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This FEIS species review synthesizes information on the relationship of Goodyera oblongifolia (western rattlesnake plantain) to fire--how fire affects the species and its habitat, effects of the species on fuels and fire regimes, and fire management…
Author(s): Sonja L. Reeves
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Federal land managers and the public engage in many decisions about stewardship of wilderness in the United States, including decisions about stewardship of fire. To date, social science research lacks a holistic examination of the decision-making…
Author(s): Katie Knotek
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We grew from seed the exotic invasive annual grass Bromus tectorum L., collected from three elevation ecotypes in northern Nevada, USA. Plants were exposed to four CO2 atmosphere concentrations: 270, 320, 370, and 420 umol mol-1. After harvest on…
Author(s): Robert R. Blank, Robert H. White, Lewis H. Ziska
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The primary weakness in our current ability to evaluate future landscapes in terms of wildlife lies in the lack of quantitative models linking wildlife to forest stand conditions, including fuels treatments. This project focuses on 1) developing…
Author(s): Samuel A. Cushman, Kevin S. McKelvey
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This FEIS species review synthesizes information on the relationship of Prunus pumila (sand cherry) 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): Jane E. Taylor
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Mountain ecosystems within our national parks and other protected areas provide valuable goods and services such as clean water, biodiversity conservation, and recreational opportunities, but their potential responses to expected climatic changes…
Author(s): Nathan L. Stephenson, David L. Peterson, Daniel B. Fagre, Craig D. Allen, Donald McKenzie, Jill Baron
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This FEIS species review synthesizes information on the relationship of Mahonia repens (creeping barberry) 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): Elena D. Ulev
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The purpose of this paper is to: 1) provide a range-wide assessment of whitebark pine health, 2) describe range-wide restoration strategies for conserving and restoring whitebark pine, 3) provide a brief managers guide for selecting…
Author(s): John W. Schwandt
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Weather predictions from the MM5 mesoscale model were used to compute gridded predictions of National Fire Danger Rating System (NFDRS) indexes. The model output was applied to a case study of the 2000 fire season in Northern Idaho and Western…
Author(s): Jeanne L. Hoadley, Miriam L. Rorig, Larry S. Bradshaw, Sue A. Ferguson, Kenneth Westrick, Scott L. Goodrick, Paul A. Werth
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Administrative planning rules and legal challenges can have significant economic impacts on timber salvage programs on public lands. This paper examines the costs of the delay in salvage caused by planning rules and the costs associated with the…
Author(s): Jeffrey P. Prestemon, David N. Wear, Fred J. Stewart, Thomas P. Holmes
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The wildland fires of 2000, 2002, and 2003 created many opportunities to conduct post-fire logging operations in the Inland Northwest. Relatively little information is available on the impact of post-fire logging on long-term soil productivity or on…
Author(s): Deborah S. Page-Dumroese, Martin F. Jurgensen, Ann Abbott, Thomas M. Rice, Joanne M. Tirocke, Sue Farley, Sharon DeHart
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We summarize the documented and potential impacts of salvage logging—a form of logging that removes trees and other biological material from sites after natural disturbance. Such operations may reduce or eliminate biological legacies, modify rare…
Author(s): D.B. Lindenmeyer, Reed F. Noss
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The objective of this project is to conduct a diagnostic analysis of the variations in climate that govern the characteristics of the fire season in the western United States on intra-annual through decadal and longer time scales. We propose a…
Author(s): Steven W. Hostetler, Patrick J. Bartlein, Allen M. Solomon, J. O. Holman, Richard T. Busing, Sarah L. Shafer
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Prescribed fire is used increasingly to reduce accumulated fuels on National Wildlife Refuges (NWRs) and other reserves in the mixed-grass prairie region of the northern Great Plains. There is sparse documentation, however, on effects of prescribed…
Author(s): Robert K. Murphy, Todd A. Grant, Elizabeth M. Madden
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Declines in habitat of greater sage-grouse and Gunnison sage-grouse across the western United States are related to degradation, loss, and fragmentation of sagebrush ecosystems resulting from development of agricultural lands, grazing practices,…
Author(s): Nancy L. Shaw, Michael L. Pellant, Stephen B. Monsen
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Pinyon-juniper woodlands and Wyoming big sagebrush ecosystems have undergone major changes in vegetation structure and composition since settlement by European Americans. These changes are resulting in dramatic shifts in fire frequency, size and…
Author(s): Jeanne C. Chambers, E. Durant McArthur, Stephen B. Monsen, Susan E. Meyer, Nancy L. Shaw, Robin J. Tausch, Robert R. Blank, Stephen C. Bunting, Richard R. Miller, Michael L. Pellant, Bruce A. Roundy, Scott C. Walker
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Background The increasing size and severity of western U.S. wildfires in recent years has generated greater attention towards post-wildfire response and recovery. Post-fire governance requires coordinating response and recovery capacities across…
Author(s): Clint P. Carney, Courtney Schultz, S. Michelle Greiner
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Author(s): Merrill R. Kaufmann, Kevin C. Ryan, Peter Z. Fule, William H. Romme
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Prescribed fire can be the most practical and affordable way to reduce dangerous accumulations of combustible fuels. At the same time, prescribed fire can help restore the ecological process of fire to fire-adapted ecosystems through its influence…
Author(s): Carol Miller
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This FEIS species review synthesizes information on the relationship of Clintonia uniflora (queencup beadlily) to fire--how fire affects the species and its habitat, effects of the species on fuels and fire regimes, and fire management…
Author(s): Rachelle Meyer
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