This study was started in 1947 to investigate the value of various types and quantities of seed source in the establishment of reproduction on cutover land, and to determine the apparent effects of various man-made and natural factors upon the rate of restocking. The man-made and natural factors to be...
Although buffer strips have long been used as a
protection tool when logging near streams, long-term
studies investigating buffer strip dynamics are rare.
Steinblums et al. (1984) inventoried 40 buffer strips 1 to
15 years old in the western Oregon Cascades beginning in
the summer of 1975. Numerous site and...
From 1996 through 1998 I collected mature female black rockfish off Oregon and examined ovaries and otoliths to estimate weekly, age-specific larval production. In all reproductive seasons, older black rockfish extruded larvae earlier in the season, followed by progressively younger fish. Each year, beginning in May, I collected young-of-the-year (YOY)...
Pseudotsuga menziesii dominates the forests of the Pacific Northwest.
But though it is dominat, Tsuaa heteroohylla or Abies amabilis
is usually climax. Many researchers have studied Pseudotsuga on the
widespread mesic sites where it is seral, but few have examined the
relatively rare ecosystems in which Pseudotsuga or its associate...
It’s little wonder that people are confused by tree names. Foresters
and lay people often name a tree based on its physical appearance, the
wood products industry may call the tree by another name based on the
characteristics of the wood, and botanists name a tree based on its
anatomical...
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...
The objectives of this study include: (1) analysis of Chamaecyparis
lawsoniana, C. taiwanensis, and C. formosensis forests including
the structure, composition, and dynamics of plant communities and
their environmental relationships; and (2) comparison of the temperate
Chamaecyparis forests of Taiwan and the Pacific Northwest with emphasis
on structural and successional...
Inoculations of white fir, Shasta red fir, Douglas fir and
ponderosa pine with Pisolithus tinctorius spores when outplanted
failed to produce P. tinctorius mycorrhizae at the end of the first
growing season. In the third year a few P. tinctorius mycorrhizae
were formed on white fir. Inoculations reduced seedling survival...