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Sole, Keyser
From the text ... 'The following information described what is considered to be the single biggest problem facing bobwhite quail and other grassland birds throughout a major portion of their range. This is an area encompassing from southern Maryland…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
From the text...'The need to understand both the role of wildland fire as an ecosystem process and the appropriate use of fire as a management tool has been recognized for years. Historically fire has played an important role in many ecosystems by…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Reinhardt, Hardy
Poster abstract...A First Order Fire Effects Model (FOFEM) was developed to predict the direct consequences of prescribed fire and wildfire. FOFEM was designed for application to most areas of the United States. First order fire effects are the…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Bunting
From the text...'Two important factors that must be consideration when implementing prescribed fire programs for habitat manipulation are scale and fire severity. The scale influences the likelihood of use by wildlife because of its influence on the…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Brose, Van Lear, Keyser
Regenerating oak stands on productive upland sites is widely recognized by foresters as a major problem in hardwood management. Recent research indicates that oak regeneration is more resistant to surface fires than its primary competitors on these…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Public perceptions of risk and acceptability of forest vegetation management alternatives in Ontario
Wagner, Flynn, GregoryWe examined public perceptions of risk and acceptability for 9 alternatives to controlling forest vegetation in Ontario (N = 2.301) in the fall of 1994. The proportion of respondents indicating whether an alternative was 1) difficult to control, 2)…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Taylor
From the text...'Canada contains a great deal of land that, although not officially designated as such, is wilderness. In the past, many fires that occurred in remote areas and did not threaten economic resources wre not aggressively suppressed.…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Saveland
The theory and practice that embodies 'learning organizations' can be applied to developing and implementing effective natural resource policy and management. A learning organization is a group of people who are continually enhancing their capacity…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Pyne
Fire on the Earth today looks the way it does because of the expansion of Europe, first as an imperial power, then as the vector for industrialization. The 'suppression' paradigm characteristic of Europe's frontiers derived from the collision of…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Oliver
Four islands in the northern Bahamas contain pine rocklands - Abaco, Andros, Grand Bahama, and New Providence - comprising more than 500,000 acres. Bahamian pine rockland, a fire sub-climax community, is characterized by pitted, broken oolitic…
Year: 1998
Type: Document