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Smith-Krause
The purpose of this project is to analyze the use of an overlapping fuel treatment pattern as a fuel treatment alternative for the Little Baullies Mesa Vegetation Manipulation Project. The Goal of this analysis is to develop, recommend and implement…
Type: Document
Year: 2003
Ditchkoff, Masters, Hitch
From the text ... 'Ecosystem management includes biological, social, cultural, and economic values. Ecosystem management attempts to sustain these values across landscapes by managing biological issues in both large and small landscapes with the…
Type: Document
Year: 2003
Whitehead, Bowman, Preece, Fraser, Cooke
The extent to which use of fire by Aboriginal peoples shaped the landscapes and biota of Australia is a contentious issue. Equally contentious is the proposition that attempts should be made to support and re-establish customary practice. Some…
Type: Document
Year: 2003
Kinoshita, Paintner-Green
The Resources Management Division and Fire Management Branch at Yosemite National Park have collaborated to develop a Resource Advisor (READ) on-call system in order to better ensure that resources issues are addressed during prescribed and wildland…
Type: Document
Year: 2003
Fire ecology assessment tool -- monitoring wildland fire and prescribed fire for adaptive management
Prescribed fire has been recognized for years as an effective for tool managing wildlands. However, there are many resource managers who remain sceptical that fire is the appropriate tool for managing some ecosystems and especially some specific…
Type: Document
Year: 2003
Rodríguez-Trejo
Pinus hartwegii is found in 17 states in Mexico, from 3 000 to more than 4 000 m above sea level. It is typical of the highest portions of mountains and above 3 500 m forms pure open stands associated with grasses and some shrubs. Among the natural…
Type: Document
Year: 2003
Mendes-Ramos
The Portuguese term Cerrado means closed and designates a vast phytogeographic province dominated by an unambiguous savanna like vegetation, once it can only be found in Central Brazil and some fragments in the Southeast, Northeast and in the…
Type: Document
Year: 2003
Brown, van Staden, Daws, Johnson
De Lange and Boucher (1990) discovered the germination enhancing effect of plant-derived smoke on seed of fynbos species. This finding has been applied to horti- culturally important fynbos species and to date 301 species have been tested for a…
Type: Document
Year: 2003
Myers, Davis
The Most Probable Numbers method was used to: (1) estimate the depths of soil at which most algae live; (2) determine effects of fire on the abundance of soil algae to a depth of 20 mm; and (3) ascertain recolonization of sterilized soils by algae.…
Type: Document
Year: 2003
Wray, Anderson
From the text: 'If ecological restoration is defined as returning ecosystems to the condition in which they existed before non-indigenous settlement, then we argue that with certain ecosystems—such as the prairies on the Olympic Peninsula - their…
Type: Document
Year: 2003