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Carcaillet, Bergman, Delorme, Hornberg, Zackrisson
Knowledge of past fire regimes is crucial for understanding the changes in fire frequency that are likely to occur during the coming decades as a result of global warming and land-use change. This is a key issue for the sustainable management of…
Type: Document
Year: 2007
Carcaillet, Bergman, Delorme, Hornberg, Zackrisson
Knowledge of past fire regimes is crucial for understanding the changes in fire frequency that are likely to occur during the coming decades as a result of global warming and land-use change. This is a key issue for the sustainable management of…
Type: Document
Year: 2007
Gassaway
The inability to distinguish between human-caused and lightning ignitions in fire-history studies has led to three major problems: 1) a basic assumption that all pre-Euro-American settlement fire regimes are ''natural'' unless findings are aberrant…
Type: Document
Year: 2007
Kay
From the Introduction ... 'Before ecosystem management can be implemented or ecological integrity preserved, long-term ecosystem states and processes must first be quantified. For as Aldo Leopold noted over 40 years ago, 'if we are serious about…
Type: Document
Year: 1995
Bray
From the text... 'The purpose of this report is to attempt to evaluate the evidence for widespread human manipulation of the environment in the Midwestern United States. The study will focus primarily on the states of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa,…
Type: Document
Year: 1995
Fiero
In 1989 the Long Mesa fire burned approximately 3000 acres in Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado The fire spread along the top of Long Mesa and the adjacent canyons covering an area containing approximately 200 known archeological sites. Because of…
Type: Document
Year: 1995