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The IMAGINE Prescribed Fire Prioritization Model: A Logistical and Ecological Approach to Management
GoolsbyIMAGINE aims to solve the issue of technology overload confronting prescribed fire managers today. As the demand to prescribe burn more acres increase, so do the demands on fire management officers (FMOs) to prioritize treatment areas. Prescribed…
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Swann
Large wildfires can have dramatic watershed effects, including sedimentation of aquatic habitat that have the potential to impact stream species such as fish and frogs. In arid systems it may take years, even decades, for sediments to wash out from…
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Harrell
A discussion of the use of prescribed fire by the US Fish & Wildlife Service to manage endangered species habitat in Texas. Presented by Wade Harrell at the 66th Annual Meeting of the Society for Range Management in Oklahoma City, February 2013.
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Leahy
A discussion of the effects of prescribed fire on a variety of wildlife species based on habitat requirements. It was presented by Mike Leahy as part of "Prescribing Fire for Woodland Restoration: How Is Success Measured?" at the Missouri Natural…
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Hedwall
The Mexican Spotted Owl Recovery Plan, First Revision, was released on December 17, 2012. The Recovery Team used the best available science to delineate actions we think are required to recover and protect the owl. This Recovery Plan presents…
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Tobalske, Crandell, Klaassen Von Oorschot
This seminar is part of the USFS Missoula Fire Lab Seminar Series.
This webinar is a three-part sampler platter of research in the flight lab at the Field Research Station, each presentation will be ~12 min in length, with ~3 min for questions…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Ottmar
Fuels are often defined based on the physical characteristics of live and dead biomass that contribute to wildland fire. Because these characteristics affect the character, size, intensity, and duration of fires, fuels are important to the…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Evans
The webinar covered the guide's definition of mixed conifer, past land use and management activities, fire regimes and historic conditions, and impact of altered fire regimes in mixed conifer forests of the southwest. Since Euro-American settlement…
Year: 2011
Type: Media