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From the text ... 'Fire in the habitst is probably the best cure for what ails your habitat. It is a process that was removed from habitat management decades ago and it is necessary to help you restore native bobwhites as part of your recovery plan.'
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Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: Alabama, Colinus virginianus, fire dependent species, fire management, Florida, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel moisture, game birds, land management, pine forests, post fire recovery, smoke management, South Carolina, Tall Timbers Research Station, threatened and endangered species (animals), threatened and endangered species (plants), wildlife habitat management, wind
This paper presents results of the AQL2004 project, which has been developed within the GOFC-GOLD Latin American network of remote sensing and forest fires (RedLatif). The project intended to obtain monthly burned-land maps of the entire region, from Mexico to Patagonia, using…
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Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire History, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire scars, NBR - Normalized Burn Ratio, remote sensing, burned area, MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, biomass burning, South America, burn area index, Latin America, air quality, Argentina, biomass, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, cover, croplands, Cuba, deforestation, fire management, fire scar analysis, fire size, forest management, grasslands, herbaceous vegetation, Mexico, Patagonia, savannas, statistical analysis, Venezuela, wildfires
This past year has been a period of transition for the Rocky Mountain Research Station. In 2006, we identified the need to move from an organization of approximately 30 research work units whose work was formed around national Strategic Program Areas, to a more streamlined team-…
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Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Administration, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Rocky Mountain, Southwest
Keywords: Forest Service, research, Rocky Mountain Research Station
Some model experiments predict a large-scale substitution of Amazon forest by savannah-like vegetation by the end of the twenty-first century. Expanding global demands for biofuels and grains, positive feedbacks in the Amazon forest fire regime and drought may drive a faster…
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Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Economics, Fuels
Region(s): International
Keywords: agriculture, Amazon, Brazil, C - carbon, deforestation, droughts, ENSO, fire control, fire regimes, forest fragmentation, forest management, climate change, land use, logging, mortality, South America, temperature, tropical forests, wildfires, deforestation, biofuel, feedbacks, globalization, global warming