SOS Forests

Searching This Site

A commenter requested that he would like to see some posts about anthropogenic fire regimes in the Pacific Northwest.

By my count there have been 40 posts about anthropogenic fire in Oregon, and over 100 on anthropogenic fire in general.

Also, at the W.I.S.E. Colloquium: History of Western Landscapes, we have posted at least 25 scientific papers on the topic.

There is a method to help you search this site and all the sub-sites at W.I.S.E. for topics of interest to you. That method is to use the Search Applet in the upper right hand corner of every page. To use the Search Applet, follow these simple rules:

1. First, go to the root home of the sub-site you wish to search. You can do that by clicking on the large type, bold header at the top of the page.

On this sub-site, the large type, bold header is “SOS Forests“. Click on that. To insure that you are at the root home, check the URL. It should say:

https://westinstenv.org/sosf/

2. Type your search words into the little box that says “search”.

The word “search” will disappear. Your search terms will replace it.

3. Push *Enter*. That is, tap the *Enter* key on your keyboard.

You should see a new URL that will look something like this:

https://westinstenv.org/sosf/?s=anthropogenic+fire

Notice that your search terms will appear in the URL. That is the way to check and see if you completed all the above instructions correctly.

4. All the posts that contain your search terms will appear. It happens very quickly, so you might not notice it at first. But scroll down the page and you will see all the posts that contain your search terms.

5. If your search returned more than 15 posts, at the bottom of the page you will see a hot link that says “Next Page ->“. Click on that. Another page will appear with a URL that looks something like:

https://westinstenv.org/sosf/page/2/?s=anthropogenic+fire

Notice that “page/2″ in there? That tells you that you have found the second set of 15 posts containing your search terms.

Scroll to the bottom again. If you see the hot link that says “Next Page ->” again, that tells you that more than 30 posts meet your criteria. You can click on the hotlink again and see the third set of 15 posts. And so on. If there is no “Next Page ->” hot link at the bottom of the page, you have reached the end and found all the posts with your search terms.

6. To perform a new search (you may wish to try some other search words, for instance), be sure to click on the large type, bold header first. That will take you back to the root home. If you don’t do that, you may inadvertently search within your old search results.

7. All the sub-sites at W.I.S.E. are their own, stand alone databases. You cannot search multiple sub-sites from one location.

8. However, you may perform an author search at the W.I.S.E. Library by going to that subsite and typing the author’s name into the search applet. All the authors of papers posted in the W.I.S.E. Colloquia are listed at the Library.

Important: the Library lists the Colloquia posts, not the Commentary posts. To find authors at the Commentary sub-sites, you must visit the appropriate Commentary sub-site and do your search there.

The Library may be accessed by clicking on the hotlink that says “Library” in the upper lefthand corner of every page.

Any questions?