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Sikkink, Jain, Reardon, Heinsch, Keane, Butler, Baggett
Mastication is a silvicultural technique that grinds, shreds, or chops trees or shrubs into pieces and redistributes the biomass onto the forest floor to form a layer of woody debris. Unlike other fuel treatments that remove this biomass, masticated…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Broyles, Butler, Kardous
Wildland fire fighters use many tools and equipment that produce noise levels that may be considered hazardous to hearing. This study evaluated 174 personal dosimetry measurements on 156 wildland fire fighters conducting various training and fire…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Yedinak, Anderson, Apostol, Smith
Acoustic impulse events have long been used as diagnostics for discrete phenomena in the natural world, including the detection of meteor impacts and volcanic eruptions. Wildland fires display an array of such acoustic impulse events in the form of…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Starns
Prior to European settlement, the processes of fire and grazing interacted across the North American Great Plains to create a unique disturbance regime known as pyric herbivory. Large herbivores preferentially grazed in recently burned patches of…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Thomas, Jarchow, Crawford
Federal land managers and ranchers often use prescribed fire as a tool to reduce invading woody plants within desert grasslands of the arid southwestern United States. Managers must evaluate the threat of the burn toward the health and survival of…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Williams, Roundy, Hulet, Miller, Tausch, Chambers, Matthews, Schooley, Eggett
In sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata Nutt.) ecosystems, expansion and infilling of conifers decreases the abundance of understory perennial vegetation and lowers ecosystem resilience and resistance of the once shrub grass-dominated state. We…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Weir, Scasta
Fire regulates vegetation composition of fire-dependent grasslands in North American tallgrass prairies. We measured the vegetation response to prescribed fire seasonality by burning in two-month increments every two years, from 2004 to 2015, west…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Knelman, Graham, Ferrenberg, Lecoeuvre, Labrado, Darcy, Nemergut, Schmidt
While past research has studied forest succession on decadal timescales, ecosystem responses to rapid shifts in nutrient dynamics within the first months to years of succession after fire (e.g., carbon (C) burn-off, a pulse in inorganic nitrogen (N…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Hovick, Carroll, Elmore, Davis, Fuhlendorf
Fire is a disturbance process that maintains the structure and function of grassland ecosystems while sustaining grassland biodiversity. Conversion of grasslands to other land uses coupled with altered disturbance regimes has greatly diminished the…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Hood, Lutes
Accurate prediction of fire-caused tree mortality is critical for making sound land management decisions such as developing burning prescriptions and post-fire management guidelines. To improve efforts to predict post-fire tree mortality, we…
Year: 2017
Type: Document