Because studies of forestry effects on wetlands have been so infrequent in the Pacific Northwest, each section in this report drew heavily from studies of forestry impacts to streams and riparian zones. After assembly and synthesis, that information was extrapolated, mostly in the form of hypotheses, to the very different...
This plant association guide has been developed as an aid for Forest Service resource managers to identify long term stable plant associations found on the Crooked River National Grassland. The guide describes in detail good, fair, and poor range condition on lands seeded to either crested wheatgrass or beardless wheatgrass...
This guide is intended to assist Forest personnel in managing early seral stands within the Pacific Silver Fir Zone of the Mt. Hood National Forest, by providing descriptions of early seral plant communities, linking them (when possible) to Mt. Hood National Forest Plant associations, and identifying some management considerations. As...
National Forest Plans have been developed and implemented on the 19 National Forests and one National Grassland in the Pacific Northwest Region, Region 6, of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service. These Plans were developed under the provisions of the National Forest Management Act of 1976 and the National...
This book is a guide to the plant associations of the Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area. It includes general descriptions of the physical and biological setting of the Recreation Area: its climate, geology, landscape; soils, wildlife, and ecological processes. Analysis of quantitative field data identified 52 plant associations occurring in...
The Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management propose to adopt coordinated ecosystem management direction for the lands they administer within the range of the northern spotted owl. This Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SETS) presents as alternatives the options, with slight modifications, developed by the Forest Ecosystem Management Assessment...
The purpose of this publication is to provide a means by which forest landscapes can be understood as ecological systems, and to use this knowledge to help shape the landscapes created through National Forest land management activities.