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Review of fuel treatment effects on fuels, fire behavior and ecological resilience in sagebrush (Artemisia spp.) ecosystems in the western U.S.
Chambers, Strand, Ellsworth, Tortorelli, Urza, Crist, Miller, Reeves, Short, Williams
Background: Sagebrush ecosystems are experiencing increases in wildfire extent and severity. Most research on vegetation treatments that reduce fuels and fire risk has been short term (2–3 years) and focused on ecological responses. We review…
Year: 2024
Type: Document

Wildfire probability estimated from recent climate and fine fuels across the big sagebrush region
Holdrege, Schlaepfer, Palmquist, Crist, Doherty, Lauenroth, Remington, Riley, Short, Tull, Wiechman, Bradford
Background: Wildfire is a major proximate cause of historical and ongoing losses of intact big sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata Nutt.) plant communities and declines in sagebrush obligate wildlife species. In recent decades, fire return intervals…
Year: 2024
Type: Document

Environmental impacts: fire's influence on soils, water, and air [Chapter 7]
Arno, Allison-Bunnell
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Year: 2002
Type: Document

The impact of invasive exotic grasses on quail in the southwestern United States
Kuvlesky, Fulbright, Engel-Wilson
Five native quail species inhabit arid and semi-arid ecosystems in the southwastern United States. One species is endangered, one species is declining throughout it's historic range, another species is declining in portions of its historic range,…
Year: 2002
Type: Document

Protecting communities through the National Fire Plan [including: National Fire Plan long-term goals and Community protection in 2001]
Rains, Hubbard
From the text ... 'Our Nation faced the tremendous challenge of reducing the growing risk to lives, property, and natural resources from uncharacteristically severe wildland fires in the W-UI. No single agency is capable of rising to the challenge…
Year: 2002
Type: Document

Healthy forests: an initiative for wildfire prevention and stronger communities
From the text ... 'Federal, state, tribal and local governments are making unprecedented efforts to reduce the buildup of fuels and restore forests and rangelands to healthy conditions. Yet, needless red tape and lawsuits delay effective…
Year: 2002
Type: Document

Understory plant community restoration in the Uinkaret Mountains, Arizona
Friederici
The herbaceous plant community, consisting of shrubs, grasses, sedges, and forbs is a vital part of ponderosa pine forest ecosystems. Restoration treatments have tended to focus directly on tree patterns and reindtroduction of fire. Fore restoration…
Year: 2002
Type: Document

Effects of fire and grazing on an arid grassland ecosystem
Valone, Nordell, Ernest
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Year: 2002
Type: Document

Restoring fire as an ecological process in shortgrass prairie ecosystems: initial effects of prescribed burning during the dormant and growing seasons
Brockway, Gatewood, Paris
Prior to Anglo-European settlement, fire was a major ecological process influencing the structure, composition and productivity of shortgrass prairie ecosystems on the Great Plains. However during the past 125 years, the frequency and extent of…
Year: 2002
Type: Document

The transformation of Sonoran Desert wetlands following the historic decrease of burning
Davis, Minckley, Moutoux, Jull, Kalin
The analysis of sediments from six wetlands (cienegas) in the Sonoran Desert of Arizona, U.S.A., and Sonora, Mexico, document a marked expansion of wetland taxa—particularly woody plants—about 200 years ago at the beginning of the historic period,…
Year: 2002
Type: Document