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Creator:: Feen, Jeffrey S.
Abstract:: I studied selection of winter den sites by northern flying squirrels (Glaucomys sabrinus) in forests of the Oregon Cascades. Fifty-six squirrels were radio-collared in three managed, 80- to 1 30-year-old Douglas-fir stands on the Umpqua Nationa Forest during the winters of 1994-95 and 1995-96. Squirrels were located at their den...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Creator:: McDade, Kirsten Ayn
Abstract:: Silviculture systems that involve commercial thinning may provide higher quality wildlife habitat than traditional clearcut systems, yet such systems have not been vigorously tested. This prospective study examined forest floor animal abundance and habitat relationships under three different silviculture conditions: clearcuts, commercial thins, and uncuts. Eighteen stands, six per treatment,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: treatment, were selected in the Umpqua National Forest, in the southern Oregon Cascades, and surveyed for

Creator:: Pamplin, Nathan P.
Abstract:: Little is known about Columbian black-tailed deer (Odocoileus hemionus columbianus) because of their elusive nature and the logistical difficulty of studying them in densely forested and mountainous terrain. The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife has identified fawn survival as an important gap in the current knowledge of demography and...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: -tailed deer fawns in the Umpqua National Forest in western Oregon. We used modified Clover traps to

Creator:: Kolaczkowski, Oralia
Abstract:: The Demonstration for Ecosystem Management Options (DEMO) study originated out of the changing management priorities associated with federal forest lands in the Pacific Northwest which included an objective to maintain mature and old-growth forest characteristics in managed stands. The DEMO project examines the effects that different levels and patterns of...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Creator:: Myhrum, Ronald P.
Abstract:: This study was undertaken to determine both the amount and the spatial variability of sand, silt, clay, and six fractions of coarse fragments in soils representing harsh sites for reforestation. Particle size data were collected because of their direct relationship to water holding capacity and the plantability and survivability of...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Umpqua National Forest, Oregon AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Ronald P. Myhrum for the degree of Master

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