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  • Warming in the Cold North

    The Arctic and boreal regions are warming more than twice as rapidly as the rest of the world. The timing of plants’ flowering and fruiting is changing, with implications for insects, wildlife, and people who rely on these resources for food and livelihoods in Alaska.
    Year:
    2019
    Authors: 
    Author: 
    White, Rachel
    Station ID: 
    PNW
    Alias: 
    rachelwhite
    User ID: 
    1201
    Status: 
    1
    Is Researcher: 
    0
    Unit ID: 
    CAP
    ; 
    Author: 
    Prevey, Janet
    Station ID: 
    PNW
    Alias: 
    jprevey
    User ID: 
    6460
    Status: 
    0
    Is Researcher: 
    1
    Unit ID: 
    2663
    ; 
    Author: 
    Hollingsworth, Teresa
    Station ID: 
    PNW
    Alias: 
    thollingsworth
    User ID: 
    1142
    Status: 
    1
    Is Researcher: 
    1
    Unit ID: 
    2662
    ; 
    Author: 
    Andersen, Hans
    Station ID: 
    PNW
    Alias: 
    handersen
    User ID: 
    1264
    Status: 
    1
    Is Researcher: 
    1
    Unit ID: 
    2669

  • Fuel treatments: Are we doing enough?

    Although a natural ecological process, wildfire in unhealthy forests can be uncharacteristically destructive. Fuel treatments—such as thinning, mowing, prescribed fire, or managed wildfire—can help reduce or redistribute the flammable fuels that threaten to carry and intensify fire.
    Year:
    2018
    Authors: 
    Author: 
    White, Rachel
    Station ID: 
    PNW
    Alias: 
    rachelwhite
    User ID: 
    1201
    Status: 
    1
    Is Researcher: 
    0
    Unit ID: 
    CAP
    ; 
    Author: 
    Johnson, Morris
    Station ID: 
    PNW
    Alias: 
    mcjohnson
    User ID: 
    1054
    Status: 
    1
    Is Researcher: 
    1
    Unit ID: 
    2677
    ; 
    Author: 
    Vaillant, Nicole
    Station ID: 
    PNW
    Alias: 
    nvaillant
    User ID: 
    5269
    Status: 
    1
    Is Researcher: 
    0
    Unit ID: 
    2667
    ; 
    Author: 
    Fried, Jeremy
    Station ID: 
    PNW
    Alias: 
    jsfried
    User ID: 
    886
    Status: 
    1
    Is Researcher: 
    1
    Unit ID: 
    2669

  • Smoke in a new era of fire

    Smoke from fire can sharply reduce air quality by releasing particulate matter, one of the most dangerous types of air pollution for human health. A third of U.S. households have someone sensitive to smoke.
    Year:
    2017
    Authors: 
    Author: 
    White, Rachel
    Station ID: 
    PNW
    Alias: 
    rachelwhite
    User ID: 
    1201
    Status: 
    1
    Is Researcher: 
    0
    Unit ID: 
    CAP
    ; 
    Author: 
    Hessburg, Paul
    Station ID: 
    PNW
    Alias: 
    phessburg
    User ID: 
    1001
    Status: 
    1
    Is Researcher: 
    1
    Unit ID: 
    2662
    ; 
    Author: 
    Larkin, Sim
    Station ID: 
    PNW
    Alias: 
    larkin
    User ID: 
    900
    Status: 
    1
    Is Researcher: 
    1
    Unit ID: 
    2677
    ; 
    Author: 
    Varner, Morgan.
    Station ID: 
    PNW
    Alias: 
    julianvarner
    User ID: 
    6381
    Status: 
    1
    Is Researcher: 
    1
    Unit ID: 
    2677

