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Leading threats to biodiversity: what's imperiling U.S. species [Chapter 8]
Wilcove, Rothstein, Dubow, Phillips, Losos
From the text (p. 247)...'Alteration of ecosystem processes is increasingly being recognized as a significant threat to biodiversity. Disruption of fire regimes, for example, affects 14% of listed species. About half of these species are threatened…
Year: 2000
Type: Document

Workshop summary: federal farm programs -- what can be done for quail? [abstract]
Capel
Federal Farm programs have had wide range of impacts on wildlife over the years. Some programs have been extremely harmful to wildlife while others have, intentionally or accidentally, been beneficial to wildlife. Frequently, the same program that…
Year: 2000
Type: Document

The status of masked bobwhite recovery in the United States and Mexico
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

Influences on prescribed burning activity in the national forest system
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

A comparison of historic and contemporary wildland fire and anthropogenic emissions [abstract]
Leenhouts
Wildland fire has been an integral part of the conterminous United States' ecological landscape for millennia. Today wildland fire has to compete with other socially desirable goals for a share of a limited air resource. New ozone, particulate, and…
Year: 2000
Type: Document

Managing the impact of wildfires on communities and the environment: a report to the President in response to the wildfires of 2000
Executive Summary: On August 8, 2000, President Clinton asked Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt and Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman to prepare a report that recommends how best to respond to this year*s severe fires, reduce the impacts of these…
Year: 2000
Type: Document

Forest fire protection: CRS report for Congress
Gorte
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Year: 2000
Type: Document

Achieving ecosystem management in the borderlands of the southwestern United States through coordinated research/management partnerships
Gottfried, Edminster
This paper provides a brief overview of the Southwestern Borderlands Ecosystem Management Research Project. Much of the research program was described in more detail, along with results thus far, in a conference presented in January 1999. Conference…
Year: 2000
Type: Document