Pacific Northwest Research Station

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To communicate our most significant findings to people who make and influence decisions about land management, we select up to 12 projects each year to highlight in a monthly publication.

This series, Science Findings, is available in PDF (To view and print PDF documents, you need the free Adobe Systems Inc. Acrobat Reader). Most issues also are available in hardcopy, although a few of the earlier ones are out of stock. If you would like copies, just contact us at pnw_pnwpubs@fs.fed.us

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Issue 112 (April 2009) Let's mix it up! The benefits of variable-density thinning

Issue 111 (March 2009) A ravenous river reclaims its true course: the tale of Marmot Dam's demise, based on science by Gordon Grant

Issue 110 (February 2009) Old growth revisited: integrating social, economic, and ecological perspectives, based on science by Tom Spies, Sally Duncan

Issue 109 (January 2009) Looking out for pileated woodpecker, based on science by Evelyn Bull, Jane Hayes, Nicole Nielsen-Pincus

Issue 108 (December 2008) Conservation of biological diversity: all things considered, based on science by Martin Raphael, Randy Molina, Bruce Marcot, Deanna Olson

Issue 107 (October 2008) Growing trees where trees grow best: short-term research sheds light on long-term productivity, based on science by Connie Harrington, Thomas Terry, and Rob Harrison

Issue 106 (September 2008) Fuel reduction and forest restoration treatments: once is not enough, based on science by Andrew Youngblood

Issue 105 (August 2008) Long-term ecological reflections: writers, philosophers, and scientists meet in the forest, based on science by Fred Swanson

Issue 104 (July 2008) Paying our way: thinking strategically to offset the cost of reducing fire hazard in western forests, based on science by Jamie Barbour, and Ken Skog

Issue 103 (May 2008) Burn and they will come! The western regional birds and burns study examines bird responses to prescribed fire, based on science by John Lehmkuhl

Issue 102 (April 2008) Forests at risk: integrating risk science into fuel management strategies, based on science by Alan Ager

Issue 101 (March 2008) A landslide is a landslide is a landslide… Or is it? Defining landslide potential across large landscapes, based on science by Kelly Burnett

Issue 100 (February 2008) Farmed Atlantic salmon: potential invader in the Pacific Northwest? by Pete Bisson

Issue 99 ( January 2008) Saving streams at their source: managing for amphibian diversity in headwater forests, based on science by Deanna Olson, Paul Anderson

Issue 98 (December 2007) Move over, Douglas-fir: Oregon white oaks need room to grow, based on science by Connie Harrington, Warren Devine, Peter Gould, and Dave Peter

Issue 97 (October 2007) Running dry: where will the West get its water? by Gordon Grant

Issue 96 (September 2007) Green-tree retention in harvest units: Boon or bust for biodiversity? by Charley Peterson, and Keith Aubry

Issue 95 (August 2007) Forest communities and the Northwest Forest Plan: What socioeconomic monitoring can tell us, based on science by Susan Charnley, and Ellen Donoghue

Issue 94 (June 2007) Mountain meadows—here today, gone tomorrow? Meadow science and restoration, based on science by Fred Swanson

Issue 93 (May 2007) The mysterious demise of an ice-age relic: Exposing the cause of yellow-cedar decline, based on science by Paul Hennon, and Dave D'Amore

Issue 92 (April 2007) Simulating the consequences of land management, based on science by Steven Wondzell, and Pete Bisson

Issue 91 (March 2007) Sagebrush in Western North America: habitats and species in jeopardy, based on science by Michael Wisdom, and Mary Rowland

Issue 90 (February 2007) The secret life of marbled murrelets: monitoring populations and habitats, based on science by Martin G. Raphael

Issue 89 (December 2006) Monitoring forests from space: quantifying forest change by using satellite data, based on science by Warren Cohen and Sean Healey

Issue 88 (November 2006) Society's choices: land use changes, forest fragmentation, and conservation, based on science by Ralph Alig

