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Experimental forests and ranges of the USDA Forest Service

Creator:: Adams, Mary Beth, Loughry, Linda, and Plaugher, Linda
Abstract:: The USDA Forest Service has an outstanding scientific resource in the 77 Experimental Forests and Ranges that exist across the United States and its territories. These valuable scientific resources incorporate a broad range of climates, forest types, research emphases, and history. This publication describes each of the research sites within...
Resource Type:: Technical Report
Full Text:: Technical Report NE-321 Experimental Forests and Ranges of the USDA Forest Service Published by

Experimental forests and ranges of the USDA Forest Service

Creator:: Adams, Mary Beth, Loughry, Linda H., and Plaugher, Linda L.
Abstract:: The USDA Forest Service has an outstanding scientific resource in the 77 Experimental Forests and Ranges that exist across the United States and its territories. These valuable scientific resources incorporate a broad range of climates, forest types, research emphases, and history. This publication describes each of the research sites within...
Resource Type:: Technical Report
Full Text:: Technical Report NE-321 Experimental Forests and Ranges of the USDA Forest Service Published by

Using Resilience and Resistance Concepts to Manage Threats to Sagebrush Ecosystems, Gunnison Sage-Grouse, and Greater Sage-Grouse in Their Eastern Range: A Strategic Multi-Scale Approach

Creator:: Chambers, J. C.
Abstract:: This report provides a strategic approach developed by a Western Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies interagency working group for conservation of sagebrush ecosystems, Greater sage-grouse, and Gunnison sage-grouse. It uses information on (1) factors that influence sagebrush ecosystem resilience to disturbance and resistance to nonnative invasive annual grasses and...
Resource Type:: Technical Report
Full Text:: Agriculture Forest Rocky Mountain General Technical Report December 2016 Service Research Station RMRS-GTR

Wildlife habitats in managed rangelands : the Great Basin of southeastern Oregon

Creator:: Hall, Frederick C.
Abstract:: Management practices and options to provide habitat for wildlife in the Great Basin of southeastern Oregon deal with both vegetation treatment and protection, livestock management, maintenance or distribution of water developments, protection of wildlife areas through road closures or fencing, and direct manipulation of wildlife through hunting, trapping, or other...
Resource Type:: Technical Report

Invertebrates of the H. J. Andrews Experimental Forest, western Cascade Mountains, Oregon. IV, the oribatid mites (Acari: Cryptostigmata)

Creator:: Moldenke, Andrew R., Fichter, Becky L., Pacific Northwest Research Station (Portland, Or.), and H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest (Or.)
Abstract:: A fully illustrated key is presented for identifying genera of oribatid mites known from or suspected of occurring in the Pacific Northwest. The manual includes an introduction detailing sampling methodology; an illustrated glossary of all terminology used; two color plates of all taxa from the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest; a...
Resource Type:: Technical Report

A pioneer exotic tree search for the douglas fir region

Creator:: Silen, Roy R. and Olson, Donald L.
Abstract:: After three-quarters of a century of introduction of 152 conifer and broadleaf species, no promising candidate exotic was found for the Douglas-fir region. Growth curves spanning 50 years or longer are figured for many species. Firs, pines, larches, spruces, hemlocks, and cedars originating in northwestern North America had superior growth...
Resource Type:: Other
Full Text:: General Technical Report PNW- GTR -298 March 1992 A Pioneer Exotic Tree Search for the Douglas -Fir

Forest habitat types on the Medicine Bow National Forest, southeastern Wyoming : preliminary report

Creator:: Wirsing, John M. and Alexander, Robert R.
Abstract:: A vegetation classification based on concepts and methods developed by Daubenmire was used to identify five habitat types and their related phases on the Medicine Bow National Forest: Abies lasiocarpa/Vaccinium scoparium, including the Pinus contorta/Vaccinium scoparium community; Abies lasiocarpa/Carex geyeri, including the Pinus contorta/Carex geyeri community; Populus tremuloides/Carex geyeri; Pinus...
Resource Type:: Technical Report
Full Text:: . Alexander USDA Forest Service General Technical Report RM -12 Rocky Mountain Forest and Range

