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Quail response to two large-scale wildfires in the Texas Panhandle
Rangeland wildfires burned 275,805 ha in 2 large blocks in the Texas Panhandle in March 2006. We assessed the impact on northern bobwhite (Colinus virginianus) and scaled quail (Callipepla squamata) populations through use of spring call-counts at 6…
Year: 2012
Type: Document

A new forest fire paradigm: the need for high-severity fires
Bond, Siegel, Hutto, Saab, Shunk
From the text ... During the 2012 fire season from June through August, wildfires in the drought-stricken western and central United States burned more than 3.6 million acres of forest and shrubland. In the hot, dry, windy conditions seen that…
Year: 2012
Type: Document

Female white-tailed deer body condition and diet after a large spring wildfire
Lewis, Kaiser, Hewitt, Synatzske
Frequency of large rangeland wildfires may increase in the southwestern United States and northeastern Mexico as a result of exotic grass invasion and reduced emphasis on livestock production, but effects of such fires on white-tailed deer (…
Year: 2012
Type: Document

Community occupancy responses of small mammals to restoration treatments in ponderosa pine forests, northern Arizona, USA
Kalies, Dickson, Chambers, Covington
In western North American conifer forests, wildfires are increasing in frequency and severity due to heavy fuel loads that have accumulated after a century of fire suppression. Forest restoration treatments (e.g., thinning and/or burning) are being…
Year: 2012
Type: Document

Meta-analysis of avian and small-mammal response to fire severity and fire surrogate treatments in U.S. fire-prone forests
Fontaine, Kennedy
Management in fire-prone ecosystems relies widely upon application of prescribed fire and/or fire surrogate (e.g., forest thinning) treatments to maintain biodiversity and ecosystem function. Recently, published literature examining wildlife…
Year: 2012
Type: Document

Snag characteristics and cavity-nesting birds in the unmanaged post-fire northeastern Canadian boreal forest
Lowe, Pothier, Savard, Rompre, Bouchard
We studied the availability and characteristics of snags and their use by cavity-nesting birds in the northeastern part of the Canadian boreal forest. We built up two long-term (>200 years) chronosequences following time since the last fire in…
Year: 2011
Type: Document

Interactive effects of fire and nonnative plants on small mammals in grasslands
Litt, Steidl
Invasions by nonnative plants have changed the structure of many terrestrial ecosystems and altered important ecological processes such as fire, the dominant driver in grassland ecosystems. Reestablishing fire has been proposed as a mechanism to…
Year: 2011
Type: Document

The 2002 Rodeo-Chediski Wildfire's impacts on southwestern ponderosa pine ecosystems, hydrology, and fuels
Ffolliott, Stropki, Chen, Neary
The Rodeo-Chediski Wildfire burned nearly 462,600 acres in north-central Arizona in the summer of 2002. The wildfire damaged or destroyed ecosystem resources and disrupted the hydrologic funcioning within the impacted ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa…
Year: 2011
Type: Document

Fire Ecology and Management of Grassland, Shrubland, and Woodland Ecosystems of Western North America
Brooks, Bunting, Fuhlendorf, Miller
It has been over 20 years since the last major book on the ecology and management of fire was published that contained extensive information from non-forested ecosystems across western North America (Wright and Bailey 1982). During subsequent years…
Year: 2011
Type: Project

Multi-scale analyses of habitat use by elk following wildfire
Biggs, VanLeeuwen, Holechek, Valdez
The effects of large ungulate herbivory on plant community structure and composition can vary considerably in regions susceptible to frequent wildfires. The Cerro Grande Fire (CGF) of May 2000 burned 17,400 ha of elk transitory-use range in the…
Year: 2010
Type: Document