Central Cascades Adaptive Management Area Research and Monitoring

Last updated: December 15, 1996

Title: Long-Term Environmental Measurements Program - Vegetation

Purpose: to better understand natural processes of succession, tree mortality, biomass accumulation, timber growth, and herb and shrub dynamics.
Method: A network of over 100 permanent vegetation study areas are periodically measured.
Location: Central Cascades Adaptive Management Area and environs
Key Contact: Steve Acker, Oregon State University

Title: Long-Term Environmental Measurements Program - Meteorology

Purpose: Identify long-term climate record
Method: A permanent network of meteorological stations spanning different environmental zones record precipitation, temperature, humidity, snow depth and duration, wind speed and direction, acidic precipitation and atmospheric wet fall/dry fall.
Location: Central Cascades Adaptive Management Area and environs
Key Contact: David Greenup, University of Oregon

Title: Long-Term Environmental Measurements Program - Hydrology

Purpose: to provide comparisons of undisturbed, moderately disturbed, and heavily disturbed watersheds.
Method: Stream discharge, water chemistry, water temperature are continuously measured in four sets of paired-watersheds across a range of sizes and elevations
Location: Central Cascades Adaptive Management Area and environs
Key Contact: Gordon Grant, Corvallis Forest Sciences Lab, USDA Forest Service

Title: Long-Term Environmental Measurements Program - Erosion

Purpose: estimate erosion rates and to correlate these rates with landscape characteristics and human uses.
Methods: Networks of sites monitor sediment export from the paired-watersheds, long-term movement rates of deep-seated earthflows, and the occurrence of landslides and debris-flows
Location: Central Cascades Adaptive Management Area and environs
Key Contact: Fred Swanson,Corvallis Forest Sciences Lab, USDA Forest Service

Title: Long-Term Environmental Measurements Program - Stream channels

Purpose: Changes in stream channel morphology
Method: Measured through permanent channel cross-sections, time-lapse photographs, and field surveys of large woody material input rates, residence time, transport distance, and physical characteristics.
Location: Central Cascades Adaptive Management Area and environs
Key Contact: Gordon Grant, Corvallis Forest Sciences Lab, USDA Forest Service

Title: Meteorology

Purpose: Variation in climatic variables is of critical importance when interpreting a wide variety of ecological processes. The Andrews meteorological datasets provide point measurements for the last 45 years. Two projects are attempting to extend the usefulness of these data over time and space.
1. Temporal variability - The Andrews meteorological dataset has been extended back in time through statistical relationships with regional meteorological data, so that correlations with El Niño events, ocean salmon catch, and other meteorological stations throughout the LTER network can be made.
2. Spatial variability - Meteorological datasets are being analyzed to determine patterns in the spatial variability of climatic variables and to develop relationships with local topography.
Status: The Andrews meteorological datasets provide point measurements for the last 45 years.
Location: Central Cascades Adaptive Management Area and environs
Key Contact: David Greenland, University of Oregon

Title: Roading and cutting effects on peak streamflows

Purpose: to determine the effects of roads, clearcuts and subsequent revegetation on peak streamflows.
Status: Forty years of stream discharge records for three small, low-elevation paired watersheds, and for three pairs of large watersheds, have recently been reanalyzed
Location: Central Cascades Adaptive Management Area
Key Contact: Julia Jones, Oregon State University and Gordan Grant, Corvallis Forest Sciences Lab, USDA Forest Service

Title: Road effects on hydrology

Purpose: A field project is underway to evaluate the significance of road networks in terms of altered hydrologic processes, such as potential increased peak streamflows.
Location: Central Cascades Adaptive Management Area
Key Contact: Beverley Wemple, Oregon State University

Title: Hyporheic zone

Purpose The movement of groundwater, nutrients and organisms in wetted areas beneath the surface in riparian areas (the hyporheic zone) is being analyzed.
Location: Central Cascades Adaptive Management Area
Key Contact: Steve Wondzell, Oregon State University

