Forest and Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center
Email:
awoodward@usgs.gov
ORCID:
0000-0003-0604-9115
Supervisor:
Martin S Fitzpatrick
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Categories: Project;
Tags: 2011,
Alaska-British Columbia Coast,
Alaska-British Columbia Mountains,
Klamath-Olympic-Cascade Mountains,
NPLCC, All tags...
NPLCC geographic area,
NWCSC,
Other,
Other Project,
Puget-Georgia Basin Lowland and Willamette Valley,
USGS,
and Washington-Oregon-Northern California Coast,
climate change impacts,
ecoregions,
land use,
stressors, Fewer tags
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Climate change vulnerability assessments and associated adaptation strategies and actions connect existing climate science with possible effects on natural resources and highlight potential responses. However, these assessments, which are commonly generated for large regional areas, suggest management options in general terms without guidance for choosing among strategies and actions under specific circumstances. Meanwhile, land and resource management plans1 often address smaller geographies, and management actions must address specific rather than general situations. Thus, there is a need for tools that enable managers to bridge the gap by downscaling assessments, plans, and data generated at regional scales to...
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Beschta and Ripple (2012) assert that increased elk populations in the Olympic National Park due to extirpation of wolves in the 1920’s has led to a reduction in riparian vegetation. They hypothesize that a decrease in this vegetation has led to an increase in erosion and undercutting of large conifer trees along the river banks, causing woody debris in the river, which in turn impacts channel morphology. Using imagery dating from 1939 and a set of digitized channel margins for each year, we classified vegetation changes that have occurred along the Hoh, Queets, and Quinault Rivers. We focused on identifying large conifers near the river that could impact water flow and channel morphology if undercut and classified...
Categories: Data;
Types: Downloadable,
Map Service,
OGC WFS Layer,
OGC WMS Layer,
Shapefile;
Tags: FRESC,
Natural Resources Condition Assessment,
Olympic National Park,
Olympic National Park,
USGS, All tags...
USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC),
environment,
geoscientificInformation,
inlandWaters,
riparian vegetation, Fewer tags
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Categories: Project;
Tags: 2012,
NWCSC,
Other,
Other Project,
Sauk River, All tags...
Sauk-Suiattle Tribe,
Stella software,
USGS,
decision support tool,
tribal resources,
western Washington,
western Washington, Fewer tags
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