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Brennan
From the Introduction ... 'The purpose of this summary is to describe the four emergent themes of the Fire and Wetlands Conference. The first theme is that wetlands are interestint model systems for studying fire effects. However, wetland systems…
Type: Document
Year: 1995
Kauffman, Case, Lytjen, Otting, Cummings
The degradation of riparian ecosystems associated with the upper Snake river tributaries of Oregon and Idaho has contributed significantly to the precipitous declines of resident and anadromous salmonids. Given the economic, ecologic, and cultural…
Type: Document
Year: 1995
Stankey, McCool
While the concept of wilderness in the American landscape may be traced to the mid-19th century, it was not until 1964 that formal, Congressional protection began. The resulting National Wilderness Preservation System, encompassing approximately 95…
Type: Document
Year: 1995
Smith
Examination of 320 stories about wildfire published since 1988 suggests that journalists did not learn from the mistakes they made reporting the Yellowstone fires. The conventions of journalism, which value drama over explanation, suggest that…
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
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
Pyne
What we call wilderness fire is the merger, collision, mixture, alliance, confrontation, and altogether curious and perplexing association of two very different traditions. One is nature preservation, particularly as expressed in wilderness; the…
Type: Document
Year: 1995