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Holdrege, Schlaepfer, Palmquist, Crist, Doherty, Lauenroth, Remington, Riley, Short, Tull, Wiechman, Bradford
Background: Wildfire is a major proximate cause of historical and ongoing losses of intact big sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata Nutt.) plant communities and declines in sagebrush obligate wildlife species. In recent decades, fire return intervals…
Year: 2024
Type: Document
Espinoza, Cui, Martell
FireSmart forest management strategies often include landscape level fuel treatments that fragment the landscape to reduce the risk of extreme fire events. We describe a decision support system that is being developed for incorporating FireSmart…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Finney, Seli, Andrews
Modeling capabilities of the FARSITE fire area simulator have been expanded to include post-frontal combustion and smoke production. FARSITE previously simulated only fire growth, with the focus on the fire perimeter. The BURNUP model was adapted to…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Jain, Graham
Burn severity (also referred to as fire severity) is not a single definition, but rather a concept and its classification is a function of the measured units unique to the system of interest. The systems include: flora and fauna, soil microbiology…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Bunnell
The demand for a nationally consistent condition variable for wildland fire and fuel management developed as a result of the 1988, 1990s, and 2000 fire seasons. Coming internally from administration and agency leadership and externally from Congress…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Wadleigh, McHugh
Three silvicultural prescriptions of various thinning intensities designed at reducing potential fire behavior in southwestern ponderosa pine were compared in the Ft. Valley Experimental Forest, Peaks Ranger District, Coconino National Forest,…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Sesnie, Bailey
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Landscape-scale patterns of black-throated sparrow (Amphispiza bilineata) abundance and nest success
Pidgeon, Radeloff, Mathews[no description entered]
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Quinlan, Dale, Gates
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Parmenter, Hansen, Kennedy, Cohen, Langner, Lawrence, Maxwell, Gallant, Aspinall
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Year: 2003
Type: Document