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Yamasaki, Duchesneau, Doyon, Russell, Gooding
The cumulative impacts of human and natural activity on forest landscapes in Alberta are clear. Human activity, such as forestry and oil and gas development, and natural processes such as wildfire leave distinctive marks on the composition, age…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Woodard
Provincial forest management agencies across Canada are attempting to recover suppression costs plus losses to real property due to human-caused fires when negligence is involved. These agencies are responsible for investigating these fires, and…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Smirnova, Bergeron, Brais
North American jack pine (Pinus banksiana Lamb.) stands are generally characterized by an even-aged structure resulting from high intensity fires (HIF). However, non-lethal fires of moderate intensity (MIF), which leave behind surviving trees, have…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Skinner, Burk, Barbour, Franco-Vizcaino, Stephens
Aim To identify the influence of interannual and interdecadal climate variation on the occurrence and extent of fires in montane conifer forests of north-western Mexico.Location This study was conducted in Jeffrey pine (Pinus jeffreyi Grev. &…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Penney, McRae, Rayment
The effect of burn-pruning on the flora in a natural stand of lowbush blueberry was studied over a 24-yr period in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Treatments were: not burned and burn-pruned every 2nd, 3rd, or 4th year. A vegetative survey was…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Restoring plant species diversity and community composition in a ponderosa pine-bunchgrass ecosystem
Laughlin, Bakker, Daniels, Moore, Casey, SpringerMonitoring of ecological restoration treatments often focuses on changes in community structure and function. We suggest that long-term changes in community composition also need to be explicitly considered when evaluating the success of restoration…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Iniguez, Swetnam, Yool
Fire histories contribute important information to contemporary fire planning, however, our knowledge is not comprehensive geographically. We evaluated the influence of topography on fire history patterns in two contrasting landscapes within the…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Drury, Veblen
Patterns of fire occurrence within the Las Bayas Forestry Reserve, Mexico are analyzed in relation to variability in climate, topography, and human land-use. Significantly more fires with shorter fire return intervals occurred from 1900 to 1950 than…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Breece, Kolb, Dickson, McMillin, Clancy
Prescribed fire is an important tool in the management of ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa Dougl. Ex Laws.) forests, yet effects on bark beetle (Coleoptera: Curculionidae, Scolytinae) activity and tree mortality are poorly understood in the…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Boxall, Englin
An important consideration in managing fire-prone forests is the intertemporal impacts of forest fires. This analysis examines these impacts in a forest recreation setting by fitting a combined stated and revealed data set to explicitly model the…
Year: 2008
Type: Document