The Pacific Northwest of the United States is currently embroiled in an acrimonious debate
over the management of federal forest lands. Constructive resolution of this debate will …

Landscape structural characteristics, such as patch size, edge length, and configuration, are
altered markedly when management regimes are imposed on primeval landscapes. The …

In another empirical study, Bresee et al. provide a broad-scale characterization of landscape
change between 1972 and 2001 on public lands in northern Wisconsin, USA. Disturbances …

Cartographic modeling was used to examine the influence of deforestation on landscape
pattern metrics. Progressive deforestation resulted in an increase in the spatial …

We estimated the historical range of variability (HRV) of forest landscape structure under
natural disturbance regimes at the scale of a physiographic province (Oregon Coast Range …

We present the results of a study to examine the effects of management actions and natural
disturbances in influencing the evolution of habitat patterns on forested lands. TELSA, a …

This study dealt with research problems at the landscape level. The objectives of this thesis
were to develop tools to study and characterize landscapes and to interface with a …

Forest management planners require analytical tools to assess the effects of alternative
strategies on the sometimes disparate benefits from forests such as timber production and …

Monitoring landscape spatial structure has been recommended to detect degenerative
trends in forest conditions, but such data have not been reported for boreal regions of North …

The historical patterns of Inland Northwest United States forests have been dramatically
altered by a little more than two centuries of human settlement and land use. Spatial patterns …