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Stephens, Battaglia, Churchill, Collins, Coppoletta, Hoffman, Lydersen, North, Parsons, Ritter, Stevens
For over 20 years, forest fuel reduction has been the dominant management action in western US forests. These same actions have also been associated with the restoration of highly altered frequent-fire forests. Perhaps the vital element in the…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Moritz, Topik, Allen, Hessburg, Morgan, Odion, Veblen, McCullough
For millennia, wildfires have markedly influenced forests and non-forested landscapes of the western United States (US), and they are increasingly seen as having substantial impacts on society and nature. There is growing concern over what kinds and…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Price
Prescribed burning for fuel reduction is a major strategy for reducing the risk from unplanned fire. Although there are theoretical studies suggesting that prescribed fire has a strong negative influence on the subsequent area of unplanned fire (so-…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Dickson, Noon, Flather, Jentsch, Block
Landscape-scale disturbance events, including ecological restoration and fuel reduction activities, can modify habitat and affect relationships between species and their environment. To reduce the risk of uncharacteristic stand-replacing fires in…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Kim, Bettinger, Finney
Methods for scheduling forest management activities in a spatial pattern (dispersed, clumped, random, and regular) are presented, with the intent to examine the effects of placement of activities on resulting simulated wildfire behavior. Both…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Restoring plant species diversity and community composition in a ponderosa pine-bunchgrass ecosystem
Laughlin, Bakker, Daniels, Moore, Casey, SpringerMonitoring of ecological restoration treatments often focuses on changes in community structure and function. We suggest that long-term changes in community composition also need to be explicitly considered when evaluating the success of restoration…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
With a history of management choices that have suppressed fire in the West, ecosystems in which fire would play a vital role have developed tremendous fuel loads. As a result, conditions are prime for fires to grow large, escape attack measures, and…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Binkley, Sisk, Chambers, Springer, Block
Classic ecological concepts and forestry language regarding old growth are not well suited to frequent-fire landscapes. In frequent-fire, old-growth landscapes, there is a symbiotic relationship between the trees, the understory graminoids, and fire…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Kaufmann, Binkley, Fulé, Johnson, Stephens, Swetnam
There are varying definitions of old-growth forests because of differences in environment and differing fire influence across the Intermountain West. Two general types of forests reflect the role of fire: 1) forests shaped by natural changes in…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Knick, Holmes, Miller
Fire is a dominant and highly visible disturbance in sagebrush (Artemisia spp.) ecosystems. In lower elevation, xeric sagebrush communities, the role of fire has changed in recent decades from an infrequent disturbance maintaining a landscape mosaic…
Year: 2005
Type: Document