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Creator:: Merschel, Andrew G.
Abstract:: The structure and composition of mixed-conifer forest (MCF) in central Oregon has been altered by fire exclusion and logging. The resulting increased density, spatial contagion, and loss of fire resistant trees decrease the resiliency of this ecosystem to fire, drought, and insects. The historical and current composition and structure of...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: pine forests of Oregon and Northern California. Forest Ecology and Management 199:191-217. 7

Creator:: Carlson, Joan Y.
Abstract:: This study describes streams in the Blue Mountains and Wallowa Mountains of Northeastern Oregon in order to characterize the interactions between the terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems and to determine how logging affects those relationships. Five stream reach pairs, each consisting of an undisturbed reach and a similar reach flowing through...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Creator:: Reid, Elbert Hann, 1912-, Johnson, Charles G., Hall, Wade B., United States. Forest Service. Pacific Northwest Region, and Wallowa-Whitman National Forest (Agency : U.S.)
Resource Type:: Technical Report

Creator:: Dailey, Michele Meadows
Abstract:: This study delineates and characterizes the distribution of montane meadows in the Willamette National Forest, identifies encroachment patterns in relation to topographic features and proximity to trees in the Chucksney-Grasshopper meadow complex, and examines tree species and age distributions in relation to distance from forest edges or isolated tree clusters...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: delineated. The 1988 Western Oregon Composite Forest Vegetation Layer contains a <30% cover class that

Creator:: Cordova, Jerry J.
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , Oregon. Large wood provides an important component of fish habitat in small mountain streams in the

Creator:: Diaz, Nancy M. and United States. Forest Service. Pacific Northwest Region.
Abstract:: The forest ecosystem is a mosaic of environments, each having a particular set of characteristics and processes that shape the communities of animals and plants that occur there, and circumscribe the opportunities and limitations for land management. In the Cascades of southwestern Washington and northwestern Oregon, environments can be stratified...
Resource Type:: Technical Report
Full Text:: ..... 25 PLANT ASSOCIATION DESCRIPTIONS ..... 27 Key to Forest Series ..... 27 Key to Mountain Hemlock

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