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The 26 papers in this document address the current knowledge of fire as a disturbance agent, fire history and fire regimes, applications of prescribed fire for ecological restoration, and the effects of fire on the various forested ecosystems of the…
Author(s): Colin C. Hardy, Stephen F. Arno
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Palmer and Dunford analyze the concept of reframing and discuss four key limits to this concept. Reframing literature asserts that people generally are trapped into a singular way of thinking about a situation, and thus, they are unable to think…
Author(s): Ian Palmer, Richard Dunford
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Elimination of the historic pattern of frequent low-intensity fires in ponderosa pine and pine-mixed conifer forests has resulted in major ecological disruptions. Prior to 1900, open stands of large, long-lived, fire-resistant ponderosa pine were…
Author(s): Stephen F. Arno
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One of the critical mistakes made by wildland firefighters during both the Mann Gulch and South Canyon fires was their unwillingness to drop heavy tools and packs as they attempted to outrun the flames. Weick points to 10 possible reasons for their…
Author(s): Karl E. Weick
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We investigated the short-term influence of fire on xeric sage grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus Bonaparte) brood habitat in southeastern Idaho from 1990-92.
Author(s): Richard A. Fischer, Kerry P. Reese, John W. Connelly
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This FEIS species review synthesizes information on the relationship of Spea intermontana (Great Basin spadefoot) to fire--how fire affects the species and its habitat, and fire management considerations. Information is also provided on the species…
Author(s): Janet L. Howard
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Seral, fire dependent lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta Dougl.) communities are an important component of upper elevation forests throughout the Northern Rockies, where they cover 4 million acres, or about 17 percent of the land base. On the Bitterroot…
Author(s): Catherine A. Stewart
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This FEIS species review synthesizes information on the relationship of Ribes oxyacanthoides (northern gooseberry) to fire--how fire affects the species and its habitat, and fire management considerations. Information is also provided on the species…
Author(s): Jennifer H. Carey
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A 750-year fire history was reconstructed for the Central Plateau of Yellowstone National Park from the deep-water sediments of five lakes. The charcoal record from a large lake provided a chronology of regional fires. Data from four small lakes…
Author(s): Sarah H. Millspaugh, Cathy L. Whitlock
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The trophic ecology of 11 benthic macroinvertebrate taxa found in Cache Creek, Yellowstone National Park (YNP) was studied to determine if burned organic matter is an important resource and how resource utilization patterns may be altered in post-…
Author(s): Timothy B. Mihuc, G. Wayne Minshall
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The effects of different seedbeds on western larch (Larix occidentalis) germination and seedling mortality were assessed in a grandfir/ninebark (Abies grandis/Physocarpus malvaceus) habitat type in northern, Idaho,  U.S.A. Two plots…
Author(s): Brian P. Oswald, Leon F. Neuenschwander
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I was disappointed with the OSHA report of the South Canyon Fire. My feelings are not the result of any need to defend my agency (USDA Forest Service). In another time and place, I thought the OSHA report following the death of Bill Martin (a…
Author(s): James M. Saveland
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This FEIS species review synthesizes information on the relationship of Lepus americanus (snowshoe hare) to fire--how fire affects the species and its habitat, and fire management considerations. Information is also provided on the species'…
Author(s): Janet Sullivan
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This FEIS species review synthesizes information on the relationship of Ribes lacustre (prickly currant) to fire--how fire affects the species and its habitat, and fire management considerations. Information is also provided on the species'…
Author(s): Anna Marshall
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Physical characteristics, benthic macroinvertebrates, and periphyton assemblages in two adjacent headwater streams in Yellowstone National Park were evaluated five years after the 1988 wildfires. The catchment of one stream was burned by wildfire (…
Author(s): G. Wayne Minshall, Christopher T. Robinson, Todd V. Royer, Samuel R. Rushforth
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During the two breeding seasons immediately following the numerous and widespread fires of 1988, I estimated bird community composition in each of 34 burned-forest sites in western Montana and northern Wyoming. I detected an average of 45 species…
Author(s): Richard L. Hutto
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Programs aimed at enhancing safety by addressing the proximate cause of an accident only consider a small portion of the safety picture. Merely addressing the proximate cause fails to consider that the system either directly or indirectly trains,…
Author(s): Curt Braun
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This FEIS species review synthesizes information on the relationship of Dipodomys ordii (Ord's kangaroo rat) to fire--how fire affects the species and its habitat, and fire management considerations. Information is also provided on the species…
Author(s): Janet Sullivan
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This FEIS species review synthesizes information on the relationship of Tamiasciurus hudsonicus (red squirrel) to fire--how fire affects the species and its habitat, and fire management considerations. Information is also provided on the species…
Author(s): Janet Sullivan
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Many foresters and ecologists recognize that disruption of the historic pattern of frequent fires in ponderosa pine forests has resulted in major ecological changes, including increasingly severe wildfires and insect and disease epidemics (Weaver,…
Author(s): Stephen F. Arno, Michael G. Harrington, Carl E. Fiedler, Clinton E. Carlson
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