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Tu, Hurd, Randall
From the text ... 'TNC and other agencies and ogganizations that manage land for biodiversity often use prescribed burns to promote desired vegetation and species. Fire is sometimes necessary to prompt the germination of some plants, including a…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Coxson, Marsh
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Crawford, Wahren, Kyle, Moir
Changes in disturbance due to fire regime in southwestern Pinus ponderosa forests over the last century have led to dense forests that are threatened by widespread fire. It has been shown in other studies that a pulse of native, early-seral…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
From the Introduction ... 'To help address the many challenges created by the 2000 fire season, leadership in the Northern (Region One) and Intermountain (Region Four) Regions combined their efforts through a post-fire strategy. This strategy seeks…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Weddell
Managers often want to restore historical disturbance regimes. In the northern intermountain region, there is considerable interest in using fire as a management tool to accomplish a variety of objectives in steppe vegetation. Little information is…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Kay
Aspen has been declining in the Yellowstone Ecosystem for more than 80 years. Some authors have suggested that aspen is a marginal plant community in Yellowstone and that recent climatic variation has adversely afeected aspen, while others contend…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Johansen
From the introduction...'Rangefire is an important intermittent disturbance in many semiarid and arid lands. Limited interspace vegetation in hot deserts restricts the occurrence of fire, while shrub-steppe communities, with abundant bunch grasses…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Griffis, Crawford, Wagner, Moir
A range of forest management treatments was applied to ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) in northern Arizona. The treatments represented the full range of existing stand disturbance conditions and included forest stands that were unmanaged, thinned,…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Asher, Dewey, Johnson, Olivarez
Wildland fire is a natural process that often helps to maintain or improve the health and productivity of native plant communities. However, when invasive exotic plants (hereafter, weeds) are involved, fires burn in an unnatural situation. There are…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Grace, Smith, Grace, Collins, Stohlgren
A substantial number of invasive grasses, forbs and woody plants have invaded temperate grasslands in North America. Among the invading species are winter annuals, biennials, cool-season perennials, warm-season perennials, vines, shrubs, and trees.…
Year: 2001
Type: Document