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Zornes, Bishop
Executive Summary ... 'The Western Quail Management Plan was created to provide range-wide and Bird Conservation Region (BCR) assessments of western quail population size, habitat abundance, current threats, management recommendations and research…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Yang
Fighting fire with fire has been given the green light by a new study of techniques used to reduce the risk of catastrophic wildfires. And with a rise in wildfires predicted in many parts of the country, researchers say controlled burns and other…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
By using tree ring data to develop climate and fire chronologies, several climate induced fire patterns were deduced. Specifically, the researchers showed that reconstructed sea surface temperature (SST) changes in the form of three different…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Bark beetles are chewing a wide swath through forests across North America. Over the past few years, infestations have become epidemic in lodgepole and spruce-fir forests of the Intermountain West. The resulting extensive acreages of dead trees are…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Bagne, Finch
Future climate change is anticipated to result in ecosystem changes, and consequently, many species are expected to become increasingly vulnerable to extinction. This scenario is of particular concern for threatened, endangered, and at-risk species…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Williams, Allen, Macalady, Griffin, Woodhouse, Meko, Swetnam, Rauscher, Seager, Grissino-Mayer, Dean, Cook, Gangodagamage, Cai, McDowell
As the climate changes, drought may reduce tree productivity and survival across many forest ecosystems; however, the relative influence of specific climate parameters on forest decline is poorly understood. We derive a forest drought-stress index (…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Marlon, Bartlein, Gavin, Long, Anderson, Briles, Brown, Colombaroli, Hallett, Power, Scharf, Walsh
Understanding the causes and consequences of wildfires in forests of the western United States requires integrated information about fire, climate changes, and human activity on multiple temporal scales. We use sedimentary charcoal accumulation…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Young
This paper focuses on the nexus among native and nonnative fishes with respect to fire and climate change in the western United States. Although many taxa are involved, I emphasize native and nonnative salmonids because these are obligate coldwater…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Climate change, forests, fire, water, and fish: Building resilient landscapes, streams, and managers
Luce, Morgan, Dwire, Isaak, Holden, RiemanFire will play an important role in shaping forest and stream ecosystems as the climate changes. Historic observations show increased dryness accompanying more widespread fire and forest die-off. These events punctuate gradual changes to ecosystems…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Keane, Tomback, Aubry, Bower, Campbell, Cripps, Jenkins, Mahalovich, Manning, McKinney, Murray, Perkins, Reinhart, Ryan, Schoettle, Smith
Whitebark pine (Pinus albicaulis), an important component of western high-elevation forests, has been declining in both the United States and Canada since the early Twentieth Century from the combined effects of mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus…
Year: 2012
Type: Document