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Sole, Keyser
From the text ... 'The following information described what is considered to be the single biggest problem facing bobwhite quail and other grassland birds throughout a major portion of their range. This is an area encompassing from southern Maryland…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Staddon, Duchesne, Trevors
Acid phosphatase, alkaline phosphatase and arylsulfatase activities were determined from organic and mineral soils of a jack pine (Pinus banksiana L.) community 4 years after clear-cutting alone, clear-cutting followed by prescribed burning and…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Stapanian, Sundberg, Baumgardner, Liston
A probability-based sampling scheme was used to survey plant species composition in forests of 16 states in seven geopolitical regions of the United States (California, Colorado, Minnesota, and parts of the Pacific Northwest, Southeast, Mid-Atlantic…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Feller
The influence of seedbed (undisturbed forest floor, burned forest floor, and mineral soil), light (closed forest, open forest, and clearcut), and competing vegetation (present, not present) on germination and initial seedling survival and growth of…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Makarim, Arbai, Deddy, Brady
The report describes the 1997 land and forest fires in Indonesia, reviews of the control measures put in place and evaluates the national coordination efforts taken to combat the fires as the dry period extended toward what became a serious drought…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
From the text...'The need to understand both the role of wildland fire as an ecosystem process and the appropriate use of fire as a management tool has been recognized for years. Historically fire has played an important role in many ecosystems by…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Catling, Brownell
Vascular plants recorded within 50 one metre square quadrats in 1997 in an area cut and burned 37 years earlier revealed an unusually high species diversity with 87 native vascular plant species, which is roughly twice as high as that recorded in…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Reinhardt, Keane, Brown
From the text...'FOFEM 4.0-A First Order Fire Effects Model-is a computer program developed to meet the needs of resource managers, planners, and analysts in predicting and planning for fire effects. Quantitative predictions of fire effects are…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Williams
From the text...'Our program is built on cost-effectiveness and safety. Yet, despite larger protection budgets, bigger and better tools, and sophisticated fire-danger prediction systems, wildfire losses are higher now than at any time in the past…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Reinhardt, Hardy
Poster abstract...A First Order Fire Effects Model (FOFEM) was developed to predict the direct consequences of prescribed fire and wildfire. FOFEM was designed for application to most areas of the United States. First order fire effects are the…
Year: 1998
Type: Document