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A decade of progress, a decade of frustration

Brennan
The past decade has seen tremendous research progress for the northern bobwhite (Colinus virginianus). Research conducted during the 1990s advanced our understanding of bobwhite breeding biology, habitat relationships, long-term population trends,…
Type: Document
Year: 2002

A model for defining and predicting the urban-wildland interface for the Piedmont of South Carolina

Marek, Gering
Resource managers continue to experience a deluge of management conflicts as urban population centers expand into areas that were formerly wildland settings. Traditional forest management practices, fire suppression, recreational opportunities and…
Type: Document
Year: 2002

Chisos Basin Study Unit - Big Bend National Park: an evaluation of fuel treatment alternatives in a pinyon-oak-juniper woodland

Bundschuh
This paper analyzes the fuel loading and potential for a catastrophic fire in a 65-acre woodland plot adjacent to the developed area in the Chisos Basin of Big Bend National Park. Several fuel treatment alternatives are explored which would reduce…
Type: Document
Year: 2002

Creating defensible space for the Crevice Creek Cabin Site: a mechanical treatment strategy

Warthin
The Crevice Cabin Project recommends a strategy to protect human life and create defensible space for a culturally significant resource. The analysis of environmental and economic factors determines an appropriate long-term mechanical fuels…
Type: Document
Year: 2002

Cultural, environmental and historical controls of vegetation patterns and the modern conservation setting on the island of Martha's Vineyard, USA

Foster, Hall, Barry, Clayden, Parshall
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Type: Document
Year: 2002

Dynamics of an anthropogenic fire regime

Guyette, Muzika, Dey
Human interaction with fire and vegetation occurs at many levels of human population density and cultural development, from subsistence cultures to highly technological societies. The dynamics of these interactions with respect to wildland fire are…
Type: Document
Year: 2002

Eolian deposition of forest-fire charcoal above tree limit, Colorado Front Range, USA: Potential contamination of AMS radiocarbon samples

Benedict
Shallow soil cores from 56 localities along the crest of the Colorado Front Range were processed by water flotation and wet sieving, then examined for wood charcoal and charred conifer-needle fragments. Charred particles were largest and most…
Type: Document
Year: 2002

Longleaf pine: why plant it? Why use containers?

Barnett
Longleaf pine (Pinus palustris Mill.), although widely distributed in the presettlement forests of the southern Coastal Plain, now occupies less that 5 percent of its original range. A highly desirable species, it resists fire, insects, and disease…
Type: Document
Year: 2002

Restoration of longleaf pine ecosystems

Brockway, Outcalt, Tomczak, Johnson
Longleaf pine (Pinus paluntris) ecosystems once occupied 38 million ha in the Southeastern United States, occurring as forests, woodlands, and savannas on a variety of sites ranging from wet flatwoods to xeric sandhills and rocky mountainous ridges…
Type: Document
Year: 2002

Restoring the longleaf pine ecosystem: the role of fire

Barnett
Longleaf pine (Pinus palustris Mill.) ecosystems once occupied 90 million acres in the southern United States coastal plain. These fire-dependent ecosystems dominated a wide range of coastal plain sites, including dry uplands and low, wet flatlands…
Type: Document
Year: 2002