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From the text...'On Boise NF, wildfires in ponderosa pine forest have been increasingly large and severe since 1986. Nearly 500,000 acres (210,860 ha) of national forest land (about 50 percent of the Boise NF's ponderosa pine forest and almost 20 percent of the land managed by the forest) have burned, often with uncharacteristic intensity...Preliminary analysis shows that within the next 20 years, remaining mature ponderosa pine forest could be further fragmented, with only isolated pockets remaining (Neuenschwander 1995). To respond to this threat to the forest's ponderosa pine ecosystem, a forest interdisciplinary team, working in partnership with the University of Idaho in Moscow, ID, developed a hazard/risk assessment using a geographic information system (GIS). On a forestwide basis, the assessment indicated where forest ecosystems are most likely to experience uncharacteristically intense wildfires that place important resources at risk.'
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- Abies grandis
- catastrophic fires
- climax vegetation
- computer programs
- coniferous forests
- cover type conversion
- ecosystem dynamics
- erosion
- fire danger rating
- fire exclusion
- fire intensity
- fire regimes
- fire resistant plants
- fire sensitive plants
- fire size
- fire suppression
- fishes
- forest management
- fragmentation
- GIS
- Idaho
- national forests
- old growth forests
- Oncorhynchus
- pine forests
- Pinus ponderosa
- Pseudotsuga menziesii
- remote sensing
- sedimentation
- succession
- threatened and endangered species (animals)
- topography
- Trutta
- vulnerable species or communities
- watershed management
- wilderness fire management
- wildfires
- wildlife habitat management
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