Genetic variation in Douglas-fir : a 20-year test of provenances in eastern Nebraska

Creator:: Van Haverbeke, David F., 1928-
Abstract:: Twenty-year-old Douglas-fir trees in provenances from Arizona, New Mexico, and southern Colorado survived better and grew taller; but incurred more winter injury in eastern Nebraska than trees from provenances from northern Colorado, southern and western Montana, northern Idaho, Canada, and eastern Washington. However, surviving trees from Pacific Coast, and northern...
Resource Type:: Technical Report
Full Text:: ` - i .. .y I` . h-- fer. 5 -38 General Technical Report RM -141 Genetic Variation in

Uneven-aged silviculture and management in the United States : combined proceedings of two in-service workshops held in Morgantown, West Virginia, July 15-17, 1975, and in Redding, California, October 19-21, 1976

Creator:: United States. Forest Service. Timber Management Research
Abstract:: Forest managers are, and will continue to be, constantly confronted with the dilemma of choosing between different silvicultural and management systems to achieve various desired mixes of multiple-use benefits on specific forest properties. Such choices have to be made, unfortunately, because no single silvicultural or management system is ideal for...
Resource Type:: Conference Proceeding
Full Text:: . Report on examination of the forest resources. USD1 - General Land Office: 35-118. Preston, J. F. 1925

Wood handbook : wood as an engineering material

Creator:: Forest Products Laboratory (U.S.)
Abstract:: Summarizes information on wood as an engineering material. Presents properties of wood and wood-based products of particular concern to the architect and engineer. Includes discussion of designing with wood and wood-based products along with some pertinent uses.
Resource Type:: Technical Report
Full Text:: Agriculture Forest Service Forest Products Laboratory General Technical Report FPL–GTR–190 Centennial

Factors limiting the establishment of a chaparral oak, Quercus durata Jeps. in grassland

Creator:: Wiliams, Kimberlyn, Davis, Stephen D., Gartner, Barbara L., and Karlsson, Staffan
Abstract:: Presented at the Symposium on Oak Woodlands and Hardwood Rangeland Management, October 31 - November 2, 1990, Davis, California.
Resource Type:: Technical Report
Full Text:: Oaks. General Technical Report PSW-44; Pacific Southwest Forest and Range Experiment Station, Forest

Science basis for changing forest structure to modify wildfire behavior and severity

Creator:: Graham, Russell T., McCaffrey, Sarah, and Jain, Theresa B.
Abstract:: Fire, other disturbances, physical setting, weather, and climate shape the structure and function of forests throughout the Western United States. More than 80 years of fire research have shown that physical setting, fuels, and weather combine to determine wildfire intensity (the rate at which it consumes fuel) and severity (the...
Resource Type:: Technical Report
Full Text:: Rocky Mountain Research Station General Technical Report RMRS-GTR-120 April 2004 Abstract Graham

Bridging the worlds of fire managers and researchers : lessons and opportunities from the wildland fire workshops

Creator:: White, Seth M.
Abstract:: In March and April of 2003, over 250 managers, researchers, and other participants gathered for a series of workshops at Oregon State University, the University of Arizona, and Colorado State University, near the largest wildfires of 2002. In response to the need for better understanding of large fires, the Wildland...
Resource Type:: Technical Report
Full Text:: Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station General Technical Report PNW-GTR-599 March 2004

Vegetation and ecological characteristics of mixed-conifer and Red Fir forests at the Teakettle Experimental Forest

Creator:: North, Malcolm, Oakley, Brian, Chen, Jiquan, Erickson, Heather, Gray, Andrew, Izzo, Antonio, Johnson, Dale, Ma, Siyan, Marra, Jim, Meyers, Marc, Purcell, Kathryn, Rambo, Tom, Rizzo, Dave, Roath, Brent, and Schowalter, Tim
Abstract:: Detailed analysis of mixed-conifer and red fir forests were made from extensive, large vegetation sampling, systematically conducted throughout the Teakettle Experimental Forest. Mixed conifer is characterized by distinct patch conditions of closed-canopy tree clusters, persistent gaps and shrub thickets. This heterogeneous spatial structure provides contrasting microclimate, habitat and resource conditions...
Resource Type:: Technical Report
Full Text:: Agriculture Forest Service Pacific Southwest Research Station General Technical Report PSWGTR186

