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From the Preface ... 'The conference organizers hoped to accomplish three primary objectives. First was to document how forest vegetation simulation is being incorporated into project-level analysis, watershed analysis, and strategic planning. This…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Schwarz, Wein
Dry grasslands in Wood Buffalo National Park are unique biological features at 60º N latitude, since they contain plant species normally found in more southern grasslands at 50-55º N latitude. The objectives of this study were to inventory dry…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Sheppard, Farnsworth
Fire has been a global disturbance agent for thousands of years. As an ecological process that helped shape the floral and faunal communities of western North America, fire also maintained the health and diversity of forest until European settlers…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Harrod, Knecht, Kuhlmann, Ellis, Davenport
From the text... "Conclusions: Our preliminary results regarding O. pinorum and S. seelyi response to fire are inadequate to provide management recommendation. However, the result of this study indicate that C. fasciculatum is a fire-intolerant…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Stuever, Crawford, Molles, White, Muldavin
The "bosque” of the Middle Rio Grande is one of the last extensive cottonwood gallery forests in the American Southwest, and yet the future role of cottonwood in these stands is increasingly threatened. Human intervention has progressively changed…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Roller, Halvorson
Pirna pineapple cactus (Coryphantha scheeri Kuntze var. robustispina Schott) (PPC) is listed as endangered by the US Fish and Wildlife Service. This unique taxon occurs in two valleys south of Tucson, Arizona and the northern edge of Sonora, Mexico…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Lord
A probabilistic model is offered for tracing the fate of vegetation communities in fire-prone lands that are subjected to regular fuel reduction burning. The model is based on the semi-Markov process (an extension of Markov chain modelling). The…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Thomas
From the conclusion... 'Cacti and many leaf succulents are not specifically adapted to fire. There is no stimulation by fire of reproduction or vegetative growth, rather, there is a resistance to fire stemming from a preadaptation to a hot and harsh…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Sheppard, Farnsworth
The 1994 fire season in the Southwest impacted at least 10 Mexican Spotted Owl (Strix occidentalis lucida) territories. Since 1989, more than 50,000 acres of spotted owl habitat have been stand replaced by catastrophic fires in Arizona and New…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Murphy, Cole
From the text... "Futurist biologists have stated that the success of Endangered and Threatened Species recovery programs is not to keep habitats in original and/or untouched conditions (De Blieu 1993). A practical goal is to "Reshape habitats so…
Year: 1997
Type: Document