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Open AccessEffects of ownership patterns on cross-boundary wildfires
Understanding ownership effects on large wildfires is a precursor to the development of risk governance strategies that better protect people and property and restore fire-adapted ecosystems. We analyzed wildf...
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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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Influence of landscape structure, topography, and forest type on spatial variation in historical fire regimes, Central Oregon, USA
In the interior Northwest, debate over restoring mixed-conifer forests after a century of fire exclusion is hampered by poor understanding of the pattern and causes of spatial variation in historical fire regi...
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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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Open AccessRestoring fire-prone Inland Pacific landscapes: seven core principles
More than a century of forest and fire management of Inland Pacific landscapes has transformed their successional and disturbance dynamics. Regional connectivity of many terrestrial and aquatic habitats is fra...
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A Conceptual Framework for Characterizing Forest Areas with High Societal Values: Experiences from the Pacific Northwest of USA and Central Europe
In recent decades, much work has been invested to describe forest allocations with high societal values. Yet, few comparative analyses have been conducted on their importance and differences across the regions...
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Multi-scale Drivers of Spatial Variation in Old-Growth Forest Carbon Density Disentangled with Lidar and an Individual-Based Landscape Model
Forest ecosystems are the most important terrestrial carbon (C) storage globally, and presently mitigate anthropogenic climate change by acting as a large and persistent sink for atmospheric CO2. Yet, forest C de...
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Climatic, landform, microtopographic, and overstory canopy controls of tree invasion in a subalpine meadow landscape, Oregon Cascades, USA
Tree invasions have been documented throughout Northern Hemisphere high elevation meadows, as well as globally in many grass and forb-dominated ecosystems. Tree invasions are often associated with large-scale ...
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Climate change adaptation strategies for federal forests of the Pacific Northwest, USA: ecological, policy, and socio-economic perspectives
Conserving biological diversity in a changing climate poses major challenges for land managers and society. Effective adaptive strategies for dealing with climate change require a socio-ecological systems pers...
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Factors associated with crown damage following recurring mixed-severity wildfires and post-fire management in southwestern Oregon
Wildfires and post-fire logging and planting have a lasting influence on the quantity and arrangement of live and dead vegetation, which can, in turn, affect the behavior of future fires. In 2002, the Biscuit ...
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The Relative Impact of Harvest and Fire upon Landscape-Level Dynamics of Older Forests: Lessons from the Northwest Forest Plan
Interest in preserving older forests at the landscape level has increased in many regions, including the Pacific Northwest of the United States. The Northwest Forest Plan (NWFP) of 1994 initiated a significant...
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Relationships of dead wood patterns with biophysical characteristics and ownership according to scale in Coastal Oregon, USA
Dead wood patterns and dynamics vary with biophysical factors, disturbance history, ownership, and management practices; the relative importance of these factors is poorly understood, especially at landscape t...
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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...
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Land ownership and landscape structure: a spatial analysis of sixty-six Oregon (USA) Coast Range watersheds
Patterns of land ownership and forest cover are related in complex and ecologically significant ways. Using a Geographic Information System and regression analysis, we tested for spatial relationships between ...
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Landscape- vs Gap-level Controls on the Abundance of a Fire-sensitive, Late-successional Tree Species
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Characterizing 23 Years (1972–95) of Stand Replacement Disturbance in Western Oregon Forests with Landsat Imagery
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Develo** alternative forest cutting patterns: A simulation approach
This study examines effects of different forest cutting patterns on habitat fragmentation in managed forest landscapes. We use computer simulation to conduct experiments in which we examine effects of differen...
