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Complete List of Research Studies

A field Evaluation of Mink and River Otter on the Lower Columbia River and the Influence of Environmental Contaminants

Air Quality in National Parks of California

Alaska Subsistence

Amphibian Community Structure in Intermittent Headwater Streams.

Amphibians of North Cascades and Olympic National Parks

An Evaluation of Dioxins, Furans, and PCBs in Mink and River Otter on the Columbia River

An Evaluation of Organochlorine Pesticides in Blood Plasma of Peregrine Falcons Wintering in Latin america, 1984 vs. 1994, and Develop Procedure for the Field to Rapidly Analyze Contaminants in Blood

An Evaluation of the Reintroduction of Columbian Sharp-Tailed Grouse in Oregon

Analysis of Spotted Owl Home Range and Prey Base Data from Roseburg District BLM

Analysis of Spotted Owl Home Range and Prey Base Data from Roseburg District, BLM

Application of multi-bean high-resolution sonar data to characterize the habitat, spatial, distribution, biomass, and ecological significance of deep-water aquatic vegetation: A case study of Crater Lake.

ARMI Amphibian Research Monitoring Initiative

Arthropod Diversity in Late-Seral Forests

Assess Demographic and Physiological Status of Columbian Black-Tailed Deer in Olympic National Park

Assess Rare Lichens along Large Stream of the Central Cascade Adaptive Management Area

Assessing Breeding Habitat, Movements and Survivorship of Golden Eagles (Aquila chrysaetos) in and from Denali National Park, Alaska

Assessing the Presence of Terrestrial Herpetofauna and Mollusks: Evaluation of an Integrated Survey Method

Assessing Threats to the Swainson's Hawk

Assessment of Raptor Electrocution Risks and Associated Fire Hazards in the Snake River Birds of Prey National Conservation Area

Assistance with Water Resources Management Planning for National Parks

Avian Monitoring Program for Oregon and Washington

Avian Research and Monitoring Support

Baseline Water Quality in Joshua Tree National Park

Behavioral Ecology of the Micronesian Kingfisher in Pohnpei: Use of a Surrogate Subspecies in the Recovery of Kingfishers from Guam

Biodiversity in Young Forests

Biogeochemical Development of Coastal Pacific Northwest Forests

Bird Response to Thinning

BLM's Emergency Fire Rehabilitation (EFR) Monitoring in the Intermountain West

Broad- and Mid-Scale Mapping of Sagebrush Habitats in the Intermountain West: An Hierarchical Approach

Bull Trout Life History and Environmental Factors Influencing Spawning Migration in the North Fork Skokomish River, Olympic National Park, Washington

CFER: Influence of Landscape Pattern and Composition on Species in Forested Ecosystems in Western Oregon

CFER: Large Woody Debris in the Terrestrial and Aquatic Riparian Zone: Production, Recruitment, Retention, and Function

CFER: Stand Structure Development and Biotic Responses to Changes in Structure of Young Forests of Western Oregon

CFER: ARMACS

Characteristics of Preferred Foraging and Nesting Habitat for Tundra-Breeding Shorebirds

Clearinghouse for Biological and Geospatial Information on the Olympic Peninsula

Clearinghouse for Natural Resources Data at North Cascades National Park

Climatic Variability, Ecosystem Dynamics and Distribution in Mountain Protected Areas: Assessing the Vulnerability of Natural Resources

Coastal Oregon Productivity Enhancement (COPE)

Commercial "Moss" Harvesting: Estimating the Size of the Resource and Accumulation Rates

Comparative Demography of Three Sensitive and Morphologically Similar Species of Astragalus

Conifer, Hardwood, and Herb Regeneration in Three Silvicultural systems in Douglas Fir Forests.

Consequences of Altered Precipitation for Carbon Sequestration and Biogeochenical Cycling in Temperate Forests.

Conservation Genetics of Threatened Pacific Northwest Salamanders

Conservation Genetics of Shorebirds: Identification of Conservation Units, Genetic Diversity, and Population-Specific Markers for North American Shorebird Species of Concern

Conservation Genetics of snowy Plovers 2003-2004

Conservation Genetics of Spotted Owls

Contaminants in Wildlife in the Pacific Northwest and Elsewhere

Cooperative Forest Ecosystem Research (CFER)

Cooperative Forest Ecosystem Research (CFER) Long-Range Strategic Plan

Coordinated Intermountain Restoration Project

Coordinated Research on Alternative Forestry Treatments and Systems in Vegetation Management (CRAFTS)

Coordination of the 2001 International Piping Plover Census

Creating an Integrative, Spatially Explicit Habitat-Use Model for Wild Horses in the Great Basin

Declining Amphibians in the Pacific Northwest: Do stocked Game Fish Spread Pathogenic Fungi?

