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Social Capital, Collaboration, and Participation: How Social Factors Impact Community Wildfire Protection Plans (CWPP) with a Case Study on Ouray, Colorado

Creator:: Weickhardt, Adrianna K.
Abstract:: Populated and developed areas at the fringes of or intermixed with undeveloped landscapes are referred to as the Wildland Urban Interface (WUI). There are many unique benefits associated with living in the WUI that understandably attract people to move to them. However, there are also potential wildfire-related risks particular to...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: community wildfire protection plan (CWPP), one available tool in the wildfire management toolbox. This

Forest restoration and fuels reduction on non-industrial private land in northwestern California

Creator:: Latimer, Lisa Marie
Abstract:: This thesis explores the complexity of relationships between communities and the ecosystems in which they live through a focus on forest restoration and fuels reduction on private land. As a case study, research took place in the Klamath-Siskiyou region of rural Northern California, in Humboldt and Siskiyou counties. The research...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: forest resources, high levels of biodiversity, current wildfire problem, and community interest in fuels

A Spatial Assessment of Conservation Opportunities in the Willamette River Floodplain between Corvallis and Albany, Oregon

Creator:: Baker, Jeffrey M.
Abstract:: The Willamette River floodplain has been highly modified by urbanization, conversion of land to agriculture, construction of dams and revetments, and regulation of flow, all of which have reduced floodplain processes that provide valuable ecosystem services such as fish and wildlife habitat and flood storage. Efforts to protect and restore...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: . Local-scale assessment and action planning takes place at 5 the county, watershed, or site

The Nuclear Option: A Multi-Level Perspective Exploration of Nuclear Energy and its Implications for the Development of Renewable Energy

Creator:: Ettinger, Matthew
Abstract:: Nuclear energy enjoyed widespread support in the United States during its initial decades and has seen extensive study as a potential means of combating contemporary energy issues such as climate change and alternative transportation fuels. Despite the potential contribution to solving these challenges, the industry has been largely stagnant since...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: ______________________________________________________________________________ Keith Baker, representing Political Science

Use Your Heart: Understanding Street-Level Discretion in the Emergency Food Network

Creator:: Precious, Cheryl L. M.
Abstract:: Hunger is among the greatest contemporary social problems in the United States. An incredible 48 million people, or 14% of households, experienced food insecurity during 2014. At the same time, public responses to food insecurity, such as the Emergency Food Assistance Program, have increasingly relied on the “emergency food network,”...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: . APPROVED: Mark Edwards, representing Sociology Keith Baker, representing

Multiple use resource allocation : an empirical analysis of selected forest resources

Creator:: Baker, John J
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: John J. Baker for the degree of Master of Science in

Equity in Resilience: Wildfire in the Rogue River Basin

Creator:: Sloan, Emma E.
Abstract:: Forced removal of Indigenous communities and subsequent colonial forest management have led to landscape homogenization, fuel abundance, conifer encroachment, and, therefore, a loss of forest and fire resilience in the Western US. This loss of forest and fire resilience leads to a loss of social resilience as forested communities struggle...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: unique insight into conceptions of community resilience to wildfire. Relying on a critical examination

Where Old West meets New West : confronting conservation, conflict and change on Utah's last frontier

Creator:: Leaver, Jennifer Jensen
Abstract:: In the United States during the last 30 years there has been a shift from extractive natural resource-based economies of the Old West to a New West defined by environmental protection. Over the past century, a growing national support for environmental protection has influenced a lengthening list of national and...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: protection, but it was without a social impact assessment or local community input. Instead, Clinton turned

Population Differentiation in two Northeastern Pacific Marine Species

Creator:: Curran, Lorne Sullivan
Abstract:: Population genetic techniques are now preeminent in differentiating wild populations. Natural resource managers rely on them in their efforts to restore viable populations of fish and wildlife. Overfishing adversely impacted Yelloweye Rockfish (Sebastes ruberrimus) on the U.S. West Coast in the late 20th century. Management actions included shutting down the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: . With the latter–a marine mammal under the full protection of the U.S. Marine Mammal Protection Act–I

Post-wildfire Investigation of Civil Infrastructure Following the 2018 Camp Fire

Creator:: Schulze, Stefanie S.
Abstract:: Wildland-urban interface (WUI) communities, where forested land boundaries or intermixes with infrastructure, are quickly growing in the US. WUI communities have grown substantially from 1990 to 2010, with an increase of 12.7 million houses and 25 million people. Wildfires encroaching on WUI communities can cause damage to both above ground...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: infrastructure and impacts of the wildfire damages on the community. During numerous reconnaissance

ScholarsArchive@OSU

Social Capital, Collaboration, and Participation: How Social Factors Impact Community Wildfire Protection Plans (CWPP) with a Case Study on Ouray, Colorado

Forest restoration and fuels reduction on non-industrial private land in northwestern California

A Spatial Assessment of Conservation Opportunities in the Willamette River Floodplain between Corvallis and Albany, Oregon

The Nuclear Option: A Multi-Level Perspective Exploration of Nuclear Energy and its Implications for the Development of Renewable Energy

Use Your Heart: Understanding Street-Level Discretion in the Emergency Food Network

Multiple use resource allocation : an empirical analysis of selected forest resources

Equity in Resilience: Wildfire in the Rogue River Basin

Where Old West meets New West : confronting conservation, conflict and change on Utah's last frontier

Population Differentiation in two Northeastern Pacific Marine Species

Post-wildfire Investigation of Civil Infrastructure Following the 2018 Camp Fire

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