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Linn
Researchers have been using models to predict and study wildfire behavior for approximately fifty years. These models range in complexity from simple algebraic models that may be implemented in graphical form or on hand-held calculators to complex…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Harkins, Morgan, Neuenschwander, Chrisman, Zack, Jacobson, Grant, Sampson
The Idaho Panhandle National Forests (IPNF), in partnership with the University of Idaho, the Fire Sciences Laboratory, and The Sampson Group, developed a Geographic Information System (GIS) based wildfire hazard-risk assessment. The assessment was…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Clark, Yool
The Madrean Archipelago of sky islands in the southwestern United States and northern Mexico relies on fire to help regulate and maintain biodiversity, yet only limited fire research has been conducted in the region. Developing new tools and…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Edminster, Weatherspoon, Neary
As part of the 1998 Joint USDA/USDI Fire Science Program, the Fire and Fire Surrogates Study was proposed to establish and evaluate cross-comparisons of fuels treatment practices and techniques to reduce wildfire risk. This study evaluates…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Kuvlesky, Gall, Dobrott, Tolley, Guthery, DeStefano, King, Nolte, Silvy, Lewis, Gee, Luders, Engle-Wilson
The masked bobwhite (Colinus virginianus ridgwayi) is an endangered species currently numbering <1500 individuals and restricted to 2 locales in southeastern Arizona and northcentral Sonora, Mexico. The subspecies' endangered status is attributed…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Dudley, DeLoach, Lovich, Carruthers
From the text...'the goals of this paper are to describe briefly the nature of impacts that saltcedar has to riparian ecosystems and how human impacts relate to this invasion, to review our expectations for a biological control program to augment…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Clubine
Clubine discusses the best seasons to conduct burns in order to increase the quality of warm-season grasses, reduce woody plant species and cool-season grasses, and improve growth and reproduction. He recommends occasional burns in summer (July-…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Cleaves, Haines, Martinez
The results of a survey concerning National Forest System prescribed burning activity and costs from 1985-1995 are examined. Ninety-five (83%) of 114 National Forests responded. Number of hectares burned and costs for conducting burns are reported…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Zedaker
Herbicides have been added to silvicultural treatments involving fire for nearly 50 years and, for some objectives, can even substitute for a prescribed burn. Herbicides and/or fire create changes in the effects of silvicultural treatments at…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Buddle, Spence, Langor
To test whether spider succession following harvest differed from succession following wildfire, spiders were collected by pitfall trapping and sweep netting over two years in aspen-dominated boreal forests, Over 8400 individuals is from 127 species…
Year: 2000
Type: Document