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The Seen and Unseen World of the Fallen Tree
United States Department of Agriculture
Forest Service
United States Department of the Interior
Bureau of Land Management
General Technical
Report PNW-164
March 1984
Cover: Ants view of the seedling, moss, lichen, and mushroom cover on the surface of a fallen class III Douglas-fir tree.
Authors
CHRIS MASER U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management Forestry Sciences Laboratory Corvallis, Oregon 97331
JAMES M TRAPPE US. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Forest and Range Experiment Station Forestry Sciences Laboratory, Corvallis, Oregon 97331
STEVEN P. CLINE Oregon State University School of Forestry, Department of Forest Science, Corvallis, Oregon 97331
KERMIT CROMACK, JR. Oregon State University School of Forestry, Department of Forest Science Corvallis, Oregon 97331
HELMUT BLASCHKE Lehrstuhl fur Forstbotanrk Unrversrtat Munchen Amalrenstrasse 52 D-8000 Munchen 40 West Germany
JAMES R. SEDELL U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service Pacific Northwest Forest and Range Experiment Station Forestry Sciences Laboratory Corvallis, Oregon 97331
FREDERICK J. SWANSON US. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service Pacific Northwest Forest and Range Experiment Station Forestry Sciences Laboratory Corvallis, Oregon 97331
The Seen and Unseen World
of the Fallen Tree
Chris Maser
James M. Trappe
Technical Editors
Pacific Northwest Forest and Range Experiment Station
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Forest Service
General Technical Report PNW-164
March 1984
Published in cooperation with
the Bureau of Land Management
U.S. Department of the Interior
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