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Research to Inform Prescribed Fire Operations
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Understanding Fire History to Foster Fire Resilience on the Mount Hood Wildfire Crisis Strategy Priority Landscape
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Comparing Passive and Active Postfire Forest Management Under a Changing Climate
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Researchers Bolster Wildfire Crisis Strategy with Forest-Restoration and Fuel-Treatment Study
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Cutting Through Barriers to Successfully Implement the Wildfire Crisis Strategy
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Updating the Forest Service’s Most Important Tool for Confronting the Wildfire Crisis
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Wildland Fire Smoke and Emissions Decision Support
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Fueling Adaptation: Leveraging Community Capacity to Reduce Wildfire Risk
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Development of genomic-based tools for detecting, tracking, and monitoring invasive pathogens introduced in U.S. tree nurseries and restoration sites
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Development of DNA-based, diagnostic tools to detect and identify invasive forest pathogens in the field and ports of entry
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Addressing barriers to assisted population migration during reforestation in the Western United States
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Linking Fish, Forests, Fire, and Stream Function
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Climate Impacts
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Disturbance
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Land-Use Change
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Techniques
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Vegetation
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PNW-FIA State Stats
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PNW-FIA Pacific Islands Inventory
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Mount St. Helens: A Living Laboratory for Ecological Research
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Ecosystem Indicators
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Forest Products
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Remote Sensing
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Carbon inventories for west coast states
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Collaborative Postfire Research and Monitoring: Supporting Oregon’s Natural and Cultural Resources Recovery Task Force
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Duwamish Valley communities collaborate on urban air quality biomonitoring projects
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Experimental Network for Assisted Migration and Establishment Silviculture (ENAMES)
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The Starkey Project
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Western Oregon Streamflow Permanence
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Wildfire effects and postfire trajectories from an augmented, spatially balanced forest monitoring system
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Estuaries, Climate Change, and Native Fish
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Exploring Freshwater Biodiversity Using eDNA
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Upper Extent of Fish
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UPRLIMET: Upstream regional LiDAR model for extent of trout
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Simulating the impacts of climate change on west-side fire regimes
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Carbon science synthesis project
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Assessing wildfire risk to municipal drinking water sources
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Evaluating Fuel Treatment Alternatives at South Lake Tahoe
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Instream Habitat Refugia for Trout
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Evaluating rural Pacific Northwest towns for wildfire evacuation vulnerability
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Aquatic Biodiversity
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Balancing timber production and deer forage in young-growth silviculture in southeast Alaska
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Partner-focused research
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Novel analysis of existing risk assessment data: Evaluation of plausible future community wildfire disasters in western Oregon and Washington
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Short-term postfire dynamics following stand-replacing fire in the western Cascades
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Re-evaluating historical fire regimes in west-side forests of the Pacific Northwest
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Demonstration of Ecosystem Management Options (DEMO)
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Wood Products for Culture and Heritage
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Science Synthesis to Inform Plan Revisions Within the Northwest Forest Plan (NWFP) Area
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Research Studies on Fuel Treatment Effectiveness
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Assessing the Impacts of Fire and Insect Disturbances on the Terrestrial Carbon Budgets of Forested Areas in Canada, Alaska, and the Western United States
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Potential Fire Behavior on the Savannah River Site
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Fuel Treatments Effectiveness at Savannah River Site
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Consume Validation
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Developing FCCS Fuelbeds for Mexico
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Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit—Angora Fire Area Fuelbed Pathways Handbook
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Developing FCCS Fuelbeds for the Lake Tahoe Basin
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Impacts of Emerging and Submerging Shorelines on Biota and Communities
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Natural Fuels Photo Series
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Wildland Urban Interface Fire Dynamics Simulator (WFDS)
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A Large-Scale Experiment in Structural Retention Harvests in Pacific Northwestern Forests