Title: Soil Processes and Productivity

Purpose: A wide variety of studies are underway to better understand forest soils, nutrient cycles and the factors controlling long-term forest productivity. Major areas of investigation include nitrogen cycles, mycorrhizal mat communities, organic matter
storage, and the flux of atmospheric gases to and from forest soils. The influences of forest cutting and silvicultural practices on these soil processes are being examined.
Location: Central Cascades Adaptive Management Area
Key Contact: Bob Griffiths, Oregon State University and Bernard Bormann, Corvallis Lab, USDA Forest Service

Title: Mycorrhizal mat communities

Purpose: Studies of are underway to better understand the dynamics of mat development, the mechanisms that allow these mats to facilitate growth of conifers on stressed sites, and the role of these mats in nutrient cycles and in reducing root pathogen development.
Location: Central Cascades Adaptive Management Area
Key Contact: Bob Griffiths, Oregon State University

Title: Ceanothus ecology

Purpose: The limits on establishment, growth rates, and nitrogen fixation rates of Ceanothus are being studied on the Andrews Experiment Forest.
Location: Central Cascades Adaptive Management Area
Key Contact: Phil Sollins, Oregon State University

Title: Douglas-fir and alder interactions

Purpose: Varying proportions and densities of nitrogen-fixing red alder and Douglas-fir have been established as part of a two-site study (second site is in the Coast Range) to evaluate the effect of red alder on Douglas-fir growth.
Location: Central Cascades Adaptive Management Area
Key Contact: David Hibbs, Oregon State University

Title: Nitrogen fixation in downed wood

Purpose: A combination of laboratory and field experiments are underway to better understand the effects of temperature, moisture, oxygen concentration, tree species, tissue type, and the amount and type of decay on nitrogen fixation rates, and to quantitatively estimate the importance of nitrogen fixation in downed wood for nitrogen and carbon cycling
Location: Central Cascades Adaptive Management Area
Key Contact: Mark Harmon and Dan Hicks, Oregon State University

Title: Soil nitrogen dynamics

Purpose: Soil samples have been transferred across elevation zones to look at the potential effects of climate change on nitrogen transformations.
Location: Central Cascades Adaptive Management Area
Key Contact: David Perry, Oregon State University

Title: Young stand study

Purpose: A plantation spacing and nutrient study is evaluating the effects of thinning, pruning, and fertilization on competition, growth and wood quality.
Location: Central Cascades Adaptive Management Area
Key Contact: David Perry, Oregon State University

Title: Long-Term Ecosystem Productivity (LTEP)

Purpose: As part of a five-site regional network, a field experiment is evaluating the effects of species composition and forest floor organic matter on a wide variety of ecosystem productivity measures.
Location: Central Cascades Adaptive Management Area
Key Contact: Jim Boyce, Oregon State University and Jim Overton, Willamette National Forest

Title: Gas exchange patterns in the soil

Purpose: Periodic measurements of soil respiration and a wide range of soil characteristics are made across a network of 180 sites on the Andrews to better describe controls over soil respiration and other soil processes.
Location: on the Andrews Experimental Forest in the Central Cascades Adaptive Management Area
Key Contact: Bob Griffiths, Oregon State University

Title: Soil wet-up experiment

Purpose: The influence of moisture content on gas fluxes is being investigated through a series of soil wetting experiments.
Location: Central Cascades Adaptive Management Area
Key Contact: Bob Griffiths, Oregon State University

Title: Long-term log decomposition

Purpose: A 200-year study is evaluating decomposition rates and processes for four conifer species in both upslope and stream environments.
Location: Central Cascades Adaptive Management Area
Key Contact: Mark Harmon, Oregon State University

Title: Leaf and fine litter decomposition

Purpose: Decomposition rates and processes of fine litter and leaves are being analyzed
Location: Central Cascades Adaptive Management Areaas part of an international, 28-site study extending from the north slope of Alaska to Costa Rica.
Key Contact: Mark Harmon, Oregon State University

Title: Root decomposition

Purpose: The factors controlling root decomposition are being evaluated as part of a regional study involving coastal, western Cascade and eastside forests.
Location: Central Cascades Adaptive Management Area
Key Contact: Mark Harmon, Oregon State University

Title: Seedling growth and litter decomposition

Purpose: A field study is being conducted to compare results with detailed tree growth and decomposition studies in growth chambers where alternative climate change scenarios are being simulated.
Location: Central Cascades Adaptive Management Area
Key Contact: Bill Hogsett, Corvallis EPA Lab and Doug Shank, Willamette NF

