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On-site public evaluations on the use of prescribed fire and mechanical thinning

Creator:: Reed, Michelle A.
Abstract:: The forest health of the Blue Mountains of eastern Oregon and Washington has sustained great impacts primarily caused by disease and insect epidemics. In order to restore forest health and reduce fuel loads, management tools like prescribed fire and mechanical chinning are being tested by forest managers in the region'...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: apprcved: Bruce Shindler The eaotern C)rec3or1 ancl J\1ashir1,Jtor1 -~_as sustainecl great impacts

The capability of a GIS to contribute to the social assessment of forest communities : a case study of the Central Cascades Adaptive Management Area

Creator:: Burke, Tenley Boehm
Abstract:: Geographic Information Systems (GIS) have become an essential tool for evaluation and monitoring the biophysical data of natural landscapes. This study addresses the potential for using GIS in the social assessment of human landscapes that are associated with geographic regions of interest. Using the communities surrounding Oregon's federally designated Central...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Characterization of community capacity in a forest-dependent community : the case of the Haut-St.-Maurice

Creator:: Nadeau, Solange, 1967-
Abstract:: In recent years, economic, social, technological, and environmental changes have all imposed challenges on forest-based communities. This has revived interest in studying these communities to understand their ability to tackle these challenges. This study is built around a case study of an industrial forest-based community and aims at characterizing the...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Interest group evaluations of ecological, social, and management criteria for wilderness campsites

Creator:: Shindler, Bruce A.
Abstract:: Extensive use of wilderness campsites has caused resource deterioration in numerous backcountry locations. Resource managers are responsible for maintaining natural wilderness-like conditions in these areas and providing opportunities for the public to use and enjoy them. This requires that realistic standards for resource impacts be determined and that publicly supported...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Management implications of displacement and product shift : longitudinal research on the Rogue River

Creator:: Shindler, Bruce A.
Abstract:: While resource managers often rely on feedback from recreation users on which to base long-term decisions, displacement (when users dissatisfied with crowding or resource impacts move on to more remote sites) and product shift (users respond to increased densities by changing their definition of the recreation experience) are viewed as...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

A Practical Guide To Citizen-Agency Partnerships: Public Outreach Strategies for Fire and Fuel Management

Creator:: Shindler, Bruce and Gordon, Ryan
Abstract:: This Practical Guide is a companion to the video program Communication Strategies for Fire Management: Creating Effective Citizen-Agency Partnerships. The video is designed to assist land management personnel in working collaboratively with citizens for community fi re and fuel reduction strategies. The DVD uses real world examples from successful agency...
Resource Type:: Technical Report and Video

Practical Guide_ShindlerGordon.pdf

Creator:: Shindler, Bruce and Gordon, Ryan
Abstract:: This Practical Guide is a companion to the video program Communication Strategies for Fire Management: Creating Effective Citizen-Agency Partnerships. The video is designed to assist land management personnel in working collaboratively with citizens for community fi re and fuel reduction strategies. The DVD uses real world examples from successful agency...
Full Text:: for implementation. To obtain a copy of the DVD, contact Dr. Bruce Shindler at Bruce.Shindler

CommStrat_2005.mp4

Creator:: Shindler, Bruce and Gordon, Ryan
Abstract:: This Practical Guide is a companion to the video program Communication Strategies for Fire Management: Creating Effective Citizen-Agency Partnerships. The video is designed to assist land management personnel in working collaboratively with citizens for community fi re and fuel reduction strategies. The DVD uses real world examples from successful agency...

CommStrat_2005_web.mov

Creator:: Shindler, Bruce and Gordon, Ryan
Abstract:: This Practical Guide is a companion to the video program Communication Strategies for Fire Management: Creating Effective Citizen-Agency Partnerships. The video is designed to assist land management personnel in working collaboratively with citizens for community fi re and fuel reduction strategies. The DVD uses real world examples from successful agency...

