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Author : Christine May
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Download or read book The Importance of Wood in Headwater Streams of the Oregon Coast Range written by Christine May and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Christine May
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Download or read book The Importance of Wood in Headwater Streams of the Oregon Coast Range written by Christine May and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Christine L. May
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Total Pages : 328 pages
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Download or read book Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Sediment and Wood in Headwater Streams in the Central Oregon Coast Range written by Christine L. May and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Channels that were scoured to bedrock by debris flows provided unique opportunities to calculate the rate of sediment and wood accumulation, to make inferences about processes associated with input and transport of sediment, and to gain insight into the temporal succession of channel morphology following disturbance. In an intensive investigation of 13 channels the time since the previous debris flow was estimated using dendrochronology. The volume of wood in the channel was positively and linearly correlated with the time since the previous debris flow. The pattern of sediment accumulation was non-linear and appeared to increase as the storage capacity of the channel increased through time. Wood stored the majority of the sediment in these steep headwater streams, and landslides and wind throw were the dominant mechanisms for delivering wood to the channel. With an adequate supply of wood, small streams have the potential to store large volumes of sediment in the interval between debris flows and can function as one of the dominant storage reservoirs for sediment in mountainous terrain. In an extensive investigation of 125 headwater streams, the spatial and temporal patterns of debris flow occurrence and deposition were investigated. The temporal distribution of debris flow occurrence varied with network structure and drainage area of the tributary basin. Network structure may affect the frequency of debris flows delivered to the mainstem river valley because it reflects the number of potential landslide source areas and the routing ability of the channel. Tributary basins with larger drainage areas and more convergent topography had a greater proportion of channels in the younger, post-debris flow age-classes compared to smaller basins with less convergent topography. The flux rate of material delivered to the confluence with the larger river also influenced the development of debris flow fans. Fans at the mouth of tributary basins with smaller drainage areas had a higher likelihood of being eroded in the interval between debris flows, while larger, more persistent fans were present at the mouth of bigger basins. Valley floor width of the mainstem river typically constrained fan development and was also an important predictor of fan size.
Author : Stephen D. Hobbs
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Total Pages : 336 pages
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Download or read book Forest and Stream Management in the Oregon Coast Range written by Stephen D. Hobbs and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This major volume presents a wealth of fundamental and applied research on managing Coast Range forest and stream ecosystems. Written primarily for managers and resource specialists, the book will also appeal to policymakers, resource scientists, forest landowners, the conservation community, and students interested in forestry, fisheries, and wildlife sciences.
Author : Jennifer Marie Fleuret
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Total Pages : 260 pages
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Download or read book Examining Effectiveness of Oregon's Forest Practice Rules for Maintaining Warm-season Maximum Stream Temperature Patterns in the Oregon Coast Range written by Jennifer Marie Fleuret and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stream temperature, as an important component of stream ecosystems, can be affected by forest harvesting through removal of riparian shade and changes in hydrology. Riparian Management Areas (RMAs), as implemented through the current Oregon Forest Practice Rules, are designed, in part, to maintain stream temperature following forest harvesting. However, effectiveness of RMAs in achieving this outcome is uncertain. The objective of this research was to examine effectiveness of RMAs, as outlined by the current Oregon Forest Practices Act and the Northwest State Forests Management Plan, in maintaining warm-season temperature patterns of streamwater. Twenty-two headwater streams, on either private- or state-owned forestlands in the Oregon Coast Range that encompassed a range of RMA widths and harvest prescriptions, were evaluated for effectiveness of RMAs on stream temperature. A Before-After-Control-Impact/Intervention design was used, and each stream had an upstream control and a downstream treatment reach. Temperature probes were placed 1) at the top of the control reach, 2) at the boundary between the control and treatment reaches, and 3) at the bottom of the treatment reach from June to September for four years starting in 2002. All but one stream have at least two years of pre2 harvest temperature data, and one year of post-harvest temperature data. Selected stream and riparian characteristics were collected every 60 m within the control and treatment reaches once prior to and once following harvest. I hypothesized that RMAs would be effective if pre-harvest warmseason maximum temperature patterns were maintained following harvest treatments. Comparisons of temperature patterns between control and treatment reaches both pre- and post-harvest indicate that my hypothesis should be rejected because warm-season maximum temperature patterns were not maintained when mean values in treatment reaches across all study streams were considered. Difference in temperature gradients between control and treatment reaches averaged 0.6°C, based on two years of pre-harvest and one year of post-harvest data. This indicates that more warming or less cooling occurred in treatment reaches than occurred in control reaches when pre-harvest and post-harvest periods were compared, suggesting that current RMAs for small- and medium fishbearing streams of the Oregon Coast Range are not effective for maintenance of warm-season maximum temperature patterns.