Title: Regional carbon stores

Purpose: The role of timber harvesting and forest regrowth on the Pacific Northwest regional carbon budget is being evaluated with a time-series of satellite images across the region.
Key Contact: Mark Harmon, Oregon State University

Title: Linked multi-scale models

Purpose: Changes in terrestrial carbon stores and carbon exchange with the atmosphere are being assessed with a linked series of stand-, landscape-, and regional-scale models.
Location: Central Cascades Adaptive Management Area
Key Contact: Mark Harmon, Oregon State University

Title: Blue River landscape project

Purpose: to develop and monitor an integrated landscape management approach, based upon interpretations of historic disturbance regimes, to guide future management activities.
Location: Central Cascades Adaptive Management Area in the Blue River watershed
Key Contact: John Cissel, Willamette NF

Title: Landscape pattern dynamics

Purpose: Existing landscape structure is being compared to historic and potential future conditions in the Lookout Creek basin based upon fire history studies, reconstructed landscape conditions, and a simple simulated timber cutting model.
Location: Central Cascades Adaptive Management Area
Key Contact: Dave Wallin, Western Washington University

Title: Landscape pattern inertia

Purpose: Alternative future landscapes in the Cook-Quentin study area were evaluated to determine how long it takes to achieve landscape pattern objectives under various timber cutting rules given current landscape conditions.
Location: Central Cascades Adaptive Management Area
Key Contact: Dave Wallin, Western Washington University

Title: Forest distribution and change

Purpose: Satellite imagery from 1972 and 1992 was used to analyze landscape change for various ownership and land-use categories within a large western central Cascades study area.
Location: Central Cascades Adaptive Management Area
Key Contact: Tom Spies, Corvallis Forest Sciences Lab, USDA Forest Service

Title: Landscape pattern and vertebrate diversity

Purpose: Statistical models are being developed to map changes in habitat for selected vertebrates from twenty years of satellite imagery.
Location: Central Cascades Adaptive Management Area
Key Contact: Dave Wallin, Western Washington University

Title: Pre-logging landscape patterns

urpose: A 1933 forest cover type map is being analyzed to determine the relationship of various environmental factors to a pre-logging landscape pattern
Location: in three western Oregon study areas, including one that covers most of the Adaptive Management Area.
Key Contact: Mary Rasmussen, Willamette National Forest

Title: South Fork pilot watershed analysis

Purpose: The pilot team tested watershed analysis procedures under the Northwest Forest Plan and analyzed watershed conditions, trends, and key processes.
Location: Central Cascades Adaptive Management Area
Key Contact: Karen Geary, Willamette National Forest

Title: Road networks

Purpose: Road density and placement as a function of topography are being compared across ownership and broad land-use categories in central western Oregon.
Location: Central Cascades Adaptive Management Area
Key Contact: Julia Jones, Oregon State University

Title: Land-use patterns across large drainage basins

Purpose: Interactions among social and ecological processes that affected land-use and vegetative patterns between two contrasting large basins (McKenzie River and the Middle Fork of the Willamette River) are being analyzed.
Location: Central Cascades Adaptive Management Area
Key Contact: Steve Radosevich and Phil Sollins, Oregon State Univ.

Title: Fire regimes - Central Cascades

Purpose: fire regimes are being described based upon earlier fire history studies and relationships among topographic, climatic, and vegetative types and fire patterns.
Location: Central Cascades Adaptive Management Area
Key Contact: Pete Weisberg, Oregon State University

Title: Fire regimes and stand structure

Purpose: Stand structure data, such as down wood and snags, and environmental variables are being compared to fire regime information to determine if projections of coarse woody debris amounts can be made from fire regimes.
Location: Central Cascades Adaptive Management Area
Key Contact: Pam Wright, Willamette National Forest

Title: Paleoecological studies

Purpose: Pollen, plant material and charcoal from sediment cores taken from several lakes and bogs in the western central Oregon Cascades are being analyzed to determine changes in fire frequency and plant composition and relative abundance over the last 10,000 years.
Location: Central Cascades Adaptive Management Area
Key Contact: Cathy Whitlock, University of Oregon

