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Englefield, Lee, Fraser, Landry, Hall, Lynham, Cihlar, Li, Jin, Ahern
The Fire Monitoring, Mapping and Modelling System (Fire M3) is an initiative of the Canada Centre for Remote Sensing (CCRS) and the Canadian Forest Service (CFS), both agencies of Natural Resources Canada. The goals of Fire M3 are to use low-…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Kalkhan, Martinson, Omi, Stohlgren, Chong, Hunter
Investigating spatial relationships among fuels, wildfire severity, and post-fire invasion by exotic plant species through linkage of multiphase sampling design and multiscale nested sampling field plots, pre- and post-fire, can be accomplished by…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
van Mantgem, Schwartz
We subjected 159 small ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa Dougl. ex P. & C. Laws.) to treatments designed to test the relative importance of stem damage as a predictor of postfire mortality. The treatments consisted of a group with the basal bark…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Barclay, Betancourt, Allen
Forty-nine vegetation transects were measured in 1997 and 1998 to determine the impact of grass seeding after the 1996 Dome Fire, which burned almost 6900 ha of ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa Lawson) forest in the Jemez Mountains of north-central…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Jenness, Beier, Ganey
In 1993, the US Fish and Wildlife Service listed the Mexican spotted owl (Strix occidentalis lucida) as threatened, in part because of the rising threat to its habitat from stand-replacing wildfires. In 1997, we surveyed 33 owl sites that, in the…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Saab, Block
The USDA Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station (RMRS) is leading the effort to examine fire effects on populations and habitats of wildlife in ponderosa pine forests in eight states across the western United States, including Washington,…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Crolly
The analysis in this paper is an urban interface fuels treatment evaluation to reduce the fire potential within the Rose Canyon watershed located on the Santa Catalina Ranger District, Coronado National Forest. This project will include an…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Hoff, Klopfenstein, Tonn, McDonald, Zambino, Rogers, Peever, Carris
Fungi are tremendously diverse and play wide-ranging roles in forest ecosystems. Interactions between fungi and woody roots are involved in important processes including wood decay, root disease, and symbiotic relationships. In addition, some fungi…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Bailey, Covington
Ecosystem restoration is emerging as a dominant ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa var. scopulorum) forest management objective in the semi-arid southwestern USA. Restoration consists predominantly of mechanical thinning in overly dense stands and…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
The Rocky Mountain Research Station is one of six regional units that make up the USDA Forest Service Research and Development organization-the most extensive natural resources research organization in the world. We maintain 12 field laboratories…
Year: 2002
Type: Document