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Robinson, Kurz, Pollack, Listar
A metric variant of Prognosis (also known as the Forest Vegetation Simulator) has been linked to the Western Root Disease extension, and used to explore the interaction between partial harvesting, Armillaria root disease and productivity in 24…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
From the Preface ... 'The conference organizers hoped to accomplish three primary objectives. First was to document how forest vegetation simulation is being incorporated into project-level analysis, watershed analysis, and strategic planning. This…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Sheppard, Farnsworth
Fire has been a global disturbance agent for thousands of years. As an ecological process that helped shape the floral and faunal communities of western North America, fire also maintained the health and diversity of forest until European settlers…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Murray, Bunting, Morgan
The subalpine vegetation zone is an extensive and important high elevation setting in the western United States. Whitebark pine (Pinus albicaulis) is restricted to, and occurs widely in, the subalpine zone. This tree provides a valuable foodsource…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Roller, Halvorson
Pirna pineapple cactus (Coryphantha scheeri Kuntze var. robustispina Schott) (PPC) is listed as endangered by the US Fish and Wildlife Service. This unique taxon occurs in two valleys south of Tucson, Arizona and the northern edge of Sonora, Mexico…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Lord
A probabilistic model is offered for tracing the fate of vegetation communities in fire-prone lands that are subjected to regular fuel reduction burning. The model is based on the semi-Markov process (an extension of Markov chain modelling). The…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Sheppard, Farnsworth
The 1994 fire season in the Southwest impacted at least 10 Mexican Spotted Owl (Strix occidentalis lucida) territories. Since 1989, more than 50,000 acres of spotted owl habitat have been stand replaced by catastrophic fires in Arizona and New…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Murphy, Cole
From the text... "Futurist biologists have stated that the success of Endangered and Threatened Species recovery programs is not to keep habitats in original and/or untouched conditions (De Blieu 1993). A practical goal is to "Reshape habitats so…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Graham, Jain, Reynolds, Boyce
The northern goshawk (Accipiter gentilis), is a northern latitude, forest dwelling raptor. In the Western United States, goshawks live in most forests, including those dominated by western hemlock (Tsuga heterophylla (Raf.) Sarg.), lodgepole pine (…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Duck, Esque, Hughes
We describe our experience as biologists/resource advisors working with firefighting personnel to reduce the risk of impacts and disturbances to desert tortoises and their habitats. Pre-fire season planning is essential preparation for risk…
Year: 1997
Type: Document