Now, that's a Wicked Problem: Studying how people with conflicting interests can share the forest

Creator:: Moldenke, Alison
Abstract:: Social Scientists study the differing opinions people have regarding forest use and the skills that can facilitate solutions to conflicts that arise from this. Featuring Dr. Bruce Shindler.
Resource Type:: Learning Object
Full Text:: healthy while people get wood products and safe places to live? Bruce Shindler is a social scientist in

Anthropogenic activities associated with the status of salmon stocks in Pacific Northwest watersheds

Creator:: Mrakovcich, Karina Lorenz
Abstract:: Stocks of salmon are declining in the Pacific Northwest. Based on region-wide studies that list and categorize the status of salmon stocks (Nehlsen et al., 1991; Huntington et al., 1994; and Nawa, 1995), I analyze the watersheds where stocks of salmon spawn for several anthropogenic variables, most of which are...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: . Thank you, Bill. My committee members, Susan Hanna, Cynthia Leornard, Bruce Shindler, Fred Smith, and

Collaborating for Healthy Forests and Communities: A Guide for Building Partnerships Among Diverse Interests

Creator:: Shindler, Bruce, Gordon, Ryan, McCaffrey, Sarah, and Toman, Eric
Abstract:: There are many reasons for building an alliance among agencies and citizens in forest and rangeland communities. In the big picture, the purpose is primarily to reach decisions that are objectively better. Essentially, the quality of decisions is improved by a multi-agency effort that includes a role for citizens and...
Resource Type:: Video and Technical Report

Policy tools to encourage community-level defensible space in the United States: A tale of six communities

Creator:: Stidham, Melanie, McCaffrey, Sarah, Toman, Eric, and Shindler, Bruce
Abstract:: Within the wildland-urban interface (WUI), wildfire risk contains both individual and collective components. The likelihood that a particular home will be threatened by wildfire in any given year is low, but at a broader scale the likelihood that a home somewhere in the WUI will be threatened is substantially higher....
Resource Type:: Article
Full Text:: McCaffrey b, Eric Toman a, Bruce Shindler c a School of Environment and Natural Resources, The Ohio State

Social science at the wildland-urban interface: 2000-2010 Annotated Bibliography

Creator:: Toman, Eric, Stidham, Melanie, McCaffrey, Sarah, and Shindler, Bruce
Abstract:: As part of a larger project funded by the Joint Fire Science Program, this annotated bibliography and accompanying subject area guide were created to support development of a compendium of social science research findings from 2000 – 2010 related to fire-adapted communities. In total, 242 articles were selected for analysis.
Resource Type:: Other and Technical Report
Full Text:: . 1 Toman, Eric; Stidham, Melanie; McCaffrey, Sarah; Shindler, Bruce. 2012. Social science at the

WUICOMM Guide.pdf

Creator:: Shindler, Bruce, Gordon, Ryan, McCaffrey, Sarah, and Toman, Eric
Abstract:: There are many reasons for building an alliance among agencies and citizens in forest and rangeland communities. In the big picture, the purpose is primarily to reach decisions that are objectively better. Essentially, the quality of decisions is improved by a multi-agency effort that includes a role for citizens and...
Full Text:: Bruce Shindler & Ryan Gordon, Oregon State University Sarah McCaffrey, USDA Forest Service Northern

WUICOMM_2011.mp4

Creator:: Shindler, Bruce, Gordon, Ryan, McCaffrey, Sarah, and Toman, Eric
Abstract:: There are many reasons for building an alliance among agencies and citizens in forest and rangeland communities. In the big picture, the purpose is primarily to reach decisions that are objectively better. Essentially, the quality of decisions is improved by a multi-agency effort that includes a role for citizens and...

WUICOMM_2011_web.mov

Creator:: Shindler, Bruce, Gordon, Ryan, McCaffrey, Sarah, and Toman, Eric
Abstract:: There are many reasons for building an alliance among agencies and citizens in forest and rangeland communities. In the big picture, the purpose is primarily to reach decisions that are objectively better. Essentially, the quality of decisions is improved by a multi-agency effort that includes a role for citizens and...

