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During the fall of 2005, a study was conducted at Priest River Experimental Forest (PREF) in northern Idaho to investigate the economics of mastication used to treat activity and standing live fuels. In this study, a rotary head masticator was used…
Author(s): Jeff Halbrook, Han-Sup Han, Russell T. Graham, Theresa B. Jain, Robert Denner
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This FEIS species review synthesizes information on the relationship of Cercocarpus ledifolius (curlleaf mountain-mahogany) to fire--how fire affects the species and its habitat, effects of the species on fuels and fire regimes, and fire management…
Author(s): Corey L. Gucker
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The FTM-West ('fuel treatment market' model for U.S. West) is a dynamic partial market equilibrium model of regional softwood timber and wood product markets, designed to project future market impacts of expanded fuel treatment programs…
Author(s): Peter J. Ince, Henry Spelter
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Information about human relationships with wilderness is important for wilderness management decisions, including decisions pertaining to the use of wildland fire. In a study about meanings attached to a national forest, local residents were asked…
Author(s): Kari Gunderson, Alan E. Watson
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This FEIS species review synthesizes information on the relationship of Eleocharis palustris (common spikerush) to fire--how fire affects the species and its habitat, effects of the species on fuels and fire regimes, and fire management…
Author(s): Alan S. Hauser
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The Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) program has produced estimates of the extent and composition of the Nation's forests for several decades. FIA data have been used with a flexible silvicultural thinning option, a fire hazard model for…
Author(s): Patrick D. Miles, Kenneth E. Skog, Wayne D. Shepperd, Elizabeth D. Reinhardt, Roger D. Fight
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Many conifer forests experience stand-replacing wildfires, and these fires and subsequent recovery can change the amount of carbon released to the atmosphere because conifer forests contain large carbon stores. Stand-replacing fires switch…
Author(s): Donald M. Kashian, William H. Romme, Daniel B. Tinker, Monica G. Turner, Michael G. Ryan
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This FEIS species review synthesizes information on the relationship of Vulpia octoflora (sixweeks grass) to fire--how fire affects the species and its habitat, effects of the species on fuels and fire regimes, and fire management considerations.…
Author(s): Janet L. Howard
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Natural and recurring disturbances caused by fire, native forest insects and pathogens have interacted for millennia to create and maintain forests dominated by seral or pioneering species of conifers in the interior regions of the western United…
Author(s): Thomas J. Parker, Karen M. Clancy, Robert L. Mathiasen
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We compared the accuracy and precision of digital hemispherical photography and the LI-COR LAI-2000 plant canopy analyzer as predictors of canopy fuels. We collected data on 12 plots in western Montana under a variety of lighting and sky conditions…
Author(s): Abran Steele-Feldman, Elizabeth D. Reinhardt, Russell A. Parsons
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The bird species in western North America that are most restricted to, and therefore most dependent on, severely burned conifer forests during the first years following a fire event depend heavily on the abundant standing snags for perch sites, nest…
Author(s): Richard L. Hutto
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Fire exclusion and high-grade logging have altered the structure and function of ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) forests across the American West. Restoration treatments are increasingly being used in these forests to move stand density, structure…
Author(s): Kerry L. Metlen, Carl E. Fiedler
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This paper presents several components of a multi-disciplinary project designed to evaluate the ecological and biological effects of two innovative silvicultural treatments coupled with prescribed fire in an attempt to both manage fuel profiles and…
Author(s): Colin C. Hardy, Helen Y. Smith, Ward W. McCaughey
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This FEIS species review synthesizes information on the relationship of Apocynum cannabinum (Indianhemp) to fire--how fire affects the species and its habitat, effects of the species on fuels and fire regimes, and fire management considerations.…
Author(s): Sonja L. Reeves
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This FEIS species review synthesizes information on the relationship of Rosa arkansana (prairie rose) to fire--how fire affects the species and its habitat, effects of the species on fuels and fire regimes, and fire management considerations.…
Author(s): Alan S. Hauser
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In this study we analyzed the effectiveness of erosion control treatments in reducing post-fire debris-flow volume. We used detailed surveys of series channel cross sections in 46 basins in Colorado, Utah and California to develop graphs of the…
Author(s): Paul M. Santi, J.D. Higgins, Susan H. Cannon, Jerome DeGraff
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Big sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata) ecosystems typically experience stand replacing fires during which some or all of the ignited biomass is consumed. Biomass consumption is directly related to the energy released during a fire, and is an important…
Author(s): Clinton S. Wright, Susan J. Prichard
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Snags create nesting, foraging, and roosting habitat for a variety of wildlife species. Removal of snags through postfire salvage logging reduces the densities and size classes of snags remaining after wildfire. We determined important variables…
Author(s): Robin E. Russell, Victoria A. Saab, Jonathan G. Dudley, Jay J. Rotella
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A primary goal in the management of forests and grasslands is to maintain community structure and disturbance processes within their historical range of variation. If, within a managed ecosystem, either is found to lie outside that range,…
Author(s): Don V. Gayton, Marc H. Weber, Michael G. Harrington, Emily K. Heyerdahl, Elaine Kennedy Sutherland, Bob Brett, Cindy Hall, Michael Hartman, Liesl Peterson, Carolynne Merrel
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This research effort is designed to investigate effectiveness of burn severity mapping, using differenced Normalized Burn Ratio (dNBR) for ecosystem monitoring at the 30m scale. The hypothesis of our research is that the differenced normalized burn…
Author(s): Zhiliang Zhu, Carl H. Key, Donald Ohlen, Nathan C. Benson
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