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Application of crown fire behavior models in fire management decision-making have been limited by the difficulty of quantitatively describing fuel complexes, specifically characteristics of the canopy fuel stratum. To estimate canopy fuel stratum…
Author(s): Martin E. Alexander, Ronald H. Wakimoto
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From documents related to the 1994 South Canyon fire in Colorado, Larson examines how two worldviews presented by J.R. Taylor in his book, “Rethinking the theory of organizational communication: how to read an organization” function as sensemaking…
Author(s): Gregory Larson
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Understanding the trade-offs between short-term and long-term consequences of fire impacts on ecosystems is needed before a comprehensive fuels management program can be implemented nationally. We are evaluating 3 potential trade-off models at 8…
Author(s): David R. Weise, Richard A. Kimberlin, Michael J. Arbaugh, Jimmie D. Chew, J. Greg Jones, James Merzenich, Marc R. Wiitala, Robert E. Keane, Mark D. Schaaf, Jan W. van Wagtendonk
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A 21-yr gridded monthly fire-starts and acres-burned dataset from U.S. Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, National Park Service, and Bureau of Indian Affairs fire reports recreates the seasonality and interannual variability of wildfire in…
Author(s): Anthony L. Westerling, Timothy J. Brown, Alexander Gershunov, Daniel R. Cayan, M. D. Dettinger
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For several decades after the creation of Yellowstone National Park in 1872, protection of its biological and other resources was haphazard. For example, elk and bison were exploited to near extinction, prompting aggressive protection of them,…
Author(s): Malcolm M. Furniss, Roy A. Renkin
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Across North America, decades of fire suppression and recent patterns of human settlement have combined to increase the risks that wildland fires pose to human life, property, and natural resource values. Various methods can be used to reduce fuel…
Author(s): Carol Miller
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Assessments of a community's vulnerability to wildfires often focus on landscape conditions or ecological factors such as forest type, age distribution, forest health, topography, or hydrology. However, vulnerability is also a function of a…
Author(s): Linda E. Kruger, Shruti Agrawal, Martha C. Monroe, Erika A. Lang, Kristen C. Nelson, Pamela J. Jakes, Victoria Sturtevant, Sarah M. McCaffrey, Yvonne Everett
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This FEIS species review synthesizes information on the relationship of Pinus ponderosa var. scopulorum (interior ponderosa pine) to fire--how fire affects the species and its habitat, effects of the species on fuels and fire regimes, and fire…
Author(s): Janet L. Howard
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Our limited understanding of the short and long-term effects of fire on fish contributes to considerable uncertainty in assessments of the risks and benefits of fire management alternatives. A primary concern among the many potential effects of fire…
Author(s): Jason B. Dunham, Michael K. Young, Robert E. Gresswell, Bruce E. Rieman
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This FEIS species review synthesizes information on the relationship of Artemisia frigida (fringed sagebrush) 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): Jack McWilliams
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This FEIS species review synthesizes information on the relationship of Descurainia pinnata (pinnate tansymustard) to fire--how fire affects the species and its habitat, effects of the species on fuels and fire regimes, and fire management…
Author(s): Janet L. Howard
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Fire-history data for ponderosa pine forests in the western U.S. have uncertainties and biases. Targeting multiple-scarred trees and using recorder trees when sampling for fire history may lead to incomplete records. For most of the western U.S.,…
Author(s): William L. Baker, Donna S. Ehle
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Author(s): Bruce E. Rieman, Robert E. Gresswell, Michael K. Young, Charles H. Luce
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Native American land management practices could revive the processes needed to maintain the classic ecosystems and cultural integrity of our nation parks.
Author(s): M. Kat Anderson, Michael G. Barbour
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Information on amphibian responses to fire and fuel reduction practices is critically needed due to potential declines of species and the prevalence of new, more intensive fire management practices in North American forests. The goals of this review…
Author(s): David S. Pilliod, R. Bruce Bury, Erin J. Hyde, Christopher A. Pearl, Paul S. Corn
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Natural and prescribed fires play an important role in managing and maintaining most ecosystems in the western United States. The high soil temperatures associated with fire influence forests and their ability to regenerate after a fire by altering…
Author(s): William J. Massman, John M. Frank, S. M. Massman, Wayne D. Shepperd
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This FEIS species review synthesizes information on the relationship of Schoenocrambe linifolia (flaxleaf plainsmustard) to fire--how fire affects the species and its habitat, effects of the species on fuels and fire regimes, and fire management…
Author(s): Janet L. Howard
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Forest Service managers and researchers designed and evaluated alternative disturbance-based fire hazard reduction/ecosystem restoration treatments in a greatly altered low-elevation ponderosa pine/Douglas-fir/western larch wildland urban interface…
Author(s): Steve Slaughter, Laura Ward, Michael Hillis, Jimmie D. Chew, Becky McFarlan
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This FEIS species review synthesizes information on the relationship of Acer platanoides (Norway maple) to fire--how fire affects the species and its habitat, invasiveness of the species, effects of the species on fuels and fire regimes, and fire…
Author(s): Gregory T. Munger
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This FEIS species review synthesizes information on the relationship of Artemisia filifolia (sand sagebrush) 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): Jack McWilliams
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