Public Acceptance of Wildland Fire and Fuel Management: Panel Responses in Seven Locations

Creator:: Toman, Eric, Shindler, Bruce, McCaffrey, Sarah, and Bennett, James
Abstract:: Wildland fire affects both public and private resources throughout the United States. A century of fire suppression has contributed to changing ecological conditions and accumulated fuel loads. Managers have used a variety of approaches to address these conditions and reduce the likelihood of wildland fires that may result in adverse...
Resource Type:: Article
Full Text:: Fuel Management: Panel Responses in Seven Locations Eric Toman • Bruce Shindler • Sarah McCaffrey

Social science research related to wildfire management: an overview of recent findings and future research needs

Creator:: McCaffrey, Sarah, Toman, Eric, Stidham, Melanie, and Shindler, Bruce
Abstract:: As with other aspects of natural-resource management, the approach to managing wildland fires has evolved over time as scientific understanding has advanced and the broader context surrounding management decisions has changed. Prior to 2000 the primary focus of most fire research was on the physical and ecological aspects of fire;...
Resource Type:: Article
Full Text:: confidence in those implementing a practice Shindler and Toman 2003; Winter et al. 2004; McCaffrey 2006

Directory of Oregon forest interest groups

Creator:: Oregon State University. Extension Service, Steel, Brent S., List, Peter C., and Shindler, Bruce A.
Abstract:: Published April 1993. Facts and recommendations in this publication may no longer be valid. Please look for up-to-date information in the OSU Extension Catalog: http://extension.oregonstate.edu/catalog
Resource Type:: Technical Report
Full Text:: Administrative Services A422 Corvallis, OR 97331-2119 We offer discounts on orders of 100 or more copies of a

Citizen knowledge and opinions about watershed management in the South Santiam Basin in Oregon

Creator:: Wright, Angela Schaefer
Abstract:: Watershed management is widely recognized as an important component of healthy ecosystems and its success depends on cultivating the good will, stewardship values, and participation of citizens. Because much of the streamside land in Oregon is in private ownership activities on public lands will not be enough to protect salmon...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: privacy.Abstract approved: Bruce A. Schindler Watershed management is widely recognized as an important component

Trust: A Planning Guide for Wildfire Agencies and Practitioners—An International Collaboration Drawing on Research and Management Experience in Australia, Canada, and the United States

Creator:: Shindler, Bruce, Olsen, Christine, McCaffrey, Sarah, McFarlane, Bonita, Christianson, Amy, McGee, Tara, Curtis, Allan, and Sharp, Emily
Abstract:: This planning guide is the outcome of an international collaboration of researchers and practitioners/field managers working in communities at risk of wildfire in three countries. Initially, the team of social scientists from Australia, Canada, and the United States utilized the collective research literature to examine factors that influence stakeholder trust....
Resource Type:: Technical Report
Full Text:: Bruce Shindler and Christine Olsen College of Forestry Oregon State University Oregon, USA Sarah

Effects of information on users' normative standards, perceived conflict, and depreciative behavior at campgrounds of Chiri-Mountain National Park, Korea

Creator:: Kim, Sang-oh
Abstract:: The normative concept in social-psychology has been applied to major recreational management issues such as determining evaluative standards, user conflict, and depreciative behaviors. This thesis examines the influence of information on user norms for the purpose of finding better applications of information as problem solving, management tools. The study used...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Focus on forestry ; vol. 11, no. 1 (Winter 1998)

Creator:: Oregon State University. College of Forestry
Abstract:: Magazine of the OSU College of Forestry.
Resource Type:: Other
Full Text:: Applied Forestry 2:22-25. Shindler, Bruce, and Lori Cramer. 1997. Changing public values: conse

Focus on forestry ; vol. 10, no. 3 (Fall 1997)

