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Creator:: Li, Habin
Abstract:: This study dealt with research problems at the landscape level. The objectives of this thesis were to develop tools to study and characterize landscapes and to interface with a geographic information system (GIS), to evaluate landscape indices, and to examine development of forest cutting patterns under different cutting methods and...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Creator:: Boston, Kevin Donald
Abstract:: A method was developed to formulate and solve a fifty-year tactical harvest scheduling problem that included spatial wildlife habitat goals and constraints for a 4800-acre watershed in Northwestern Oregon under four scenarios. Three goals and two habitat constraints were included in each scenario. The first goal was a volume goal....
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Creator:: Payandeh, Bijan
Abstract:: This study was initiated to determine the relative efficiency of systematic, stratified and simple random sampling for crown area and tree frequency estimation of five of the major forest types found in the Pacific Northwest. Several of the more common methods of estimating spatial distribution coefficients were evaluated. Finally the...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Creator:: Gee, C. Kerry
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was to investigate factors which may limit linear programming as a predictive tool. It has specifically centered attention on components of linear programming models and characteristics of farm operators which create differences between actual and linear programmed farm organizations. Twenty farms in Wasco County, Oregon,...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
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