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The Southwest Fire Science Consortium is partnering with FRAMES to help fire managers access important fire science information related to the Southwest's top ten fire management issues.

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Tropical logging and human invasions
Laurance
The simple truth is that, unless hunting pressure is severe, most wildlife populations can persist in logged forests, although their abundances may be reduced for considerable periods (Johns 1997; Fimbel et al. 2000). Few forest species can survive…
Year: 2001
Type: Document

Range research: the second generation
Young, Clements
The decade of the 1920s was somewhat of a paradox for range science. A. W. Sampson published 3 books that were widely used as text for higher education classes in range management. The United States Department of Agriculture. Forest Service expanded…
Year: 2001
Type: Document

Montane rattlesnakes and prescribed fire
Smith, Holycross, Painter, Douglas
Using radio-telemetry, we evaluate and discuss effects of a prescribed fire in a Madrean community on mortality, behavior, and habitat of 3 rattlesnake species. Eight snakes exposed to low intensity fire survived, whereas a snake exposed to intense…
Year: 2001
Type: Document

Fighting the Pumpkin Fire--indirect attack and aerial ignition [including: Delayed aerial ignition devices and Critical habitat conserved]
Farnsworth
From the text ... 'Fire managers used indirect attack and aerial ignition to reduce the risk to firefighters and the damage to resources in a wilderness area.'
Year: 2001
Type: Document

Reducing fire danger: is current policy on course? [including: a land use revolution; conservation use: a principle of sustainability; and fire control legacy
Brown
From the text ... 'The goal is to restore healthy forest ecosystems, including historical fire regimes. ... For decades, the Forest Service treated all fire, regardless of type or site, as a threat to forest health.'
Year: 2001
Type: Document

Some lessons learned in fifty years of watershed management in the southwest
DeBano, Ffolliott, Baker
From the text...'Revolutionary computer technologies facilitate the storage, retrieval, and summarization of watershed-based data information on the World Wide Web. The stored information can be used by researchers when testing and validating…
Year: 2001
Type: Document

Development and phenology of the beneficial grasshopper Hesperotettix viridis
Gardner, Thompson
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Year: 2001
Type: Document

A common sense approach to conserving rare species and their habitats on private lands: safe harbor and red-cockaded woodpeckers -- a case study
Costa, Miller, Lohr
From the Conclusion...'Safe harbor works because it does not punish but rewards, is voluntary not mandatory, ensures flexibility not rigidity, provides assurances not uncertainty and promotes pro-active conservation not re-active habitat destruction…
Year: 2001
Type: Document

Karner blue butterfly (Lycaeides melissa samuelis) and Western prairie fringed orchid (Platanthera praeclara)
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Year: 2001
Type: Document

The west is culling forests that fueled fires of the past
Jehl
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Year: 2001
Type: Document