White pine plantations which were established in 1968 on 88 acres of the Palouse Ranger District, Clearwater
National Forest, were treated by pruning and canker excision to remove lethal white pine blister rust cankers.
The success rate 15 months after treatment was 98 percent for pruning and 81 percent for...
Two thousand and thirty-nine trees on 213 plots are being monitored yearly for
root disease infection and mortality. Three compartments on the Fernan Ranger
District of the Idaho Panhandle National Forests are the site of the project.
Relationships between factors such as species, aspect, slope, elevation,
habitat type, stand appearance...
Needlecast fungi were found on 95 percent of damage collections in a June survey of Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris) Christmas tree plantations in the Kalispell Basin western Montana. Western gall rust (Endocronartium harknessii) and pine bark aphids (Pineus sp.) were present on 6.6 and 2.5 percent of collections, respectively. Cylcaneusma...
Tree damage following dust abatement/road
stabilization treatment was evaluated on 12.5
miles of the Selway River Road, Nez Perce
National Forest. Calcium chloride was applied in
June of 2000, mostly at a rate of 51b/yd2 (18,600
lb./acre) or 6.9 lb/yd 2 (25,700 lb/acre). 1,189
trees up to 30 feet from...
We analyzed the effects of pathogens and insects on forest succession in the absence of
fire or management, addressing a number of related questions:
1. What is the rate of change in such forests?
2. How significant are the roles of pathogens and insects in the forest change?
3. How...
The conversation regarding transgender students in the context of women's colleges is inherently complicated due to the binary gender system that the existence of women's colleges reinforce. The primary goal of this phenomenological research was to examine the lived experiences of transgender college students at U.S. women's colleges. Because the...
Quantitative measurement of the urban-rural continuum for examination of U.S. rural health disparities is a relatively new research area, where only a handful of studies have investigated health disparities using quantitative rural measures and even fewer have attempted to integrate health variables within said measures. Most U.S. rural health disparity...
In Can You See Me?, a collection of nine short stories, Elizabeth Wyckoff explores the conflicting desires of young women who long for connection, but struggle to find the balance between concealing and revealing themselves. The female protagonists in these stories simultaneously yearn to be seen, recognized, and acknowledged; and...
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Susan J. Rodgers
In Can You See Me?, a collection of nine short stories, Elizabeth
MySpace is a social network phenomenon with over 100 million profiles
and a strong presence in over 24 countries. As digital media become more
commonplace, social networks are becoming sites where women create and
manage relationships and identities. This thesis is a study of how women
ages 18-22 are constructing...
Social discourse presents teenage childbearing as a “serious problem” that results in significant harm and expense to teenage mothers, their children, and society. Although the discourse of teenage childbearing has been multiple, overlapping, and contested, it has resulted in negative stereotyping and stigmatization of teenage mothers. Much of these stereotypes...