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Doumas, Koprowski
After decades of suppression, fire has returned to many forested areas of the western United States. Understanding responses of wildlife species to fire is essential to native species conservation because contemporary fires may not have the same…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Abella, Denton, Steinke, Brewer
Frequent-fire conifer forests in western North America are undergoing restoration and fuel-reduction treatments to reduce chance of severe crown fire and re-balance tree and understory plant biomass. A central decision in these treatments remains…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Shive, Sieg, Fulé
Land managers are routinely applying fuel reduction treatments to mitigate the risk of severe, stand-replacing fire in ponderosa pine communities of the southwestern US. When these treatments are burned by wildfire they generally reduce fire…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Roccaforte
Portions of mixed conifer forests have undergone changes in disturbance regimes, species composition, and forest structure since European settlement and have been impacted by recent landscape-scale fires which have burned large patches with high…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Abella, Denton, Steinke, Brewer
Frequent-fire conifer forests in western North America are undergoing restoration and fuel-reduction treatments to reduce chance of severe crown fire and re-balance tree and understory plant biomass. A central decision in these treatments remains…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Climate change projections for the coming decades suggest that forested landscapes will experience greater number of fires and a larger total area burned each year. The undesirable impacts of fire may be avoided or reduced through global strategies…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Huffman
Pinyon-juniper ecosystems presently occur on approximately 50 million acres across the semi-arid landscapes of the western United States. Infrequent, stand-replacing fires characterize both historical and modern fire regimes in southwestern pinyon-…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Yancey
Wildlife in the Great Plains evolved with fire and grazing interacting spatially and temporally to create a shifting mosaic landscape comprised of severely disturbed habitats, undisturbed habitats, and patches that vary in time since the most recent…
Year: 2013
Type: Document