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This FEIS species review synthesizes information on the relationship of Achnatherum nelsonii (Columbia needlegrass) to fire--how fire affects the species and its habitat, and fire management considerations. Information is also provided on the…
Author(s): Kristin L. Zouhar
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This article critiques two predominant forms of decision making: rational-choice and the intuitive approach. The authors suggest a more productive approach to decision making is the experiential, or “recognize/react,” approach. The experiential…
Author(s): Gary Klein, Karl E. Weick
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Fire, competition for light and water, and native forest pests have interacted for millennia in western forests to produce a countryside dominated by seral species of conifers. These conifer-dominated ecosystems exist in six kinds of biotic…
Author(s): Geral I. McDonald, Alan E. Harvey, Jonalea R. Tonn
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The implementation of properly designed treatments to restore and sustain desired forest conditions in the Inland Northwest, besides moving forest stands more rapidly to an ecologically desirable and sustainable condition, can generate positive…
Author(s): Charles E. Keegan, Carl E. Fiedler
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This FEIS species review synthesizes information on the relationship of Symphoricarpos albus (common snowberry) to fire--how fire affects the species and its habitat, and fire management considerations. Information is also provided on the species…
Author(s): Jack McWilliams
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FireWorks is an educational program for students in grades 1-10. The program consists of the curriculum in this report and a trunk of laboratory materials, specimens, and reference materials. It provides interactive, hands-on activities for studying…
Author(s): Jane Kapler Smith, Nancy E. McMurray
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Watershed managers and scientists throughout the world have been aware of fire-induced water-repellent soils for over three decades. Water repellency affects many hydrologic processes, including infiltration, overland flow, and surface erosion (rill…
Author(s): Leonard F. DeBano
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Can scientific information and intensive, extensive public involvement through facilitated meetings be expected to lead to agreement on natural resource issues? Communications and research in the Bitterroot Ecosystem Management Research Project…
Author(s): Jane Kapler Smith, Kerry McMenus
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Infiltration rates in undisturbed forest environments are generally high. These high infiltration rates may be reduced when forest management activities such as timber harvesting and/or prescribed fires are used. Post-harvest residue burning is a…
Author(s): Peter R. Robichaud
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This FEIS species review synthesizes information on the relationship of Elymus canadensis (Canada wildrye) to fire--how fire affects the species and its habitat, and fire management considerations. Information is also provided on the species'…
Author(s): Kevin A. Simonin
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Wilderness fire science has progressed since the last major review of the topic, but it was significantly affected by the large fire events of 1988. Strides have been made in both fire behavior and fire effects, and in the issues of scaling, yet…
Author(s): James K. Agee
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The Fire and Fuels Extension (FFE) to the Forest Vegetation Simulator (FVS) has been developed to assess the risk, behavior, and impact of fire in forest ecosystems. This extension to the widely-used stand-dynamics model FVS simulates the dynamics…
Author(s): Sarah J. Beukema, Elizabeth D. Reinhardt, Werner A. Kurz, Nicholas L. Crookston
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Decades of fire absence from ponderosa pine/Douglas fir forests has resulted in overstocked, unhealthy, and severe fireprone stands requiring management attention. Prescribed fire can be used in three general situations during restoration management…
Author(s): Michael G. Harrington
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This paper reports on an application of two modeling systems in the assessment and planning effort for a 58,038-acre area on the Bitterroot National Forest: SIMulating Vegetative Patterns and Processes at Landscape ScaLEs (SIMPPLLE), and Multi-…
Author(s): J. Greg Jones, Jimmie D. Chew, Nan K. Christianson, D. J. Silvieus, Catherine A. Stewart
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This FEIS species review synthesizes information on the relationship of Sporobolus cryptandrus (sand dropseed) to fire--how fire affects the species and its habitat, and fire management considerations. Information is also provided on the species…
Author(s): Kevin A. Simonin
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This FEIS species review synthesizes information on the relationship of Abies grandis (grand fir) to fire--how fire affects the species and its habitat, and fire management considerations. Information is also provided on the species' taxonomy,…
Author(s): Janet L. Howard, Keith Aleksoff
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This FEIS species review synthesizes information on the relationship of Festuca idahoensis (Idaho fescue) to fire--how fire affects the species and its habitat, and fire management considerations. Information is also provided on the species'…
Author(s): Kristin L. Zouhar
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Geomorphological processes that commonly transport soil down hillslopes and sediment and woody debris through stream systems in steep, mountainous, forest landscapes can operate in sequence down gravitational flowpaths, forming a cascade of…
Author(s): Futoshi Nakamura, Frederick J. Swanson, Steven M. Wondzell
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Findings from fire history studies have increasingly indicated that many forest ecosystems in the northern Rocky Mountains were shaped by mixed-severity fire regimes, characterized by fires of variable severities at intervals averaging between about…
Author(s): Stephen F. Arno, David J. Parsons, Robert E. Keane
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Fire is a key ecological process within most ecosystems in the United States and Canada. An understanding of factors controlling the initial response of vegetation to fire is essential to its management. Fire effects on plants can vary significantly…
Author(s): Melanie Miller
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