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Nesting characteristics of mourning doves in central New Mexico: response to riparian forest change
Smith, Finch, Hawksworth
Riparian forests of the American Southwest are especially prone to changes in composition and structure due to natural and anthropogenic factors. To determine how breeding mourning doves (Zenaida macroura) respond to these changes, we examined nest…
Year: 2012
Type: Document

Chapter 2: Fire behavior and effects: principles for archaeologists
Ryan, Koerner
From the Conclusions ... 'Fires have impacted cultures for millennia and fire will continue to impact contemporary cultures as well as the remnants of past cultures. The challenge is to manage vagetation/fuels to minimize damage to contemporary…
Year: 2012
Type: Document

Wildland fire in ecosystems: effects of fire on cultural resources and archaeology
This state-of-knowledge review provides a synthesis of the effects of fire on cultural resources, which can be used by fire managers, cultural resource (CR) specialists, and archaeologists to more effectively manage wildland vegetation, fuels, and…
Year: 2012
Type: Document

Bottom-up control of a northern Arizona ponderosa pine forest fire regime in a fragmented landscape
Ireland, Stan, Fulé
Fire regimes often vary at fine spatial scales in response to factors such as topography or fuels while climate usually synchronizes fires across broader scales. We investigated the relative influence of top-down and bottom-up controls on fire…
Year: 2012
Type: Document

Fire and Climate Change in the Western US: A New Synthesis for Land Management
Swetnam, Brown, Brown, Falk, Sutherland
A recent surge of scientific publications and interest in fire climatology derives in part from two new paradigms in climatology: (1) the discovery and understanding of broad-scale ocean-atmosphere oscillations (e.g., El Niño Southern-Oscillation)…
Year: 2012
Type: Project

LANDFIRE Reference Data
Lundberg
To help develop and update LANDFIRE data products, LANDFIRE has relied on a vast collection of geo-referenced data. LANDFIRE 2001 National data collection efforts were focused on vegetation and fuel plot data, which were processed into the LANDFIRE…
Year: 2012
Type: Media

Characterizing Fuels for Fire and Fuel Management in the 21st Century
Ottmar
Fuels are often defined based on the physical characteristics of live and dead biomass that contribute to wildland fire. Because these characteristics affect the character, size, intensity, and duration of fires, fuels are important to the…
Year: 2012
Type: Media