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Creator:: Mitchell, Dana
Abstract:: Land managers are increasingly turning to a new tool for visually depicting, analyzing, and communicating the technical aspects of forestry, specifically in the area of timber harvest and unit design. This tool is computer-based image editing software. In the 1980's, it was referred to as image capture technology, or ICT....
Resource Type:: Capstone Project

Creator:: Petaisto, Inga T.
Abstract:: The focus of this study centers around the economic, technical, and environmental effects analysis of seven helicopter timber sales on four different national forests in Oregon and Washington. This paper is a constructive critique of these seven sales based on the author's personal observations and data collected from planning documents,...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project

Creator:: Brown, Cameron G.
Abstract:: Land managers in the Blue Mountains of eastern Oregon are currently faced with large areas of forest with health problems and extreme levels of fuel loading in the stand and on the forest floor. These conditions resulted from a combination of insect infestations, past management practices and the elimination of...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project

Creator:: Born, Robert Gregory
Abstract:: With increasing environmental concerns, short harvesting seasons, salvage logging needs, and limited road access, helicopter yarding is becoming attractive to many land managers. Most helicopter yarding has occurred on clearcut or evenaged management areas containing large, valuable timber. Very little helicopter yarding has occurred in stands of smaller, less valuable...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project

Creator:: Armlovich, David
Abstract:: This study looked at the soil compaction effects resulting from a cut-to-length harvest system on an area in the western Cascade Range of Oregon. The cut-to-length harvest system is a mechanized system in which trees are fell, deliinbed, and bucked into short log lengths by a mechanical harvester. Logs are...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project

Creator:: Silberstein, Thomas B.
Abstract:: Excessive growth by red clover, Trifolium pratense L., grown for seed interferes with maximum seed production and harvest in Oregon's Willamette Valley. This study was conducted during 1986 and 1987 on red clover cv. Kenland to determine if plant height and dry matter production could be inhibited and seed yields...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis