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Stuever, Crawford, Molles, White, Muldavin
The "bosque” of the Middle Rio Grande is one of the last extensive cottonwood gallery forests in the American Southwest, and yet the future role of cottonwood in these stands is increasingly threatened. Human intervention has progressively changed…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Sheppard, Farnsworth
The 1994 fire season in the Southwest impacted at least 10 Mexican Spotted Owl (Strix occidentalis lucida) territories. Since 1989, more than 50,000 acres of spotted owl habitat have been stand replaced by catastrophic fires in Arizona and New…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Duck, Esque, Hughes
We describe our experience as biologists/resource advisors working with firefighting personnel to reduce the risk of impacts and disturbances to desert tortoises and their habitats. Pre-fire season planning is essential preparation for risk…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Williams
From the text ... 'The 1988 fire season showed us much about the importance of basing decisions on fire regimes and their associated fire behavior characteristics. Although our policies are necessarily broad, we are learnng that implementation of…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Truesdale
'The rising cost of fire suppression activities prompted the Regional Fire Directors, under the leadership of the Director of Fire and Aviation Management, to review the causes of fire suppression costs and recommend appropriate actions. The 1994…
Year: 1995
Type: Document