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A decision framework for the implementation of appropriate logging practices in developing countries: Case study -- Ethiopia	Aboveground biomass and ecosystem carbon pools in tropical secondary forests growing in six life zones of Costa Rica

An evaluation of understory vegetation dynamics, ecosystem resilience and state and transition ecological theory in an eastern Oregon ponderosa pine forest	An integrated study of mechanical forest fuel reduction: Quantifying multiple factors at the stand level

Assessing the sustainability of management practices for planted forests across an environmental gradient in New Zealand	Belowground carbon storage and soil organic matter quality following fertilizer and herbicide applications in ponderosa pine plantations along a site-quality gradient in northern California

Biogeographic and experimental evidence for local scale dispersal limitation in central Panamanian forest birds	Citizen-agency interactions: An investigation of postfire environments

Communicating the wildland fire message: An investigation of agency outreach strategies	Contemporary forest road management with economic and environmental objectives

Corporate social responsibility in the forest products industry: An issues management approach	Dead wood dynamics and relationships to biophysical factors, forest history, ownership, and management practices in the Coastal Province of Oregon, United States of America

Decision support systems for forest biodiversity management: A review of tools and an analytical-deliberative framework for understanding their successful application	Development of a hybrid modeling framework for intensively managed Douglas-fir plantations in the Pacific Northwest

Early-successional vegetation dynamics and microsite preferences following post-fire forest restoration in southwestern Oregon	Economic modeling of tropical deforestation in Antioquia (Colombia), 1980--2000: An analysis at a semi-fine scale with spatially explicit data

Effects of vegetation and disturbance on fungal communities in the western Cascades of Oregon	Environmental contaminants in male river otters collected from Oregon and Washington, 1994--99, with reproductive organ hypoplasia observed in otter males

Evidence of a trophic cascade among wolves, elk, and aspen in Yellowstone National Park, USA	Examination of imputation methods to estimate status and change of forest attributes from paneled inventory data

Expression and function of Populus homologs to TERMINAL FLOWER 1 genes: Roles in onset of flowering and shoot phenology	Fire severity and vegetation response to fire in riparian areas of the Biscuit and B&B Complex Fires, Oregon

Foliar respiration in an old-growth coniferous forest	Functional decreases in hydraulic and mechanical properties of field-grown transgenic poplar trees caused by modification of the lignin synthesis pathway through downregulation of the 4-coumarate:coenzyme A ligase gene

Functional relationships among vegetation, nocturnal insects, and bats in riparian areas of the Oregon Coast Range	Greater sage-grouse reproductive ecology: Linkages among habitat resources, maternal nutrition, and chick survival

Height-related trends in structure and function of Douglas-fir foliage	Impact of exotic ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa Doug. ex Laws.) plantations on water resources in Northwestern Patagonia, Argentina

In-forest log segregation based on acoustic measurement of wood stiffness	Influence of previous cattle and elk grazing on the subsequent diet quality and nutrient intake rate of cattle, deer, and elk grazing late-summer mixed-conifer rangelands

Influences of high severity fire and postfire logging on avian and small mammal communities of the Siskiyou Mountains, Oregon, USA	Inter-relationships of vegetation, hydrology and micro-climate in a young, Douglas-fir forest

Lichen response to the environment and forest structure in the western Cascades of Oregon	Local and downstream effects of contemporary forest harvesting on streamflow and sediment yield

Microbial community structure as influenced by season and stand age in a Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) ecosystem	Multi-scale relationships between aspen and birds in the northern Yellowstone ecosystem

New perspectives on evolutionary relationships within Pinus (Pinaceae) and within subsection Ponderosae (subgenus Pinus)	Nitrogen and phosphorus dynamics during decomposition of multiple litter types in temperate coniferous forests

Optimizing the primary forest products supply chain: A multi-objective heuristic approach	Patterns of crown damage within a large wildfire in the Klamath-Siskiyou bioregion

Population demography, resource use, and movement in cooperatively breeding Micronesian kingfishers	Presence, relative abundance, and resource selection of bats in managed forest landscapes in western Oregon

Private forests, public policy: Oak conservation on family forests in Oregon's Willamette Valley	Probabilistic modeling of understory vegetation species in a Northeastern Oregon industrial forest

Reducing sediment production from forest roads during wet-weather use	Regeneration and growth of several canopy tree species in the Maya Forest of Quintana Roo, Mexico: The role of competition and microhabitat conditions

Remote sensing for monitoring regional carbon dynamics associated with land cover and land use change along the Mesoamerican Biological Corridor	Smallholder farmers' decision making in farm tree growing in the highlands of Ethiopia

Soil respiration, carbon and nitrogen leaching, and nitrogen availability in response to harvest intensity and competing vegetation control in Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) forests of the Pacific Northwest	Spatial patterns of fuel management activities and their effects on wildfire behavior

Spatially explicit inter-temporal forest management decision under the risk of fire	Stability of reporter gene expression and RNAi in transgenic poplars over multiple years in the field under vegetative propagation

The economics of carbon sequestration in western Oregon forests	The effects of forest fuel reduction on fire severity and long-term carbon storage

The effects of mechanical damage on residual coastal Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii [Mirbel] Franco following commercial thinning	The effects of timber harvest and herbivory on understory vegetation and composition of beef cattle diets on forested rangelands

The timber harvesting behavior of family forest owners	Thinning aged douglas-fir: An analysis of mobilization costs and a log bucking strategy for revenue improvement

Traditional ecological knowledge to develop and maintain fire regimes in northwestern California, Klamath-Siskiyou bioregion: Management and restoration of culturally significant habitats	Uncertainty in forest road hydrologic modeling and catchment scale assessment of forest road sediment yield

Understanding changes in forest cover and carbon storage in early successional forests of the Pacific Northwest using USDA Forest Service FIA and multi-temporal Landsat data	Wildfire risk management: Strategic interaction and spatial interdependence

Wood properties and use of sensor technology to improve optimal bucking and value recovery of Douglas-fir