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Schoettle, Sniezko
Only recently have efforts begun to address how management might prepare currently healthy forests to affect the outcome of invasion by established non-native pests. Cronartium ribicola, the fungus that causes the disease white pine blister rust (…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Shapcott, Rakotoarinivo, Smith, Lysakova, Fay, Dransfield
Madagascar has a highly distinctive flora and is one of the world biodiversity hot spots. There are more than 170 species of palms, the majority of which are vulnerable, endangered or critically endangered endemics. Palms are utilized for many human…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Fulé, John, Covington
Pine-oak forests are of high ecological importance worldwide, but many are threatened by uncharacteristically severe wildfire. Forest restoration treatments, including the reintroduction of a surface fire regime, are intended to decrease fire hazard…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Fiedler, Friederici, Petruncio
In this article, we discuss how to monitor the structural and functional attributes of old growth, as well as its associated plant communities and wildlife, both to determine the possible need for treatment and to assess post-treatment progress…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Wood, Drake, Rushton, Rautenkranz, Lurz, Koprowski
Habitat destruction and degradation are major factors in reducing abundance, placing populations and species in jeopardy. Monitoring changes to habitat and identifying locations of habitat for a species, after disturbance, can assist mitigation of…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Bragg
The tallgrass prairie (Andropogon-Panicum) of central North America and the spinifex (Triodia) grasslands of the Gibson Desert of central Western Australia differ substantially in many ways, including in their responses to fire, but are similar in…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
van Wagtendonk
Wildland fire use as a concept had its origin when humans first gained the ability to suppress fires. Some fires were suppressed and others were allowed to burn based on human values and objectives. Native Americans and Euro-American settlers fought…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Rissman, Lozier, Comendant, Kareiva, Kiesecker, Shaw, Merenlender
Conservation easements are one of the primary tools for conserving biodiversity on private land. Despite their increasing use, little quantitative data are available on what species and habitats conservation easements aim to protect, how much…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Spring, Cacho, Mac Nally, Sabbadin
How can conservation planners optimally and effectively allocate limited resources between imminently threatened and presently secure areas? Such choices must be made at multiple spatial scales involving a variety of conservation targets. Allocation…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Annual appropriations to prepare for and respond to wildland fires have increased substantially over the past decade, in recent years totaling about $3 billion. The Forest Service within the Department of Agriculture and four agencies within the…
Year: 2007
Type: Document