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Thomas, Jarchow, Crawford
Federal land managers and ranchers often use prescribed fire as a tool to reduce invading woody plants within desert grasslands of the arid southwestern United States. Managers must evaluate the threat of the burn toward the health and survival of…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Ganey, Wan, Cushman, Vojta
Evidence of increasing fire extent and severity in the western US in recent decades has raised concern over the effects of fire on threatened species such as the spotted owl (Strix occidentalis Xantus de Vesey), which nests in forests with large…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Long, Colón, McFarland, Davis, Laverty, Grzybowski, Mathewson, Morrison
In recent years, federal land management agencies have collaborated to standardize assessments of rangeland health. These assessments incorporate state-and-transition concepts of ecosystem function using ecological site descriptions (ESDs) initially…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Freeman, Moisen, Frescino
Scientists and statisticians working for the Rocky Mountain Research Station have created a software package that simplifies and automates many of the processes needed for converting models into maps. This software package, called ModelMap, has…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Wildfire continues to threaten people and property across Texas. Rapid population growth into Wildland Urban Interface areas and increasing effects of long term drought and increased fuel loading conditions represent major concerns moving forward…
Year: 2017
Type: Website
Helzer
Fire, grazing, and climate are the major forces that maintain ecological health in grasslands. Today’s grasslands are increasingly threatened by climate change, habitat loss and fragmentation, and degradation of ecological processes and communities…
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Evans, Rodriguez, Krasilovsky
A century of fire exclusion has negatively impacted fire-adapted ecosystems across New Mexico. One significant impact is the increasing prevalence of uncharacteristically large, severe fires, which threaten lives, property, clean water, wildlife,…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Evans
Wildfire is part of the landscape in the Southwest. It can be a threat to lives and property, but it is also crucial to maintaining healthy ecosystems. Forests in the Southwest are adapted to fire and many trees can easily survive low-intensity…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Hyde, Riley, Stoof
Wildfire increases the probability of debris flows posing hazardous conditions where values-at-risk exist downstream of burned areas. Conditions and processes leading to postfire debris flows usually follow a general sequence defined here as the…
Year: 2017
Type: Document