Washington Department of Natural Resources

Contemporary Silvicultural Practices in the Western Portion of the Pacific Northwest, USA

Robert A. Slesak, Florian U. Deisenhofer, Matthew D. Powers

Abstract The western portion of the Pacific Northwest (PNW) has some of the most productive and iconic forests of the United States. Management of these forests has changed dramatically over the past three decades, driven by the primary objectives and constraints associated …

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Roadless status under the Roadless Area Conservation Rule is not associated with increased wildfire in the US National Forest System

John Kilbride, James F. W. Johnston, Robert E. Kennedy, Garrett W. Meigs et autres

Abstract The US Department of Agriculture has proposed rescinding the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule, which generally prohibits timber harvest and road building in inventoried roadless areas across the National Forest System. The need to address wildfire is cited as a primary …

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Reconciling top-down and bottom-up conservation priorities with reinforcement learning from human feedback

Daniele Silvestro, Stefano Goria, E‐Ping Rau, Thomas Sterner et autres

Abstract To meet the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, spatial planning must upscale area-based conservation, while ensuring equitable governance and local community integration. Historically, a deep divide has persisted between data-driven, top-down systematic conservation planning, often performed at large spatial scales, and participatory, …

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Ultra-Processed Food Exposure and Childhood Obesity: A Comparative Healthcare Systems Analysis of the United States and the United Kingdom

Sophia Liu, Linda Shi

Childhood obesity remains one of the most significant public health challenges worldwide, with long-term consequences for cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and overall health outcomes.Among the environmental factors implicated in the obesity epidemic, the increasing consumption of ultra-processed foods (UPFs) has attracted substantial attention.This …

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DRIFteRS : A dataset of drift invertebrate densities in streams and rivers across western North America, 1997–2024

Elsa K. Toskey, Toshio Matsuoka, Peter M. Kiffney, Sean M. Naman et autres

Prey availability is among the most influential and highly variable determinants of fish growth and freshwater habitat carrying capacity, yet it remains understudied compared to physical habitat variables (Ouellet et al., 2025; Rosenfeld et al., 2014; Weber et al., 2017). We often …

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Fire-adapted natural climate solutions to reduce wildfire emissions in US forests

Charles Truettner, Kendall DeLyser Roney, Lisa M Markovchick, Elizabeth R Pansing et autres

Abstract Wildfire activity and associated greenhouse gas emissions are increasing across US forests as climate change intensifies fire weather and fuel aridity. These trends challenge forest-based natural climate solutions (NCS) that prioritize carbon accumulation without accounting for wildfire-driven disturbance risk. We synthesize …

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Speeding by: Modeling animal movement speed does not overcome limitations of a popular camera trap density estimator

Nathan D. Hooven, Emilia C. Breitenbach, Paul O Jensen, Eric P. Krausz et autres

Viewshed density estimators offer a noninvasive alternative to capture-mark-recapture methods, using camera trap images and auxiliary information to estimate density of unmarked animal populations. One well-known estimator, the random encounter model (REM), can yield useful density estimates but requires a travel speed …

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Adding Early-Seral, Mixed Species Elements into Douglas-Fir Plantation Culture: 25-Year Changes in the Long-Term Ecosystem Productivity Study on the Olympic Peninsula, WA

Courtney R. Bobsin, Bernard T. Bormann

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Synthetic Speech, Real Signal: Paralinguistic Preservation and Cross-Lingual Augmentation via Voice Cloning

Roseline Polle, Owen Parsons, George Fairs, Luis Miguel San Martin Fernandez et autres

Synthetic data augmentation in speech is common practice for linguistic tasks like ASR, but has seen far less work for paralinguistic ones, especially clinical tasks where labelled data is expensive and some patient groups are underrepresented. Voice cloning is one such augmentation …

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Learning Groups in Natural Resource Management: Collaboration on the Olympic Peninsula, Washington

Courtney R. Bobsin, Marc Miller, Bernard T. Bormann, Bryan D. Pelach et autres

Collaboration in natural resource management has been growing over the last 30 years. There are many examples of scientists or managers working with stakeholders to complete projects, but fewer examples of these groups all working together. We propose that when land managers, …

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Multi-scale environmental geodiversity: data for the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) with an adaptable workflow

Kelly Kapsar, Lala Kounta, Patrick Bills, Annie Smith et autres

Spatial variability in environmental conditions is fundamental to explaining and predicting patterns of biodiversity. However, most models explaining patterns of biodiversity use mean values collected at one scale rather than measures of spatial heterogeneity, or "geodiversity", of environmental drivers across multiple scales. …

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Intact coastal nursery rearing amid climate‐driven phenological shifts in threatened salmon

Stuart H. Munsch, Joseph H. Anderson, Eric M. Beamer, Joshua W. Chamberlin et autres

Literature linking phenology to climate has proliferated in recent decades and shows that climate change has reorganized seasonal opportunities worldwide. However, this literature often quantifies changes in point measures of timing (e.g., beginnings and peaks) without context about duration (e.g., rearing season …

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