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Beverly, Uto, Wilkes, Bothwell
We designed and developed an internet mapping application to collect data on the locations of forest landscape values across a 2.4 million hectare study area in the province of Alberta, Canada. Four communities in the study area were surveyed and…
Type: Document
Year: 2008
Shebitz, Reichard, Woubneh
We studied the autecology and population status of beargrass (Xerophyllum tenax (Pursh) Nutt.) on the Olympic Peninsula of Washington State, focusing in the Olympic National Forest (ONF). Objectives were to: (1) define and describe beargrass habitat…
Type: Document
Year: 2008
Nasiatka
From the text ... 'The Wildland Fire Lessons Learned Center actively promotes a learning culture to enhance and sustain safe and effective work practices in the wildland fire community.The center provides opportunities and resources to foster…
Type: Document
Year: 2008
Jain, Stirk, van Staden
Smoke and aqueous smoke extracts enhance both seed germination and seedling vigour in a wide variety of plants. The butenolide, 3-methyl-2H-furo[2,3-c]pyran-2-one, has been identified as a highly active germination promoter from plant-derived smoke…
Type: Document
Year: 2008
Hashidoko, Takakai, Toma, Darung, Melling, Tahara, Hatano
Using a soilless culture system mimicking tropical acidic peat soils, which contained 3mg of gellan gum and 0.5mgNO3¯-N per gram of medium, a greenhouse gas, N2O emitting capability of microorganisms in acidic peat soil in the area of Palangkaraya,…
Type: Document
Year: 2008
Rideout, Ziesler, Kling, Loomis, Botti
With changes in land management planning and a new federal fire policy, increased emphasis has been placed on protecting a broader set of resource values such as those associated with sensitive species habitat or cultural resources. Fire managers…
Type: Document
Year: 2008
Edwards, Allan, Brock, Duguid, Gabrys, Vaarzon-Morel
Over the last 130 years, patterns of land use in central Australia have altered dramatically, and so too have fire regimes and fire management objectives. Although Aboriginal people still have tenure over large parts of the landscape, their…
Type: Document
Year: 2008
Smith, Zouhar, Sutherland, Brooks
Fire is a process integral to the functioning of most temperate wildland ecosystems. Lightning-caused and anthropogenic fires have influenced the vegetation of North America profoundly for millennia (Brown and Smith 2000; Pyne 1982b). In some cases…
Type: Document
Year: 2008
Chavez, Absher, Winter
Fire events often have a large impact on recreation and tourism, yet these issues had not been addressed from a social science perspective. To address his, the Wildland Recreation and Urban Cultures Research Work Unit (RWU) of the Pacific Southwest…
Type: Document
Year: 2008
Rada, Marquina
Protected natural spaces contribute to the well being of society in various ways such as maintaining biological diversity and quality of the landscape, regulation of water sources and nutrient cycles, production of soil, protection against natural…
Type: Document
Year: 2008