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Roccaforte, Fulé, Covington
From the text ... 'In 1995, the Ecological Restoration Institute (ERI) at Northern Arizona University, the U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management (BLM), and the Arizona Game & Fish Department (AZGFD) began a collaborative…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Owens
From the text ... 'Project Learning Tree coordinators provide information and activities to make teachers feel comfortable teaching about wildland fire issues. Fire education workshops, lasting from 9 hours to a full week, cover topics such as the…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Hibbard, Morris
From the text ... 'The research revealed a painful truth -- we often talk to people about fire using words they don't understand.'
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Gleason, Gillette
From the text ... 'Although fire sometimes kills individual animals, it doesn't destroy populations or species. Most wildlife survive fire and enjoy improved living conditions afterwards. When we exclude fire from natural areas, we put animals and…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Black, Gebert, McCaffrey, Steelman, Canton-Thompson
From the text ... 'In this article, we describe our current work to assess the utility of available data to reflect on the performance of fire management.'
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Ravi, D'Odorico, Wang, White, Okin, Macko, Collins
Desert grasslands, which are very sensitive to external drivers like climate change, are areas affected by rapid land degradation processes. In many regions of the world the common form of land degradation involves the rapid encroachment of woody…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Hebblewhite, Munro, Merrill
Controversy surrounds postfire logging, often because of negative effects on snag-dependent wildlife species. Few studies, however, have examined effects on early-seral species that may benefit from postfire logging, nor effects on trophic…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Andrews
The BehavePlus fire modeling system is a computer program based on mathematical models that describe wildland fire behavior and effects and the fire environment. It is a flexible system that produces tables, graphs, and simple diagrams. It can be…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Ali, Carcaillet, Bergeron
The influence of climatic and local nonclimatic factors on the fire regime of the eastern Canadian boreal forest over the last 8000 years is investigated by examining charred particles preserved in four lacustrine deposits. Herein, we compare the…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Aguilar-Fernandez, Jaramillo, Varela-Fregoso, Gavito
Rates of land conversion from forest to cultivated land by slash-and-burn practices are higher in tropical dry forest (TDF) than any other Neotropical forest type. This study examined the short-term consequences of the slash-and-burn process on…
Year: 2009
Type: Document