Wildland fire in ecosystems : effects of fire on fauna

Creator:: Lyon, L. Jack, Huff, Mark H., Hooper, Robert G., Telfer, Edmund S., Schreiner, David Scott, and Smith, Jane Kapler
Abstract:: Fires affect animals mainly through effects on their habitat. Fires often cause short-term increases in wildlife foods that contribute to increases in populations of some animals. These increases are moderated by the animals’ ability to thrive in the altered, often simplified, structure of the postfire environment. The extent of fire...
Resource Type:: Technical Report
Full Text:: Technical Report RMRS-GTR-42- volume 1 January 2000 Wildland Fire in Ecosystems Effects of Fire on Fauna

Vegetation and ecological characteristics of mixed-conifer and Red Fir forests at the Teakettle Experimental Forest

Creator:: North, Malcolm, Oakley, Brian, Chen, Jiquan, Erickson, Heather, Gray, Andrew, Izzo, Antonio, Johnson, Dale, Ma, Siyan, Marra, Jim, Meyer, Marc, Purcell, Kathryn, Rambo, Tom, Rizzo, Dave, Roath, Brent, and Schowalter, Tim
Abstract:: Detailed analysis of mixed-conifer and red fir forests were made from extensive, large vegetation sampling, systematically conducted throughout the Teakettle Experimental Forest. Mixed conifer is characterized by distinct patch conditions of closed-canopy tree clusters, persistent gaps and shrub thickets. This heterogeneous spatial structure provides contrasting microclimate, habitat and resource conditions...
Resource Type:: Technical Report
Full Text:: Agriculture Forest Service Pacific Southwest Research Station General Technical Report PSWGTR186

Science basis for changing forest structure to modify wildfire behavior and severity

Creator:: Graham, Russell T., McCaffrey, Sarah, and Jain, Theresa B.
Abstract:: Fire, other disturbances, physical setting, weather, and climate shape the structure and function of forests throughout the Western United States. More than 80 years of fire research have shown that physical setting, fuels, and weather combine to determine wildfire intensity (the rate at which it consumes fuel) and severity (the...
Resource Type:: Technical Report
Full Text:: Rocky Mountain Research Station General Technical Report RMRS-GTR-120 April 2004 Abstract Graham

Bridging the worlds of fire managers and researchers: Lessons and opportunities from the Wildland Fire Workshops

Creator:: White, Seth M.
Abstract:: In March and April of 2003, over 250 managers, researchers, and other participants gathered for a series of workshops at Oregon State University, the University of Arizona, and Colorado State University, near the largest wildfires of 2002. In response to the need for better understanding of large fires, the Wildland...
Resource Type:: Technical Report
Full Text:: Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station General Technical Report PNW-GTR-599 March 2004

Vegetation and ecological characteristics of mixed-conifer and red fir forests at the Teakettle Experimental Forest

Creator:: North, Malcolm, Oakley, Brian, Chen, Jiquan, Erickson, Heather, Gray, Andrew, Izzo, Antonio, Johnson, Dale, Ma, Siyan, Marra, Jim, Meyer, Marc, Purcell, Kathryn, Rambo, Tom, Rizzo, Dave, Roath, Brent, and Schowalter, Tim
Abstract:: Detailed analysis of mixed-conifer and red fir forests were made from extensive, large vegetation sampling, systematically conducted throughout the Teakettle Experimental Forest. Mixed conifer is characterized by distinct patch conditions of closed-canopy tree clusters, persistent gaps and shrub thickets. This heterogeneous spatial structure provides contrasting microclimate, habitat and resource conditions...
Resource Type:: Technical Report
Full Text:: Agriculture Forest Service Pacific Southwest Research Station General Technical Report PSWGTR186