Decomposition of 15N-Labled Fine Roots and Fate of N they Release in Western Oregon, USA and Taiwanese LTER Sites

Demographic Characteristics of Northern Spotted Owls on the Eugene Bureau of Land Management District, Central Coast Range, Oregon

Demographic Characteristics of Spotted Owls on the Roseburg District of the Bureau of Land Management, Roseburg, Oregon: 1985-1997

Demographic Parameters of the Spotted Owl at Coos Bay BLM District in Southwestern Oregon

Demonstration of Methods and Techniques for Natural Resources Management by the Military

Design of a Long-Term Program to Evaluate Harvest of Golden Eagles in the Western United States

Designing an Experiment to Evaluate Effects of Fire and Fire Surrogate Treatments in the Sagebrush Biome

Developing a Mist-Net Protocol for Inventory and Monitoring of Bats in Pacific Northwest Forests

Development of a Status and Trends Paradigm for Monitoring Environmental Contaminants and their Effects, Oregon Demonstration Project (BEST)

Development of a Vertebrate Habitat Relationships Data Bank for Meta Analysis

Development of Molecular Markers in Spotted/Barred Owl Hybrids for Use in Forensic Law Enforcement

Development of Monitoring Protocols for Mountain Lakes and Ponds at North Cascades National Park Service Complex

Development of Western Snowy Plover Predation Study at Nests on the Oregon Coast.

Diet of the Bullfrog

Dispersal of Small Mammals along Riparian Corridors

Distribution and Growth of Advance Douglas-fir Regeneration in Commercially Thinned Stands in the Oregon Coast Range

Distribution and Habitat Associations of the Northern Pygmy Owl in Oregon

Distribution and Status of the Northern Barred Owl in Oregon and Washington

Distributions and Relative Abundances of Amphibian Taxa Associated with Palustrine Vegetated Wetlands, Ponds, Lakes, Streams and Rivers in Mount Rainier National Park

Drainwater Contaminants in Waterbird Eggs and Hatchability at Stillwater, Malheur, Seedskadee, and Benton Lake National Wildlife Refuge

Ecological Effects of Fish Stocking on Amphibian Populations in High Mountain Wilderness Lakes

Ecological Impact of Introduced Trout on Native Aquatic Communities in Mountain Lakes

Ecological Monitoring of Major Ecosystem Initiatives

Ecology and Conservation of Western Pond Turtles in the Central Valley of California

Ecology of Rare Understory Plants in Southwestern Oregon

Ecology of Yellow-Billed, Pacific, and Red-Throated Loons on the North Slope of Alaska

Ecoregional Analysis of Sagebrush Ecosystems of the Wyoming Basins and Colorado Plateau

Effect of Cattle on Habitat Selection by Bighorn Sheep

Effect of Fire and Herbicides on Microphytic Crust Dynamics in High Desert Ecosystems

Effects of Boat Traffic on Juvenile Salmonids in the Rogue River

Effects of Climate Change on Lake Level, Heat Budget and Circulation of Crater Lake, Crater Lake National Park

Effects of Dioxins, Furans, and PCBs on Nesting Success of Osprey along the Columbia River System, Puget Sound, Yakima River, and Willamette River.

Effects of Dioxins, Furans, and PCB's on Nesting Success of Ospreys Along the Willamette River Oregon.

Effects of Forest Fragmentation on Forest Floor Vertebrates and Stream Amphibians in the Central Oregon Coast Range

Effects of Land Management Activities on Freshwater Fishes and their Habitat

Effects of Lead and Other Metals on Survival of Tundra Swans in Northern Idaho

Effects of Mercury on Fish-Eating Birds Nesting Along the Mid-to-Lower Carson River

Effects of Military Training and Fire in the Snake River Birds of Prey National Conservation Area (BLM IDARNG)

Effects of Planar Chlorinated Compounds on Survival and Reproductive Success of Birds, Washington State

Effects of Prescribed and Wildland Fire on Aquatic Ecosystems in Western Forests

Effects of Thinning and Prescribed Fire on Aquatic and Terrestrial Herpetofauna: Little River Adaptive Management Area

Effects of Thinning on Stand Structure, Growth, and Plant Species Diversity: A Stand Reconstruction Study

Elwha River Ecosystem Restoration

Emergence, Survival and Reproduction of Three Species of Forbs Important in Sage Grouse Nutrition using Two Establishment Methods

Environmental Endocrine Disrupters: Effects and Possible Mechanism(s) in Young Male River Otters

Establish Vegetation Biodiversity Monitoring Plots in North Cascades National Park

Establishment and Reproduction of Medusahead on Clay and Loam soils.

