Neskowin Crest RNA
| Name: |
Neskowin Crest |
| Ownership: |
FS |
| Type: |
RNA |
| State: |
Oregon |
| Ecoregion: |
Coast Range |
| Forest: |
Siuslaw NF |
| District |
Hebo RD |
| Acres: |
1195 |
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Neskowin Crest Research Natural Area (RNA) is within the Cascade Head Experimental Forest and was established to represent coastal spruce-hemlock forest. The topography of the RNA is rugged with a coastal headland dissected by numerous small drainages. The upper portion of the RNA is boggy with several small springs. Sitka spruce (Picea sitchensis) and western hemlock (Tsuga heterophylla) dominate forested portions of the RNA, with occasional stands of red alder (Alnus rubra), western redcedar (Thuja plicata) and Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii). Sword fern (Nephrolepis), Oregon oxalis (Oxalis oregana), deer fern (Blechnum spicant), huckleberry (Gaylussacia), and Salmonberry (Rubus spectabilis) are common understory plants. There are over 60 species of mosses and lichens present in the RNA. Permanent vegetation plots were established in the RNA beginning in 1979 and data on tree growth and mortality continues to be collected at regular intervals.
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| Research Publications Associated with this RNA: |
- Biomass accumulation over the first 150 years in coastal Oregon Picea-Tsuga forest; Acker, Steven A.;Harcombe, Paul A.;Harmon, Mark E.;Greene, Sarah E. 2000
- The influence of fire and windthrow dynamics on a coastal spruce hemlock forest in Oregon, USA, based on aerial photographs spanning 40 years; Harcombe, P. A.; Greene, S. E.; Kramer, M. G.; Acker, S. A.; Spies, T. A.; Valentine, T. 2004
- Studies on the incidence of coniferous needle endophytes in the Pacific Northwest; Carroll, G. C.; Carroll, F. E. 1978
- Patterns of growth, mortality and biomass change in a coastal picea sitchensis - tsuga heterophylla forest; Greene, S. E.; Harcombe, P. A.; Harmon, M. E.; Spycher, G. 1992
- Logs as sites of tree regeneration in Picea sitchensis-Tsuga heterophylla forests of coastal Washington and Oregon; Harmon, M. E. 1986
- Additions to the moss flora of Oregon; Christy, J. A. 1980
- Natural history of Oregon coast mammals; Maser, C.; Mate, B. R.; Franklin, J. F.; Dyrness, C. T. 1981
- The effect of collector size on forest litter-fall collection and analysis; McShane, M. C.; Carlile, D. W.; Hinds, W. T. 1983
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 Greene 1984.jpg "Neskowin Crest, 1984, Photo Credit: S. Greene")
