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PostHeaderIcon Recent Theses and Dissertations

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Doctoral dissertations

  • Long-term Vegetation Dynamics of Ponderosa Pine Forests
    Jonathan Bakker, PhD 2005
  • Environmental and Vegetational Gradients on an Arizona Ponderosa Pine Landscape: Implications for Ecological Restoration
    Scott Abella, PhD 2005
  • Population Ecology of Fendler Ceanothus: Responses to Herbivory and Forest Restoration Treatments
    David W. Huffman, PhD 2003

Master's theses

  • Pre-fire Treatment Effects and Understory Plant Community Response on the Rodeo-chediski Fire, Arizona
    Amanda M. Kuenzi, M.S. Forestry 2006
  • Slash Additions: A Tool For Restoring Herbaceous Communities In Degraded Pinyon-Juniper Woodlands
    Michael Todd Stoddard, M.S. Forestry 2006
  • Pre-fire Treatment Effects and Post-fire Forest Dynamics on the Rodeo-Chediski Burn Area, Arizona
    Barb Strom, M.S. Forestry 2005
  • Comparing Methods of Reconstructing Fire History using Fire Scars in a Southwestern Ponderosa Pine Forest
    Megan Van Horne, M.S. Forestry 2005
  • Fuels and Fire Behavior Modeling using Remotely Sensed Data on the San Francisco Peaks, Arizona
    Joe Crouse, M.S. Forestry 2005
  • Smoke, Risk, and Intergenerational Equity in Flagstaff, Arizonas Wildland-Urban Interface
    Ethan M. Barnes, M.S. Forestry 2005
  • Monitoring Landscape-scale Forest Structure and Potential Fire Behavior Changes Following Ponderosa Pine Restoration Treatments
    John Paul Roccaforte, M.S. Forestry 2005
  • Fire Exclusion and Burn Severity on the San Francisco Peaks, Arizona
    Allison Cocke, M.S. Forestry 2004
  • Understanding Traditional Knowledge for Ecological Restoration: A Qualitative Study with the Eastern Band of Cherokee and Southern Appalachian Community Members
    Nicolette Cooley, M.S. Forestry 2004
  • Dalmation Toadflax (Linaria Dalmatica) Response to Wildfire and Native Species Revegetation in Ponderosa Pine Forest
    Rita Dodge, M.S. Forestry 2004

Ph.D. student in Forest Science, Daniel Laughlin, won the E. Lucy Braun award for best poster at the 91st Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America
 

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