Title: Exotic plants

Purpose: Patterns of exotic plant invasion are being examined in relation to plant dispersal mechanisms and forest road, trail and timber cutting patterns.
Location: Central Cascades Adaptive Management Area
Key Contact: Laurie Parendes, Oregon State University

Title: Debris-flows

Purpose: A 90 meter-long experimental debris-flow flume allows geologists to measure all phases of the debris-flow process, from initiation to deposition.
Location: Central Cascades Adaptive Management Area
Key Contact: Dick Iverson, US Geological Survey

Title: Landslides

Purpose: Landslides triggered by the flood of 96 are being inventoried to determine the effects of changes in management practices over time on landslide occurrence.
Location: Central Cascades Adaptive Management Area
Key Contact: Fred Swanson, Corvallis Forest Sciences Lab, USDA Forest Service

Title: Long-term trout populations

Purpose: Population structure in clearcut and old-growth stream reaches of Mack Creek have been measured since 1973.
Location: Central Cascades Adaptive Management Area
Key Contact: Stan Gregory, Oregon State University

Title: Flood recovery

Purpose: Responses of stream channels, aquatic communities, and riparian vegetation to the Flood of 96 are being assessed.
Location: Central Cascades Adaptive Management Area
Key Contact: Gordon Grant, and Fred Swanson of Corvallis Fores Sciences Lab and 
Stan Gregory, Julia Jones, and Sherri Johnson of Oregon State Univ.

Title: Debris-flow recovery

Purpose: Recovery of fish populations, macroinvertebrates, water chemistry, and channel structure following a debris-flow are being measured.
Location: Central Cascades Adaptive Management Area
Key Contact: Stan Gregory, Oregon State University

Title: Nutrient addition

Purpose: Stream trophic level responses to changes in primary productivity are being evaluated.
Location: Central Cascades Adaptive Management Area
Key Contact: Stan Gregory, Oregon State University

Title: McKenzie River dynamics

Purpose: Changes in channel form and riparian vegetation from the late 1940s to 1986 were analyzed and documented
Location: on the upper 70 kilometers of the McKenzie River in the Central Cascades Adaptive Management Area
Key Contact: Paula Minear and Stan Gregory, Oregon State University

Title: Landscape pattern of riparian forests

Purpose: The composition, structure and dynamics of riparian forests is being compared among several large watersheds.
Location: Central Cascades Adaptive Management Area
Key Contact: Linda Asukenas, Oregon State University

Title: Successional processes in natural forests and following logging

Location: Central Cascades Adaptive Management Area
Key Contact: Charlie Halpern, University of Washington and Art McKee, Oregon State University

Title: Development of old growth structure and volume in maturing Douglas-fir stands

Location: Central Cascades Adaptive Management Area
Key Contact: Steve Acker, Oregon State University

Title: Structure, productivity, and mortality rates of riparian forests

Location: Central Cascades Adaptive Management Area
Key Contact: Steve Acker and Art McKee, Oregon State University

Title: Plant demographic patterns

Purpose: Comparison of factors controlling growth, yield and biomass accumulation rates
Location: Central Cascades Adaptive Management Area
Key Contact: Art McKee, Oregon State University

Title: Growth and yield of noble fir forests

Location: Central Cascades Adaptive Management Area
Key Contact: Art McKee, Oregon State University

Title: Forest canopy gaps

Purpose: Small gaps in the forest canopy were created on the Andrews as part of a two-site experiment (second site is in western Washington) to better understand the effects of gap size and position on tree, shrub, and herb regeneration; seed rain; microclimate; and soil characteristics.
Location: Andrews Experimental Forest in the Central Cascades Adaptive Management Area
Key Contact: Tom Spies, Corvallis Forest Sciences Lab, USDA Forest Service

Title: Forest stand dynamics modeling

Purpose: A computer simulation model, called ZELIG-PNW, is being used to assess the consequences of a wide variety of alternative timber cutting regimes on future stand composition, growth, mortality and structure.
Location: Central Cascades Adaptive Management Area
Key Contact: Stan Garman, Oregon State University

Title: Early-successional plant populations

Purpose: Changes in plant populations in the Pacific silver fir zone during early succession following logging are being investigated in a study on the Andrews.
Location: Central Cascades Adaptive Management Area
Key Contact: Mark Wilson, Oregon State University

