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Biology, ecology, and renewable resource management of the pigmy conifer woodlands of western North America: a bibliography
West, Cain, Gifford
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Year: 1973
Type: Document

Land use and water resources in temperate and tropical climates
Pereira
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Year: 1973
Type: Document

An analysis of the western redcedar-grand fir forest communities in the Selway-Bitteroot wilderness, with special emphasis on fuel accumulations and fire potential
Habeck
[no description entered]
Year: 1973
Type: Document

A computer program for processing historic fire weather data for the National Fire-Danger Rating System
Furman, Helfman
FIRDAT is a FORTRAN IV program to compute the daily components and indexes of the National Fire-Danger Rating System. FIRDAT will also compute and print the absolute, relative and cumulative frequencies of occurrence, and print a cumulative…
Year: 1973
Type: Document

The habitat requirements of sage grouse and the role of fire in management
Klebenow
From the text ... 'Sage grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus Bonaparte), due to their dependence upon sagebrush-grassland habitat for food and cover, are limited in distribution to the range type dominated by sagebrush, principally big sagebrush (…
Year: 1973
Type: Document

Fire ecology in ponderosa pine-grassland
Biswell
From the text ... 'The ponderosa pine-grassland is characterized by the occurrence and distribution of ponderosa pine, Pinus ponderosa. It is widely spread covering some 36 million acres from the Fraser River Basin in British Columbia to Durango,…
Year: 1973
Type: Document

A stochastic model for the occurrence of man-caused forest fires
Cunningham, Martell
This paper discusses the occurrence of man-caused forest fires during the summer fire season in a section of northwestern Ontario. Fire occurrence is viewed as being a chance process and a stochastic model is developed to describe it. The results of…
Year: 1973
Type: Document

Possible periodicities in weather patterns and Canadian forest fire seasons
Armstrong, Vines
Weather trends have been determined from an analysis of long-term rainfall records for towns in the southern part of Canada. The incidence of forest fires in the provinces correlates well with the approximately periodic 'drought patterns' in these…
Year: 1973
Type: Document

History of a small crown fire
Van Wagner
An 80-foot-square plot in a red pine plantation was burned at extreme fire danger as part of a study of fire behavior and effect. When the wind reversed its direction, the original slow-moving back-fire changed within a few minutes to a fast-…
Year: 1964
Type: Document

Fire and management problems in ponderosa pine
Weaver
[from the text] This article reflects the author's views, based upon his observations during 35 years of service as a professional forester in the Western Pine Region, including his active participation in pilot plant experiments with prescribed…
Year: 1964
Type: Document