Author : Danielle D. Smith
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Total Pages : 338 pages
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Download or read book Contributions of Riparian Vegetation and Stream Morphology to Headwater Stream Temperature Patterns in the Oregon Coast Range written by Danielle D. Smith and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The role of riparian forests in maintaining temperatures of headwater streams is well established and is a foundation of forest practice rules designed to protect streamwater quality. However, detailed investigation is still needed quantifying specific characteristics of stream systems that affect streamwater temperature including riparian features, stream morphology, and subsurface interactions. The objectives of this research were to investigate summertime streamwater temperature patterns and identify characteristics within headwater streams and riparian zones that influence stream temperature. This study was designed to evaluate these relationships prior to logging in 38 perennial headwater catchments of the Oregon Coast Range. Stream reaches of greater than 1000 m were instrumented with temperature probes and selected stream and riparian characteristics were measured at 60-m intervals within each study reach in 2002 and 2003. A subset of the streams was examined in 2003 to determine the potential influence of streamwater residence time on temperature patterns. Findings suggest that canopy cover is the driving factor controlling summer stream temperature in these small headwater streams, but other stream and riparian characteristics should not be discarded. Longitudinal stream temperature patterns were quite variable for these forested streams and results suggest a high degree of complexity in small headwater streams. Maximum 7-day moving average temperatures ranged from 11.4°C to 16.8°C, with three streams above the standard 16°C threshold. Effects of stream and riparian characteristics on stream temperature were strongest when average of the weekly high temperature was assessed, suggesting this may be a more sensitive index of stream temperature than the commonly used maximum 7-day moving average. Results of tracer dilution tests were inconclusive in that temperature was not consistently correlated to residence time in streams.
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Download or read book A Guide to Placing Large Wood in Streams written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 6392 pages
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Download or read book Treatise on Geomorphology written by and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2013-02-27 with total page 6392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The changing focus and approach of geomorphic research suggests that the time is opportune for a summary of the state of discipline. The number of peer-reviewed papers published in geomorphic journals has grown steadily for more than two decades and, more importantly, the diversity of authors with respect to geographic location and disciplinary background (geography, geology, ecology, civil engineering, computer science, geographic information science, and others) has expanded dramatically. As more good minds are drawn to geomorphology, and the breadth of the peer-reviewed literature grows, an effective summary of contemporary geomorphic knowledge becomes increasingly difficult. The fourteen volumes of this Treatise on Geomorphology will provide an important reference for users from undergraduate students looking for term paper topics, to graduate students starting a literature review for their thesis work, and professionals seeking a concise summary of a particular topic. Information on the historical development of diverse topics within geomorphology provides context for ongoing research; discussion of research strategies, equipment, and field methods, laboratory experiments, and numerical simulations reflect the multiple approaches to understanding Earth’s surfaces; and summaries of outstanding research questions highlight future challenges and suggest productive new avenues for research. Our future ability to adapt to geomorphic changes in the critical zone very much hinges upon how well landform scientists comprehend the dynamics of Earth’s diverse surfaces. This Treatise on Geomorphology provides a useful synthesis of the state of the discipline, as well as highlighting productive research directions, that Educators and students/researchers will find useful. Geomorphology has advanced greatly in the last 10 years to become a very interdisciplinary field. Undergraduate students looking for term paper topics, to graduate students starting a literature review for their thesis work, and professionals seeking a concise summary of a particular topic will find the answers they need in this broad reference work which has been designed and written to accommodate their diverse backgrounds and levels of understanding Editor-in-Chief, Prof. J. F. Shroder of the University of Nebraska at Omaha, is past president of the QG&G section of the Geological Society of America and present Trustee of the GSA Foundation, while being well respected in the geomorphology research community and having won numerous awards in the field. A host of noted international geomorphologists have contributed state-of-the-art chapters to the work. Readers can be guaranteed that every chapter in this extensive work has been critically reviewed for consistency and accuracy by the World expert Volume Editors and by the Editor-in-Chief himself No other reference work exists in the area of Geomorphology that offers the breadth and depth of information contained in this 14-volume masterpiece. From the foundations and history of geomorphology through to geomorphological innovations and computer modelling, and the past and future states of landform science, no "stone" has been left unturned!