Creator:: Oregon State University. College of Forestry
Abstract:: Magazine of the OSU College of Forestry.
Resource Type:: Other
Full Text:: steep terrain." This is where Bruce Shindler, assis- tant professor of Forest Recreation Re- sources

The predictive value of the Stanford scientific and the Engineering and physical science aptitude tests

Creator:: Cooprider, Harold Arthur
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: ENGINEERING AND PHYSICAL SCIENCE APTITUDE TESTS by HAROLD ARTHUR COOPRIDER A THESIS aubmittod to

Focus on forestry ; vol. 8, no. 2 (Spring 1995)

Creator:: Oregon State University. College of Forestry
Abstract:: Magazine of the OSU College of Forestry.
Resource Type:: Other
Full Text:: are not only learning a new communication skill," says Shindler, Forest Resources assistant

A conceptual framework for web-based collaborative design

Creator:: Gottfried, Shikha Ghosh
Abstract:: Although much effort has been invested to build applications that support group work, collaborative applications have not found easy success. The cost of adopting and maintaining collaborative applications has prevented their widespread use, especially among small distributed groups. Application developers have had difficulties recognizing the extra effort required by groups...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: A Conceptual Framework for Web-based Collaborative Design AN

A factoring approach for probabilistic inference in belief networks

Creator:: Li, Zhaoyu
Abstract:: Reasoning about any realistic domain always involves a degree of uncertainty. Probabilistic inference in belief networks is one effective way of reasoning under uncertainty. Efficiency is critical in applying this technique, and many researchers have been working on this topic. This thesis is the report of our research in this...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: A factoring approach for probabilistic inference in

Examining fire-prone forest landscapes as coupled human and natural systems

Creator:: Spies, Thomas A., White, Eric M., Kline, Jeffrey D., Fischer, A. Paige, Ager, Alan, Bailey, John, Bolte, John, Koch, Jennifer, Platt, Emily, Olsen, Christine S., Jacobs, Derric, Shindler, Bruce, Steen-Adams, Michelle M., and Hammer, Roger
Abstract:: Fire-prone landscapes are not well studied as coupled human and natural systems (CHANS) and present many challenges for understanding and promoting adaptive behaviors and institutions. Here, we explore how heterogeneity, feedbacks, and external drivers in this type of natural hazard system can lead to complexity and can limit the development...
Resource Type:: Article
Full Text:: . Fischer, A. Ager, J. Bailey, J. Bolte, J. Koch, E. Platt, C. S. Olsen, D. Jacobs, B. Shindler, M. M. Steen

A feasibility study on compiling reactive problem solution methods for an Al domain

Creator:: Kaul, Lothar
Abstract:: This paper investigates the feasibility of compiling the functionality of a decision theoretic problem solving engine into a set of rules or functionally similar construct. The decision theoretic engine runs in exponential time, while the rule set runs in linear time at worst. The main question that will determine the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: A feasibility study on compiling reactive problem solution

Factors affecting conifer regeneration and community structure after a wildfire in western Montana

Creator:: Toth, Barbara L.
Abstract:: A severe wildfire burned 454 hectares of a second-growth Douglas-fir forest in 1977 on a north-facing slope in Pattee Canyon, near Missoula, Montana. The slope was aerially seeded with a grass mixture, from which Dactylis glomerata established best. Community structure, conifer regeneration, and the impact of the seeded grass on...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: structure after a wildfire in western Montana AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Barbara L. Toth for the degree

Tax and budget policy in Oregon : a computable general equilibrium perspectives

Creator:: Waters, Edward C
Abstract:: In November 1990, Oregon voters approved Ballot Measure 5, placing an ultimate ceiling on local property tax rates of 1.5% of market value (excluding specific levies for capital expenditure). Any resulting shortfalls in local education revenues are to be made up by transfers from state funds, at the expense of...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: high income households were examined. Abstract approved: Bruce A. Weber Redacted for Privacy

Epiphytic macrolichens in relation to forest management and topography in a western Oregon watershed

