Graduation Celebration 2005-2006

COLLEGE OF FOREST RESOURCES UNIVERSITY OF

JUNE 9, 2006 KANE HALL, ROOM 120 2:00 PM

WELCOME Bruce Bare, Dean and Moderator

COLLEGE OF FOREST RESOURCES ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Alumna Ann Forest Burns

KEYNOTE ADDRESS Curt Smitch, Thompson Smitch Consulting Group

GRADUATE STUDENT REPRESENTATIVE Philip Higuera

PRESENTATION OF GRADUATE STUDENTS BY FACULTY

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT REPRESENTATIVE Jessica Larson

PRESENTATION OF UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS BY FACULTY

CLOSING COMMENTS

A RECEPTION WILL BE HELD IN THE ANDERSON 207 LOCKWOOD FOREST CLUB ROOM AND ANDERSON 22 IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING THE PROGRAM.

COVER ILLUSTATION OF ANDERSON HALL BY: PROFESSOR GORDON BRADLEY, COLLEGE OF FOREST RESOURCES

THANKS TO THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION FOR THE RECEPTION REFRESHMENTS AND GRADUATION GIFTS LESLIE GERMAN, 2003 ALUMNA, FOR THE BEAUTIFUL FLOWER ARRANGEMENTS 2005-2006 GRADUATES Doctor of Philosophy Marianne Elliott David Peter A Canker Disease of Pacific Madrone (Arbutus Menziesii) The Effect of Underburning of Oregon White Oak on Caused by the Fungal Pathogen Fusicoccum Arbuti Flowering and Acorn Production (Botryosphaeriaceae) Hakjun Rhee Robert A. Gitzen Inferring Traffic Induced Sediment Production Processes Responses of Small Mammals to Green-Tree Retention from Forest Road Particle Size Distributions Harvests in Forests of Western Oregon and Washington Daniela J. Shebitz Philip E. Higuera The Historic Role and Current Restoration Applications of Late Glacial and Holocene Fire History in the South- Fire in Maintaining Beargrass (Xerophyllum tenax) on the central Brooks Range, Alaska: Direct and Indirect Impacts Olympic Peninsula, Washington State of Climatic Change on Fire Regimes Deborah A. Smith Jeremy S. Littell Improving Methodologies Used for Carnivore Climate Impacts to Forest Ecosystem Processes in the Conservation and Management: Collection and Fecal DNA Western United States: Fire Area Burned and Douglas-fir Samples from Endangered San Joaquin Kit Fox Populations Growth in California

Jingliang Mao John C. Withey Developing a Continuous Bisulfite Postsulfonation Process Interactions of Crows, Songbirds, and People Across a for the Black Liquor from Soda Pulping of Wheat Straw Gradient of Urbanization

