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Alexander, Cruz, Lopes
CFIS -- which stands for Crown Fire Initiation and Spread -- is a software tool or system incorporating several recently developed models designed to simulate crown fire behavior. The main outputs of CFIS are: (1) the likelihood of crown fire…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Fulé, Covington, Stoddard, Bertolette
Restoration treatments were tested on the South Rim (ponderosa pine) and North Rim (mixed conifer) of Grand Canyon National Park, never-harvested forests where the historically frequent surface regime was interrupted in the late 19th century.…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Converse, White, Block
As part of a national experiment, the Fire and Fire Surrogate Project, we evaluated the effects of forest thinning on small mammal population densities and total small mammal biomass in ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa)-dominated forests at 2 study…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Trent, Cisneros
From the text ... 'Before lighting a prescribed fire on the Okanogan and Wenatchee National Forests, fire managers rely on Tom Robison to check air quality in several of the nearby small towns. Using data from a network of real-time smoke monitors,…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Calkin, Gebert
Years of successful fire suppression have led to high fuel loads on the nation's forests, and steps are being taken by the nation's land management agencies to reduce these fuel loads. However, to achieve desired outcomes in a fiscally responsible…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Ohlson, Berry, Gray, Blackwell, Hawkes
This paper provides an example of the practical application of multi-attribute trade-off analysis (MATA) to wildfire management. The MATA approach supports more informed decision-making because it exposes important trade-offs among competing…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Chen, Grady, Stephens, Villa-Castillo, Wagner
We investigated the response of community assemblages of carabids (Coleoptera: Carabidae) and tenebrionids (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) from June to August in 2003 and 2004 on ponderosa pine forest stands of various conditions that were created by…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
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
Laband, González-Cabán, Hussain
Using the database developed by the General Accounting Office on proposed fuels reduction actions on federal lands in 2001 and 2002, we conduct probit regression analysis to identify factors that significantly affect the likelihood of administrative…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
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