  • Restoring rivers, sustaining communities

    Healthy Rivers Connect Humans and Ecosystems
    Year:
    2016
    Authors: 
    Author: 
    White, Rachel
    Station ID: 
    PNW
    Alias: 
    rachelwhite
    User ID: 
    1201
    Status: 
    1
    Is Researcher: 
    0
    Unit ID: 
    CAP
    ; 
    Author: 
    Wisdom, Michael
    Station ID: 
    PNW
    Alias: 
    mwisdom
    User ID: 
    1128
    Status: 
    1
    Is Researcher: 
    1
    Unit ID: 
    2662
    ; 
    Author: 
    Grant, Gordon
    Station ID: 
    PNW
    Alias: 
    ggrant
    User ID: 
    1063
    Status: 
    1
    Is Researcher: 
    1
    Unit ID: 
    2662
    ; 
    Author: 
    Rowland, Mary
    Station ID: 
    PNW
    Alias: 
    mrowland
    User ID: 
    1083
    Status: 
    1
    Is Researcher: 
    1
    Unit ID: 
    2662
    ; 
    Author: 
    Charnley, Susan
    Station ID: 
    PNW
    Alias: 
    scharnley
    User ID: 
    1085
    Status: 
    1
    Is Researcher: 
    1
    Unit ID: 
    2665

  • Alaska’s energy anxiety

    A severe climate, high transportation costs, and limited infrastructure have led to high energy costs in many places in Alaska, particularly in remote villages. Some communities are seeking opportunities to convert oil and electrical heat to a renewable energy source such as woody biomass.
    Year:
    2015
    Authors: 
    Author: 
    White, Rachel
    Station ID: 
    PNW
    Alias: 
    rachelwhite
    User ID: 
    1201
    Status: 
    1
    Is Researcher: 
    0
    Unit ID: 
    CAP
    ; 
    Author: 
    Nicholls, David
    Station ID: 
    PNW
    Alias: 
    dlnicholls
    User ID: 
    1148
    Status: 
    1
    Is Researcher: 
    1
    Unit ID: 
    2665
    ; 
    Author: 
    Brackley, Allen
    Station ID: 
    PNW
    Alias: 
    abrackley
    User ID: 
    1210
    Status: 
    1
    Is Researcher: 
    1
    Unit ID: 
    2665
    ; 
    Author: 
    Deering, Robert
    Status: 
    0
    Is Researcher: 
    0

  • Landscape models: helping land managers think big

    In a sun-baked, grassy clearing on the east side of the Cascade Range in central Washington, Pacific Northwest (PNW) Research Station landscape ecologist Miles Hemstrom and a group of ecologists and land managers from the Washington Department of Natural Resources (DNR) gather in the shade of a pond
    Year:
    2011
    Authors: 
    Author: 
    White, Rachel
    Station ID: 
    PNW
    Alias: 
    rachelwhite
    User ID: 
    1201
    Status: 
    1
    Is Researcher: 
    0
    Unit ID: 
    CAP
    ; 
    Author: 
    Mazza, Rhonda
    Station ID: 
    PNW
    Alias: 
    rmazza
    User ID: 
    1111
    Status: 
    1
    Is Researcher: 
    0
    Unit ID: 
    CAP

  • The mighty oak faces challenges in the Pacific West

    In popular imagination, the oak tree stands for strength, endurance, and longevity. But in the coastal lowlands and central valleys of British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, and California, oaks face a battery of natural and human-induced threats.
    Year:
    2010
    Authors: 
    Author: 
    Wells, Gail
    Status: 
    0
    Is Researcher: 
    0

  • Mount St. Helens 30 years later: a landscape reconfigured.

    On May 18, 1980, after two months of tremors, Mount St. Helens erupted spectacularly and profoundly changed a vast area surrounding the volcano. The north slope of the mountain catastrophically failed, forming the largest landslide witnessed in modern times.

    Year:
    2010
    Authors: 
    Author: 
    Mazza, Rhonda
    Status: 
    0
    Is Researcher: 
    0

  • Understanding the social and economic transitions of forest communities.

    For much of the last century, the connection between national forests and many rural forest communities, especially in the Pacific Northwest, was defined by timber-related employment.
    Year:
    2008
    Authors: 
    Author: 
    Maleki, Sussanne
    Status: 
    0
    Is Researcher: 
    0

  • Changing with the climate

    Carbon is a naturally occurring compound, essential to life on this planet. We exhale it, while plants absorb it as part of the photosynthetic process. Human activities have altered the carbon balance, however, and as a result have triggered changes in climates around the world.
    Year:
    2008
    Authors: 
    Author: 
    Mazza, Rhonda
    Station ID: 
    PNW
    Alias: 
    rmazza
    User ID: 
    1111
    Status: 
    1
    Is Researcher: 
    0
    Unit ID: 
    CAP

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