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  • Citizen perspectives on hazardous fuel reduction in the Blue Mountains : findings and implications from panel research

    Creator:
    Toman, Eric Lee
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    Forests in the Blue Mountains region of eastern Oregon and Washington are facing a large-scale forest health crisis. Poor forest conditions have greatly increased the risk of catastrophic wildfire. Resource managers in the Wallowa-Whitman, Umatilla, and Malheur National Forests are utilizing prescribed fire and mechanized thinning treatments to reduce hazardous...
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    , and the risk of catastrophic wildfire (Mutch et al. 1993; Tanaka et al. 1995). Resource managers on

  • Planning Under Uncertainty for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

    Creator:
    Skeele, Ryan
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    Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology has grown out of traditional research and military applications and has captivated the commercial and consumer markets, showing the ability to perform a spectrum of autonomous functions. This technology has the capability of saving lives in search and rescue, fighting wildfires in environmental monitoring, and...
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    instruction in my time at Oregon State University. Finally, I want to thank OSU for not only supporting and

  • Public perceptions of smoke from wildfire, prescribed fire, and fire use

    Creator:
    Frederick, Stacey Sargent
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    Managers and policy-makers across broad disciplines and organizations are calling for a better understanding of public opinion on natural resource issues. One such issue is that of fire and its role in the management of our forests and rangelands. Public perceptions of fuel reduction techniques, with a particular emphasis on...
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    rangelands in the United State are under threat from catastrophic and more frequent wildfires due to un

  • The effects of two fuel reduction treatments on chaparral communities in southwest Oregon

    Creator:
    Sikes, Kendra G.
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    Fuel reduction treatments are being applied to public lands, affecting significant acreage at considerable expense. This study compares the short term effects on a chaparral plant community of two different fuel reduction methods, brush mastication and "hand piling and burning" (HPB). Ceanothus cuneatus dominated the southwestern Oregon study sites where...
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  • Potential effects of climate change and fire management on fire behavior and vegetation patterns on an east Cascades landscape

    Creator:
    Greaves, Heather E.
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    Climate exerts considerable control on wildfire regimes, and climate and wildfire are both major drivers of forest growth and succession in interior Northwest forests. Estimating potential response of these landscapes to anticipated changes in climate helps researchers and land managers understand and mitigate impacts of climate change on important ecological...
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    Climate exerts considerable control on wildfire regimes, and climate and wildfire are both major drivers

  • Fuel Treatment Longevity in the Blue Mountains of Oregon

    Creator:
    Morici, Kat
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    Wildland fires are an increasingly extensive, expensive, and frequent occurrence in dry forests of the western United States. Fuel reduction treatments are designed to reduce extreme fire behavior, promote resilient forest structure, and facilitate fire control efforts. Although there is widespread recognition that repeated treatments are needed to maintain desired...
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    behavior, promote resilient forest structure, and facilitate fire control efforts. Although there is

  • Rivers and Roads : Exploring How Environmental Governance Impacts State Management of Forest Roads

    Creator:
    Detwiler, Stacey M.
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    This study explores how environmental governance mechanisms affect state management of forest roads to address the chronic delivery of sediment to streams in Oregon, Washington, and California on private and state forestlands. Forest roads can degrade water quality and harm aquatic life when runoff mobilizes fine sediments from the road...
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    , and California on private and state forestlands. Forest roads can degrade water quality and harm