Title: Tall bugbane monitoring

Purpose: Monitoring of tall bugbane (Cimicifuga elata), a sensitive plant species, is ongoing to determine population size and reproductive status.
Location: Central Cascades Adaptive Management Area
Key Contact: Alice Smith, WNE

Title: Fungi temporal dynamics

Purpose: A retrospective study compared old growth, mature stands, and thinned stands to better understand the habitat preferences and association of certain fungi with forest succession following disturbance.
Location: Central Cascades Adaptive Management Area
Key Contact: Randy Molina, Corvallis Forest Sciences Lab, USDA Forest Service

Title: Forest canopy epiphytes

Purpose: Using ropes and an upper canopy platform, changes in species composition across forest age classes, within the crowns of individual trees, from forest edge to forest interior, and from streamside to upper slopes are being assessed.
Location: Central Cascades Adaptive Management Area
Key Contact: Steve Sillet, Humboldt State University

Title: Riparian moss communities

Purpose: Moss species composition and abundance were surveyed in riparian areas to determine relationships with elevation and stream size.
Location: Central Cascades Adaptive Management Area
Key Contact: Art McKee, Oregon State University

Title: Invertebrates

Purpose: Insects, spiders, mites and other arthropods are sampled seasonally at several locations on the Andrews Forest to develop a data base on abundance, distribution, habitat affiliations and overall biological diversity. The 3400 species collected to date are estimated to represent approximately half of the total species. This basic information is used in many studies. A variety of ongoing studies are attempting to further identify the species in the area and to better understand the roles these small organisms play in nutrient cycling, pollination, predation, parasitism, herbivory, and resiliency to disturbances.
Location: Several locations on the Andrews Experimenatal Forest in the Central Cascades Adaptive Management Area
Key Contact: Jack Lattin, Oregon State University

Title: Riparian zone arthropods

Purpose: Transects spanning upslope and riparian environments have been established to compare arthropod composition in riparian areas to upslope areas.
Location: Central Cascades Adaptive Management Area
Key Contact: Jack Lattin and Jim LaBonte, Oregon State University

Title: Canopy arthropod ecology

Purpose: This study is looking at the influence of canopy architecture and spider species behavior on the composition of forest canopy arthropods.
Location: Central Cascades Adaptive Management Area
Key Contact: Tim Schowalter, Oregon State University

Title: Role of arthropods in wood decomposition

Purpose: Logs have been inoculated with various arthropod species at different depths under different moisture conditions to determine the role and interactions of arthropods in wood decomposition.
Location: Central Cascades Adaptive Management Area
Key Contact: Tim Schowalter, Oregon State University

Title: Moths and butterfly ecology

Purpose: Moth and butterfly sampling, trapping and rearing studies are underway to determine host plants, parasites, and identity of larvae and adults.
Location: Central Cascades Adaptive Management Area
Key Contact: Jeff Miller, Oregon State University

Title: Canopy invertebrate temporal dynamics

Purpose: Canopy invertebrate response to forest development and disturbance intensity is being assessed through comparison of old growth and mature natural forest, old-growth shelterwoods, and 10-15 year old plantations.
Location: Central Cascades Adaptive Management Area
Key Contact: Tim Schowalter, Oregon State University

Title: Soil arthropods

Purpose: Extensive samples of litter and soil organisms have been taken in forested habitats to characterize these diverse invertebrates.
Location: Central Cascades Adaptive Management Area
Key Contact:

Title: Hemiptera

Purpose: The habitats, distribution, and identity of true bugs are being assessed in this study.
Location: Central Cascades Adaptive Management Area
Key Contact: John Cissel (541) 822-3317 or Diana Bus (541) 683-6633 or 
Fred Swanson (541) 750-7355

Title: Arthropods of Pacific yew

Purpose: A review of the insects and other arthropods found on Pacific yew and other species of yew was just completed.
Location: Central Cascades Adaptive Management Area
Key Contact: John Cissel (541) 822-3317 or Diana Bus (541) 683-6633 or 
Fred Swanson (541) 750-7355

