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Plant community variability in ponderosa pine forest has implications for reference conditions
Gildar, Fulé, Covington
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Year: 2004
Type: Document

Sustainability of timber supply considering the risk of wildfire
Armstrong
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Year: 2004
Type: Document

Applying geographic information systems and remote sensing to forest fire monitoring, mapping, and modeling in Canada
Englefield, Lee, Fraser, Landry, Hall, Lynham, Cihlar, Li, Jin, Ahern
The Fire Monitoring, Mapping and Modelling System (Fire M3) is an initiative of the Canada Centre for Remote Sensing (CCRS) and the Canadian Forest Service (CFS), both agencies of Natural Resources Canada. The goals of Fire M3 are to use low-…
Year: 2004
Type: Document

Integrating remote sensing, GIS, and spatial statistics: a case study of invasive plants and wildfire on the Cerro Grande Fire, Los Alamos, New Mexico
Kalkhan, Martinson, Omi, Stohlgren, Chong, Hunter
Investigating spatial relationships among fuels, wildfire severity, and post-fire invasion by exotic plant species through linkage of multiphase sampling design and multiscale nested sampling field plots, pre- and post-fire, can be accomplished by…
Year: 2004
Type: Document

A Wildfire Threat Rating System for the Birkenhead and Gates landscape units, British Columbia
Blackwell, Gray, Steele, Needoba, Green, MacKenzie
In 2000 the Squamish Forest District began a pilot project to study the effects of prescribed fire on forest succession, fuel dynamics, regeneration, wildlife habitat, and timber supply within two landscape units encompassing 103,000 ha north of…
Year: 2004
Type: Document

Fuels, fire severity, and invasive plants within the Cerro Grande Fire, Los Alamos, New Mexico
Omi, Martinson, Kalkhan, Chong, Hunter, Stohlgren
The severity of the 2000 fire season has increased public awareness of a widespread fuels problem in western U.S. forests. Federal land management agencies have responded with plans to greatly expand programs to mitigate hazardous fuel conditions.…
Year: 2004
Type: Document

Mapping fire regime condition class: a method for watershed and project scale analysis
Hann
Fire regime and associated condition class mapping have provided key data for development of cohesive strategies for restoration of fire-adapted ecosystems and for the National Fire Plan within the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service and…
Year: 2004
Type: Document

Using topography to model and monitor fire cycles in Banff National Park
Rogeau, Pengelly, Fortin
The fire management goal in Banff National Park is to maintain or restore, where possible, historical fire regimes. Fire cycles are an important component of a fire regime, and historical fire cycles provide a reference to guide the use of…
Year: 2004
Type: Document

Fire regimes in Nahanni National Park and the Mackenzie Bison Sanctuary, Northwest Territories, Canada
Bothwell, de Groot, Dube, Chowns, Carlsson, Stefner
Nahanni National Park and the Mackenzie Bison Sanctuary are ecologically important areas in the Northwest Territories. Fire history data in Nahanni National Park and the Mackenzie Bison Sanctuary were used for a comparative analysis in order to…
Year: 2004
Type: Document

'The air was fire': fire behavior at Peshtigo in 1871: What is extreme fire behavior?: Forgotten fire?: Was there a tornado?
Brown
From the text ... ''It will be a long time before those woods, more relentless than the waters, give up their dead.' -- C.E.Robinson, 1872 ...The drought was mild compared to the times leading up to other historically great fires in the Midwest. ...…
Year: 2004
Type: Document