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Pinus albicaulis (whitebark pine) is an important tree species in subalpine forests of the Northern Rocky Mountains. Populations have been declining at unprecedented rates due to the introduction of an exotic pathogen and fire suppression. We…
Author(s): Michael P. Murray, Stephen C. Bunting, Michael P. Murray
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Fires affect animals mainly through effects on their habitat. Fires often cause short-term increases in wildlife foods that contribute to increases in populations of some animals. These increases are moderated by the animals' ability to thrive in…
Author(s): Jack L. Lyon, James K. Brown, Mark H. Huff, Jane Kapler Smith
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The accumulation and decomposition of coarse woody debris (CWD) are processes that affect habitat, soil structure and organic matter inputs, and energy and nutrient flows in forest ecosystems. Natural disturbances such as fires typically produce…
Author(s): Daniel B. Tinker, Dennis H. Knight
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Author(s): Robert E. Keane, Stephen F. Arno
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Hydrologic responses of watersheds are strongly related to vegetation and soil disturbances. Many of the storage and transfer components of the global hydrologic cycle are altered by the occurrence of fire. The major effect of fire on the hydrologic…
Author(s): Malcomb J. Zwolinski
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In this chapter, Kantor and Ober introduce a model for dealing with conflicts that arise when employees are resistant to organizational change. Change situations are high stakes situations that cause greater fear and anxiety than low stakes…
Author(s): David Kantor, Steven Ober
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This FEIS species review synthesizes information on the relationship of Danthonia intermedia (timber oatgrass) to fire--how fire affects the species and its habitat, and fire management considerations. Information is also provided on the species…
Author(s): D. A. Tirmenstein
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National forests of the dry, interior portion of the western United States that are managed by the Department of Agriculture's Forest Service have undergone significant changes over the last century and a half, becoming much denser, with fewer…
Author(s): United States General Accounting Office
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Hedysarum (Hedysarum spp.) roots are a primary food of grizzly bears (Ursus arctos) in the Front Ranges of the Canadian Rocky Mountains. I studied the effects of recent forest fire on yellow hedysarum (H. sulphurescens) habitat by comparing root…
Author(s): David Hamer
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The “Harvard Method,” as it is sometimes called, emphasizes the importance of easy two-way communication. Yet in both negotiations and daily life, for good reasons or bad, we often don’t talk to each other, and don’t want to. And sometimes when we…
Author(s): Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, Sheila Heen
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This FEIS species review synthesizes information on the relationship of Elymus glaucus (blue wildrye) to fire--how fire affects the species and its habitat, and fire management considerations. Information is also provided on the species'…
Author(s): Kathleen A. Johnson
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The 1996 fire season illustrated the potential impacts of wildland fires on the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) administered lands through numerous western states. During the 1996 fire season, over six million acres burned in the United States…
Author(s): Thomas C. Roberts
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Forest scientists ask that everyone, from the home gardener to the forest manager, help revive western white pine by planting it everywhere, even in nonforest environments such as our neighborhood streets, parks, and backyards. White pine, long ago…
Author(s): Leon F. Neuenschwander, James W. Byler, Alan E. Harvey, Geral I. McDonald, Denise S. Ortiz, Harold L. Osborne, Gerry C. Snyder, Arthur Zack
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This FEIS species review synthesizes information on the relationship of Hesperostipa comata (needle-and-thread grass) to fire--how fire affects the species and its habitat, and fire management considerations. Information is also provided on the…
Author(s): Elena Zlatnik
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In every organization, things go wrong. For the most part, these errors are minor and often go unnoticed. However, when disaster occurs, external pressure often forces the exposure of many of the failures that occur within an organization. Thus, a…
Author(s): Andrew Hopkins
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This FEIS species review synthesizes information on the relationship of Artemisia tripartita subsp. rupicola, Artemisia tripartita subsp. tripartita (Wyoming threetip sagebrush, tall threetip sagebrush) to fire--how fire affects the species and its…
Author(s): D. A. Tirmenstein
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Pinyon-juniper woodlands involve vegetation dominated by about seven species of Pinus and 17 species of Juniperus scattered over more than 75 million acres of the Southwestern United States and Mexico. The junipers are more widespread latitudinally…
Author(s): Neil E. West
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The flea beetle, Aphthona nigriscutis Foudras, is a potentially useful agent for biological control of leafy spurge (Euphorbia esula L.) in grasslands devoted to wildlife conservation. However, effects of other grassland management practices on the…
Author(s): David P. Fellows, Wesley E. Newton
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Atop a ridge in Yellowstone National Park in 1984, a freak summer wind—perhaps a tornado or a downburst from a thunderstorm—leveled an ancient lodge-pole pine forest, piling up a head-high maze of logs. In the notorious summer of 1988, when…
Author(s): Y. Baskin
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Evaluation of the erosional response of 95 recently burned drainage basins in Colorado, New Mexico and southern California to storm rainfall provides information on the conditions that result in fire-related debris flows. Debris flows were produced…
Author(s): Susan H. Cannon
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