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Heyerdahl, Lertzman, Karpuk
Historical low-severity fire regimes are well characterized in ponderosa pine and mixed-conifer forests at many sites in the western United States, but not in the southern interior of British Columbia, Canada. We reconstructed a history of low-…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Hall
From 1990 to 1998, over 17 000 naturally ignited wildfires were observed in Arizona and New Mexico on US federal land during the fire season of April through October. Lightning strikes associated with these fires accounted for less than 0.35% of all…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Holden, Morgan, Crimmins, Steinhorst, Smith
Despite a widely noted increase in the severity of recent western wildfires, this trend has never been quantified. A twenty‐year series of Landsat TM satellite imagery for all forest fires on the 1.4 million ha Gila National Forest suggests that an…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Fulé, Denton, Springer, Kalies, Egan
Support for the use of prescribed fire and wildland fire use has increased in the Southwest in recent decades. However, the frequency and seasonality of these contemporary fires is typically different than historical fires, which burned during late…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Ansley, Castellano
Prescribed fire is used to reduce size and density of prickly pear cactus (Opuntia spp.) in many rangeland ecosystems. However, effects of dormant season fires (i.e., winter fires) are inconsistent. Thus, there is increasing interest in use of…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Annual appropriations to prepare for and respond to wildland fires have increased substantially over the past decade, in recent years totaling about $3 billion. The Forest Service within the Department of Agriculture and four agencies within the…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Hall
From 1990 to 1998, over 17 000 naturally ignited wildfires were observed in Arizona and New Mexico on US federal land during the fire season of April through October. Lightning strikes associated with these fires accounted for less than 0.35% of all…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Pomeroy, Moseley
The National Fire Plan was set in motion after the intense fire season of 2000. One of the goals of the Plan is 'assuring that necessary firefighting resources and personnel are available to respond to wildland fires that threaten lives and property…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Holden, Morgan, Rollins, Kavanagh
The effects of 30 years (1972-2003) of Wildland Fire Use for Resource Benefit (WFU) fires on ponderosa pine forest stand structure were evaluated in the Gila Wilderness, New Mexico, and the Saguaro Wilderness, Arizona. Tree density, diameter-class…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Riaño, Moreno-Ruiz, Isidoro, Ustin
An analysis of the spatial and temporal patterns of global burned area with the Daily Tile US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration-Advanced Very High-Resolution Radiometer Pathfinder 8 km Land dataset between 1981 and 2000 is presented.…
Year: 2007
Type: Document