Browsing by Subject "forestry"
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ACE Basin National Wildlife Refuge Forest Inventory and Carbon Stock Analysis
(2021-12-08)The ACE Basin National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) is 11,815 acres of critical wildlife habitat in South Carolina’s Lowcountry region. The Refuge contains a mosaic of forest types, including upland pine and hardwood, bottomland ... -
Conserving California’s Klamath-Cascade Using Spatial Climate Projections
(2014-12-08)Global climate change complicates long-term conservation of forests. To be effective into the future, conservation efforts need to consider potential global change impacts and the ability of plants and animals to adapt. ... -
Drone Use in Forestry 2021
(2021-12-08)In the last 20 years, advancements in technology, such as remote sensing, have facilitated improvements in forest management. The utilization of one remote sensing tool, in particular, an unmanned aerial vehicle (drone), ... -
Ecological and Financial Suitability of Sites for Long-Term Oak Management in Western North Carolina
(2021-04-30)For thousands of years, oak species have been the dominant canopy species in eastern and central United States hardwood forests. Oaks (Quercus spp.) provide myriad ecological services and arguably comprise the most valuable ... -
Efficacy of Monitoring Management Activities in Longleaf Pine in North Carolina Using Remote Sensing
(2019-12-10)Using remote sensing as a tool to monitor forest management intervention may reduce the time and funds needed to actively visit landscapes. However, previous research typically studied the effects of large-scale disturbances, ... -
Linking Forest Restoration to Sustainable Value Chains with se.plan
(2023-04-28)Stumpage prices for timber can be low due to lack of demand for wood products, which threatens the sustainability of tree-growing projects. Prices can increase with more investment in local wood processing facilities and ... -
Managing an Urban Preserve
(2008-04-24)Coastal land tracts are being converted to development at an alarming rate in the United States. A prime example of this fact is the greater Myrtle Beach area in South Carolina where a single private land tract has remained ... -
Powering the Future, Restoring the Past: An ecological assessment of long-term woody biomass utilization for energy in the McCloud watershed of Northern California
(2013-04-26)The forests of the Klamath-Cascade region of California are some of the most diverse and productive coniferous forests in the world. However, decades of fire suppression threaten the region's ecological complexity and the ... -
Urban Forest Planning for the Forest History Society
(2018-04-27)For this Master's Project, we worked with a local nonprofit called the Forest History Society (FHS) to assess how FHS can attain their educational and outreach goals through the creation of a new headquarters site on a 10-acre ...
