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Mann Gulch Fire: a race that couldn't be won
Rothermel
The Mann Gulch fire, which overran 16 firefighters in 1949, is analyzed to show its probable movement with respect to the crew. The firefighters were smoke-jumpers who had parachuted near the fire on August 5, 1949. While they were moving to a safer…
Year: 1993
Type: Document

Climatic change and disturbance by fire in boreal and sub-alpine forests
Suffling
Studies of anticipated effects of global warming tend to concentrate on the physiological limits of individual organisms, and imputed modifications to biome distributions expresed as climax ecosystems. Changes in distributions of individual species…
Year: 1993
Type: Document

Middle and high elevation coniferous forest communities of the North Rim region of Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona, USA
White, Vankat
We examined the composition and structure of forest communities in a 3700 ha watershed in relation to environmental gradients and changes in land management practices. We identified four mixed-conifer forest types dominated by different combinations…
Year: 1993
Type: Document

Holocene vegetation history at the boreal-forest - shrub-tundra transition in north-western Quebec
Gajewski, Payette, Ritchie
1. Pollen analysis of sediment cores from the four zones that comprise the forest-tundra transition in northern Quebec provide a history of the vegetation that can be compared with extensive macrofossil data from the region. Basal radiocarbon dates…
Year: 1993
Type: Document

The holocene dynamics of jack pine at its northern range limit in Quebec
Desponts, Payette
1 The postglacial history of jack pine (Pinus banksiana Lamb.) at its northernmost distribution limit in the upper boreal forest, along the Grande Riviere de la Baleine (northern Quebec), was reconstructed by using radiocarbon-dated conifer…
Year: 1993
Type: Document

Postfire vegetation recovery and tree establishment at the Arctic tree-line: climatic-change-vegetation-response hypotheses
Landhausser, Wein
1. A fire of unusually great severity (deep burning) burned across the forest-tundra near Inuvik, Northwest Territories from August 8 to 18, 1968. 2. Burned-unburned paired study sites around the fire perimeter, which had been established in both…
Year: 1993
Type: Document

The real story of Bridge Hill: a response to Buckney and Morrison (1992)
Lewis, Clements
In this note we demonstrate that the Buckney and Morrison (1992) data subsets are located on different geomorphological units and different pre-mining plant communities with different fire histories. The conclusions that they have drawn from their…
Year: 1993
Type: Document

Postglacial vegetation and climate of Grand Teton and the southern Yellowstone National Park
Whitlock
Pollen records from northern Grand Teton National Park, the Pinyon Peak Highlands, and southern Yellowstone National Park were examined to study the pattern of reforestation and climatic change following late-Pinedale Glaciation. The vegetational…
Year: 1993
Type: Document

Long-term effects of fire occurrence and their implications for gaseous and particulate emissions to the atmosphere. [abstract]
Clark, Stocks
Changing climate and land use appear to importantly affect the biosphere by way of impacts on fire regimes. Feedback effects on climate and air quality are likely through emissions of trace gases, aerosols, and particulates that affect radiation…
Year: 1993
Type: Document

The long term persistence of differences in fire frequencies in Picea glauca and Pinus banksiana forests [abstract]
Larsen, MacDonald
To determine whether there are persistent differences in fire frequency in Picea glauca and Pinus banksiana forests, we examine dendrochronological and palynological records of fire history. The time since the last fire at 165 stands located in Wood…
Year: 1993
Type: Document