@article {2614,
	title = {1500 years of lake sedimentation due to fire, earthquakes, floods and land clearance in the Oregon Coast Range: geomorphic sensitivity to floods during timber harvest period},
	journal = {Earth Surface Processes and Landforms},
	volume = {43},
	year = {2018},
	month = {Mar-06-2019},
	pages = {1496 - 1517},
	abstract = {Sediment cores retrieved from landslide-dammed Loon Lake recorded events back to the 5th century AD in a forested, mountainous catchment, thereby providing an opportunity to compare the impacts of known recent perturbations, including floods and timber harvesting with those of an
early period in the cores, floods, fires, and earthquakes. High-resolution multi-parameter (grain size, \%TC, \%TN, and magnetic susceptibility) data allowed the core stratigraphy to be classified as background sedimentation and events. Cs-137 and radiocarbon dating, as well as a varved record in the last 75years provided age control. Mean mass accumulation rate from 1939 to 1978AD, the time of peak timber harvest and a cool wet phase of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation, was 0.79 (0.74-0.92, 95\% C.L.) g cm(-2) y(-1), significantly higher than mean rates of both the more recent contemporary period (coincident with the passing of the legislation that regulated harvesting practices in the region), 1979-2012AD, at 0.58 (0.48-0.70) and the entire early period, 0.44 (0.41-0.46). Several event deposits are coeval with independently estimated ages of eight Cascadia subduction zone earthquakes in the early period, including the 1700AD Mw 9.0 event. These deposits are predominantly formed by hyperpycnal flows, as are the known event deposits in the contemporary period. The high mass accumulation rate and greater frequency of thick event deposits during the early contemporary period point to the extraordinary role of timber harvesting in priming the landscape for subsequent sedimentary delivery during floods. Copyright (c) 2017 John Wiley \& Sons, Ltd.},
	keywords = {erosion, GREAT EARTHQUAKES, history, NEW-ZEALAND, radiocarbon age, record, TEMPORAL PATTERNS, USA, WASHINGTON, WESTERN OREGON},
	doi = {10.1002/esp.v43.710.1002/esp.4335},
	url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/esp.4335},
	author = {Richardson, K.N.D. and Hatten, J.A. and Wheatcroft, R.A.}
}
@article {1828,
	title = {Impact of human activity on regional forest composition and dynamics in central New England},
	journal = {Ecosystems},
	volume = {1},
	year = {1998},
	month = {Jan-Feb},
	pages = {76-95},
	abstract = {Historical and ecological data from north-central Massachusetts suggest that widespread and intensive human disturbance after European settlement led to a shift in forest composition and obscured regional patterns of species abundance. A paleoecological approach was required to place recent forest dynamics in a long-term context. Pollen and charcoal data from 11 small lakes in north-central Massachusetts were used to reconstruct local vegetation dynamics and fire histories across the region over the past 1000 years. The sites are located across an environmental gradient. Paleoecological data indicate that prior to European settlement, there was regional variation in forest composition corresponding to differences in climate, substrate, and fire regime. Oak, chestnut, and hickory were abundant at low elevations, whereas hemlock, beech, sugar maple, and yellow birch were common at high elevations. Fire appears to have been more frequent and/or intense at lower elevations, maintaining high abundances of oak, and archaeological data suggest Native American populations were greater in these areas. A change in forest composition at higher elevations, around 550 years before present, may be related to the Little Ice Age (a period of variable climate), fire, and/or activity by Native Americans, and led to regional convergence in forest composition. After European settlement, forest composition changed markedly in response to human disturbance and there was a sharp increase in rates of vegetation change. Regional patterns were obscured further, leading to homogenization of broad-scale forest composition. There is no indication from the pollen data that forests are returning to pre-European settlement forest composition, and rates of vegetation change remain high, reflecting continuing disturbance on the landscape, despite regional reforestation.},
	keywords = {awenda provincial park, eastern north-america, european settlement, forest dynamics, history, human disturbance, lake sediment, land-use, new england, paleoecology, patterns, rates of change, united-states, vegetation dynamics},
	isbn = {1432-9840},
	author = {Fuller, T. L.  and Foster, D. R.  and McLachlan, T. S.  and Drake, N.}
}
