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LaRosa, Floyd-Hanna
The Endangered Species Act elevates the protection of rare taxa above most other management objectives on Federal lands. In determining the relative importance of rare taxa preservation to fire management goals, the manager is faced with a…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Truesdale
'The rising cost of fire suppression activities prompted the Regional Fire Directors, under the leadership of the Director of Fire and Aviation Management, to review the causes of fire suppression costs and recommend appropriate actions. The 1994…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Fishbein, Gori, Meggs
Canelo Hills Cienega in southeastern Arizona is a rare middle elevation wetland that is one of only four known habitats for the endangered orchid, Spiranthes delitescens. This wetland, a Nature Conservancy preserve, is a rare, remnant, perennially…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Burroughs, Clark
Ecosystem management links human activities with the functioning of natural environments over large spatial and temporal scales. Our examination of Greater Yellowstone and Georges Bank shows similarities exist between human uses, administrative…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Schullery
Greater Yellowstone is described as the last large, nearly intact ecosystem in the northern temperate zone of the earth (Reese 1984;Keiter and Boyce 1991.) Conflict over management has been controversial, and the area is a flagship site among…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Brown
A fire regime classification that recognizes stand-replacement, nonlethal understory, mixed and variable fire severities is discussed as a simplified approach for communicating widely about the natural role of fire. Examples of the fire regime types…
Year: 1995
Type: Document