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Forest service programs, authorities, and relationships: a technical document supporting the 2000 USDA Forest Service RPA assessment
Schuster, Krebs
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Year: 2003
Type: Document

Teetering on the edge or too late? Conservation and research issues for avifauna of sagebrush habitats
Knick, Dobkin, Rotenberry, Schroeder, Vander Haegen, Van Riper
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Year: 2003
Type: Document

Historical meadow dynamics in southwest British Columbia: a multidisciplinary analysis
Lepofsky, Heyerdahl, Lertzman, Schaepe, Mierendorf
The recent encroachment of woody species threatening many western North American meadows has been attributed to diverse factors. We used a suite of methods in Chittenden Meadow, southwestern British Columbia, Canada, to identify the human,…
Year: 2003
Type: Document

Island population structure of Norway spruce (Picea abies) in northern Sweden
Wang, Chhatre, Nilsson, Song, Zackrisson, Szmidt
Picea abies, which is predominantly sexual, has been reported to propagate vagetatively through layering in a cold harsh climate, although this has not been demonstrated genetically. Using 105 amplified fragment length polymorphism markers, we…
Year: 2003
Type: Document

Geographically isolated wetlands of the United States
Tiner
While many wetlands form along floodplains of rivers, streams, lakes, and estuaries, others have developed in depressions far removed from such waters. Depressional wetlands completely surrounded by upland have traditionally been called 'isolated…
Year: 2003
Type: Document

Simulating the effects of future fire regimes on western Canadian boreal forests
de Groot, Bothwell, Carlsson, Logan
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Year: 2003
Type: Document

Assessing impacts of scaling on burn severity mapping and derived fire effects
Zhu
In recent years, requirements for consistent and operational burn mapping, using remote sensing means, have been mostly designed to provide support to land management in the field. However, this has ignored a perhaps more appropriate area of…
Year: 2003
Type: Document

Adaptive fire management, applied fire ecology, and fire monitoring on the national wildlife refuges in the Southwest U.S. Region 2
Kaib, Whitney
Region 2 of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service encompasses the National Wildlife Refuges and Fish Hatcheries in Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, and Oklahoma. Fire has long played a historical and ecological role in this diverse region from the Sonoran…
Year: 2003
Type: Document

Burning issues: partners in fire education -- 'Fire Literacy for a Fire Wise World,' Part 1: developing an interactive CD-rom and distribution strategy
LaHart, Dawson, Chapman, Owens
With a growing number of property losses casued by wildfire, and ecological problems caused by altered fire regimes, fire education has become a critical fire management strategy. The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management and…
Year: 2003
Type: Document

Fuels, fires, invasions and some effects of active management in the eastern Rockies
Martinson, Chong, Hunter, Kalkhan, Omi, Stohlgren
Efforts to mitigate hazardous fuel conditions have expanded in response to the severe wildfire events of recent years. But scant information exists on the efficacy of fuel treatments for mitigating wildfire severity, much less the influence of fuel…
Year: 2003
Type: Document