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Thomas, Jarchow, Crawford
Federal land managers and ranchers often use prescribed fire as a tool to reduce invading woody plants within desert grasslands of the arid southwestern United States. Managers must evaluate the threat of the burn toward the health and survival of…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Janke, Terhune, Gates, Long
Relationships between northern bobwhite (Colinus virginianus) population dynamics and weather are well-established and managed in the southern and western core of their range. Although a qualitative recognition of effects of winter weather at the…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Fogarty, Elmore, Fuhlendorf, Loss
Habitat selection by animals is influenced by and mitigates the effects of predation and environmental extremes. For birds, nest site selection is crucial to offspring production because nests are exposed to extreme weather and predation pressure.…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Bond, Keane
Fire is both a natural and anthropogenic disturbance influencing the distribution, structure, and functioning of terrestrial ecosystems around the world. Many plants and animals depend on fire for their continued existence. Others species, such as…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Lahm, Melvin, Uhl
The Western Governors’ Association hosted the webinar, Prescribed Fire: Smoke Management and Regulatory Challenges on Dec. 19, 2017 as part of the series for the National Forest and Rangeland Management Initiative. Prescribed fire is a…
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Long, Colón, McFarland, Davis, Laverty, Grzybowski, Mathewson, Morrison
In recent years, federal land management agencies have collaborated to standardize assessments of rangeland health. These assessments incorporate state-and-transition concepts of ecosystem function using ecological site descriptions (ESDs) initially…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Fried, Jain, Loreno, Keefe, Bell
The BioSum modeling framework summarizes current and prospective future forest conditions under alternative management regimes along with their costs, revenues and product yields. BioSum translates Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) data for input…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Kelly, Brotons, McCarthy
We reason that applying appropriate levels of pyrodiversity for animal conservation requires recognizing that context is important (i.e., there is no one-size-fits-all approach); understanding the different mechanisms underpinning the overarching…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Lake, Wright, Morgan, McFadzen, McWethy, Stevens-Rumann
Indigenous peoples' detailed traditional knowledge about fire, although superficially referenced in various writings, has not for the most part been analyzed in detail or simulated by resource managers, wildlife biologists, and ecologists…. Instead…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Weir, Coffey, Russell, Baldwin, Twidwell, Cram, Bauman, Fawcett
Fire is an important ecological process that maintains prairies, shrublands and forests. Prescribed fire provides and helps maintain quality habitat for native wildlife, improves grazing for livestock, suppresses invasive woody plant growth and…
Year: 2017
Type: Document