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Limb, Fuhlendorf, Engle, Weir, Elmore, Bidwell
Achieving economically optimum livestock production on rangelands can conflict with conservation strategies that require lower stocking rate to maintain wildlife habitat. Combining the spatial and temporal interaction of fire and grazing (pyric-…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Pasch, Koprowski
Human suppression of fire has resulted in altered species composition and dense forest stands across the western United States. Accumulation of understory shrubs makes forests vulnerable to catastrophic fire and can impact animal use, whereas fire…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
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
USGS research botanist Matt Brooks and National Wildlife Refuges invasive species coordinator Michael Lusk have compiled a handbook titled Fire Management and Invasive Plants, with support from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service National Refuge…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Hardegree, Jones, Roundy, Shaw, Monaco
NRCS assists private-land owners in developing conservation management plans to improve rangeland productivity and species composition. The Range Planting Conservation Practice Standard provides specific guidance for seedbed preparation, planting…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
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
Falk, Allen, Parmenter, Swetnam
Montane grasslands particularly those occurring at middle and high elevations are among the least understood ecosystems in the western United States in terms of their fire regimes. These systems harbor high biological diversity, play key roles in…
Year: 2011
Type: Project