Research Publications Of The H J Andrews Experimental Forest Cascade Range Oregon

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Necessary Work

Author : Max G. Geier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Adaptive natural resource management
ISBN : MINN:31951D02974974T

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Necessary Work by Max G. Geier Pdf

The H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest (Andrews Forest) is both an idea and a particular place. It is an experimental landscape, a natural resource, and an ecosystem that has long inspired many people. On the landscape of the Andrews Forest, some of those people built the foundation for a collaborative community that fosters closer communication among the scientists and managers who struggle to understand how that ecosystem functions and to identify optimal management strategies for this and other national forest lands in the Pacific Northwest. People who worked there generated new ideas about forest ecology and related ecosystems. Working together in this place, they generated ideas, developed research proposals, and considered the implications of their work. They functioned as individuals in a science-based community that emerged and evolved over time. Individuals acted in a confluence of personalities, personal choices, and power relations. In the context of this unique landscape and serendipitous opportunities, those people created an exceptionally potent learning environment for science and management. Science, in this context, was largely a story of personalities, not simply a matter of test tubes, experimental watersheds, or top-down management sponsored by a large federal agency or university. Ideas flowed in a constructed environment that eventually linked people, place, and community with an emerging vision of ecosystem management. Drawing largely on oral history, this book explores the inner workings and structure of that science-based community. Science themes, management issues, specific research programs, the landscape itself, and the people who work there are all indispensable components of a complex web of community, the Andrews group. The first four chapters explore the origins of the Forest Service decision to establish an experimental forest in the west-central Oregon Cascades in 1948 and the people and priorities that transformed that field site into a prominent facility for interdisciplinary research in the coniferous biome of the International Biological Programme in the 1970s. Later chapters explore emerging links between long-term research and interdisciplinary science at the Andrews Forest. Those links shaped the groups response to concerns about logging in old-growth forests during the 1980s and 1990s. Concluding chapters explore how scientists in the group tried to adapt to new roles as public policy consultants in the 1990s without losing sight of the community values that they considered crucial to their earlier accomplishments.

Research Publications of the Cascade Head Experimental Forest and Scenic Research Area, Oregon Coast Range, 1934 to 1990

Author : Sarah Greene,Tawny Blinn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Cascade Head Experimental Forest (Or.)
ISBN : UCR:31210022824617

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Research Publications of the Cascade Head Experimental Forest and Scenic Research Area, Oregon Coast Range, 1934 to 1990 by Sarah Greene,Tawny Blinn Pdf

A list of publications resulting from research at the Cascade Head Experimental Forest and Scenic Research Area, Siuslaw National Forest, Oregon, from 1934 to 1990 is presented. Over 200 publications are listed, including papers, theses, and reports. An index is provided that cross-references the listings under appropriate keywords.

General Technical Report PNW-GTR

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 762 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Forests and forestry
ISBN : CORNELL:31924063065688

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General Technical Report PNW-GTR by Anonim Pdf

Invertebrates of the H. J. Andrews Experimental Forest, Western Cascade Mountains, Oregon, Vol. 4

Author : Andrew. R. Moldenke
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 0366410784

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Invertebrates of the H. J. Andrews Experimental Forest, Western Cascade Mountains, Oregon, Vol. 4 by Andrew. R. Moldenke Pdf

Excerpt from Invertebrates of the H. J. Andrews Experimental Forest, Western Cascade Mountains, Oregon, Vol. 4: The Oribatid Mites (Acari; Cryptostigmata) Densities of adult oribatids on the forest floor in H. J. Andrews Experimental Forest range from to per square meter. About 60 species are abundant and found. In. Most litter samples collected. There; these species are also the most abundant and. Widespread species throughout the coniferous biome of the Pacific Northwest. The Andrews Forest has been designated a Long Term Ecological Reserve by the National Science Foundation, and functions as an integral cornerstone in understanding the ecology of North America as part of a continent-wide system of special research sites (map These sites serve as foci of integrative studies of ecological dynamics, especially involving changes spanning temporal phenomena longer than the term of typical research grants. Scientists at these sites have the responsibility to facilitate correlative studies throughout the ecological biome they represent, hence every effort was made in the present work to prepare a key of generalized utility throughout the entire Pacific Northwest. Almost nothing is known about how these species function in nutrient cycling or in regulating populations of other soil fauna and microbes. Ecological investigations into the decomposition guild have been seriously hampered for many years because mites are so small and taxonomic reviews are lacking. We have designed this paper for nonspecialists to present detailed information on the distribution, seasonality, and abundance of the mites in the Andrews Forest; to provide a key to the species; and to stimulate ecological studies on the functional roles of oribatid. Mites throughout the Northwest, by providing a utilitarian key to all the genera likely to be found. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.