Evaluating Public Responses to Wildland Fuels Management

Evaluation of Contaminant Concertations in Eggs from Birds of Prey Living in Russia.

Evaluation of Midwinter Bald Eagle Counts

Evaluation of Native Perennial Grass Materials for Restoration of Deteriorated Rangelands in the Northern Great Basin and Columbia Plateau Regions

Evaluation of the Effects of Ultraviolet Radiation on Amphibians Based on Field Dosimetry and the Distribution of Subpopulations within Metapopulations

Faunal Survey of Camp Adair and Camp Rilea Military Training Areas

Field Evaluation of the Effects of Lead and Other Metals on Canada Geese and Mallards in the Coeur d"Alene Basin, ID

Fire History in the Intermountain Sagebrush Steppe

Fish-Forestry Interaction Support System: Development and Evaluation of Adaptive Management Tools in Washington State

FLAGSTATS: Spatial Pattern Analysis Program for Quantifying Landscape Structure

Foraging and Roosting Ecology of Long-Eared Myotis in Managed Forests of the McKenzie watershed, Oregon

Fragmentation of Shrubsteppe Habitats and Breeding Passerine Birds

Fuels Management and Wildlife Habitat: BLM Fire Science

Fungal Sporocarp Diversity and Biomass in Old-Growth Douglas-Fir Forests

Gene Dispersal in Managed Douglas-Fir Forests

Generation of Animation Interface for Organon

Geographic Information System (GIS) Database for Sage Grouse for Shrubsteppe Management in Idaho

Germination Testing on Selected Grasses Native to Oregon

GIS Database for Prairie Grasslands

Global Climate Change

Golden Eagle Status

Growing Mixed Species Stands: Red Alder and Douglas-Fir (see also project 70-11U)

Habitat Association and Activity Patterns of Marbled Murrelets in Forest and Marine Ecosystems

Habitat Preferences of Roosevelt Elk and the Influence of Road Closures on Elk Habitat Use

Habitat Use by Sage Grouse in Response to Prescribed Burning in Oregon.

Hardwood Silvicultural Cooperative

Idenification/Enumeration of Plankton Samples of Mount Rainier National Park

Identification and Evaluation of Northern Spotted Owl Habitat in Managed Forests of Southwest Oregon and the Development of Silvicultural Systems for Managing Such Habitat

Impact of Climate on the Physics, Hydrology, and Biogeochemistry of Crater Lake, Oregon

Impact of Invasive Species on Resident Aquatic Species at Whiskeytown National Recreation Area

Indicators of Ecosystem Decline for Subalpine Forest Systems at Crater Lake National Park

Individual Identification, Population Structure and Viability of Puerto Rican Parrots

Influence of Forest Management on Headwater and Stream Amphibian Communities at Multiple Spatial Scales

Influence of Grazing on Biotic Crusts in a Central Washington Landscape

Influence of Landscape Characteristics on Abundance and Habitat use of Bats

Influence of Landscape Context, Hydrology, and Non-Native Species on Wetland Faunal Communities: Implications for Regional Conservation and Mitigation Practices

Influence of Thinning on Avian Nest Success

Integrated Leafy Spurge Management: Combining Biological Control Tools to Reduce or Eliminate Herbicide Use.

Integrated Restoration Strategies Towards Weed Control on Western Rangelands

Interactions of Cattle Grazing and Climate on Semi-Arid Ecosystem Function

Interactive Effects of Fire and Introduced Trout on Aquatic Biodiversity in High-Elevation Lentic Ecosystems

Intermountain Greenstripping and Rehabilitation Project

International Approach to Metapopulation Viability Analyses for Piping Plovers

Interpreting Indicators of Rangeland Health: Accuracy and Precision of Trained Evaluators

Inventory and Monitoring of Amphibians and Reptiles in Olympic National Park

Inventory Of Cryptogams of Olympic National Park

Landscape analysis of black bear distribution patterns in Olympic National Park

Landscape-Scale Habitat Selection and Productivity of Northern Spotted Owls in the Coast Range of Western Oregon

Legacy Demonstration of Technologies and Methodologies Relevent to Military Natural Resources Conservation

Long-Term Assessments of Golden Eagle Nesting Density and Productivity in the Snake River Birds of Prey National Conservation Area

