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The wildland/urban interface: what's really at risk? [including: Fuels management in Flagstaff]
Summerfelt
From the text ... 'A new definition of the wildland/ruban interface is needed, along with a commitment to protect and preserve all neighborhood and community at-risk values.'
Year: 2003
Type: Document

Forest service programs, authorities, and relationships: a technical document supporting the 2000 USDA Forest Service RPA assessment
Schuster, Krebs
[no description entered]
Year: 2003
Type: Document

Wildfire policy in transition: where there's smoke, there's... mirrors
Hubbard
[no description entered]
Year: 2003
Type: Document

A collaborative scientific framework for restoration of fire-adapted ecosystems of the Jemez Mountains, New Mexico [abstract]
McCarthy, Wood
The Jemez Mountains Project is a part of the North American Fire Learning Network (FLN), a collaborative venture of the USDA Forest Service, the Department of the Interior and The Nature Conservancy. Project partners include Bandelier National…
Year: 2003
Type: Document

Fire in the wildland-urban interface [abstract]
Monroe
Perhaps more than any other wildland-urban interface challenge, the interface makes wildland fire an issue. Some lightning-started wildland fires might be left to burn and maintain natural ecosystems if human lives and structures were not threatened…
Year: 2002
Type: Document

Invasion of Oklahoma rangelands and forests by eastern redcedar and ashe juniper
Bidwell, Engle, Moseley, Masters
From the Introduction ... "A 1985 survey by the Soil Conservation Service indicated that eastern redcedar (Juniperus virginiana) and ashe juniper (I. ashei) had invaded almost 1.5 million acres in Oklahoma by 1950 and 3.5 million acres by 1985 (…
Year: 2002
Type: Document

The west is culling forests that fueled fires of the past
Jehl
[no description entered]
Year: 2001
Type: Document

Biodiversity conservation at multiple scales: functional sites, landscapes, and networks
Poiani, Richter, Anderson, Richter
From the text...'Approaches to conservation and natural resource management are maturing rapidly in response to changing perceptions of biodiversity and ecological systems. In past decades,biodiversity was viewed largely in terms of species richness…
Year: 2000
Type: Document

Invasive plants and fire in resource management: the need for integration [abstract]
McPherson
There is great potential for integrating the science and management of fire and invasive species, but such integration faces substantial obstacles. Fundamental differences between science and management threaten the ability of scientists and…
Year: 2000
Type: Document

Wildland fire in ecosystems: effects of fire on fauna
Fires affect animals mainly through effects on their habitat. Fires often cause short-term increases in wildlife foods that contribute to increases in populations of some animals. These increases are moderated by the animals' ability to thrive in…
Year: 2000
Type: Document