Forested plant associations of the Colville National Forest

Creator:: Williams, Clinton K., Kelley, Brian F., Smith, Bradley G., and Lillybridge, Terry R.
Abstract:: A classification of forest vegetation is presented for the Colville National Forest in northeastern Washington State. It is based on potential vegetation with the plant association as the basic unit. The classification is based on a sample of approximately 229 intensive plots and 282 reconnaisance plots distributed across the forest...
Resource Type:: Technical Report

Time and distance to clear wood in pruned red alder saplings

Creator:: DeBell, Dean S., Harrington, Constance A., Gartner, Barbara L., and Singleton, Ryan
Abstract:: This paper was published in: Deal, R.L. and C.A. Harrington, eds. 2006. Red alder—a state of knowledge. General Technical Report PNW-GTR-669. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 150 p.
Resource Type:: Technical Report
Full Text:: . General Technical Report PNW-GTR-669. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Pacific Northwest

The scientific basis for silvicultural and management decisions in the national forest system

Creator:: Burns, Russell M. and United States. Forest Service
Abstract:: The 737 million acres (298 million hectares) of forests in the United States are a rich resource that produces timber, minerals, wildlife, forage for domestic animals, and water. These forests also provide the environment for tourism, outdoor recreation, retirement, and a multitude of other uses. Whether the lands are publicly...
Resource Type:: Technical Report

Proceedings of the Fire History Workshop, October 20-24, 1980, Tucson, Arizona

Creator:: University of Arizona. Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, Fire History Workshop (1980 : Tucson, Ariz.), Stokes, Marvin A., and Dietrich, John H.
Abstract:: The purpose of the workshop was to exchange information on sampling procedures, research methodologies, preparation and interpretation of specimen material, terminology, and the application and significance of findings, emphasizing the relationship of dendrochronology procedures to fire history interpretations.
Resource Type:: Conference Proceeding
Full Text:: , 1980, Tucson, Arizona. USDA Forest Service General Technical Report RM-81, 142 p. Rocky Mountain

Blister rust resistant western white pine for the Inland Empire : the story of the first 25 years of the research and development program

Creator:: Bingham, Richard T.
Abstract:: Gerald W. Williams Collection
Resource Type:: Technical Report

Fire ecology of ponderosa pine and the rebuilding of fire-resilient ponderosa pine ecosystems

Creator:: Fitzgerald, Stephen Arthur
Abstract:: The ponderosa pine ecosystem of the West have changed dramatically since Euro-American settlement 140 years ago due to past land uses and the curtailment of natural fire. Today, ponderosa pine forests contain over abundance of fuel, and stand densities have increased from a grange of 49-124 trees per ha (20-50...
Resource Type:: Technical Report
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Monitoring and evaluating citizen-agency interactions: a framework developed for adaptive management

Creator:: Shindler, Bruce, Cheek, Kristin Aldred, and Stankey, George H.
Abstract:: As the Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management turn toward ecosystem and adaptive models of forest stewardship, they are being called on to develop meaningful and lasting relations with citizens. These new management styles require not only improved strategies for public involvement but also methods to examine the...
Resource Type:: Technical Report

Management experiments for high-elevation agroforestry systems jointly producing matsutake mushrooms and high-quality timber in the Cascade Range of southern Oregon

Creator:: Weigand, James F.
Abstract:: Experimental prescriptions compare agroforestry systems designed to increase financial returns from high-elevation stands in the southern Oregon Cascade Range. The prescriptions emphasize alternative approaches for joint production of North American matsutake mushrooms (also known as North American pine mushrooms; Tricholoma magnivelare) and high-quality timber. Other agroforestry byproducts from the system...
Resource Type:: Technical Report

Watershed restoration, jobs-in-the-woods, and community assistance : Redwood National Park and the Northwest Forest Plan

Creator:: DeForest, Christopher E.
Abstract:: There are many parallels between the 1978 legislation to expand Redwood National Park and the Northwest Forest Plan, which together with the Northwest Economic Adjustment Initiative formed the 1993 Pacific Northwest Initiative. In both situations, the Federal Government sought to promote retraining for displaced workers, to undertake watershed assessment and...
Resource Type:: Technical Report

