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Compounding Fire Disturbance History Encourages Coast Redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) Regeneration and Community Dominance
… be essential to managing and conserving coast redwood forests, which are projected to see increased frequency of fire under future climate scenarios. My objectives in this study were to quantify the effects of time-since-fire and single vs. compounding disturbances on coast redwood forest …
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The organization of a library for the John Gill Elementary School, Redwood City, California
<p>Statement of the Problem: The objectives of this thesis are to set forth the detailed procedures and methods essential to organize, from the instructional point of view, a library for John Gill School, a kindergarten through sixth grade school.</p>
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Influences of ongoing and projected environmental change in range margin Sequoia sempervirens (coast redwood) forests
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Mortality Assessment of Redwood and Mixed Conifer Forest Types in Santa Cruz County Following Wildfire
… for evaluating damage and thereby mortality for redwood, California nutmeg, live oak, tanoak, California bay, Pacific madrone, big leaf maple, Douglas-fir, Monterey pine, and knobcone pine. Quantitative damage criteria were used to design three Mortality Assessment models (MA), divided into three …
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Classification of Plot-Level Fire-Caused Tree Mortality in a Redwood Forest Using Digital Orthophotography and Lidar
<p>Swanton Pacific Ranch is an approximately 1,300 ha working ranch and forest in northern Santa Cruz County, California, managed by California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo (Cal Poly). On August 12, 2009, the Lockheed Fire burned 300 ha of forestland, 51% of the forested area on …
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Refining dendrochronology to evaluate the relationship between age and diameter for dominant riparian trees in the Redwood Creek watershed
… Acer macrophyllum)</p> <p>in the floodplain of Redwood Creek were evaluated for the</p> <p>relationship between age and diameter at breast height (DBH)</p> <p>using a least squares linear regression analysis. Through this</p> <p>study, complications with analysis for the riparian tree …
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Effects of Silvicultural Management on Coast Redwood Forest Composition, Density and Structure in Santa Cruz and San Mateo Counties
… management regimes commonly applied to coast redwood (<em>Sequoia sempervirens </em>[D. Don] Endl.) forests in Santa Cruz and San Mateo Counties, California, USA. A temporary forest inventory was installed in 24 harvest origin stands and 4 natural origin stands throughout the study area …
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Nine Peaceful Defenders of Headwaters at Redwood Summer: True for Me. Get It Done. Was it Worthy? What Got in the Way?
… took part in a series of actions known as the Redwood Summer, intended to protect Californias Pacific northwestern rainforest (c1989-2001). Using a modified grounded theory approach, indepth and semi-structured interviews yielded twenty two sub-level categories under one core category (Truth …
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Animism in Whitman: "Multitudes" of Interpretations?
… his poetry and prose, specifically "Song of the Redwood Tree," "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking," and Specimen Days. The term animism can be traced to the Latin root of the word, anime, which connotes a "soul" or "vitality." So, when one is talking about animistic techniques, one is speaking …
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Characteristics and Management Implications of Mollic Soils in Forest Versus Grassland Settings in Central California
… the southern extent of Sequoia sempervirens (redwood) forests in central California are mapped as Molliols. It widely accepted that redwood forests harbor considerable biomass C, but the extent to which aboveground C is retained in the soil is not well understood. This study aimed to: (i) to …
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On Improving the Security of Virtualized Systems through Unikernelized Driver Domain and Virtual Machine Monitor Compartmentalization and Specialization
… specialization. We construct a prototype, called Redwood, embodying those principles. Redwood is built by extending Cloud Hypervisor and compartmentalizes thirteen critical components (i.e., virtual I/O devices) using Intel MPK, a hardware primitive available in Intel CPUs. Redwood has fifteen …
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Effects of herbivory as an ecological constraint of willow growth at a restored riparian corridor
… lasiolepis) cuttings planted along the banks of Redwood Creek as part of the National Park Service’s Muir Beach Restoration Project to restore habitat for special status species in California. Based on observations of deer browsing, as well as signs of extensive biomass removal, I designed a …
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Radiant Auto-Ignition of Wood
… dynamics and mechanisms in the auto-ignition of redwood by radiant heating were experimentally studied. An open-cone radiant source heated an insulated cubical vertical sample 4 cm on a side. Infrared (IR) and normal video cameras were used to view the surface of the wood. Surface temperature (by …
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Hydrologic Characteristics of Summer Stream Temperatures in Little Creek and Scotts Creek at the Swanton Pacific Ranch
… for future planning and management of redwood forestlands. Challenges remain in the assessment of downstream cumulative effects given the complexity of stream temperature dynamics. The goal of this research is to identify the risk of downstream temperature heating based on the summer …
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INVESTIGATION OF THE HYDRAULIC CHARACTERISTICS OF COASTAL REDWOODS THROUGH ANALYSIS OF WATER DYNAMICS
… thesis, I aim to answer the question of how the redwood is designed to transport and store water. I will investigate the hydraulic characteristics of the coastal redwood through analysis of water dynamics as captured by a collaborator’s measurement of stem water potential, sapflow, and …
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Personal Jesus and Other True Stories
… farm in Missouri where my mother grew up, a redwood forest on the coast of California, and a Spiritist healing center in Abadiânia, Brazil. Taken together, My Personal Jesus and Other True Stories shares lessons about acceptance and healing from the perspective of a white, Midwestern, …
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Movement and Association of White-Tailed Deer in Southwest Minnesota
… deer was monitored via radio telemetry at Redwood Falls and Walnut Grove study sites in southwest Minnesota. A total of 6,511 locations was collected with a mean 95% error ellipse of 4.6 ha. A total of 56 seasonal movements was calculated during four migratory periods; fall 2002 (n = 13), …
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Interactive and Textbook Lessons in Science Instruction: Combining Strategies to Engage Students in Learning
… in learning. Appended are: (1) Entering the Redwood Forest: A Curriculum for Third Grade Students.</p>
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