted with GPS telemetry collars, 8 spatial resource selection function models representing 8...
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    Masters Thesis
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    by radio-collared animals. Findholt et al. (1996, 2002) and Samuel and Kenow (1992) mapped the

  • Constructing heroic identities : masculinity and the western film

    Creator:
    Foster, Brad D.
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    This thesis employs the study of gender to demonstrate how recent Hollywood western films have constructed a hero that is reflective of contemporary beliefs regarding masculinity. Beginning with a New Historicist approach at studying gender, this work first considers the construction of masculinity in post World War II America and...
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    Masters Thesis
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    mountains and to the front door of the Starrett’s homestead. Joe Starrett (Van Heflin) laboriously works

  • Shuddering blood

    Creator:
    Kroll, Adam L.
    Abstract:
    This collection of six individual writings, both fiction and creative non-fiction, is an exploration in narrative first-person voices and multiple themes, such as the loss of innocence, modernization versus traditions/myths, the California Central Valley, death, creativity, language, change, and the pressures of the future. Though abstractly linked at times, these...
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    through the swaying saloon doors and see Mr. Van Gronigan, the owner, and my Uncle Jim sitting at the

  • Improving the environmental and social practices of coastal tourism operators

    Creator:
    Currey, Shari Ann
    Abstract:
    From May 1999 through April 2000, I interned with the Alaska Wilderness Recreation and Tourism Association (AWRTA), a non-profit organization that balances responsible tourism development with resource protection and community enhancement. I was assigned to a seven-member task force charged with evaluating the success of AWRTA's "Ecotourism Guidelines2" and was...
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    Capstone Project
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    (Johnson and Van de Kamp 1996). They also affect vegetation by damaging terrestrial plants and altering

  • Development of a problem-based learning classification rubric for community college instruction

    Creator:
    Knelly, Leah J.
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    Problem-based learning (PBL) is one type of inquiry-based learning. Many community college instructors use inquiry-based learning as an instructional strategy. There is much literature on the use of problem-based learning in undergraduate, graduate and medical school education, with a multitude of examples of specific techniques and problems to be addressed,...
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    Masters Thesis
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    ; De Lorenzo & Abbott, 2004; Van Kampen, et.al, 2004). Inquiry-Based Learning Inquiry-based

  • Publicly Funded, Privately Assisted : The Role of Giving in Oregon K-12 Education

    Creator:
    Sattem, Jennifer L.
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    In Oregon, property tax revolts and school equalization measures have led to increasingly unstable and more non-discretionary public funding for schools. As a result, public schools are turning to private donations to provide both basic and supplemental educational opportunities. Some schools and districts are raising hundreds of thousands of dollars,...
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    Capstone Project
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    math are often the first to go (Hill 2005, Levenson 2003, Blankenship 2000, Van Tassel 1995

  • Entre crítica e imaginación: El contexto de las relaciones de México y Estados Unidos desde la perspectiva de La frontera de cristal y Gringo viejo

    Creator:
    Hansen, Tobin M.
    Abstract:
    What historical and political reality is reflected in the novels Gringo viejo and La frontera de cristal? What is revealed when the characters, plot, and setting of the novels are analyzed against research of the context of U.S.-Mexico relations? We begin to explore these questions by studying three periods crucial...
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    Masters Thesis
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    poderoso don Leonardo Barroso, resulta estar enamorado de su ahijada. Michelina y Leonardo van

  • Optimal mixture of road network ownership

    Creator:
    Li, Mingxin
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    The present highway funding system, especially fuel taxes, may become less reliable revenue sources in the future, while the transportation public agencies do not have the sufficient financial resources needed to meet the increasing traffic demand. Regarding the socio-economic impact of road privatization, a wide range of approaches and models...
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  • A special report on some of Oregon's underutilized species

    Creator:
    Elwell, H. Terry
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    Capstone Project