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Citizen perspectives on hazardous fuel reduction in the Blue Mountains : findings and implications from panel research

Creator:: Toman, Eric Lee
Abstract:: Forests in the Blue Mountains region of eastern Oregon and Washington are facing a large-scale forest health crisis. Poor forest conditions have greatly increased the risk of catastrophic wildfire. Resource managers in the Wallowa-Whitman, Umatilla, and Malheur National Forests are utilizing prescribed fire and mechanized thinning treatments to reduce hazardous...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , and the risk of catastrophic wildfire (Mutch et al. 1993; Tanaka et al. 1995). Resource managers on

Managing for landscape resilience in the frequent-fire forests of central Oregon

Creator:: Platt, Emily K.
Abstract:: Wildfire in dry, frequent-fire forests is a pressing issue for natural resource managers, communities and politicians in the western United States. Area affected by wildfire has climbed steadily over the last twenty years and is expected to increase in the future. Recognition of the importance of both social and biophysical...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: resource managers, communities and politicians in the western United States. Area affected by wildfire

Planning Under Uncertainty for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Creator:: Skeele, Ryan
Abstract:: Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology has grown out of traditional research and military applications and has captivated the commercial and consumer markets, showing the ability to perform a spectrum of autonomous functions. This technology has the capability of saving lives in search and rescue, fighting wildfires in environmental monitoring, and...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: instruction in my time at Oregon State University. Finally, I want to thank OSU for not only supporting and

Public perceptions of smoke from wildfire, prescribed fire, and fire use

Creator:: Frederick, Stacey Sargent
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: rangelands in the United State are under threat from catastrophic and more frequent wildfires due to un

"Flying the plane as we build it" : a qualitative study of an organization's goals and actions toward the prevention of exploited female youth

Creator:: Dubyak, Erin A.
Abstract:: Within the U.S. there is a growing interest in the case of female adolescents being coerced into the sex industry (Bernstein, 2010; Estes & Weiner, 2001; Soderlund, 2010; Williams and Frederick, 2009). This interest, which emerged due to U.S. involvement in the international trafficking phenomena and grassroots organizing, has resulted...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: discourse of a century ago was structured in racism and aided patriarchal state control of women’s

The role of fire protection in the management of cutover and burned over areas in western Oregon and Washington

Creator:: Voorhies, Glen
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis
Full Text:: aiiL to reprod.uetlon and. control of speeios. 8. A proteetlng eover of shrubbery the only way to

The effects of two fuel reduction treatments on chaparral communities in southwest Oregon

Creator:: Sikes, Kendra G.
Abstract:: Fuel reduction treatments are being applied to public lands, affecting significant acreage at considerable expense. This study compares the short term effects on a chaparral plant community of two different fuel reduction methods, brush mastication and "hand piling and burning" (HPB). Ceanothus cuneatus dominated the southwestern Oregon study sites where...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Breast cancer screening behaviors among immigrant Iranian women in the United States

Creator:: Shirazi, Mehra A.
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was to describe Iranian immigrant women's knowledge, beliefs and attitudes towards breast cancer, and their breast cancer screening behaviors. Specifically, this research examined the predictors of age-specific breast cancer screening participation among this population. The participants in this study consisted (n=34 1) of self-identified first...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: . These are breast cancer and ethnicity, acculturation and immigration, Iranians in the United State

Biology of sweet cherry powdery mildew

Creator:: Calabro, Jill M.
Abstract:: The Pacific Northwest has become one of the nation’s premier sweet cherry, Prunus avium, production areas. As production of sweet cherries has flourished in Oregon and Washington, so has powdery mildew, caused by the fungus Podosphaera clandestina, which infects both foliage and fruit causing severe economic damage to growers. Sweet...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: piece of information for effective control and management strategies of P. clandestina. Laboratory

Potential effects of climate change and fire management on fire behavior and vegetation patterns on an east Cascades landscape

Creator:: Greaves, Heather E.
Abstract:: Climate exerts considerable control on wildfire regimes, and climate and wildfire are both major drivers of forest growth and succession in interior Northwest forests. Estimating potential response of these landscapes to anticipated changes in climate helps researchers and land managers understand and mitigate impacts of climate change on important ecological...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Climate exerts considerable control on wildfire regimes, and climate and wildfire are both major drivers

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Citizen perspectives on hazardous fuel reduction in the Blue Mountains : findings and implications from panel research

Managing for landscape resilience in the frequent-fire forests of central Oregon

Planning Under Uncertainty for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Public perceptions of smoke from wildfire, prescribed fire, and fire use

"Flying the plane as we build it" : a qualitative study of an organization's goals and actions toward the prevention of exploited female youth

The role of fire protection in the management of cutover and burned over areas in western Oregon and Washington

The effects of two fuel reduction treatments on chaparral communities in southwest Oregon

Breast cancer screening behaviors among immigrant Iranian women in the United States

Biology of sweet cherry powdery mildew

Potential effects of climate change and fire management on fire behavior and vegetation patterns on an east Cascades landscape

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