Issue 87 (October 2006) Does it work? Monitoring the effectiveness of stream management practices in Alaska, based on science by Richard Woodsmith

Issue 86 (September 2006) Does wood slow down "sludge dragons?" The interaction between riparian zones and debris flows in mountain landscapes, based on science by Gordon Grant

Issue 85 (July 2006) Seeing the bigger picture: landscape silviculture may offer compatible solutions to conflicting objectives, based on science by Susan Stevens Hummel

Issue 84 (June 2006) Knock on wood: Is wood production sustainable in the Pacific Northwest? by Bob Deal

Issue 83 (May 2006) If a tree falls in the woods, who will measure it? DecAID decayed wood advisor, based on science by Bruce Marcot, and Janet Ohmann

Issue 82 (April 2006) Searing the rhizosphere: belowground impacts of prescribed fires, based on science by Jane Smith

Issue 81 (March 2006) Prescribed fires are not created equal: fire season and severity effects in ponderosa pine forests of the southern Blue Mountains, based on science by Becky Kerns, Walt Thies, and Chris Niwa

Issue 80 (February 2006) Rocky to bullwinkle: understanding flying squirrels helps us restore dry forest ecosystems, based on science by John F. Lehmkuhl

Issue 79 (January 2006) Highways and habitat: managing habitat connectivity and landscape permeability for wildlife, based on science by Peter Singleton

Issue 78 (November 2005) Acting on uncertainty in landscape management—options forestry, based on science by Bernard Bormann and Ross Kiester

Issue 77 (October 2005) What's it worth to you? Estimating the public's willingness to pay for biodiversity conservation, based on science by Brian Garber-Yonts

Issue 76 (September 2005) biodiversity policies: where are they leading us? Are we going where we expexted to go? by Tom Spies, Janet Ohmann, Jeff Kline, Kelly Burnett, Gordon Reeves

Issue 75 (August 2005) Climate change and California: potential implications for vegetation, carbon, and fire, based on science by Jim Lenihan

Issue 74 (July 2005) Fanning the flames: climate change stacks odds against fire suppression, based on science by Jeremy fried

Issue 73 (June 2005) Keeping it cool: unraveling the influences on stream temperature, based on science by Sherri Johnson and Steve Wondzell

Issue 72 (April 2005) Is it hip? Identifying streams with high intrinsic potential to provide salmon and trout, based on science by Kelly Burnett

Issue 71 (March 2005) Out, out, dam spot! the geomorphic response of rivers to dam removal, based on science by Gordon Grant

Issue 70 (February 2005) Fisher conservation in the Pacific States: field data meet genetics, based on science by Keith Aubry

Issue 69 (January 2005) Crafting a competitive edge: white spruce regeneration in Alaska, based on science by Andrew Youngblood

Issue 68 (November 2004) Trees, houses, and habitat: private forests at the wildland-urban interface, based on science by Jeff Kline and Dave Azuma

Issue 67 (October 2004) Following a river wherever it goes: beneath the surface of mountain streams, based on science by Steve Wondzell

Issue 66 (September 2004) Dead wood, living legacies: habitat for a host of fungi, based on science by Jane Smith.

Issue 65 (July 2004) Rhapsody in avian major: a concerto of songbirds, forest management, and the public, based on science by Todd Wilson.

Issue 64 ( June 2004) 100,000 trees can't be wrong: permanent study plots and the value of time, based on science by Sarah Greene.

Issue 63 (May 2004) Ecology payoffs from red alder in southeast Alaska, based on science by Robert Deal, and Mark Wipfli.

Issue 62 (April 2004) Windows into the forest: extending long-term small-watershed research, based on science by Fred Swanson, and Don Henshaw.

Issue 61 (February 2004) Conserving hidden diversity the unprecedented challenge of the survey and manage mandate, based on science by Randy Molina.