Long-term Ecological Monitoring for the North Coast & Cascades Network

Long-term Ecological Monitoring Research and Development, Olympic Peninsula, Washington

Long-term Ecological Monitoring: Northern Spotted Owl Demographic Monitoring in Olympic National Park

Long-Term Limnological Monitoring of Crater Lake

Long-term Limnological Monitoring of Lakes and Ponds, Mount Rainier National Park

Long-Term Limnological Monitoring of Mowich Lake, Pyramid Lake and Cresant Lake, Washington

Long-term nesting population and productivity changes of Prairie Falcons and Golden Eagles

Management of Red Alder

Marsh Bird Monitoring (FWS Science Priorities Project 01-SP-04)

Modeling Responses of Forest Ecosystems to Alternative Landscape Management Scenarios in Western Oregon (Landscape Modeling of Alternative Forest Management Scenarios)

Monitoring Human Disturbance of nesting Snowy Plovers and Effectiveness of Beach Restrictions at Siltcoos River, Oregon

Multi-Scale Effects of Forest Fertilization in Riparian Systems: Response of Aquatic and Terrestrial Fauna in Little River AMA

NACASI Spotted Owl projects: Mckenzie BLM/NCASI Northern Spotted Owl. And Habitat Structure of Stands Used by Spotted Owls

National Park Service Biological Inventory: Klamath Network

Natural Resources Damage Assessment (Bunker Hill)

Nesting and Foraging Ecology of Band-Tailed Pigeons in Western Oregon

Nesting Osprey Use of Electric Distribution Poles in the Willamette Valley, Oregon: An Assessment of Nest-Management Practices and Electrocution Rates

Northern Spotted Owl Inventory/NW National Parks

Northwest Forest Plan Research and Monitoring

Northwest Forest Plan: Sampling Survey and Manage Species

NW Forest Plan: Effectiveness Monitoring - NSO Habitat Model

Olympic Peninsula Global Climate Change Research

Oregon Caves National Monument 1995 Visitor Study

Oregon Demonstration Project: Reinventing the Nation's Environmental Monitoring Efforts

Oregon Spotted Frog

Osprey Population Numbers, Reproductive Performance, and Contaminant Concentrations in Eggs Along the Lower Columbia River, 1997-1998 vs. 2004

Pacific Northwest Forest Technology Cooperative

Pacific Northwest NBII Node

Pacific Northwest Tree Improvement research Cooperative

Pilot Project "Status for Amphilbians Research Related to Hinkle Creek

Population Biology of Stipa thurberiana, Elymus elymoides, and Bromus tectorum on Rangelands of Eastern Oregon: The Effects of Grazing and Climate

Potential Prey Base for Wolves in Olympic National Park

Potential Social Impacts to Human Users by Military Overflights in Selected Alaska Military Operations Areas

Predicting Abundance and Demographic Performance of Northern Spotted Owls from Vegetative Characteristics around Nesting Areas

Predicting Mortality of Planted Douglas-fir and Ponderosa Pine Seedlings on Dry, Low Elevation Sites in Southwestern Oregon

Predicting Mortality of Planted Douglas-fir and Ponderosa Pine Seedlings on Dry, Low Elevation Sites in Southwestern Oregon

Predicting the Effects of Road Networks on Flow Routing in Pacific Northwest Forested Watersheds

Quantification of Links Between Habitat

Quantification of Vegetation Diversity and Variation on Intact and Deteriorated Rangelands: Experiment 1 - Plant Diversity on Sagebrush Steppe Rangelands Varying in Ecological Condition

Reconsideration of Genetic Conservation Units in WesternSnowy Plovers: Response to July 2002 Delisting Petition-FWS

Recovery of Salamander Populations in High-Mountain Lakes, Mount Rainier National Park

Recreational Use of BLM Lands in the Mohawk Valley

Red Tree Vole Genetics - Development & Evaluation of Different Methods for Studying Genetic Variation in the Red Tree Vole

Regeneration of Trees and Understory Shrubs and Herbs in Young Growth Conifer Forests: a Continuation of the BLM Density Management Studies

Regeneration of Understory Trees and Shrubs in Young-Growth Forests in Western OR

Regional analysis of Amount and Distribution of Habitat of the Northern Spotted Owl

Rehabilitation of Salamander Populations in High Mountain Lakes, Mount Rainier National Park

Relationship between Climate, Fire pattern, and Vegetation Change in the Snake River Birds of Prey National Conservation Area, Idaho

Relationships between Dominant Trees and Epiphytic Lichens in Riparian Forests

Relationships Between Vegetation Structure and Predation Rates of Artificial Sage Grouse Nests