Title: Spotted Owl

Purpose: The northern spotted owl has taken center stage in the last decade in the policy debates over the fate of the Northwest's remaining old forests. Five sites in a regional network, known informally as the Cornerstone Study Sites, have provided the bulk of the scientific information that underpin current management approaches for conservation of the species.
Location: The H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest, within the Central Cascades Adaptive management Area, and surrounding lands are one of the five sites.
Key Contact: John Cissel (541) 822-3317 or Diana Bus (541) 683-6633 or 
Fred Swanson (541) 750-7355

Title: Prey species

Purpose: A series of studies have focused on the population dynamics, community ecology and habitat affiliations of small mammals, especially northern flying squirrels, Townsend's chipmunks, and deer mice, that make up the prey base for the spotted owl.
Location: Central Cascades Adaptive Management Area
Key Contact: John Cissel (541) 822-3317 or Diana Bus (541) 683-6633 or 
Fred Swanson (541) 750-7355

Title: Demography

Purpose: Spotted owl birth, survival, and death rates are being analyzed in this large-scale study.
Location: Central Cascades Adaptive Management Area
Key Contact: John Cissel (541) 822-3317 or Diana Bus (541) 683-6633 or 
Fred Swanson (541) 750-7355

Title: Density

Purpose: A comprehensive sample attempts to accurately determine the total numbers of spotted owls in the study area.
Location: Central Cascades Adaptive Management Area
Key Contact: John Cissel (541) 822-3317 or Diana Bus (541) 683-6633 or 
Fred Swanson (541) 750-7355

Title: Habitat preferences

Purpose: Spotted owl home range composition and habitat use is being analyzed in both highly fragmented habitat and in relatively contiguous mature- and old-forest habitat.
Location: Central Cascades Adaptive Management Area
Key Contact: John Cissel (541) 822-3317 or Diana Bus (541) 683-6633 or 
Fred Swanson (541) 750-7355

Title: Predators

Purpose: Relative use of both fragmented and unfragmented landscapes by the primary predator of the northern spotted owl, the great horned owl, and the spotted owl was recently analyzed.
Location: Central Cascades Adaptive Management Area
Key Contact: John Cissel (541) 822-3317 or Diana Bus (541) 683-6633 or 
Fred Swanson (541) 750-7355

Title: Reproduction and landscape pattern

Purpose: Spotted owl site usage is being analyzed to determine the relationship between spotted owl nest-site selection, reproductive success and forest fragmentation.
Location: Central Cascades Adaptive Management Area
Key Contact: John Cissel (541) 822-3317 or Diana Bus (541) 683-6633 or 
Fred Swanson (541) 750-7355

Title: Amphibian distribution

Purpose: A large-scale project aims to determine general distribution patterns and habitat associations of amphibians.
Location: in the Blue River watershed, Central Cascades Adaptive Management Area
Key Contact: John Cissel (541) 822-3317 or Diana Bus (541) 683-6633 or 
Fred Swanson (541) 750-7355

Title: Riparian bird and mammal communities

Purpose: The species composition, abundance and structure of songbird and small mammal communities has been assessed in riparian areas of young, mature, and old-growth forests.
Location: Central Cascades Adaptive Management Area
Key Contact: John Cissel (541) 822-3317 or Diana Bus (541) 683-6633 or 
Fred Swanson (541) 750-7355

Title: Neotropical songbirds

Purpose: As part of the national Monitoring Avian Productivity and Survivorship (MAPS) program, neotropical migratory songbirds are monitored to assess population trends, survivorship, and breeding success.
Location: Central Cascades Adaptive Management Area
Key Contact: John Cissel (541) 822-3317 or Diana Bus (541) 683-6633 or 
Fred Swanson (541) 750-7355

Title: Harlequin ducks

Purpose: Investigators are locating nesting and brooding Harlequin ducks using radio telemetry, and describing habitat features at site and landscape scales.
Location: Central Cascades Adaptive Management Area
Key Contact: John Cissel (541) 822-3317 or Diana Bus (541) 683-6633 or 
Fred Swanson (541) 750-7355

Title: Fish parasite interactions

Purpose: The parasite-host interactions of a parasite infecting Cutthroat trout is being studied.
Location: Central Cascades Adaptive Management Area
Key Contact: John Cissel (541) 822-3317 or Diana Bus (541) 683-6633 or 
Fred Swanson (541) 750-7355

