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Hejl, Hutto, Preston, Finch
From the Introduction (p.220) ... 'The purpose of this synthesis is to summarize knowledge about the effects of silvicultural practices on birds in Rocky Mountain forests, to suggest future research needs, and to suggest how managers can make…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
LaRosa, Floyd-Hanna
The Endangered Species Act elevates the protection of rare taxa above most other management objectives on Federal lands. In determining the relative importance of rare taxa preservation to fire management goals, the manager is faced with a…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Truesdale
'The rising cost of fire suppression activities prompted the Regional Fire Directors, under the leadership of the Director of Fire and Aviation Management, to review the causes of fire suppression costs and recommend appropriate actions. The 1994…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Wikars
Breeding populations of the fire-adapted carabid-beetle A. quadripunctatum were found in most of the fifteen investigated burned, uncut forests, but not in any of the fifteen burned clear-cuts, although a few immigrants were found in two of them.…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Monasmith, Demarais
From the text...'We are studying the response of the vegetation and small mammal communities to a prescribed burn to make training and land management recommendations to the military. Twenty study sites (63 acres each) in a creosote/tarbush habitat…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Vogel, Demarais
From the text..'Twenty, 62-acre study sites were located within a creosote-tarbush habitat on McGregor Range, Fort Bliss in south central New Mexico. Prescribed fires were applied to 10 of the study sites during June 1995. Reptile and terrestrial…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Burroughs, Clark
Ecosystem management links human activities with the functioning of natural environments over large spatial and temporal scales. Our examination of Greater Yellowstone and Georges Bank shows similarities exist between human uses, administrative…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Pearson, Turner, Wallace, Romme
The effect of fire and habitat heterogeneity on winter foraging by ungulates was studied in northern Yellowstone National Park (YNP). Grazing was monitored at 15 study sites for 14 wks during the winters of 1991 and 1992. The location and intensity…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Singer, Renkin
The effects of elk (Cervus elaphus), pronghorn (Antilocapra americana), and mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) browsing on shrubs in big sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata) communities were monitored over a 31-year period in Yellowstone National Park.…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Schullery
Greater Yellowstone is described as the last large, nearly intact ecosystem in the northern temperate zone of the earth (Reese 1984;Keiter and Boyce 1991.) Conflict over management has been controversial, and the area is a flagship site among…
Year: 1995
Type: Document