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Sustaining Bend's Urban Forest: An assessment of the City's urban forest management approach and recommendations for future adaptations

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Lex, Mitchell

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The City of Bend’s current urban forest management strategy consists of a series of city codes and ordinances, tree protection and planting standards, and two different plans created by the Bend Park and Recreation District. The analysis of these documents, as well as review of existing management approaches in Boise,...

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urban forest plans in larger Pacific Northwest Cities, and the application of the Sustainable Forestry
Place-based metrics guiding southwest urban forestry design

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Beshur, Athena D.

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Through well designed tree placement, redundant use of simple technologies, and stewardship, trees grow. Over time, they mitigate stormwater flooding and enhance livability. This paper offers insights into precipitation patterns, and how small scale redundancy can help build the urban tree canopy. It is specifically geared toward issues in the...

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-urban interface firefighters. In 2018, the Lagunita rain garden technology, designed and implemented
Examining gaps between interest and understanding of provisioning for bees: A capstone project in support of urban bee conservation

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Bennett, Lauren

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Many pollinators across the globe are experiencing population threats and declines (Potts et al. 2010). Approximately 85 percent of the world’s flowering plants depend on animals, mostly insects, for pollination (Ollerton et al. 2011). As over 80 percent of the United States population lives in cities (U.S. Census Bureau 2016),...

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pollinators in city landscapes. Cities can act as a refuge for pollinators. Several studies have found urban
Effects of Urban and Suburban Forest Fragmentation in Fairfield County, CT: A Survey of Invasive, Introduced, and Native Plants

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George, Elaine M.

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The study collected data using ARCGIS Field Maps from a field survey of plants at six (6) sites in Fairfield County, CT. The sites included three (3) urban and three (3) suburban locations. A primary goal of this study was to determine whether there are differences in the extent of...

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identified in the Pacific Northwest. An urban to rural gradient study in central and northeastern
Natural Resource Management in East Palo Alto

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Hernandez, Uriel

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East Palo Alto is a small working-class community of color in the San Francisco Bay Area. Though the community has rich agrarian roots, fertile soil, and good weather, racially-charged policies have influenced East Palo Alto’s development and significantly impacted the state of natural resources in the city in stark contrast...

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cities of Menlo Park and Santa Clara County’s Palo Alto. Also in the 1960s, the nearby city of Palo Alto
Adopting existing stormwater infrastructure to meet urbanization and changing rainfall trends : a case study of library pond in Wilsonville, Oregon

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Gilmartin, Shelby

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The City of Wilsonville, Oregon (City) located between Portland and Salem on Interstate-5 was historically a small farming community that has grown into a thriving city. The development required to meet the population growth and diverse industries of the area has led to increased development and urbanization. These changes in...

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modest increase in 17 precipitation over the Pacific Northwest between November and January
Analyzing a collaborative approach to forest management planning on the Evitts Creek Water Company Property in Bedford County, Pennsylvania

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Miller, Marie Perrin

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Forest management planning is critical for the sustainability of natural systems on a site. Managing public ground is a complicated process, and usually involves many stakeholders with a variety of opinions. One such public property is the Evitts Creek Water Company (ECWC) property, owned by the city of Cumberland, Maryland....

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located entirely out of the state. The tract is located in Bedford County, PA but is owned by the city
Exploring the persistence of Oregon white oak in the Willamette Valley

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Juhl, Eli

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Over the last 150 years, Oregon white oak habitat in the Willamette Valley has been converted to support grass crops, orchards and vineyards, cities, and conifer forests, nearly extirpating it from the Willamette Valley. Yet Oregon white oak offers many ecosystem services to the Willamette Valley and its residents. Recent...

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best for the Pacific Northwest when tested against observed climate data from the past century in
Between Wild and Cultivated Places: Natural Resource Planning on a Small Farm in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed

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Cliff, Eliza H.

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To meet the challenges of climate change and make progress on lagging large-scale sustainability and watershed goals requires an integrated social-ecological approach to natural resource planning on the ground-level. This case study of a small equestrian farm in the Chesapeake Bay watershed incorporates theory with practice, by adding interviews focused...

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, the pastures, wetland and soils are generally in functioning condition and there is some diversity of
Harmful Cyanobacteria Blooms, Lake Management, and Stakeholder Engagement at Lone Lake in Island County, WA

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Colston, Matthew

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Lone Lake is an approximately ninety acre lake in Langley, WA on Whidbey Island. Since 2008, Lone Lake has experienced a number of harmful cyanobacterial blooms (cyanoHABs). Since 2016, however, the intensity of these cyanoHABs have impacted both ecosystem functions and human activities in the watershed. In June of 2020,...

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negatively affect the economic stability in the nearby city of Langley and to the county. Impacts on

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Forest Ecosystems and Society5
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Ries, Paul4
de Silva, Lynette2
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Master of Natural Resources (M.N.R.)[remove]20

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Bridgeport, Town of Bridgeport, Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States1
Canaan, Town of North Canaan, Litchfield County, Connecticut, United States1
New Canaan, Town of New Canaan, Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States1
Norwalk, Town of Norwalk, Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States1
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Big Sur Land Trust1
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