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Heat transfer into the duff and organic soil
Hungerford, Frandsen, Ryan
From the text...'On July 1, 1992, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the U.S. Forest Service, Intermountain Research Station entered into a cooperative agreement (FWS Ref. No. 14-48-0009-92-962 DCN: 98210-2-3927) to conduct a study on 'Heat…
Year: 1996
Type: Document

Management lessons of the La Mesa Fire
Fletcher
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Year: 1996
Type: Document

Heritage resources and fire management: a resource management crossroads
Cartledge
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Year: 1996
Type: Document

Vegetation succession after the La Mesa Fire at Bandelier National Monument
Foxx
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Year: 1996
Type: Document

The let-burn policy: implications in the Madrean province of the southwestern United States
Czech, Ffolliott
Fire is a natural phenomenon in Madrean Province ecosystems. Suppression of natural fire has altered ecosystem processes, however. Recognition of these alterations has led to the adoption of let-burn policies by many management agencies, but a let-…
Year: 1996
Type: Document

The effect of prescribed burning to control brush species on buffelgrass pastures in Sonora, Mexico
Ibarra-F, Martin-R, Cox, Miranda-Z.
Vegetational changes were measured after 27 prescribed burns and 3 wildfires which occurred from 1982 to 1995 on buffelgrass pastures highly infested with brush in Sonora, Mexico. Densities of most undesirable brush species were reduced from 40 to…
Year: 1996
Type: Document

Prescribed fire in the pine forests of northwestern Chihuahua
Alanis-Morales
Studies to determine the feasibility of using prescribed fire to prevent fire in the forests of northwestern Chihuahua were initiated in 1982 at an experimental level. These studies have resulted in valuable information on the importance of…
Year: 1996
Type: Document

Prescribed burning in southwestern ponderosa pine
Sackett, Haase, Harrington
Prescribed burning is an effective way of restoring the fire process to ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa Dougl. ex Laws.) ecosystems of the Southwest. If used judiciously, fire can provide valuable effects for hazard reduction, natural regeneration,…
Year: 1996
Type: Document

Modeling human impacts to the borderlands environment from a fire ecology perspective
Fish
The methods and motivations for fire use varied for late prehistoric societies of the Southwest. Although fire was probably used to increase the returns from hunting and gathering on marginal lands, it seems doubtful that comprehensive burning was…
Year: 1996
Type: Document

The effects of fire on interpretations of the past
Spoerl
The effects of fire on material evidence of past human cultures have not been systematically investigated in the Madrean Archipelago. The potential of fire to alter interpretations of prehistoric and historic human occupation is an important…
Year: 1996
Type: Document