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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

Fire management impacts on invasive plants in the western United States
Keeley
Fire management practices affect alien plant invasions in diverse ways. I considered the impact of six fire management practices on alien invasions: fire suppression, forest fuel reduction, prescription burning in crown-fire ecosystems, fuel breaks…
Year: 2006
Type: Document

Establishment of non-native plant species after wildfires: effects of fuel treatments, abiotic and biotic factors, and post-fire grass seeding treatments
Hunter, Omi, Martinson, Chong
Establishment and spread of non-native species following wildfires can pose threats to long-term native plant recovery. Factors such as disturbance severity, resource availability, and propagule pressure may influence where non-native species…
Year: 2006
Type: Document

Guidance on spatial wildland fire analysis: models, tools, and techniques
Stratton
There is an increasing need for spatial wildland fire analysis in support of incident management, fuel treatment planning, wildland-urban assessment, and land management plan development. However, little guidance has been provided to the field in…
Year: 2006
Type: Document

A national study of the consequences of fire and fire surrogate treatments - Final Report to the Joint Fire Science Program
McIver, Weatherspoon
Many U.S. forests, especially those with short-interval, low- to moderate severity fire regimes are more dense and have greater quantities of fuels compared to pre-settlement times. Widespread treatments are planned to restore ecological integrity…
Year: 2006
Type: Document