Creator:: Berryman, Shanti D.
Abstract:: This dissertation describes patterns in epiphytic macrolichen community composition, diversity, and biomass across various stand types in the Blue River watershed of western Oregon. It first examines the relative importance of ecological factors such as stand age, remnant tree retention, and topography to lichen communities in the landscape. It then...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: and Topography in a Western Oregon Watershed. Abstract approved

The economic effects of ozone on U.S. agriculture : a sector modeling approach

Creator:: Hamilton, Scott A.
Abstract:: Tropospheric ozone is a pollutant which has detrimental effects on crop yields. The level of ambient ozone can be reduced by environmental policy changes and enforcement. The purpose of this study was to estimate the welfare effects of such changes in ambient ozone using recently available plant response data and...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Economic Effects .of Ozone on U.S. Agriculture: A Sector &de1ing Approach Abstract approved: Bruce A

A limpet kelp interaction : description and definition

Creator:: Yates, Kenneth R.
Abstract:: The interaction between the acmaeid limpet, Collisella instabilis and the subtidal laminarian, Pterygophora californica involves positive effects on the limpet population and subtle positive or null effects on the kelp. Collisella, which is found only on Pterygophora and another kelp, Laminaria dentigera (Kjellman, 1889), may exploit several features of the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: approved: Redacted for Privacy Dr. Bruce A. MeQge The interaction between the acmaei_d limpet, Collisella

Opportunity costs : irrigation vs. hydropower

Creator:: Ross, Mark
Abstract:: In recent years we have seen increasing debate over the allocation of PNW water resources. In particular there are conflicts over using the river system for irrigation vs. electricity production. Denying the hydroelectric system water implies higher costs to electricity consumers as producers substitute more expensive nonhydro resources. This research...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: program. My major professor, Dr. Bruce A. McCarl, was crucial in providing a funded project to enable

Economic evaluation of projects and policies affecting anadromous fish : a simulation approach

Creator:: Hastie, James D.
Abstract:: Anadromous fish populations in the Pacific Northwest have undergone substantial change throughout the past century. Historical periods of over-harvest and the construction of numerous dams throughout the region have contributed to declines in the runs of naturally spawning stocks. Management efforts to rebuild fish populations have focused on the restriction...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Abstract approved: r \S ^'-^—^ - (Sis'- Bruce A. McCarl Anadromous fish populations in the Pacific

Prey selection by the tropical marine snail Thais melones : a study of the effects of interindividual variation and foraging experience on growth and gonad development

Creator:: West, Lani
Abstract:: I studied the feeding behavior of marked individuals of the carnivorous marine snail Thais melones in a rocky shore habitat of Pacific Panama. The population of snails consume a variety of invertebrate species such as bivalves, limpets, and polychaetes. Individuals exhibited a range of diet breadth, with some specialized, but...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Abstract approved: Redacted for privacy Bruce A. Menge I studied the feeding behavior of marked

Japan's import demand for Pacific Northwest frozen corn and potatoes

Creator:: Jacobsen, Twila M.
Abstract:: A net shift analysis was used to analyze growth in employment and value added from 1954 to 1982 in SIC 2037, Frozen Fruits, Fruit Juices, and Vegetables. This analysis indicated that the Pacific Northwest dominated the growth experienced in this sector over this time period. Oregon's share of total U.S....
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: : . _ . , Bnfce A. Weber A net shift analysis was used to analyze growth in employment and value added from

The fiscal response of Oregon counties to mental health grants

Creator:: Savage, John F.
Abstract:: State and federal aid payments to local governments have grown explosively over the last fifteen years. One reason for this growth is that the donor governments can alter a local government's budget choices through grants. Grants have not remedied social problems, however, because the local governments' responses to grants were...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: : ( ^ .._ . _ . Bruce A. Weber State and federal aid payments to local governments have grown ex- plosively over the

The relationship of absentee ownership of manufacturing plants to income growth, income inequality and employment instability in Oregon

