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Management of fire, laws and regulations: walking the picket fence
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

Findings from the wildland firefighters human factors workshop: improving wildland firefighter performance under stressful, risky conditions: toward better decisions on the fireline and more resilient organizations: workshop sponsored by USDA Forest
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

Nouvelle southwest
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

The ecological implications of fire in the Greater Yellowstone: proceedings: Second Biennial Conference on the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem: Yellowstone National Park, September 19-21, 1993
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

Fire effects on aquatic habitats and biota in Madrean-type ecosystems: Southwestern United States
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

Ecology of fire in shortgrass prairie of the southern Great Plains
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

Conservation of pine-oak forests in northern Mexico
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