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Smith, Finch, Hawksworth
Riparian forests of the American Southwest are especially prone to changes in composition and structure due to natural and anthropogenic factors. To determine how breeding mourning doves (Zenaida macroura) respond to these changes, we examined nest…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Sands, DeMaso, Brennan, Williford, DeYoung, Wehland, Hernandez, Miller
Northern bobwhite (Colinus virginianus) populations have declined throughout the majority of the species' range, and have experienced the largest declines in fragmented habitats, suggesting landscape scale processes may be responsible for this…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
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
Bark beetles are chewing a wide swath through forests across North America. Over the past few years, infestations have become epidemic in lodgepole and spruce-fir forests of the Intermountain West. The resulting extensive acreages of dead trees are…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Hemstrom, Salwasser, Halofsky, Kagan, Comfort
The Integrated Landscape Assessment Project (ILAP) is a three-year effort that produces information, models, data, and tools to help land managers, policymakers, and others examine mid- to broad-scale (e.g., watersheds to states and larger areas)…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Sikkink, Keane
Fire severity classifications have been used extensively in fire management over the last 30 years to describe specific environmental or ecological impacts of fire on fuels, vegetation, wildlife, and soils in recently burned areas. New fire severity…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Tobalske, Crandell, Klaassen Von Oorschot
This seminar is part of the USFS Missoula Fire Lab Seminar Series.
This webinar is a three-part sampler platter of research in the flight lab at the Field Research Station, each presentation will be ~12 min in length, with ~3 min for questions…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Ottmar
Fuels are often defined based on the physical characteristics of live and dead biomass that contribute to wildland fire. Because these characteristics affect the character, size, intensity, and duration of fires, fuels are important to the…
Year: 2012
Type: Media