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Weigand, Ahuja, Linsey
Forest fuel loads are unnaturally high in the Sierra Nevada. The US Forest Service is currently preparing a prescribed fire program to reduce fuels in the region. Modeling, both short-term and long-term, direct and cumulative impacts to rural…
Type: Document
Year: 2000
Goldammer
With changing demographic, socio-cultural, and economic conditions in the last 2 3 decades, wildland fire regimes are undergoing rapid changes worldwide. Increasing fire pressure on some regions and reduction of fire in others are noted. While…
Type: Document
Year: 2000
Neuenschwander, Menakis, Miller, Sampson, Hardy, Averill, Mask
We utilized 10 years of fire data from the Colorado Fire Project, in connection with several GIS databases, to illustrate a method of assigning large-wildfire risk indices to the watersheds of the mountainous western side of Colorado. This was done…
Type: Document
Year: 2000
Niklasson, Granström
The spatial display of fire over time on the landscape is ecologically important. and spatially explicit analyses offer a possibility of revealing anthropogenic influence on fire regimes. Nonetheless few such analyses have been attempted for longer…
Type: Document
Year: 2000
Vance, Edminster, Covington, Blake
This volume is divided into three sections: (1) Ecological, Biological, and Physical Science; (2) Social and Cultural; and (3) Economics and Utilization. Effective ecological restoration requires a combination of science and management. The authors…
Type: Document
Year: 2000
Gerhardt
While some forest products companies have discontinued the use of prescribed burning, Westvaco Corporation's Southern Forest continues to make extensive use of prescribed fire to achieve a variety of objectives in its Ecosystem-Based Multiple Use…
Type: Document
Year: 2000
Gettinger, Gollnick
Problem Statement: Over the years a gap has developed between fire and resource management within BLM in Idaho. As a result, wildlife, range, fire, and other program objectives have diverged, making it very difficult to meet Bureauwide resource…
Type: Document
Year: 2000
Nord, Green
Vegetation that is low-growing and either low in volume, slow burning, or both, is needed for reduction of fire hazard on fuelbreaks and other brush cleared areas in California. Of over 50 shrub species and many grass speciesthat were test planted,…
Type: Document
Year: 1977
Nord, Green
Vegetation that is low-growing and either low in volume, slow burning, or both, is needed for reduction of fire hazard on fuelbreaks and other brush cleared areas in California. Of over 50 shrub species and many grass species that were test planted…
Type: Document
Year: 1977