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Keller
From the text ... 'This is the beginning of a new culture.'
Type: Document
Year: 2006
Harrington, Devine
Oregon white oak savannas and woodlands represent a biological and cultural legacy in the Pacific Northwest. Many Oregon white oak stands are deteriorating owing to invasion and eventual overtopping by Douglas-fir or other conifers. Releasing the…
Type: Document
Year: 2006
Kruger, Mazza
This problem analysis describes a variety of human-resource interaction issues and identifies related social science research and development needs that serve as the foundation for the Alaska Communities and Forest Environments Team within the…
Type: Document
Year: 2006
Doane, O'Laughlin, Morgan, Miller
American society has a general cultural bias toward controlling nature (Glover 2000) and, in particular, a strong bias for suppressing wildfire, even in wilderness (Saveland et al. 1988). Nevertheless, the Federal Wildland Fire Management Policy…
Type: Document
Year: 2006
Fites-Kaufman, Campbell, Decker, Isabell, Reiner, Shapiro-Miller, Lake
This report contains the results of the assessment of fire behavior in relation to fuels, weather and topography, and fire effects to resources in relation to fire behavior for the Orleans Complex, which occured on the Six Rivers National…
Type: Document
Year: 2006
Francis
The use of fire in the La Amistad Biosphere Reserve, Panama, is a complex issue, especially given its biophysical, cultural, and socioeconomic context. A geographic gradient exists, depicting the threat from fire to the reserve. Areas around Volcan…
Type: Document
Year: 2006
Stambaugh, Guyette
Many of the present day issues associated with fire management in wilderness areas are addressed by studying past interactions among fire, humans, vegetation and climate. In this paper we describe three centuries of the fire regime in the Lower…
Type: Document
Year: 2006
Guyette, Dey, Stambaugh, Muzika
Fire scar evidence in eastern North America is sparse and complex but shows promise in defining the dynamics of these fire regimes and their influence on ecosystems. We review fire scar data, methods, and limitations, and use this information to…
Type: Document
Year: 2006
Banfai, Bowman
Monsoon rainforest is a key habitat in sustaining the natural and cultural values for which Kakadu National Park is World Heritage listed. The integrity of monsoon rainforest boundaries was thought to have been threatened by an increase in fire and…
Type: Document
Year: 2006
Goetz
Little is known about the diversity and ecological roles of endophytes in woody roots of forest trees in the inland northwestern USA, especially as related to fire ecology. To assess fungal endophytes in large woody roots of Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga…
Type: Document
Year: 2006