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Marine and Estuarine Habitats
Mudflats Mudflats are usually found around estuaries and other sheltered coastal areas where wave action is low and...
Forests and Forestry in the Oregon Coast Range
To early settlers and loggers, the forests of Oregon's Coast Range seemed endless and inexhaustible. But in less time than it took to grow them, most...
Coastal Vegetation and Plant Ecology
Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed. Convince me that you have a seed there, and...
North Coast Demographics
Demographics are a tool we use to identify and track the characteristics of specific populations. But statistics about people do not exist in...
How Many Fish? A Story of Rapid Bioassessment
In the mid-1980s, the need for cost-effective biological survey techniques arose because of rapidly dwindling resources for monitoring and assessment...
Current and Historic Coastal Land Use
Map by John Ame Note: Oregon's Coast Range is defined here as all of the Coast Range hydrological province and part of the Willamette...
Landslides and Erosion
Cape Creek Landslide The Oregon coast changes daily, sometimes in ways that are very visible to residents and visitors....
North Coast Floods and Tsunamis
The low-lying areas of Oregon's coast are vulnerable to inundation by high waters. Heavy, winter rains, rapid snow melt, high tides and strong winds...
Pacific Northwest Coast Ecoregional Assessment
It took people from 20 organizations (in two countries) over 10,000 hours and five years to finish, but the Pacific Northwest Coast Ecoregional...

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