This research focused on features of a genetically

Fire is the dominant disturbance process in western U.S. forests, and although effects of fire in upland forests are relatively well-studied, there is little information about fire effects on riparian forests,...

Fuel management has been used as an effective local strategy to reduce the

This study investigated the development of riparian zone vegetation at varying stand ages from one to 29 years following clearcut timber harvesting in western Oregon. Vegetation was classified into three layers...

An infiltration capacity and surface erodibility study was conducted six years after forest harvesting in the Oregon Cascades. A portable rainfall simulator was utilized to obtain field measurements on the...

This analysis of Colombia's System of National Park Reservations

Many countries around the world are looking to tourism as a sustainable solution

Loss of lowland estuarine and freshwater off-channel habitats along the Pacific Northwest coast has contributed to the decline of salmonid populations. These habitats serve as nursery grounds for juvenile...

This analysis is the study of Oregon's wildlife resources from

Land management policies are ideas about nature projected onto the landscape. Culminations of social, economic, and scientific influences, these policies create standards affecting the function of ecological...