Lauren A. Mollot The Use of Remote Sensing, GIS, and Multivariate Vegetation Analysis to Explain the Distribution of Riparian Communities at Multiple Spatial Scales Master of Science James K. Barr Craig N. Cootsona Lucy C. K. Edmonds An Analysis of the Affects of Sale Identification and Distribution of How do Leaders of Western Land Characteristics on the Timber Sale Neonectria sp. Causing Cankers on Trusts Perceive Their Relationship to Value of Washington Department of Red Alder (Alnus rubra) the Environment? Natural Resource Timber Sales Located in Western Washington, 1989 Angela J. Costanzo Melissa K. Frysztacki -2005 A Quantitative Survey of Riparian An Exploratory Study of How Science, Vegetation Along the Quebrada People, and Policy Interact and Work Nicholas J. Brazee Grande in La Cangreja National Park, Together for Successful Chinook The Role of Armillaria sinapina in Costa Rica Salmon Recovery in the Lake Canopy Gap Formation within an Old- Washington Watershed Growth Temperate Rain Forest, Kristine D. Cramer Olympic National Park, Washington Conceptualizations of Forestland Wendy J. Gibble Stewardship among Family Forest The Importance of Growth Plasticity Ingrid D. Clausen Landowners in Snohomish County, and Fluctuating Resource Availability The Use of Amendments to Reduce Washington in Facilitating Plant Invasions Bioavailability of Lead and Arsenic in Vitro Pilar M. Delmolino Sara C. Gregory Demography, Disease, Body Condition, Seasonal Movements and Nest Site Julie K. Combs and Genetics in a Rocky Mountain Selection of the Western Gray Squirrel sinuatus Piper, a Bighorn Sheep Herd (Sciurus griseus) in the Methow River Washington State Endangered Plant Watershed Species: Pre-dispersal Seed Predation, Seedling Recruitment and Interactions with L. Erin N. Hagen Amy M. Lambert Amanda Ogden Conservation of the Juan Fernandez Prairie Restoration in American Camp, Ponderosa Pine Productivity and Firecrown: Characterization of San Juan Island National Historical Growth Increment Responses to Nesting Habitat Park: Fire and Herbicide Effects on Prescribed Burning in the Southern Community Composition and Growth Blue Mountains of Oregon Ryan D. Haugo and Survival of Planted Native Species Vegetation Responses to Conifer Suzanne N. Osborne Encroachment in a Dry Montane Nicole L. Lang Influence of Catchment Meadow, Western Cascade Range, The Soil Seed Bank of an Oregon Characteristics on Stream Nutrient Oregon Montane Meadow: Consequences of Transport and Hypoxic Conditions in Conifer Encroachment and South Hood Canal, Washington Troy D. Heithecker Implications for Restoration Variation in Microclimate Associated Erikka E. Pearson with Dispersed-Retention Harvests in Garrett C. Liles Control of Juncus effusus and Coniferous Forests of the Pacific Biogeochemistry of Managed Forest Enhancement of Carexspp. in a Northwest Headwater Streams in Low Elevation Wetland Mitigation Site Western Washington Lesley M. Hoare Kyle S. Petersen The Contribution of Low-Income Kimberly M. Littke The Effects of Vegetation Control on Workers to Forest Production Influence of Calcium on Douglas-fir the Early Growth of Douglas-fir at a Management Growth and Stem-Form High Quality Site in Coastal Washington Abigail K. Hook Maria Mayrhofer The Recent History of Floodplain Spatial Point Processes and Brown Amy C. Ramsey Dynamics in the North Fork Creepers (Certhia americana): Ecology of Fungal Endophytes in Skykomish River, Washington Estimating Habitat Use of a Douglas-fir and Ponderosa Pine Roots Silvicultural Experiment in Eastern Washington Mark C. Husbands The 2004 Mount Rainier Climber Robert A. Montgomery Carson B. Sprenger Study: Selecting Indicators of Climber Modeling the Terrestrial Habitat Use Fire History of a Douglas-fir—Oregon Experience Quality for the High Use of Harbor Seals White Oak Woodland, Waldron and Moderate Use Climbing Zones Island Washington Adam G. Mouton Brian N. Kertson Generating Stream Maps Using Virginia C. Travers Citizen Science and Wildlife LIDAR Derived Digital Elevation A Spatial and Temporal Assessment of Management: Status, Potential, and an Models and 10-m USGS DEM Physical and Chemical Diurnal Examination of the Quality of Data Patterns Occurring in a Small Stream Collected by K-12 Students on Ellen K. Mussman During a Low Flow Period Wildlife and their Habitats Stabilization of Reservoir Sediments following Dam Removal on the Elwha Lauren S. Urgenson Michael Kroeger River The Ecological Consequences of Identifying Western Washington Japanese Knotweed Invasion into Peromyscus maniculatus and P. keeni Pete Nelson Riparian Forests using Cytochrome-b Restriction Organizations, Policy Problems, and Fragment Length Polymorphism Decision-making: Exploring the Use of Sanjeev Yadav (RFLP) and Improved Morphometric Information by Forest Service X-Ray Microtomography to Examine Analysis Recreation Managers the 3-D Structure of Wood

Master of Environmental Horticulture Kay A. Caromile Jean Gauthier

Master of Forest Resources

Maddi L. Schweitzer Glen D. Yallup 2005-2006 UNDERGRADUATES Bachelor of Science in Forest Resources

CONSERVATION OF PAPER SCIENCE AND WILDLAND Amy M. Lilienthal ENGINEERING RESOURCES Malcolm Lybeck Hunter J. McCallister Aaron L. Halsted Sacha Johnson Amy L. Miller Kevin J. Kent Kathryn Shipe Joshua C. Misenar Charlene M. Krum Erin Whitesell Joearl Murphy Michelle M. Lauzon Roger W. Nelson Brooke J. Sande Elisabeth A. Ord Bryce R. Vandervert Stephanie A. Peterson ENVIRONMENTAL Rachel M. Proctor HORTICULTURE AND Brian L. Rasmussen * SUSTAINABLE RESOURCE URBAN FORESTRY Alea L. Reidinger SCIENCES Mary R. Schomaker * Lori Darrin Ryan S. Shinkawa Linda Arnoldi Jake Pool Jacob L. Strunk Windy Madden Rizanino Reyes Alexandria D. Teague Douglas Schmitt Josephine L. West Patrick Tanner Walter S. Wilson WILDLIFE SCIENCE

FOREST AND ECOLOGICAL Christopher Domschke ENGINEERING Meghan Horne-Brine ENVIRONMENTAL Jennifer Ikeda SCIENCE AND RESOURCE Adam Baines Heidi Pecoraro * MANAGEMENT Frederick Beck Filip Tkaczyk Carly Wilson Dallas E. Anderson II Nathaniel P. Barber Brian Bragg FOREST MANAGEMENT Ryan B. Brewer Leon C. Burfiend Masako Hirata Victoria M. Chamberlain Brendan Impson

Andrew J. Chapman Ryan Paulhamus

Jessica E.M. Coburn Daisuke Sakuma Jesse C. Day Jesse C. Saunders Jeremiah D. Gardner Annsylinn Schmidt Rishelle F. Gifford Adam Tomasch John M. Heck Hailey Anne E. Heinrich Leslie R. Henry Thane M. Hill Jessica A. Larson

~ BACCALAUREATE HONORS ~ BASED ON WINTER 2006 GPA

* CUM LAUDE