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Topic
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Year
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Turner, Paulsen
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Year: 1976
Type: Document
Gillon, Gillon
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Year: 1976
Type: Document
Nelson
From the Summary ... 'Fire, whether wild or controlled, has been shown to benefit big game in a variety of ways. Following fire, understory vegetation usually reestablishes more luxuriant than before, often increasing carrying capacity for big game…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Sellers, Despain
From the text ... 'Over 1,900,000 acres (770,000 ha) of Yellowstone Park are managed as wilderness. The administrative policy for the management of natural areas of the National Park system such as Yellowstone clearly stated in 1970 The presence or…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Orme, Leege
From the Summary and Conclusions ... 'Large wildfires in the early 1900's burned over many of the low elevation forests in northern Idaho. Seral plant communities of grasses, forbs, and shrubs followed these wildfires and created important big game…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
McGuire
From the text ... 'Fire is not an independent force in Nature. When fire rages through the forest, it affects every aspect of the ecosystem -- the soil, air, wildlife, trees, and all other plant life. Fire is one component of the total forest…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Fitzhugh, Beaulieu
Plant species composition and use by deer, elk, and cattle were monitored after a 748 acre early spring wildfire which burned in the ponderosa pine type on limestone-derived soils southwest of Flagstaff, Arizona. Plants which increased or decreased…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Richardson
The Department of Interior is actively engaged in the smoke management business from two apparently opposite viewpoints. In one case we are trying to prevent or extinguish wildfires and minimize adverse effects on air quality as well as other…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Bock, Bock
Sacaton grasslands recover rapidly even from summer burning, at least in the absence of livestock. Results of this study show that fire is beneficial to the indigenous plants and wildlife of sacaton communities, as long as a mosaic of different aged…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Bock, Bock, McKnight
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Year: 1976
Type: Document