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Soil Influence on Forest Vegetation Productivity and Patterns in the Eastern Cascades of Southern Oregon
Soils influence vegetation and can critically affect forest restoration results. Areas with similar parent materials can have changes in soil and vegetation across a slope, aspect, slope position, microtopography, and elevation. The objective of this project was to assess what soil characteristics influence vegetation ...
Cost-Efficient Spatial Placement of Water Retention Sites (WRS) to Reduce Sediment in Le Sueur River Watershed,MN
Since the widespread European settlement, the Minnesota River Basin has undergone dramatic changes in hydrology. The resulting increases in streamflows and the erosion of near-channel features contribute a large amount of sediment to the downstream rivers. In spite of some hydrologic alterations caused by climate change, ...
Stem and Branch Diameter Response in Pruned Douglas-fir Plantations (Pseudotsuga menziesii var. menziesii): Implications for Volume and Clear Wood Production in the U.S. Pacific Northwest
Enhancement of timber quality from self-pruning in Douglas-fir stands typically begins to occur around 60-80 years of age. Due to 40-year rotations in production settings, this species has the potential to benefit from the silvicultural treatment of pruning. Previous literature indicates that pruning may increase overall ...
Role Ambiguity and Perceived Organizational Politics in Wolf Recovery: Washington State Wildlife Agency Personnel Perspectives
Wolf recovery in Washington (WA) State provokes contentions amongst stakeholders: livestock owners, environmental groups, government organizations, and the public. Wolf recovery in WA also incites internal disputes and strains working relationships within state government entities charged with wolf management. These divisions ...
Volunteer Geographic Information Reporting System: A Cross-Case Comparison
Collaborating with volunteers to collect spatial information for environmental monitoring has been thought to be a socially-oriented mechanism for improving public participation and environmental decision-making when lacking sufficient managerial resources. Unlike general volunteer geographic information that initiates from ...
Landscape vegetation change, pattern detection, and interpretation in a subalpine fir forest infested with balsam woolly adelgid
Invasive insects and pathogens, climate change, and anthropogenic factors are causing broad-scale change in forest ecosystems. Identifying, understanding, and maintaining historic and functioning ecosystems in changing landscapes can be challenging because multiple internal and external factors interact across scales. In this ...
Social Capital in Marine Management Collaborative Networks: Lessons learned in the Coral Triangle and the Philippines
There has been a recent proliferation of collaborative ecosystem management approaches that create interlinked individuals working together to address socio-ecological problems. In these collaborative networks, through cooperating toward shared goals, participants create and maintain relationships, build trust, and share ...
Improving Forest Conservation in Frontier Environments: A Global Review and Case Studies from the Peruvian Amazon
The global conservation of intact forest ecosystems has been recognized as an important goal due to the many benefits they provide to people and biodiversity conservation. Despite their importance however, intact forest ecosystems continue to be cut and degraded globally at an unsustainable level. To improve the policies and ...
Perceived Impacts of Climate Change on Forests and Livelihoods in the Padampokhari Village on the Parsa Wildlife Reserve Buffer Zone, Nepal
Livelihoods in rural communities in Nepal depend on the condition of local natural resources. Rural communities are especially vulnerable to climate change because of their ecological fragility and economic marginality, which in turn limit their adaptive capacity. There is a pressing need to understand the impacts of climate ...
Determining the effects of vegetation on levee structural integrity on the Green River in King County, Washington
Levee vegetation management has been a challenge in King County due to conflicting federal mandates. Since the early 1990s King County has been incorporating bioengineering techniques into levee repairs. These techniques entailed the use of vegetation to not only provide bank stability but to also improve conditions for ...