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Hungerford, Frandsen, Ryan
From the text...'On July 1, 1992, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the U.S. Forest Service, Intermountain Research Station entered into a cooperative agreement (FWS Ref. No. 14-48-0009-92-962 DCN: 98210-2-3927) to conduct a study on 'Heat…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Harwood
Alternative solutions to the loss of production potential and to the increasing rural poverty engendered by many slash-and-burn systems require major shifts in the evolution toward greater sustainability. Slash-and-burn practices are the starting…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Pippin, Nichols
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Year: 1996
Type: Document
Czech, Ffolliott
Fire is a natural phenomenon in Madrean Province ecosystems. Suppression of natural fire has altered ecosystem processes, however. Recognition of these alterations has led to the adoption of let-burn policies by many management agencies, but a let-…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Russell
Wildland fire managers walk a very difficult line in application of the science and art of fire management. With hundreds of laws, regulations, and policies to work within, the managers' decisions are on the sharp point of criticism from persons…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Bond, van Wilgen
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Year: 1996
Type: Document
Abrams
Approximately 30 Quercus (oak) species occur in the eastern United States, of which Q alba, Q rubra, Q velutina, Q coccinea, Q stellata and Q prinus are among the most dominant. Quercus distribution greatly increased at the beginning of the Holocene…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Sackett, Haase, Harrington
Since European settlement, the southwestern ponderosa pine ecosystem has experienced large scale alterations brought about by heavy grazing and timbering and a policy of attempted fire exclusion. These alterations are most evident as large increases…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Gosz, Gosz
The desert/grassland biome transition zone in central New Mexico provides an important region for testing species differences to changing environmental conditions and various land management practices. Interactions of black grama (Bouteloua eripoda…
Year: 1996
Type: Document