Issue 60 ( January 2004) Squirrels cannot live by truffles alone: a closer look at a northwest keystone complex, based on science by Andrew Carey.

Issue 59 (December 2003) Clarifying muddy water: probing the linkages to municipal water quality, based on science by Gordon Grant.

Issue 58 (November 2003) The scourge of the yellow trees: tackling Swiss needle cast in the Coast Range, based on science by Randy Johnson.

Issue 57 (October 2003) Coming home to roost: the pileated woodpecker as ecosystem engineer, based on science by Keith Aubry, and Catherine Raley

Issue 56 (September 2003) Seeing the trees for the forest: mapping vegetation biodiversity in coastal Oregon forests, based on science by Janet Ohmann

Issue 55 (August 2003) Biology, ecology, and economics at play: land use and land cover changes in the 21^st century, based on science by Ralph Alig

Issue 54 (July 2003) The trouble with connectedness: disturbance and ecosystem crashes, based on science by Andrew B. Carey

Issue 53 (May 2003) Arise, amphibians: stream buffers affect more than fish, based on science by Martin Raphael and Pete Bisson

Issue 52 (April 2003) Conserving and managing the trees of the future: genetic resources for Pacific Northwest Forests, based on science by Brad St. Clair and Randy Johnson

Issue 51 (February 2003) Sex and the single squirrel: a genetic view of forest management in the Pacific Northwest, based on science by Todd Wilson.

Issue 50 (January 2003) Managing the "Other" forest: collecting and protecting nontimber forest products, based on science by Nan C. Vance.

Issue 49 (December 2002) Geology as destiny: cold waters run deep in western Oregon, based on science by Gordon Grant

Issue 48 (November 2002) Volume, value, and thinning: logs for the future, based on science by David D. Marshall and Robert O. Curtis

Issue 47 (October 2002) Postfire logging: Is it beneficial to a forest? by Jim McIver and Roger Ottmar

Issue 46 (September 2002) When the forest burns: making sense of fire history west of the Cascades, based on science by Fred Swanson

Issue 45 (July 2002) Changing the scale of our thinking: landscape-level learning, based on science by Thomas Spies

Issue 44 (May 2002) Is carbon storage enough? Can plants adapt? New questions in climate change research, based on science by Ronald P. Neilson

Issue 43 (April 2002) Canopy gaps and dead tree dynamics: poking holes in the forest, based on science by Andrew N. Gray and Thomas A. Spies

Issue 42 (March 2002) Dead wood all around us: think regionally to manage locally, based on science by Janet Ohmann and Karen Waddell

Issue 41 (February 2002) Soggy soils and sustainability: forested wetlands in southeast Alaska, based on science by David D'Amore

Issue 40 (December 2001) Boreal blending: timber and moose in Alaska's interior, based on science by Trish Wurtz and John Zasada

Issue 39 (November 2001) Under the radar: advances in murrelet monitoring, based on science by Martin G. Raphael

Issue 38 (October 2001) Invasion of the exotics: the siege of western Washington, based on science by Andrew B. Carey

Issue 37 (September 2001) Absorbing the shock: helping communities when change erupts, based on science by Chris Christensen, Ellen Donoghue, and Terry Raettig

Issue 36 (August 2001) Benefits of hindsight: reestablishing fire on the landscape, based on science by John Lehmkuhl

Issue 35 (July 2001)  Paradoxes in science: a new view of rarity, based on science by David Boughton (Note: No June issue was produced)

Issue 34 (May 2001)  The rule of time and chance: Mount St. Helens and its legacy of knowledge, based on science by Charlie Crisafulli and Fred Swanson

Issue 33 (April 2001)  Too early to tell, or too late to rescue? Adaptive management under scrutiny, based on science by George H. Stankey

Issue 32 (March 2001) Food for fish, food for thought: managing the invisible components of streams, based on science by Mark Wipfli

Issue 31 (February 2001) Finite land, infinite futures? Sustainable options on a fixed land base, based on science by Ralph Alig