Reproduction, Turnover, and Dispersal of American Kestrels in Southwestern Idaho

Reproductive Ecology of Arctic Breeding Birds

Research Natural Areas of Southern Oregon: Amphibians

Research Problem Analysis --Biodiversity in Western Oregon Forests

Research Problem Analysis- Modeling, Monitoring, and Displaying Ecological change at Watershed to Landscape Scales: Tools for Ecosystem Management

Response of Breeding Passerine Bird Populations to Multiscale Landscape Changes in the Intermountain West

Response of Flying Squirrels, Chipmunks, and Mychorrizal Fungi to Thinning

Restoration of Native Grasses after Control of Perennial Pepperweed

Restoring habitat for shrub-steppe birds after an extensive, habitat-altering wildfire

Retrospective Study of the Relationship between Forest Structure and Diversity and Selected Aspects of Below-Ground Processes

Riparian Processes

Riparian Processes and Function: Influence of Riparian Vegetation on Structure and Stability of Aquatic and Terrestrial Habitats

Riparian Songbird Habitat Assessment and Long-Term Monitoring on Hart Mountain and Sheldon National Wildlife Refuges

Risk and Establishment of Taeniatherum caput-medusae with Management Applications

Roosevelt Elk Ecology

Seed Dispersal by Large Herbivores: Opportunities for Vegetation Change on Rangeland

Shorebird Monitoring Plan for Western North America

Silviculture and Ecology of Pacific Coast Forests

Snowy Plover Genetics

Socioeconomic Effectiveness Monitoring of the Northwest Forest Plan

Soil and Vegetation Changes Related to Livestock Removal at Mojave National Preserve and Great Basin National Park

Spatial and Temporal Heterogeneity of Resource Availability in the Sagebrush-Steppe Ecosystem: Perception and Exploitation of Plants

Spotted Frog Translocation Bureau of Reclamation

Stand Density Regulation and Understory Regeneration

Stand Management Research (Silviculture)

State Partnership: Assessment of Sensitive Amphibians and Reptiles in Southern Oregon

Status Assessment of Nesting Ferruginous Hawks in Southwestern Idaho

Status of Nesting California Brown Pelicans, Cormorants, and Osprey in Coatal Baja California, Sonora and Sinaloa, Mexico 1977, 1992-93, and 2005

Stream Amphibian Research and Monitoring Initiative (SARMI): Interagency Assessment of Sensitive Species at the River Basin Scale

Study of Visitation to Mount Rainier and Zion National Parks

Survey and Monitoring of Western Pond Turtles

Survey Design and Behavioral Ecology of Lapland Longspurs in Northern Alaska

Survey of Bald Eagle Nesting Activity and Success in Oregon. Bald Eagle Nest Locations and History of Use in Oregon and the Washington Portion of the Columbia River Recovery Zone

Survival, Dispersal, and Long-Range Movements of Prairie Falcons

Temporal Variations of Water Quality and the Taxonomic Structures of Phytoplankton and Zooplankton Assemblages in High-Mountain Lakes, Mount Rainier National Park, Washington USA

The Effects of Cattle Grazing and Related Habitat Attention on Columbia Spotted Frog Population.

The Sockeye salmon Oncorhynchus Nerka Population in Lake Ozette, Washington

Toward a Continental Raptor Monitoring Strategy

Tree Species Effects on Forest Biogeochemical Cycles

Use of Harmonic Radar to Follow Local and Migratory Movements of Passerine Birds in Shrub-Steppe Habitats

Validation of Songbird Habitat Models

Variability in Older Forest Structure in Western Oregon: A Tale of Two Studies

Vegetation and Fire Fuel Database Development at San Juan National Historical Park

Vegetation Images for Urban Hazard Analysis

Vertebrate Fauna Investigations at Oregon Army National Guard Installations

Water Quality of Springs, Streams, and Ponds, Fort Clatsop National Memorial

Western Great Basin Wetlands Biodiversity Initiative

Western Great Basin Wetlands-Extension, " An Evaluation of the Use of Isotopes in Defining the Geographic Origin of Vertebrates in North America"

Western Juniper Encroachment: A Multiple-Scale Look at Synchronous Response to Decadal Climatic Variation.

Wetland Connectivity, Population Structure, and Inter-island Movements among Mariana Common Moorhens

Willamette Valley Wetlands: An Evaluation of Site Connectivity and Relative Importance to Wintering and Migrant Shorebirds

Yellowstone and the Biology of Time

Zooplankton Assemblages in Lakes of Isle Royale National Park