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Human Ecology Mapping for Travel Management Planning
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Diversity of Pacific Trout
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NEPA for the 21st Century: Learning, adjusting, and solving problems
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PNW-FIA Interior Alaska Inventory
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FIRETEC and WFDS Modeling of Fire Behavior and Smoke in Support of FASMEE
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The Consequences of Soil Heating for Prescribed Fire Use and Fire Restoration in the South
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The Portland Moss and Air Quality Study
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Access and Management Issues for Cultural Plant Harvests
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Wildland Fire Smoke Health Effects on Wildland Firefighters and the Public
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Density Management and Riparian Buffer Study
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Northern Rockies Adaptation Partnership: Preparing for Climate Change through Science-Management Collaboration
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CONSUME fuel consumption and emissions software
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Linking the Forest Vegetation Simulator (FVS) with the Fuel Characteristic Classification System (FCCS)
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Joint Base Lewis-McChord Research Prescribed Burn 2012
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Evaluation and Optimization of Fuel Treatment Effectiveness with an Integrated Experimental/Modeling Approach
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Blue Mountains Elk Nutrition and Habitat Models
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Costs of Wildfire Suppression Versus Proactive Vegetation Management to Achieve More Fire Resilience
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Interface Between the Boreal Forest and Temperate Rain Forest in Alaska
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Using landscape ecology and climate adaptation principles to develop wildfire and climate-change-resilient landscapes
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Evaluating the Effectiveness of Mitigation Activities in the Wildland Urban Interface
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Wallow Fire Fuel Treatment Effectiveness
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Remeasurement of Fuels and Stand Structure 13 Years After Logging of the Summit Fire, Malheur National Forest, Eastern Oregon
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Prevalence of toxins in fishers on the Sierra National Forest resulting from illegal marijuana cultivation
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Lookout Mountain Forest Dynamics After Thinning and Fuel Reduction in Dry Forests
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Elk Nutrition and Habitat-Use Models for Western Oregon and Washington
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Crown Fire Behavior Characteristics and Prediction in Conifer Forests: A State of Knowledge Synthesis
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Landscape Analysis of Fuel Treatment Longevity and Effectiveness in the 2006 Tripod Complex Fires
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Butte Falls Blowdown
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RxCADRE (Combustion-Atmospheric Dynamics Research Experiments)
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Estimating Carbon Emissions from Wildfire in North America
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Chaitén Volcano, Chile
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Effects of Burning Season on Southeastern Forest Fire Dynamics
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Validation of Fuel Consumption Models for Smoke Management Planning in the Eastern Regions of the United States
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Fuel treatment tradeoffs – Protecting the wildland urban interface vs. restoring fire resilient forests
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Sudden Oak Death and Fire
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Estimating the Biomass of Hand-Piled Fuels for Smoke Management Planning
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Large-Scale Silvicultural Experiments In Western Oregon and Washington
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Do Fuel Treatments Reduce Fire Severity? Evaluating Treatment Effectiveness in the 2006 Tripod Complex Fires
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Cedar River Fire Hazard Analysis and Fuel Decomposition
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Douglas-fir Seed Source Movement Trial
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Piled Fuels Biomass and Emissions Calculator
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Compiling, Synthesizing and Analyzing Existing Boreal Forest Fire History Data in Alaska
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Developing FCCS Fuelbeds for the Angora Fire Region
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Cedar River Fire Hazard Analysis: Assessment and Management Alternatives
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Digital Photo Series
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Forest Floor Consumption and Smoke Characterization in Boreal Forest Fuelbed Types of Alaska
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Methodology and tool to detect and attribute the cause of tree decline and mortality
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Fire and Climatic Variability in the Pacific Northwest: Integrating Science and Management
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Fuel Characteristic Classification System
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Fire Emission Production Simulator (FEPS)
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Frostfire: A Successful Experimental Burn in the Boreal Forest
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Olympic Habitat Development Study
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Diversity and Inclusion in Fisheries and Natural Resources
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Carbon model assessments and improvements
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Fire- and carbon-oriented management across Pacific Northwest forests
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Monitoring the effect of marine layer weather on active fires in the Rogue River Basin