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Restoring nature's creative force [Chapter 10]
Arno, Allison-Bunnell
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Year: 2002
Type: Document

Environmental impacts: fire's influence on soils, water, and air [Chapter 7]
Arno, Allison-Bunnell
[no description entered]
Year: 2002
Type: Document

Fire on the landscape: past, present, and future [Chapter 3]
Arno, Allison-Bunnell
[no description entered]
Year: 2002
Type: Document

Mixed signals: a brief history of American perceptions of fire [Chapter 2]
Arno, Allison-Bunnell
[no description entered]
Year: 2002
Type: Document

The impact of invasive exotic grasses on quail in the southwestern United States
Kuvlesky, Fulbright, Engel-Wilson
Five native quail species inhabit arid and semi-arid ecosystems in the southwastern United States. One species is endangered, one species is declining throughout it's historic range, another species is declining in portions of its historic range,…
Year: 2002
Type: Document

Effects of Phos-Chek® G75-F and Silv-Ex® on developing northern bobwhite quail (Colinus virginianus)
Buscemi, Hoffman, Vyas, Spann, Kuenzel
Eggs of nesting birds situated in peripheral areas serving as fire breaks are at risk of being sprayed with fire control chemicals. Acute toxicity tests were conducted by immersing northern bobwhite quail eggs for 10 s in different water-based…
Year: 2002
Type: Document

Burning under old-growth ponderosa pines on lava soils
Fulé, Verkamp, Waltz, Covington
From the text ... 'Every year, fire managers successfully restore surface fires to ponderosa pine forests that have not burned for a century or more. Nevertheless, the power of fire can have unanticipated effects on stressed trees. In northern…
Year: 2002
Type: Document

Reintroduction of fire maintains structure of mechanically restored pinyon-juniper savanna (New Mexico)
Jacobs
From the text ... 'Although we consider the use of fire essential for maintenance of PJ [pinyon-juniper] savanna structure, there are inherent risks to the herbaceous understory. In particular, we noted that turf-forming individuals of blue grama…
Year: 2002
Type: Document

Quality in forage of natural pasture under alternative managements
Heringer, Jacques
Burning of native pasture affects soil, botanical composition, species development, and forage quality. It was studied five management systems of native pasture under grazing condition: biennial burning for more than 100 years; without burning for…
Year: 2002
Type: Document

False gods, ecological myths, and biological reality
Kay
From the text (p.250) ... 'In addition to the materials reviewed by Williams in chapter 7, there are several ecological data sets that suggest aboriginal burning once accounted for most fires in the West, as well as in eastern forests. Brown et al…
Year: 2002
Type: Document