Issue 30 (December 2000) Facing the challenge of the young, the small, and the dead: Alaska's new frontier, based on science by Eini Lowell, Glenn Christensen, and Jim Stevens

Issue 29 (November 2000)  From genes to landscapes: conserving biodiversity at multiple scales, by Ross Kiester

Issue 28 (October 2000) Symbiosis and synergy: Can mushrooms and timber be managed together? by Susan Alexander and David Pilz

Issue 27 (September 2000) If you take a stand, how can you manage an ecosystem? The complex art of raising a forest, based on science by Andrew B. Carey

Issue 26 (August 2000) Community, know thyself: caring about place, based on science by Linda Kruger

Issue 25 (June 2000) Seen one dam, seen 'em all?: The surprising story of the Deschutes River, based on science by Gordon Grant

Issue 24 (May 2000) Beyond the limits of traditional science: bioregional assessments and natural resource management, based on science by Frederick Swanson and Sarah Greene

Issue 23 (April 2000) Where will they all live? The enduring puzzle of land use change, based on science by Jeff Kline and Ralph Alig

Issue 22 (February 2000) Why do elk seek shelter? The case against the need for thermal cover, based on science by John G. Cook and John G. Kie

Issue 21  (January 2000) Developing new silvicultural regimes: the eyes have it, based on science by Dean DeBell, Robert Curtis, and David Marshall

Issue 20  (November 1999) Dead and dying trees: essential for life in the forest, based on science by Evelyn Bull, Torolf Torgersen, and Catherine Parks

Issue 19  (October 1999) Alternatives to clearcutting old growth in southeast Alaska, based on science by Mike McClellan

Issue 18  (September 1999) Messy world: managing dynamic landscapes, based on science by Fred Swanson and John Cissel

Issue 17  (August 1999) Home on the range: Might the cattle peacefully graze? by James McIver

Issue 16 (July 1999) Wisdom from the little folk: the forest tales of birds, squirrels, and fungi, based on science by Andrew Carey

Issue 15  (June 1999) Seeing the forest for the trees: applying satellite remote sensing to landscape ecology and management by Thomas Spies

Issue 14  (May 1999) More rain, more drought: Will the forests thrive or die? by Ronald P. Neilson

Issue 13 (April 1999) The fish-based food web: when predator and prey connect, based on science by Mary Willson

Issue 12  (March 1999) Mushrooms in the mist: stalking the wild chanterelle, based on science by Leon Liegel and David Pilz

Issue 11  (February 1999) Confronting illusions of knowledge: How should we learn? by Bernard T. Bormann

Issue 10 (December 1998) Military maneuvers and biodiversity: strange arrangements in southern California, based on science by A. Ross Kiester

Issue 9  (November 1998) Biodiversity and intentional management: a renaissance pathway, based on science by Andrew B. Carey

Issue 8  (October 1998) Supply and demand for wood: a worldwide perspective? by David J. Brooks

Issue 7  (September 1998) Adaptive management: Good business or good buzzwords? by Jim McIver and Evelyn L. Bull

Issue 6  (August 1998) Resiliency of small rural communities in the interior Columbia basin, based on science by Stewart Allen

Issue 5 (July 1998) Tackling risks at the broad scale in the interior Columbia basin, based on science by Thomas Quigley, Jim Sedell, and Richard Haynes

Issue 4  (May 1998) It's not easy being green: the tricky world of small-diameter timber, based on science by Jamie Barbour and Roger Fight

Issue 3  (April 1998) The owl: spotted, listed, barred, or gone? by Eric Forsman and Martin Raphael

Issue 2  (March 1998) Landslides through the fish-eye lens, based on science by Kelly Burnett and Gordon Reeves (September 2001..we only have a few copies left. Please use the electronic version if possible.)

Issue 1 (February 1998) Lessons from a flooded landscape, based on science by Fred Swanson and Gordon Grant (Only available in electronic format)