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The flora and ecology of southern Ontario granite barrens [Chapter 24]
Catling, Brownell
From the text...”Unlike the flat-rock areas in the southern Appalachians, where the foundation for research on rock barrens was established many decades ago (e.g., Harper 1939; Oosting and Anderson 1939; McVaugh 1943) and has been followed by more…
Year: 1999
Type: Document

TNC Testifies Before The House Committee on Agriculture [Testimony]
Ladd
Doug Ladd, Director of Science and Stewardship, Missouri Chapter of The Nature Conservancy, had the opportunity to share TNC's views concerning the use of fire as a management tool in the conservation of natural habitat. His testimony, in full,…
Year: 1999
Type: Document

Management implications of recent changes in spatial patterns of interior northwest forests
Hessburg, Smith
From the text ...'This paper summarizes results of a study conducted under the aegis of the Interior Columbia Basin Ecosystem Management Project. We report on a midscale scientific assessment of vegetation change in terrestrial landscapes of the…
Year: 1999
Type: Document

Trial by fire: restoration of Middle Rio Grande upland ecosystems
Loftin
The majority of upland ecosystems (desert scrub, grasland, pinyon-juniper, ponderosa pine and higher elevation conifer forests) in the Middle Rio Grande Basin were historically dependent on periodic fire to maintain their composition, productivity,…
Year: 1999
Type: Document

Making peace with wildland fire
Babbitt
From the text...'We are in a national fire crisis. Wildfires are on a sharp increase, burning bigger, threatening communities and taking more and more property and lives. In the last decade, the number of acres burned has doubled; the number of…
Year: 1999
Type: Document

Western national forests: a cohesive strategy is needed to address catastrophic wildfire threats : report to the Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health, Committee on Resources, House of Representatives
Coles, Conlon, Cotton, Eisenstadt, Goldfarb, Hutchison, Joy, Wolter
From the Executive Summary... 'Purpose: National forests of the dry, interior portion of the western United States that are managed by the Department of Agriculture*s Forest Service have undergone significant changes over the last century and a half…
Year: 1999
Type: Document

A look at wildland fires in Mexico
Rodríguez-Trejo
From the text...'The worst fire season in Mexican history was in 1998. Drought conditions precipitated by a strong El Niño led to unusual fire activity, including crown fires, fire whirls, and rapid spread rates. A total of 14,302 fires burned 2,099…
Year: 1999
Type: Document

Assessing the risk of cumulative burned acreage using the Poisson probability model
Wiitala
Resource managers are frequently concerned that the area burned by wildfire over time will impede achievement of land management objectives. Methods that use the Poisson probability model to quantify that risk are described. The methods require a…
Year: 1999
Type: Document

Restoring fire to southwestern ecosystems: is it worth it?
Servis, Boucher
The historical record supported by tree ring analysis indicates that fire played a dominant role in pre-settlement southwestern vegetation types within Arizona and New Mexico. Studies within some of these vegetative types have indicated a frequent…
Year: 1999
Type: Document

User's guide to using DDWoodyPC
Users' guide to using DDWoodyPC component of the Fuels Management Analyst Plus suite of computer programs. Fuel loading and fuel bed depths can be estimated using photos contained in a number of published fuels photo series that are contained in…
Year: 1999
Type: Document