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Listing of tribes that have documented use of fire by author and date of publication
Williams
From the introduction to the document ... '... In summary there are eleven major reasons for American Indian ecosystem burning, which are drived from well over 300 studies: Hunting ...Crop management ... Improve growth and yields ... Fireproof areas…
Year: 2005
Type: Document

Rocky Mountains, southwest, Gulf States, Texas, and Great Plains/prairies references
Williams
From the introduction to the document ... '... In summary there are eleven major reasons for American Indian ecosystem burning, which are drived from well over 300 studies: Hunting ...Crop management ... Improve growth and yields ... Fireproof areas…
Year: 2005
Type: Document

General North America references
Williams
From the introduction to the document ... '... In summary there are eleven major reasons for American Indian ecosystem burning, which are drived from well over 300 studies: Hunting ...Crop management ... Improve growth and yields ... Fireproof areas…
Year: 2005
Type: Document

Accepting uncertainty, assessing risk: decision quality in managing wildfire, forest resource values, and new technology
Borchers
The risks, uncertainties, and social conflicts surrounding uncharacteristic wildfire and forest resource values have defied conventional approaches to planning and decision-making. Paradoxically, the adoption of technological innovations such as…
Year: 2005
Type: Document

Research & development 2004 annual report
Science at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service has always been large in scale. The depth and breadth of the research conducted here, however, may surprise even many who are engaged in it. Our research programs have a wide…
Year: 2005
Type: Document

Effects of post-fire conditions on germination and seedling success of diffuse knapweed in northern Arizona
Wolfson, Kolb, Sieg, Clancy
Introduction of exotic plant species is confounding treatments designed to reduce unnaturally high tree densities in ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa P. & C. Lawson) forests of the western United States. Also, the recent increase in large, stand-…
Year: 2005
Type: Document

Fire and avian ecology in North America: process influencing pattern
Saab, Powell
We summarize the findings from 10 subsequent chapters that collectively review fire and avian ecology across 40 North American ecosystems. We highlight patterns and future research topics that recur among the chapters. Vegetation types with long…
Year: 2005
Type: Document

Fire and birds in the southwestern United States
Bock, Block
Fire is an important ecological force in many southwestern ecosystems, but frequencies, sizes, and intensities of fire have been altered historically by grazing, logging, exotic vegetation, and suppression. Prescribed burning should be applied…
Year: 2005
Type: Document