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The Greater Vancouver Water District -- an ecological inventory approach to fire hazard assessment and treatment for protection of water quality and other secondary values [poster abstract]
Blackwell, Green, Hedberg
In 1992 the Greater Vancouver Water District began an extensive ecological inventory of its three watersheds (53,600 ha) that serve as the drinking water source for the Greater Vancouver Region. The focus of the inventory was to provide watershed…
Year: 2000
Type: Document

Fuel model and forest type mapping for FARSITETM input
Bertolette, Spotskey
A methodology is outlined for mapping Fuel Model Indexes/Forest Types (FMI/FT), to provide input for the fire area simulator FARSITE. USGS Digital Orthophoto Quads, together with contour and stream themes from USGS topographic maps, were digitally…
Year: 2000
Type: Document

The Greater Vancouver Water District -- an ecological inventory approach to fire hazard assessment and treatment for protection of water quality and other secondary values
Blackwell, Green, Hedberg, Ohlson
In 1992 the Greater Vancouver Water District began an extensive ecological inventory of its three watersheds (53,600 ha) that serve as the drinking water source for the Greater Vancouver Region. The focus of the inventory, which integrates physical…
Year: 2000
Type: Document

The global fire product: daily fire occurrence from April 1992 to December 1993 derived from NOAA AVHRR data
Stroppiana, Pinnock, Gregoire
[no description entered]
Year: 2000
Type: Document

Saltcedar invasion of western riparian areas: impacts and new prospects for control
Dudley, DeLoach, Lovich, Carruthers
From the text...'the goals of this paper are to describe briefly the nature of impacts that saltcedar has to riparian ecosystems and how human impacts relate to this invasion, to review our expectations for a biological control program to augment…
Year: 2000
Type: Document

Forest fire protection: CRS report for Congress
Gorte
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Year: 2000
Type: Document

Fire-induced water repellency: an erosional factor in wildland environments
DeBano
Watershed managers and scientists throughout the world have been aware of fire-induced water-repellent soils for over three decades. Water repellency affects many hydrologic processes, including infiltration, overland flow, and surface erosion (rill…
Year: 2000
Type: Document

Evaluating the effectiveness of postfire rehabilitation treatments
Robichaud, Beyers, Neary
Spending on postfire emergency watershed rehabilitation has increased during the past decade. A west-wide evaluation of USDA Forest Service burned area emergency rehabilitation (BAER) treatment effectiveness was undertaken as a joint project by USDA…
Year: 2000
Type: Document

Ecological principles, shifting fire regimes and management considerations
Brown
This chapter presents a broader, more fundamental view of the ecological principles and shifting fire regimes described in the previous chapters that have important implications for ecosystem management. Also included are strategies and approaches…
Year: 2000
Type: Document

Fire monitoring and smoke emissions by remote sensing [abstract]
Ward, Queen, Seielstad, Hao
Emissions of atmospheric pollutants from vegetation fires can greatly affect local and regional air quality. The near real-time information on the magnitude of fires, the amount of pollutants emitted, and their impact on air quality is critical to…
Year: 2000
Type: Document