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Landscape Assessment

• Ager AA, Vaillant NM, Owens DE, Brittain S, Hamann J. (2012). Overview and example application of the Landscape Treatment Designer.
  Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-859. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 11 p.

• Fischer PA, Charnley S. (2013). Managing wildfire risk in fire-prone landscapes: how are prival landowners contributing?
  Science Findings PNWRS-SF-154. Portland, OR: USDA, FS, PNW Research Station. 6 p

• Kline JD, Kerns BK, Day MA, Hammer RB. (2013). Mapping multiple forest threats in the Northwestern US. Journal of Forestry, 111 (3): 206-213.

 

Environmental Change

• Bagne K, Falk D, Finch D, Friggens M, Lynch A, Triepke J. (in review) Synthesis: Assessing the vulnerability of Chihuahuan Desert, Sonoran Desert, and Mogollon Ecoprovinces to climate change.

• BioMap Web  http://inferno.fsl.orst.edu/bmw

• Tausz M, Grulke N. (2014). Trees in a Changing Environment: Ecophysiology, Adaptation, and Future Survival. Lutrecht, The Netherlands: Springer Verlag. 250 p

 

Invasives

• Butler JL. (2013). Sickleweed on the Fort Pierre National Grasslands: An emerging threat. The Prairie Naturalist 45: 28-38.

• McMahan A, Ager AA, Smith E. (2012). Modeling bark beetle epidemics and their effects on landscape fuels, wildfire, and carbon. Forest Science

• Sniezko, R. (ed) (2013). Proceedings of the fourth international workshop on the genetics of host-parasite interactions in forestry: Disease and insect resistance in forest trees. PSW-GTR-240:Albany, CA: Pacific Southwest Research Station, Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture. 372 p

 

Human Capacity for Change

• Fischer AP, Kline JD, Ager AA, Charnley S, Olsen KA. (2013). Objective and perceived wildfire risk and its influence on private forest landowners’ fuel reduction activities in Oregon’s (USA) ponderosa pine ecoregion. International Journal of Wildland Fire: 23 (1): 143-153
• Fischer AP, Charnley S. (2012). Risk and cooperation: reducing hazardous fuels on private forest lands in eastern Oregon. Environmental Management 49:1192-1207

• Fischer AP, Kline JD, Charnley S, Olsen CS. (2012). Identifying policy target groups with qualitative and quantitative methods: the case of wildfire risk on nonindusctrial private forest lands. Journal of Forest Policy and Economics 25: 62-71
  

 

Wildfire Risk and Fuels Management

• Campbell, JL, Ager, AA. (2013) Forest wildfire, fuel reduction treatments, and landscape carbon stocks: a sensitivity analysis. Journal of Environmental Management 121: 124-132.
• Thompson MP, Vaillant NM, Haas JR, Gebert KM, Stockmann KD. (2013). Quantifying the potential impacts of fuel treatment on wildfire suppression costs. Journal of Forestry 111(1): 49-58.
• Woolley, T, Shaw, DC, Ganio, LM, (2012). A review of logistic regression models used to predict post-fire tree mortality of western North American conifers.. International Journal of Wildland Fire 27: 1 - 35.