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The impact of fire on timber supply in Ontario
Martell
[no description entered]
Year: 1994
Type: Document

Report of the National Commission on wildfire disasters: presented recently to Secretaries Babbitt and Espy, its message is clear: without aggressive, proactive wildland management programs begun now, the worst is yet to come
Created through the Wildfire Disaster Recovery Act of 1989 (PL 101-286), in response to the destructive western fire season of 1987 and the Yellowstone fires of 1988, the Commission was asked to consider the environmental and economic effects of…
Year: 1994
Type: Document

The burning of the New World: the extent and significance of broadcast burning by early humans
Woodcock, Wells
It is possible to delimit the areas of the North, Central, and South America that are most susceptible to fire and would have been most affected by burning practices of early Americans. Areas amounting to approximately 155 x 105 km² are here…
Year: 1994
Type: Document

Effects of pre-industrial human activities on climate
Robock, Graf
Pre-industrial human activities which changed the atmospheric greenhouse gas or aerosol loading, or which modified the properties of the earth's surface, such as albedo, roughness, or vegetation cover, had the potential to modify the regional or…
Year: 1994
Type: Document

Fire climate analysis of the United States historical climatology network data
Meisner, Fujioka
The United States Historical Climatology Network (HCN) database was compiled by the National Climatic Data Center in response to a compelling interest in climate change. The database contains monthly temperature and precipitation data for…
Year: 1994
Type: Document

Soil water potential in burned and unburned ponderosa pine sites in Arizona
Harrington
Soil moisture was measured in adjacent burned and unburned sites in a ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) stand in Arizona. Thermocouple psychrometers were used to monitor soil water potential for 3 consecutive summer months on sites with a deep…
Year: 1994
Type: Document

Development of an initial attack preparedness system for Manitoba
Hirsch
The 1989 fire season was the most severe in 71-years of recorded fire history in Manitoba. A total of 1147 fires burned 3.28 million ha and cost over $63 million (CDN) to suppress. The events of 1989 resulted in the development and implementation of…
Year: 1994
Type: Document

Southwestern ponderosa forest structure: changes since Euro-American settlement
Covington, Moore
This study quantifies some of the associated shifts in ecosystem structure and resource conditions and predicts changes 40 years into the future. The results from this and subsequent studies on other sites should serve as a reference point or…
Year: 1994
Type: Document

Ecological perspective: linking ecology, GIS, and remote sensing to ecosystem management
Allen
'The heightened recognition within the research community of the ecological linkages between Local sites and larger spatial scales has spawned increasing calls for more holistic management of landscapes (Noss 1983, Harris 1984, Risser 1985, Norse et…
Year: 1994
Type: Document

Then Dodge saw it
Maclean
[no description entered]
Year: 1994
Type: Document