Timber harvesting, processing, and employment in the northwest economic adjustment initiative region : changes and economic assistance

Creator:: Raettig, Terry L. and Christensen, Harriet H.
Abstract:: The Northwest economic adjustment initiative (NWEAI) provides economic assistance to a region including western Washington, western Oregon, and northern California. Timber harvests have fallen markedly in this region since 1990. The forest products industry is the largest manufacturing sector in the region, and employment has followed the downward trend in...
Resource Type:: Technical Report

Trends in key economic and social indicators for Pacific Northwest states and counties

Creator:: Raettig, Terry L.
Abstract:: Local (Country) variations in key social and economic indicators are important in Oregon and Washington. Covered employment, wage and salary, unemployment, and population data for 1987 through 1997 showed regional trends in these indicators, which are compared with national trends. Future updates will be published in the 'Production, Prices, Employment,...
Resource Type:: Technical Report

Environmental effects of postfire logging: literature review and annotated bibliography

Creator:: McIver, James D. and Starr, Lynn
Abstract:: The scientific literature on logging after wildfire is reviewed, with a focus on environmental effects of logging and removal of large woody structure. Rehabilitation, the practice of planting or seeding after logging, is not reviewed here. Several publications are cited that can be described as 'commentaries', intended to help frame...
Resource Type:: Technical Report

Starkey Project : history facilities, and data collection methods for ungulate research

Creator:: Rowland, Mary M., Bryant, Larry D., Johnson, Bruce K., Noyes, James H., Wisdom, Michael J., and Thomas, Jack Ward
Abstract:: In the 1980s, resource managers were increasingly concerned about effects of timber harvest on ungulates in National Forests. Land and resource management plans incorporated restrictions on timber harvest to maintain cover for Rocky Mountain elk (CeNus e/aphus ne/soni V. Bailey) and mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus hemionus RafinesqueJ, and habitat models...
Resource Type:: Technical Report

Historical and current forest landscapes in Eastern Oregon and Washington. Part 2. Linking vegetation characteristics to potential fire behavior and related smoke production

Creator:: Huff, Mark H., Ottmar, Roger D., Alvarado, Ernesto, Vinnanek, Robert E., Lehmkuhl, John F., Hessburg, Paul F., and Everett, Richard L.
Abstract:: We compared the potential fire behavior and smoke production of historical and current time periods based on vegetative conditions in forty-nine 5100- to 13 500-hectare watersheds in six river basins in eastern Oregon and Washington. Vegetation composition, structure, and patterns were attributed and mapped from aerial photographs taken from 1932...
Resource Type:: Technical Report

Fire history and pattern in a Cascade Range landscape

Creator:: Morrison, Peter H. and Swanson, Frederick J.
Abstract:: Fire history from years 1150 to 1985 was reconstructed by analyzing forest stands in two 1940-hectare areas in the central-western Cascade Range of Oregon. Serving as records for major fire episodes, these stands revealed a highly variable fire regime. The steeper, more dissected, lower elevation Cook-Quentin study area experienced more...
Resource Type:: Technical Report

Monitoring for Ozone Injury in West Coast (Oregon, Washington, California) Forests in 1998

Creator:: Campbell, Sally J., Smith, Gretchen, Temple, Pat, Pronos, John, Rochefort, Regina, and Andersen, Chris
Abstract:: In 1998, forest vegetation was monitored for ozone injury on permanent plots in two Sierra Nevada national forests in California, at three locations in Mount Rainier National Park in Washington, and at 68 forest health monitoring (FHM) locations throughout Washington, Oregon, and California. This was the first year that extensive...
Resource Type:: Technical Report

Sampling methods for bats, Wildlife-habitat relationships : sampling procedures for Pacific Northwest vertebrates

Creator:: Thomas, Donald W. and West, Stephen D.
Abstract:: Bats represent the second most diverse group of mammals inhabiting the western slopes of the Cascade Range in southern Washington and Oregon Coast Range. Bat populations may well be sensitive to changes in forest age, structure, or distribution, but their nocturnal habits and high mobility render the study of the...
Resource Type:: Technical Report

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