There is a perceived trade-off between fire risk reduction and northern spotted owl habitat protection in dry-conifer forests in southwestern Oregon. Management options for balancing this trade-off need to be sought at the landscape level. Applied landscape ecology suggests three important features to consider are (1) patch size and configuration...
The Coniferous Forest Biome was initially funded in 1970 by the National
Science Foundation as a large-scale, interdisciplinary, interinstitutional
research program to study coniferous forest and associated aquatic ecosystems.
It was initiated as one of the Integrated Research Programs in
the Ecosystem Analysis Section of the U.S./International Biological
Program (US/IBP)....