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  • Post-wildfire Investigation of Civil Infrastructure Following the 2018 Camp Fire

    Creator:
    Schulze, Stefanie S.
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    Wildland-urban interface (WUI) communities, where forested land boundaries or intermixes with infrastructure, are quickly growing in the US. WUI communities have grown substantially from 1990 to 2010, with an increase of 12.7 million houses and 25 million people. Wildfires encroaching on WUI communities can cause damage to both above ground...
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    -wildfire damage assessment methodology. Existing methods for estimating a fire within a compartment in

  • Demography, home range, and habitat selection of northern spotted owls in the Ashland Watershed

    Creator:
    Schilling, Jason W.
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    Northern Spotted Owls (Strix occidentalis caurina) inhabit productive forests that historically supported frequent, large, variable-severity fires in the Klamath province of southwestern Oregon occur in complex. The potential for high-severity wildfire remains high throughout this region, so remaining spotted owl habitat is at risk. An adaptive management approach to fire...
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    wildfire has resulted in higher stand densities and increased fuel loads, and when fires do occur, fire

  • Examining the Relationships Between Wildfire and Communities to Inform Wildfire Prevention and Equitable Policy Implementation

    Creator:
    Reilley, Caitlyn
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    Despite the importance of fire for maintaining the health of many ecosystems, the social and economic costs of wildfires have risen sharply in recent years. Across the western United States, historical land and fire management practices combined with climate change and modern human development pressures, are contributing to increased wildfire...
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    burning in combination with twentieth-century land management practices (extensive fire suppression

  • 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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    and socio-economic conditions where smoke from wildfire and prescribed fire was a concern. In

  • Forest restoration and fuels reduction on non-industrial private land in northwestern California

    Creator:
    Latimer, Lisa Marie
    Abstract:
    This thesis explores the complexity of relationships between communities and the ecosystems in which they live through a focus on forest restoration and fuels reduction on private land. As a case study, research took place in the Klamath-Siskiyou region of rural Northern California, in Humboldt and Siskiyou counties. The research...
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    forest resources, high levels of biodiversity, current wildfire problem, and community interest in fuels

  • Equity in Resilience: Wildfire in the Rogue River Basin

    Creator:
    Sloan, Emma E.
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    Forced removal of Indigenous communities and subsequent colonial forest management have led to landscape homogenization, fuel abundance, conifer encroachment, and, therefore, a loss of forest and fire resilience in the Western US. This loss of forest and fire resilience leads to a loss of social resilience as forested communities struggle...
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    1.1 Community Resilience to Wildfire in the Rogue River Basin Fire is a regular and natural

  • Remote detection and predicted locations of NIPF fuel treatments in central Oregon

    Creator:
    Hall, Michael P.
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    Fire regimes across the western United States have been altered due to past land management and changing land use. Mitigating increased risks of wildfire occurrence in landscapes such as central Oregon requires landscape level management from both governmental and private organizations. Non-industrial private forest (NIPF) owners manage a relatively small...
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    land management and changing land use. Mitigating increased risks of wildfire occurrence in

  • An Assessment of Black-backed Woodpecker (Picoides arcticus) Vital Rates in Green and Burned Forests within a Pyrodiverse Landscape Mosaic

    Creator:
    Kerstens, Mark E.
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    Vital rates and population connectivity are fundamental concepts in animal ecology and such information is critical for successful conservation planning. The Black-backed Woodpecker (Picoides arcticus) is a species of conservation concern because of its strong association with forests recently burned by high-severity wildfire. However, several recent studies have found that...
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    forests has found that nest survival decreases with time since fire (Nappi and Drapeau 2009), resulting in

  • The economic impacts of sagebrush steppe wildfires on an eastern Oregon ranch

    Creator:
    Maher, Anna T.
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    The relative success of restoration practices on cheatgrass infested sagebrush steppe lands in the Great Basin can affect the probability of crossing an ecological threshold and have economic effects on cattle ranches using federal rangelands. Cheatgrass invasion implies an increase in the risk of fire, which in turn increases the...
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    there is an economic impact associated with changes in late spring AUMs under the assumed fire regime

  • Resource Selection, and Demographic Rates of Female Greater Sage-Grouse Following Large-Scale Wildfire

    Creator:
    Foster, Lee
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    Understanding the effects of habitat disturbance on a species' habitat selection patterns, and demographic rates, is essential to projecting the trajectories of populations affected by disturbance, as well as for determining the appropriate conservation actions needed to maintain those populations. Greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) is a species of conservation concern...
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    exist and reproduce in habitats disturbed by wildfire during the immediate years following a fire