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Maczko, Hidinger, Tanaka, Morgan, Mitchell, Fox, Joyce, Duke
Rangelands encompass over 770 million acres of land in the United States, and despite their classification into a single land “type”, these U.S. rangelands occur across a variety of ecosystems and have unique vulnerabilities and suggested management…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Fusco, Finn, Balch, Nagy, Bradley
Fire-prone invasive grasses create novel ecosystem threats by increasing fine-fuel loads and continuity, which can alter fire regimes. While the existence of an invasive grass-fire cycle is well known, evidence of altered fire regimes is typically…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
The Great Plains Grassland Summit: Challenges and Opportunities from North to South was held April 10-11, 2018 in Denver, Colorado to provide syntheses of information about key grassland topics of interest in the Great Plains; networking and…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Daryanto, Fu, Zhao
With the proliferation of woody plant species in much of the world's grasslands, human has manipulated landscape fire to return their forage provisioning service. Yet other ecosystem services (e.g., carbon sequestration, biodiversity conservation,…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Keeley, Pausas
Fire is a necessary ecosystem process in many biomes and is best viewed as a natural disturbance that is beneficial to ecosystem functioning. However, increasingly, we are seeing human interference in fire regimes that alters the historical range of…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Buma, Batllori, Bisbing, Holz, Saunders, Bidlack, Creutzburg, DellaSala, Gregovich, Hennon, Krapek, Moritz, Zaret
The coastal temperate rainforests of South and North America are part of the most biomass dense forest biome on the planet. They are also subject to rapid climatic shifts and, subsequently, new disturbance processes - snow loss‐driven mortality and…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Parajuli, Joshi, Poudyal, Kreuter
Prescribed burning is a widely used tool in forest and grassland management. However, because fire that escapes from a prescribed burn accidentally may cause property damage, injuries, and even human casualties, purchasing insurance to cover such…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Old school and high tech: a comparison of methods to quantify Ashe Juniper biomass as fuel or forage
Tolleson, Rhodes, Malambo, Angerer, Redden, Treadwell, PopescuAshe juniper invasion is a widespread issue on Texas and Oklahoma rangelands. Increased densities of Ashe juniper trees increase the risk of wildfire and decrease herbaceous forage production. Browsing animals, such as goats, are one tool that can…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
The annual national report of the Forest Health Monitoring (FHM) program of the Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, presents forest health status and trends from a national or multi-State regional perspective using a variety of sources,…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Wang, Li, Ravi
Context: Fire and controlled grazing have been widely adopted as management interventions to counteract woody shrub proliferation in many arid and semiarid grassland systems. The actual intensity of grazing and fire, along with the timing of the…
Year: 2019
Type: Document