Changes in land use and housing on resource lands in Washington State, 1976-2006

USDA Forest Service - General Technical Report PNW-GTR

Volumn , Issue 881 GTR, 2013, Pages 1-51

  Gray, Andrew N ^a   Azuma, David L ^b   Lettman, Gary J ^b   Thompson, Joel L ^b   McKay, Neil ^c  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^c OREGON DEPARTMENT OF FORESTRY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Forestry; Housing density; Image classification; Land use change

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; FOREST; HOUSING; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; LAND USE; LAND USE CHANGE; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY;

EID: 84901204193     PISSN: 08874840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. Alig, R.J.; Plantinga, A.J. 2004. Future forest land area: Impacts from population growth and other factors that affect land values. Journal of Forestry. 102: 19-24.
2. Bilby, R.E.; Mollot, L.A. 2008. Effect of changing land use patterns on the distribution of coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) in the Puget Sound region. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 65: 2138-2148.
3. Brown, D.G.; Johnson, K.M.; Loveland, T.R.; Theobald, D.M. 2005. Rural land use trends in the conterminous United States, 1950-2000. Ecological Applications. 15: 1851-1863.
4. Canty, D.; Martinsons, A.; Kumar, A. 2012. Losing ground: farmland protection in the Puget Sound region. Seattle, WA: American Farmland Trust. http://www. farmland.org/programs/states/wa/Puget-Sound-Farmland-Protection-Report.asp. (September 25, 2012).
5. Cathcart, J.F.; Kline, J.D.; Delaney, M.; Tilton, M. 2007. Carbon storage and Oregon's land use planning program. Journal of Forestry. 105: 67-172.
6. Gimmi, U.; Schmidt, S.L.; Hawbaker, T.J.; Alcántara, C.; Gafvert, U.; Radeloff, V.C. 2011. Increasing development in the surroundings of U.S. National Park Service holdings jeopardizes park effectiveness. Journal of Environmental Management. 92: 229-239.
7. Gray, A.N.; Fried, J.S.; Christensen, G.; Potts, L. 2006. Timber resource statistics for forest land in eastern Washington, January 2002. Resour. Bull. PNW-RB-251. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacifc Northwest Research Station. 46 p.
8. Gray, A.N.; Veneklase, C.F.; Rhoads, R.D. 2005. Timber resource statistics for nonnational forest land in western Washington, 2001. Resour. Bull. PNW-RB-246. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacifc Northwest Research Station. 117 p.
9. Hammer, R.B.; Radeloff, V.C.; Fried, J.S.; Stewart, S.I. 2007. Wildland-urban interface housing growth during the 1990s in California, Oregon, and Washington. International Journal of Wildland Fire. 16: 255-265.
10. Heimlich, R.E.; Anderson, W.D. 2001. Development at the urban fringe and beyond: impacts on agriculture and rural land. Washington DC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service. 80 p.
11. Homer, C.; Huang, C.; Yang, L.; Wylie, B.; Coan, M. 2004. Development of a 2001 national landcover database for the United States. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing. 70: 829-840.
12. Kline, J.D.; Azuma, D.L.; Alig, R.J. 2004. Population growth, urban expansion, and private forestry in western Oregon. Forest Science. 50: 33-43.
13. Kline, J.D.; Moses, A.; Azuma, D.L.; Gray, A.N. 2009. Evaluating satellilte imagery-based land use data for describing forest land development in western Washington. Western Journal of Applied Forestry. 24: 214-222.
14. Lambin, E.F.; Turner, B.L.; Geist, H.J.; Agbola, S.B.; Angelsen, A.; Bruce, J.W.; Coomes, O.T.; Dirzo, R.; Fischer, G.; Folke, C.; George, P.S.; Homewood, K.; Imbernon, J.; Leemans, R.; Li, X.B.; Moran, E.F.; Mortimore, M.; Ramakrishnan, P.S.; Richards, J.F.; Skanes, H.; Steffen, W.; Stone, G.D.; Svedin, U.; Veldkamp, T.A.; Vogel, C.; Xu, J.C. 2001. The causes of land use and land-cover change: moving beyond the myths. Global Environmental Change-Human and Policy Dimensions. 11: 261-269.
15. Lettman, G.J.; Herstrom, A.A.; Hiebenthal, D.; McKay, N.; Robinson, T.J. 2011. Land use change on nonfederal land in Oregon 1974-2009. Salem, OR: Oregon Department of Forestry. 69 p. http://www.oregon.gov/ODF/STATE_ FORESTS/FRP/docs/ForestFarmsPeople2009.pdf. (September 25, 2012).
16. Lund, H.G.; Thomas, C.E. 1989. A primer on stand and forest inventory designs. Gen. Tech. Rep. WO-54. Washington DC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service. 96 p.
17. MacLean, C.D.; Bassett, P.M.; Yeary, G. 1992. Timber resource statistics for Western Washington. Resour. Bull. PNW-RB-191. Portland, Oregon: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacifc Northwest Research Station. 135 p.
18. MacLean, C.D.; Bolsinger, C.L. 1997. Urban expansion in the forests of the Puget Sound region. Resour. Bull. PNW-RB-225. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacifc Northwest Research Station. 17 p.
19. McKay, N.; Bassett, P.M.; MacLean, C.D. 1995. Timber resource statistics for eastern Washington. Resour. Bull. PNW-RB-201. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacifc Northwest Research Station. 47 p.
20. Morley, S.A.; Karr, J.R. 2002. Assessing and restoring the health of urban streams in the Puget Sound Basin. Conservation Biology. 16: 1498-1509.
21. Northwest Environment Watch. 2002. Sprawl and smart growth in greater Seattle-Tacoma. Seattle, WA: Northwest Environment Watch. http://www. sightline.org/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2012/02/seattle_sprawl.pdf. (September 25, 2012).
22. Oswald, D.D. 1984. Timber resources in areas developed for nonforest use in western Washington. Resour. Bull. PNW-RB-112. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacifc Northwest Research Station. 20 p.
23. Powell, S.L.; Cohen, W.B.; Yang, Z.; Pierce, J.D.; Alberti, M. 2008. Quantifcation of impervious surface in the Snohomish water resources inventory area of western Washington from 1972-2006. Remote Sensing of Environment. 112: 1895-1908.
24. Radeloff, V.C.; Hammer, R.B.; Stewart, S.I.; Fried, J.S.; Holcomb, S.S.; McKeefry, J.F. 2005. The wildland-urban interface in the United States. Ecological Applications. 15: 799-805.
25. Radeloff, V.C.; Stewart, S.I.; Hawbaker, T.J.; Gimmi, U.; Pidgeon, A.M.; Flather, C.H.; Hammer, R.B.; Helmers, D.P. 2010. Housing growth in and near United States protected areas limits their conservation value. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 107: 940-945.
26. Rural Technology Initiative. 2006. Western Washington land use change. Seattle, WA: Rural Technology Initiative, University of Washington. 31 p. http://www. ruraltech.org/projects/wwaluc. (April 21, 2008).
27. U.S. Department of Commerce, Census Bureau [USDC CB]. 2008. Washington, County Population Estimates, Table GCT-T1. http://factfnder.census.gov/. (August 20, 2008).
28. Washington State Department of Natural Resources. 2012. Washington timber harvest 2010. Olympia, WA. http://www.dnr.wa.gov/Publications/ obe_wa_timber_harvest_report_2010.pdf. (September 25, 2012).
29. Wear, D.N.; Liu, R.; Foreman, J.M.; Sheffeld, R. 1999. The effects of population growth on timber management and inventories in Virginia. Forest Ecology and Management. 188: 107-115.