Title: Bats

Purpose: Two projects are underway analyzing bat roost characteristics and locations, and bat foraging habitat.
Location: Central Cascades Adaptive Management Area
Key Contact: John Cissel (541) 822-3317 or Diana Bus (541) 683-6633 or 
Fred Swanson (541) 750-7355

Title: Public attitudes on forestry issues

Purpose: Surveys were administered to a large number of Lane and Linn County residents in 1994 to determine people's attitudes on a wide range of forestry issues.
Location: Central Cascades Adaptive Management Area
Key Contact: John Cissel (541) 822-3317 or Diana Bus (541) 683-6633 or 
Fred Swanson (541) 750-7355

Title: Upper McKenzie economic development

Purpose: A study of economic trends and strengths of the upper McKenzie River valley is being used as a basis for development of a strategic plan and economic development projects.
Location: Central Cascades Adaptive Management Area
Key Contact: John Cissel (541) 822-3317 or Diana Bus (541) 683-6633 or 
Fred Swanson (541) 750-7355

Title: Ecosystem workforce pilot project

Purpose: Organized as an interagency partnership under the State Community Economic Revitalization Team (SCERT), the pilot project demonstrated that a targeted program of employing dislocated workers to perform ecosystem restoration projects can be successful.
Location: Central Cascades Adaptive Management Area
Key Contact: John Cissel (541) 822-3317 or Diana Bus (541) 683-6633 or 
Fred Swanson (541) 750-7355

Title: McKenzie River user satisfaction

Purpose: A survey is being conducted to document river use levels, types and levels of interaction among users, and user feelings about the satisfaction of their experiences.
Location: Central Cascades Adaptive Management Area
Key Contact: John Cissel (541) 822-3317 or Diana Bus (541) 683-6633 or 
Fred Swanson (541) 750-7355

Title: Delta Showcase public participation

Purpose: The Delta Showcase project tested and evaluated a collaborative public decision-building process organized according to a Delphi model and run by the University of Oregon's Planning and Policymaking program.
Location: Central Cascades Adaptive Management Area
Key Contact: John Cissel (541) 822-3317 or Diana Bus (541) 683-6633 or 
Fred Swanson (541) 750-7355

Title: Social acceptability of forestry practices

Purpose: People's reactions to alternative forestry practices on a series of tours to the Andrews Experimental Forest and nearby lands were recorded and analyzed.
Location: Central Cascades Adaptive Management Area
Key Contact: John Cissel (541) 822-3317 or Diana Bus (541) 683-6633 or 
Fred Swanson (541) 750-7355

Title: Special forest products assessment

Purpose: The study includes an inventory of targeted species, product market evaluations, recommended harvest methods to conserve the species and protect the environment, an evaluation of administrative policies, and an economic analysis of a potential processing plant sited in Sweet Home.
Location: Central Cascades Adaptive Management Area

Title: Young stand thinning and diversity study

Purpose: This study is evaluating the effectiveness of alternative thinning and underplanting treatments in 30-40 year old plantations in terms of biological diversity, nutrient cycling, special forest products, conifer production and economics.
Location: Central Cascades Adaptive Management Area
Key Contact: John Cissel (541) 822-3317 or Diana Bus (541) 683-6633 or 
Fred Swanson (541) 750-7355

Title: Monitoring of green tree retention cutting

Purpose: A variety of studies are evaluating blowdown rates, overstory and understory growth and mortality, diversity and abundance of mycorrhizal fungi, diversity and abundance of soil microarthropods, economics, and birds in recent timber harvest units.
Location: Central Cascades Adaptive Management Area
Key Contact: John Cissel (541) 822-3317 or Diana Bus (541) 683-6633 or 
Fred Swanson (541) 750-7355

Title: Retrospective studies of overstory retention

Purpose: A set of retrospective studies assessed diversity of vascular plants, biomass and diversity of epiphytes, abundance and diversity of mycorrhizal fungi, and conifer growth and mortality in fire-created, two-storied stands as a surrogate for 40-80 year-old green tree retention units.
Location: Central Cascades Adaptive Management Area
Key Contact: John Cissel (541) 822-3317 or Diana Bus (541) 683-6633 or 
Fred Swanson (541) 750-7355

