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Fire Ecology and Management in Pacific Northwest Forests
Fire has been an important catalyst of change in Pacific Northwest forests throughout the . The role of fire varied across this biophysically diverse region prior to European colonization, but and logging d...
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Watersheds and Landscapes
Our understanding of what constitutes the freshwater ecosystems, watersheds, and landscapes in moist coniferous forests is continually evolving. To date, much of the aquatic-system focus has been on relatively...
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Setting the Stage: Vegetation Ecology and Dynamics
The moist coniferous forests of the Pacific Northwest are notable for the dominance of long-lived evergreen conifers, productivity, and the massiveness of the older forests (Franklin and Dyrness 1988; Franklin...
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The Importance of Scale in Assessing the Compatibility of Forest Commodities and Biodiversity
The idea that forest commodities and biological diversity can be simultaneously produced from the same area in a socially acceptable manner (Haynes et al. 2002) is common in natural resources management, but i...