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A fire history investigation was conducted for three forest community types in the Absaroka Mountains of Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. Master fire chronologies were based on fire-initiated age classes and tree fire scars. The area's major…
Author(s): Stephen W. Barrett
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This FEIS species review synthesizes information on the relationship of Buteo jamaicensis (red-tailed hawk) to fire--how fire affects the species and its habitat, and fire management considerations. Information is also provided on the species'…
Author(s): Julie L. Tesky
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Big sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata) seedling recruitment is limited by seed production and dispersal in space and time, by genetic constraints of specific ecotypes, and by environmental factors that include weather, microsite attributes, soil…
Author(s): Susan E. Meyer
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This FEIS species review synthesizes information on the relationship of Glycyrrhiza lepidota (American licorice) to fire--how fire affects the species and its habitat, and fire management considerations. Information is also provided on the species…
Author(s): Lora L. Esser
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This FEIS species review synthesizes information on the relationship of Geranium richardsonii (Richardson's geranium) to fire--how fire affects the species and its habitat, and fire management considerations. Information is also provided on the…
Author(s): Lora L. Esser
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This FEIS species review synthesizes information on the relationship of Carex capitata (capitate sedge) to fire--how fire affects the species and its habitat, and fire management considerations. Information is also provided on the species'…
Author(s): Roberta A. Walsh
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The objective of this paper is to examine whether the severity and great extent of the 1988 Yellow-stone fires impacted the water quality of two of Yellowstone's major lakes. Analysis of water quality records for Yellowstone and Lewis Lakes…
Author(s): R. G. Lathrop
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The transport of stream bedload sediment was monitored continuously in a small stream from 1975 to 1982 following forest fires in 1974 and 1980. The stream is located in the east subcatchment (170 ha) of Lake 239 in the Experimental Lakes Area,…
Author(s): Kenneth G. Beaty
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This FEIS species review synthesizes information on the relationship of Agrostis exarata (spike bentgrass) to fire--how fire affects the species and its habitat, and fire management considerations. Information is also provided on the species'…
Author(s): Lora L. Esser
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This FEIS species review synthesizes information on the relationship of Bromus pumpellianus (Pumpelly brome) to fire--how fire affects the species and its habitat, and fire management considerations. Information is also provided on the species…
Author(s): Roberta A. Walsh
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This FEIS species review synthesizes information on the relationship of Buteo regalis (ferruginous hawk) to fire--how fire affects the species and its habitat, and fire management considerations. Information is also provided on the species'…
Author(s): Julie L. Tesky
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Turner argues that while the best way to avoid disasters is primarily “for managers to establish, to strengthen, and then to assert control,” management control only addresses part of the problem, and there are limitations that affect management in…
Author(s): Barry Turner
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Water has been used to fight fire for centuries. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) relies on a fleet of over 400 water engines as its primary fire suppression technology in Great Basin fuels. Class A foam is a relatively new approach to fire…
Author(s): Paul M. Schlobohm
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The fires that burned the Greater Yellowstone Area (GYA) during the summer of 1988 were the largest ever recorded for the region. Wildfire can have profound indirect effects on associated aquatic ecosystems by increased nutrient loading, sediment,…
Author(s): R. G. Lathrop, John D. Vande Castle, James A. Brass
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This FEIS species review synthesizes information on the relationship of Brachylagus idahoensis (pygmy rabbit) to fire--how fire affects the species and its habitat, and fire management considerations. Information is also provided on the species…
Author(s): Julie L. Tesky
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Fire has been an important factor in the development of the vegetation of the Snake River Plain. Prior to Euro-American influence, fire helped determine the physiognomy and species composition of many communities. The occurrence of fire varied…
Author(s): Erin F. Peters, Stephen C. Bunting
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The interaction of large-scale fire, vegetation, and ungulates is an important management issue in Yellowstone National Park. A spatially explicit individual-based simulation model was developed to explore the effects of fire scale and pattern on…
Author(s): Monica G. Turner, Yegang Wu, Linda L. Wallace, William H. Romme, Antoinette Brenkert
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The paleoecologic record of the northern Rocky Mountains shows considerable spatial variability, which has been difficult to explain as a unified response to large-scale changes in effective moisture or temperature through time. Comparison of past…
Author(s): Cathy L. Whitlock, Patrick J. Bartlein
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This FEIS species review synthesizes information on the relationship of Sorbus sitchensis (western mountain-ash) to fire--how fire affects the species and its habitat, and fire management considerations. Information is also provided on the species…
Author(s): Robin F. Matthews
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This FEIS species review synthesizes information on the relationship of Rosa nutkana (Nootka rose) to fire--how fire affects the species and its habitat, and fire management considerations. Information is also provided on the species' taxonomy…
Author(s): William R. Reed
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