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Creator:: Meigs, Garrett W.
Abstract:: Fire is a fundamental disturbance that drives terrestrial and atmospheric carbon dynamics. Previous studies have quantified fire effects on carbon cycling from local to global scales but have focused nearly exclusively on high-severity, stand-replacement fire. Since 2002, variable-severity wildfires have burned more than 65 000 ha across the east slope...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Metolius River Watershed in the Oregon East Cascades (Fig. 2.1). These fires generated a mosaic of

Creator:: Oregon. Dept. of Geology and Mineral Industries, Thoms, Richard Edwin, 1935-, Smith, Harold Cramer, and Brogan, Phil F., 1896-
Resource Type:: Journal
Full Text:: ., Washington, D.C., 1169 p. 134 THE BALANCED ROCKS OF THE METOLIUS Phil Brogan Bend, Oregon John Strong

Creator:: Wickramaratne, Siri Nimal
Abstract:: The nature and extent of niparian vegetation change from 1972 to 1981 in the Willamette River Greenway in Benton and Linn Counties, Oregon was quantitatively investigated. The study was primarily by aerial imagery analysis and associated field verification. A classification of vegetation and land cover within the study area was...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Creator:: Frenkel, Robert E., Heinitz, Eric F., Wickramaratne, Siri Nimal, and Oregon State University. Water Resources Research Institute
Resource Type:: Technical Report
Full Text:: ts i s Oregon 's Wil lamette River Greenway Program, a f lexible approach to the protect ion of

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:: Pendergrass, Kathy L. (Connelly)
Abstract:: Fires set by Native Americans were important in shaping and maintaining Willamette Valley prairie plant communities. With fire exclusion after Euro-American settlement in the 1840's, composition of the remaining prairies shifted toward shrub and tree dominance with a concomitant decline in endemic prairie plant populations. I hypothesize that by restoring...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: ), western Oregon was generally covered by ocean (Orr et al. 1992) (Table 2.1). Vegetation bordering this

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