Natalie Wagenbrenner (Natalie Copeland)
Engineer at the Moscow Forestry Sciences Laboratory

Research Subject Areas: Engineering | Sediment & Erosion | Watershed Processes

I participate in field and laboratory-scale research to assess the impacts of forest access and wild fire on soil erosion and water quality.  Recent research has involved hydrologic and sediment impact assessments of forest road decommissioning projects, evaluation of Burned Area Emergency Rehabilitation (BAER) road treatments, and estimation of forest road hydrologic parameters for erosion modeling.  I am also involved with research investigating wind erosion processes and mitigation techniques in post-fire and disturbed environments.

Professional Affiliations:
American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers
American Geophysical Union

Foltz, R. B. Elliot, W.J., and N. S. Wagenbrenner. 2011. Soil erosion model predictions using parent materials/soil testure-based paramaters compared to using site-specific parameters. Transactions of the ASABE. Vol. 54(4): 1347-1356.

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Foltz, R. B. and N. S. Wagenbrenner. 2010. An Evaluation of Three Wood Shred Blends for Post-Fire Erosion Control Using Indoor Rain Events on Small Plots. CATENA 80(2010) 86-94, doi:10.1016/j.catena.2009.09.003

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Foltz, Randy B.; Copeland, Natalie S. 2009. Evaluating the efficacy of wood shreds for mitigating erosion. Journal of Environmental Management. 90: 779-785.

Copeland, N. S.; Foltz, R. B.  2009.  Improving erosion modeling on forest roads in the Lake Tahoe Basin: Small plot rainfall simulations to determine saturated hydraulic conductivity and interrill erodibility.   Paper No. 095553. Paper presented at: 2009 ASABE annual international meeting; June 21-24, 2009; Reno, NV. St. Joseph MI: American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers. 12 p..

Copeland, N.S., Sharratt, B.S., Wu, J.Q., Foltz, R.B., Dooley, J.H., 2009. A wood-strand material for wind erosion control: effects on total sediment loss, PM10 vertical flux, and PM10 loss. J. Environ. Qual. 37:1–10. doi: 10.2134/jeq2008.0115.

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Foltz, R.B., Copeland, N.S., 2008. Evaluating the efficacy of wood shreds for mitigating erosion. J. Envrion. Manag. 90:779–785. doi: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2008.01.006. 

Foltz, R.B., Copeland, N.S., Elliot, W.E., 2009. Reopening abandoned forest roads: effects on hydrologic processes and an estimate of modeling parameters for erosion prediction in a northern Idaho forest. J. Environ. Manag. 90:2542–2550.

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