Forest managers are faced with balancing a multitude of management objectives including social, economic, and ecological drivers as well as the uncertainty of how forests will grow and react to climate change. One possible tool to balance these drivers and the uncertainty of climate change is an adaptive management framework...
The material in this supplement is prepared to update and broaden that
originally published in 1983 as Oregon State University Agricultural Experiment
Station Bulletin 659, Adjusting and Forecasting Herbage Yields in the Intermountain
Big Sagebrush Region of the Steppe Province. The supplement
consists of five sections. Section 1 adds data...
American railroads have faced a declining share of freight
traffic relative to other modes. Although a variety of reasons have been
identified for this decline, most experts agree that a contributing problem
is that the rail system is overdeveloped with unprofitable branchlines.
Many economic models have been utilized to analyze...