Creator:: Mandelbaum, Thomas B.
Abstract:: Absentee-owned manufacturing plants made up a significant portion of the manufacturing sector in Oregon. In both 1969 and 1979, more than a quarter of the state's wage and salary manufacturing workers were employed by manufacturers whose home offices were located in other states or nations. Although the orthodox economic view...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: approved: A. Weber Absentee-owned manufacturing plants made up a significant portion of the manufacturing

The relationship between population and residential property taxes in Oregon

Creator:: Buchanan, Shepard C.
Abstract:: The relationship between population and residential property taxes is not well understood. This study is an attempt to discern the relationship. The basic questions examined are: How does population affect tax bills? What are the short-run and long-run relationships between population and taxes? What reasons lie behind the answers to...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: approved: KfWV^. , ■ ^^ , . Bruce A. Weber The relationship between population and residential

Risk modeling using direct solution of expected utility maximization problems

Creator:: Lambert, David K.
Abstract:: A model of agricultural decision making is developed and tested in this thesis. The expected value of utility evaluated under alternative outcomes is directly maximized in a nonlinear programming model. Two features of the model distinguished it from traditional risk programming models. First, alternative attitudes towards the assumption of risk...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: : Bruce A. McCar]. A model of agricultural decision making is developed and tested in this thesis. The

Algal community structure and organization in high intertidal rockpools

Creator:: van Tamelen, Peter G.
Abstract:: Gradients of physical disturbance are central to theories of community organization yet rarely are studies performed in which physical factors are experimentally manipulated. Pothole tidepool algal communities exhibit distinct zonation patterns from top to bottom that result from scouring by rocks and other debris in the pools. Scouring is easily...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Hiah Intertidal Rockpools Redacted for Privacy Abstract approved: Bruce A. Menge Professor of

Community organization and succession in rocky intertidal surfgrass beds

Creator:: Turner, Teresa
Abstract:: Succession and organization of rocky intertidal zone surfgrass beds (Phyllospadix scouleri Hook) were examined experimentally at two sites on the Oregon coast. The interaction of three attributes of the plant -- high persistence, high preemption, and slow recovery -- strongly influences the organization of surfgrass beds. Permanent plots indicate that...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Surfgrass Beds Abstract approved: Redacted for Privacy Dr. Bruce A. Menge Succession and organization of

Analysis of U.S. interstate variation in changes in poverty incidence and income inequality (1969-1979)

Creator:: Tay, Winnie K.
Abstract:: In spite of the rapid economic growth of the post-war era, there has not been significant improvement in the incidence of poverty, nor in the inequality of income distribution around the world, and particularly in the developing countries. A reason for the apparent failure of the poor to benefit from...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: mention is due to Bruce A. Weber, my Major Advisor, under whose guid- ance the research for this

Selecting optimum crop rotation

Creator:: El-Nazer, Talaat Y.
Abstract:: The crop rotation decision is important to farmers because of its impact on profitability, financing and risk exposure. This thesis addresses the problem of farm level crop rotation selection under perfect and imperfect knowledge of prices, yields and costs. The problem is addressed by first estimating production functions for irrigated...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: , 198k Titlez Selecting Optimum Crop Rotation Bruce A. McCarl The crop rotation decision is important

The feeding ecology of the gumboot chiton, Cryptochiton stelleri (Middendorff, 1846)

Creator:: Yates, Kenneth R.
Abstract:: Investigations about the feeding ecology of a consumer can facilitate prediction of its effects on prey populations and the biological community. The aspects of feeding ecology that are important to predicting consumer effects include foraging movements, feeding preference and selectivity, and the effects of physical factors on foraging behavior and...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Off-site costs of soil erosion in the Willamette Valley of Oregon

Creator:: Moore, Walter B.
Abstract:: Soil erosion is a major source of pollution in the United States. Erosion can cause both on-site and off-site damages. It has been argued that off-site damages are a significant component of soil conservation benefits and are currently not well known. Off-site effects of soil erosion are uncompensated externalities. Given...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

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