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Report of the National Commission on wildfire disasters: presented recently to Secretaries Babbitt and Espy, its message is clear: without aggressive, proactive wildland management programs begun now, the worst is yet to come
Created through the Wildfire Disaster Recovery Act of 1989 (PL 101-286), in response to the destructive western fire season of 1987 and the Yellowstone fires of 1988, the Commission was asked to consider the environmental and economic effects of…
Year: 1994
Type: Document

The Glide Lake fire research project in the western Newfoundland model forest
Weber, Wells
From the text... 'One of the potential problems with the use of prescribed burning in the past has been the lack of any systematic investigation into the ecological effects of this forest management practice on the ecosystem. In 1991, the planning…
Year: 1994
Type: Document

Southwestern ponderosa forest structure: changes since Euro-American settlement
Covington, Moore
This study quantifies some of the associated shifts in ecosystem structure and resource conditions and predicts changes 40 years into the future. The results from this and subsequent studies on other sites should serve as a reference point or…
Year: 1994
Type: Document

Ecological perspective: linking ecology, GIS, and remote sensing to ecosystem management
Allen
'The heightened recognition within the research community of the ecological linkages between Local sites and larger spatial scales has spawned increasing calls for more holistic management of landscapes (Noss 1983, Harris 1984, Risser 1985, Norse et…
Year: 1994
Type: Document

Restoration of southwestern ponderosa pine ecosystems with fire
Sackett, Haase, Harrington
Heavy grazing and timbering during settlement by Europeans, and a policy of fire exclusion shortly after caused extensive structural and compositional changes to the southwestern ponderosa pine ecosystem. These changes have resulted in forest health…
Year: 1994
Type: Document

Prescribed crown fire effects on bighorn sheep habitat in Alberta [abstract]
Woodard, Michalsky
A stand replacing crown fire was set in 1983 for the purpose of increasing the quality and quantity of a bighorn sheep range on Ram Mountain, Alberta. The area burned was a 250-year-old white spruce (Picea glauca [Moench] Voss) stand in close…
Year: 1994
Type: Document

Fire and forest health southwestern region
Moody, Buchanan, Melcher, Wistrand
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Year: 1994
Type: Document

A review of prescribed fire and tree growth response in the genus Pinus [literature review]
Landsberg
This paper summarizes the results of more than 50 research reports in an attempt to clarify the growth response of pine (Pinus spp.) to underburning. The growth response varied by species, pre-underburning stand characteristics, individual tree…
Year: 1994
Type: Document

Computing land use emissions of greenhouse gases
Kreileman, Bouwman
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Year: 1994
Type: Document

Status of insects and diseases in the Southwest: implications for forest health
Wilson, Tkacz
Most insects and pathogens affecting forests in the Southwest are naturally occurring components of Southwestern ecosystems and play an important role in their dynamic processes. They provide food and habitat for animals, affect short and long term…
Year: 1994
Type: Document