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Download or read book General Technical Report PNW-GTR written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Northwest Forest Plan : the First 10 Years (1994-2003) written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Zane A. Haxton
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Download or read book An Examination of Several Methods of Quantifying Forest Structure in Headwater Riparian Forests of Western Oregon written by Zane A. Haxton and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Headwater streams are generally small, first-order streams that can comprise up to 80% (by stream length) of the drainage network in mountainous areas of the Pacific Northwest. These streams are intimately connected with downstream reaches, serving as a source of sediment, woody debris, organic matter and nutrients. The surrounding forests can strongly influence the ecology of headwater streams by regulating microclimate, influencing nutrient and organic matter cycling process, and providing habitat for wildlife species. Central to the provision of ecosystem services by these headwater forests is their structure, the three-dimensional arrangement of trees, shrubs, snags and down wood in space. This thesis explored several methods of quantifying forest structure in headwater riparian forests of western Oregon. N-tree distance sampling, a sampling method where the nearest n trees to a sample point are measured, was compared with fixed plot and variable plot sampling for estimation of density and basal area in a simulation study using stem-mapped data taken from 8 headwater sites across western Oregon. In general, variable plot sampling gave the best statistical performance for estimation of basal area, while fixed plot sampling gave the best statistical performance for estimation of density. While n- tree distance sampling gave reasonable performance on some stem maps, the sampling method performed poorly for estimating density of populations with a clumped spatial pattern. Relative root mean square error of the best n-tree distance sampling estimator was up to 75% higher than for fixed plot sampling under these conditions. Neighborhood-based indices are a set of diversity measures that are based on the relationship between a reference tree and a certain number of nearest neighbors (i.e. trees to which it has the lowest horizontal distance). I compared the bias and relative root mean square error of several different methods of choosing reference trees for neighborhood-based index calculation, using stem-mapped data from the same 8 headwater sites. The selection of a random tree from a fixed plot gave the lowest absolute relative bias, but results with this method were quite variable, with relative root mean square error ranging from 33-67% for the species mingling index and 21-25% for the diameter differentiation index. The nearest-tree (selection of the nearest tree to the sample point) and azimuth (selection of the first tree from north in a fixed plot) methods were biased, but had lower variability, with relative root mean square error ranging from 31-64% for the species mingling index and 18-22% for the diameter differentiation index. The variable plot method gave highly variable results for all species combined, but performed well for some individual species. I close with an exploration of the use of measures of forest structure in characterizing the Trask Watershed, located in the headwaters of the northern Oregon Coast Range. The structure of the Trask Watershed is essentially even-aged, having regenerated in the aftermath of the Tillamook Burn. Douglas-fir and red alder are the most prevalent species, with western hemlock, western redcedar and noble fir locally abundant. While neighborhood-based indices were somewhat informative, they offered an impoverished picture of structural diversity in the Trask Watershed by ignoring the contribution made by tall shrubs such as vine maple and western hazelnut.
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Download or read book Proceedings of the Symposium on the Ecology and Management of Dead Wood in Western Forests written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 966 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Revision of the Resource Management Plans of the Western Oregon Bureau of Land Management Districts written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Pamela Lombard
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Download or read book The Effect of the Size and Orientation of Large Wood on Pool Volume in Two Oregon Coast Range Streams written by Pamela Lombard and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study was conducted to determine how the size and orientation of large wood placed in streams in combination with peak flows, substrate and channel gradient affect pool volume, surface area and maximum depth in two coastal Oregon streams. Eighteen Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) logs were placed in each of two streams, J-Line Creek and Preacher Creek, in the summer of 1989. Surveys were conducted annually from 1989-1996 at summer low flow using a total station electronic theodolite. The orientation of the introduced wood and the parameters of residual pools associated with the wood were determined from high resolution topographic maps made from the surveys. Residual pool volume associated with the introduced wood increased 2,500 percent over the seven years for J-Line Creek and 30 percent for Preacher Creek. Large spanners, logs placed perpendicular to the stream flow and flush with the stream bottom, had the greatest pool volume associated with them, however horizontal orientations shifted downstream over time. Large ramps, logs placed at a downstream orientation and angled up onto the bank, were the most stable treatment. Differences between the two watersheds and an interaction variable between the diameter of the introduced wood and the horizontal orientation of the introduced wood were the significant variables which entered the multiple linear regression model for residual pool volume. These variables, as well as the vertical orientation of the introduced wood, were significantly correlated to both residual pool surface area and maximum depth. The recurrence interval of the annual maximum instantaneous peak flow was not significantly associated with residual pool volume, surface area nor maximum depth. Multiple regression models explained, at most, twenty-eight percent of the variability in residual pool volume, maximum depth and surface area. Estimates of pool volume obtained with aquatic habitat inventories (Bisson et al., 1982) were compared with residual pool calculations determined from the topographic maps. Pool volume in a reach determined by aquatic habitat inventories explained 96 percent of the variability of residual pool volume in a reach, however estimates of individual pool volume explained only 40 percent of the variability in residual pool volume.
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Author : Ellen Wohl
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ISBN 13 : 3319651242
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Download or read book Sustaining River Ecosystems and Water Resources written by Ellen Wohl and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-08-31 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is designed to broaden the scope with which many people regard a river. Rivers are commonly regarded from a very simplistic perspective as conduits for downstream flows of water. In this context, it may be considered acceptable and necessary to engineer the channel to either facilitate such flows (e.g., channelization, levees) or limit flows and store water (e.g., water supply reservoirs, flood control). The book presents the concept of a river as a spatially and temporally complex ecosystem that is likely to be disrupted in unexpected and damaging ways by direct river engineering and by human activities throughout a drainage basin. Viewing a river as a complex ecosystem with nonlinear responses to human activities will help to promote a more nuanced and effective approach to managing river ecosystems and to sustaining the water resources that derive from rivers. In this context, water resources refers to ecosystem services including water supply, water quality, flood control, erosion control, and riverine biota (e.g., freshwater fisheries). Chapters in this book draw extensively on existing literature but integrate this literature from a fresh perspective. General principles are expanded upon and illustrated with photographs, line drawings, tables, and brief, site-specific case studies from rivers around the world.