Title: Retrospective study of young-growth Douglas-fir

Purpose: Commercially thinned and unthinned young-growth Douglas-fir stands are being evaluated to determine how past treatments have effected stand and habitat characteristics such as large tree and understory development, vegetative diversity, stand growth, and wildlife populations.
Location: Central Cascades Adaptive Management Area
Key Contact: John Cissel (541) 822-3317 or Diana Bus (541) 683-6633 or 
Fred Swanson (541) 750-7355

Title: Slim Scout structural retention

Purpose: Over one hundred tours have visited the Slim Scout Demonstration Area where green tree and snag retention, down wood retention, and landscape approaches to unit location and fuels treatments are demonstrated and monitored.
Location: Central Cascades Adaptive Management Area
Key Contact: John Cissel (541) 822-3317 or Diana Bus (541) 683-6633 or 
Fred Swanson (541) 750-7355

Title: Very Young Stand Demo

Purpose: A variety of thinning densities and gap sizes in 10-15 year-old plantations will be demonstrated and monitored.
Location: Central Cascades Adaptive Management Area
Key Contact: John Cissel (541) 822-3317 or Diana Bus (541) 683-6633 or 
Fred Swanson (541) 750-7355

Title: Wildlife use of created snags

Purpose: Monitoring efforts are underway to compare cavity development and snag use for various snag-creation methods.
Location: Central Cascades Adaptive Management Area
Key Contact: John Cissel (541) 822-3317 or Diana Bus (541) 683-6633 or 
Fred Swanson (541) 750-7355

Title: Quartz Creek stream restoration

Purpose: Large-wood structures were installed in 1988 to evaluate the effectiveness of instream structures for stream channel and fish population recovery, and to evaluate alternative methods of structure attachment.
Location: Central Cascades Adaptive Management Area
Key Contact: John Cissel (541) 822-3317 or Diana Bus (541) 683-6633 or 
Fred Swanson (541) 750-7355

Pool complexity study

Purpose: Vertebrate populations, wood dynamics, and leaf retention are being assessed in an experimental manipulation of varied woody debris loadings in three streams.
Location: Central Cascades Adaptive Management Area
Key Contact: John Cissel (541) 822-3317 or Diana Bus (541) 683-6633 or 
Fred Swanson (541) 750-7355

Title: Effects of barrier removal on cutthroat trout

Purpose: Monitoring of the genetic makeup of cutthroat trout populations following barrier removal is designed to asses rates of population intermixing and genetic drift.
Location: Central Cascades Adaptive Management Area
Key Contact: John Cissel (541) 822-3317 or Diana Bus (541) 683-6633 or 
Fred Swanson (541) 750-7355

Title: Gate Creek restoration

Purpose: This project is intended to demonstrate stream restoration strategies in an mixed-ownership watershed.
Location: Central Cascades Adaptive Management Area
Key Contact: John Cissel (541) 822-3317 or Diana Bus (541) 683-6633 or 
Fred Swanson (541) 750-7355

Title: Bull Trout monitoring

Purpose: Adult bull trout in Cougar and Trailbridge Reservoirs are being trapped and implemented with radio transmitters to document bull trout movements, timing of upstream migrations, and to identify upstream spawning areas.
Location: Central Cascades Adaptive Management Area
Key Contact: John Cissel (541) 822-3317 or Diana Bus (541) 683-6633 or 
Fred Swanson (541) 750-7355

Title: Rehabilitation monitoring

Purpose: This project is evaluating the effectiveness of anchored versus unanchored stream restoration structures in terms of winter refugia for wild steelhead, dissipation of high flow energy, summer hiding cover, and nutrient retention.
Location: Central Cascades Adaptive Management Area
Key Contact: John Cissel (541) 822-3317 or Diana Bus (541) 683-6633 or 
Fred Swanson (541) 750-7355

Title: Blue River Reservoir revegetation

Purpose: Various species of grasses, sedges, shrubs, and trees have been planted and monitored for survival and growth in this harsh zone of alternating periods of inundation and exposure.
Location: Central Cascades Adaptive Management Area
Key Contact: John Cissel (541) 822-3317 or Diana Bus (541) 683-6633 or 
Fred Swanson (541) 750-7355