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Ruesink
The Endangered Species Act (ESA) places both procedural and substantive requirements on agencies and individuals planning and undertaking activities which may affect species listed as threatened or endangered and their designated critical habitat.…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Bunnell
Natural processes are clearly provided for in the Wilderness Act of 1964. This Act defines wilderness as a large land area which is primarily affected by the forces of nature. In addition, the defined purpose of the Act was to assure these lands…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Plevel
Wildland fires are destroying more homes and threatening more urban areas in the United States every year. Much of this destruction happens because more people are moving into the wildland-urban interface. A problem once thought unique to Southern…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Russell
Wildland fire managers walk a very difficult line in application of the science and art of fire management. With hundreds of laws, regulations, and policies to work within, the managers' decisions are on the sharp point of criticism from persons…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Putnam
From the text...'It has become increasingly clear that wildland firefighters are experiencing collapses in decisionmaking and organizational structure when conditions on the fireline become life-threatening. Since 1990 wildland fire agencies have…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Pyne
The new Southwest is a product of the old. The region boasts an ideal formula for natural fires. Its dramatic terrain and well-defined wet-dry cycles, both annual and secular, have long established it as an epicenter for lightning fires. But the…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
From the Summary by Dennis Knight (p.233-235) ... 'During and after the 1988 fires, there were many predictions on how greater Yellowstone area (GYA) ecosystems would be affected. Some were based on research that had been done previously; others…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Rinne, Neary
Intense wildfires effectively remove vegetation, degrade watershed condition, and result in altered stream hydrographs and increased sediment input to streams. Case histories from five headwater streams in Arizona and New Mexico show effects of…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Ford, McPherson
The ecology of fire in shortgrass prairie of the southern Great Plains includes a complex interaction between the shortgrass prairie ecosystem and its inhabitants, all inextricably linked to land-use patterns. The history of the relationship between…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Fulé, Covington
Highly diverse forests dominated by numerous pine and oak species cover the upper elevations of the Sierra Madre Occidental in northern Mexico. Disturbance regimes characterized by frequent, low-intensity fires have been maintained to the present,…
Year: 1996
Type: Document