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Creator:: Buckley, Aileen R.
Abstract:: The main theme of this research is the application of geographic techniques in a study involving environmental monitoring and analysis of the associations between landscape and in-stream characteristics in the Pacific Northwest. The geographic techniques used in this study include (1) geographic information systems (GIS) coupled with statistical analysis and...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: sampling sites and their respective watersheds in the Willamette River Basin of western Oregon. The

Creator:: Carloni, Kenneth R.
Abstract:: Two research questions are posed: (1) How have ecosystem conditions changed through time in southwestern Oregon? (2) How have culture-driven and climate-driven processes contributed to ecosystem change in southwestern Oregon? A brief introduction to the Little River study area is followed by a cultural and ecological history of the watershed....
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: ………………………………………………………... 1 Chapter 2 The Little River Watershed Through Time: Humans, Fire, and the Native Landscape

Creator:: Berger, Patricia A.
Abstract:: Alternative futures studies provide a way for policy-makers and stakeholders to investigate the future impacts of different management strategies by providing representations of possible outcomes. An alternative futures study was undertaken by the Pacific Northwest-Ecosystem Research Consortium for the Willamette River Basin, Oregon, USA, to determine how this regional system...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: , illustrated by the assessment of crop suitability for the farmland in the Willamette River Basin, Oregon, USA

Creator:: Arsan, E. Leyla
Abstract:: First introduced to the USA in 1958, Myxobolus cerebralis, the parasite responsible for whirling disease in salmonids, has since spread across the country causing severe declines in wild trout populations in the intermountain west. Recent development of risk assessment models used to assess the likelihood and consequences of exotic parasite...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Snake River basin in northeast Oregon and Idaho. The risk assessment included a T. tubifex survey to

Creator:: Oetter, Doug Rudolph, 1962-
Abstract:: The Willamette River and its floodplain in northwest Oregon have changed dramatically since European settlement. At one time, the river was a vast complex system of braided channels with a broad floodplain forest; it has now been simplified by channelization and dams, and the forest has been removed to support...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Creator:: Graetz, David H.
Abstract:: A hybrid landscape optimization/simulation model called SafeD (Simulation and analysis of forests with episodic Disturbances) was built to address the needs of forest management planning in the Applegate River Watershed, southwestern Oregon (the Apple gate Project). There are two goals of the Applegate Project: 1) search for forest policies and...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Applegate River Watershed, Southwestern Oregon. Abstract approved:_ Sign~tu~e-~edacte? __

Creator:: Zielinski, Christopher
Abstract:: A plan for the reestablishment of anadromous salmonid stocks into waters above the Pelton Round Butte Hydroelectric Project (PRB) located on the Deschutes River, Oregon has been under development since 1996. The PRB complex, starting at river kilometer (Rkm) 103, blocks the further upstream migration of anadromous salmonids into upper...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Establishment of Myxobolus cerebralis in the Deschutes River Basin, Oregon, USA. Abstract

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