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Ectomycorrhiza formation, survivability, and physiognomic characteristics were assessed for conifer seedlings encountered 1 and 2 years postfire in the Huck burn site near Grand Teton National Park. Pinus contorta Dougl. ex Loud. germinated and was…
Author(s): Steven L. Miller, Therese M. McClean, Nancy L. Stanton, Stephen E. Williams
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Weick uses the metaphor of jazz improvisation to discuss the way people verbally communicate about organizational improvisation. He argues that the descriptions and processes used to discuss composing on the spur of the moment provide a lexicon for…
Author(s): Karl E. Weick
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Fire and insects are natural disturbance agents in many forest ecosystems, often interacting to affect succession, nutrient cycling, and forest species composition. We review literature pertaining to effects of fire-insect interactions on ecological…
Author(s): Deborah G. McCullough, Richard A. Werner, David Neumann
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The South Canyon Fire of July 1994 burned 800 ha of vegetation on Storm King Mountain near Glenwood Springs, Colorado, USA. On the night of 1 September 1994, in response to torrential rains, debris flows inundated seven areas along a 5-km length of…
Author(s): Susan H. Cannon, P. S. Powers, W. Z. Savage
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Forest stands of fire-dependent ponderosa pine cover about 40 million acres (16 million ha) in the Western United States. Ponderosa pine is commonly found in pure stands on dry sites, but in more moist conditions, it is associated with Douglas-fir,…
Author(s): Joe H. Scott
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Plant species composition has been sampled periodically since the 1974 Waterfalls Canyon Fire in Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming. Prior to the fire, the forests were dominated by mature Abies lasiocarpa, Picea engelmannii and Finns contorta. All…
Author(s): Kathleen M. Doyle, Dennis H. Knight, Dale L. Taylor, William J. Barmore, James M. Benedict
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To determine the initial effects of slash pile burning on chemical and physical properties in the Vassar soil series, mineral soil samples from two depths (2.5 cm and 12.5 cm) were collected before and after burning slash piles of four fuel loadings…
Author(s): Brian P. Oswald, Douglas Davenport, Leon F. Neuenschwander
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Fuel and vegetation spatial data layers required by the spatially explicit fire growth model FARSITE were developed for all lands in and around the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness Area in Idaho and Montana. Satellite imagery and terrain modeling were…
Author(s): Robert E. Keane, Janice L. Garner, Kirsten M. Schmidt, Donald G. Long, James P. Menakis, Mark A. Finney
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Laboratorys studies were conducted to determine the acute toxicity of three fire retardants (Fire‐Trol GTS‐R, Fire‐Trol LCG‐R, and Phos‐Chek D75‐F), and two fire‐suppressant foams (Phos‐Chek WD‐881 and Ansul Silv‐Ex) to early life stages of chinook…
Author(s): Kevin J. Buhl, Steven J. Hamilton
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The term riverine landscape implies a holistic geomorphic perspective of the extensive interconnected series of biotopes and environmental gradients that, with their biotic communities, constitute fluvial systems. Natural disturbance regimes…
Author(s): J. V. Ward
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This FEIS species review synthesizes information on the relationship of Poa arida (plains bluegrass) to fire--how fire affects the species and its habitat, and fire management considerations. Information is also provided on the species'…
Author(s): Janet L. Howard
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Plant mortality and productivity in semiarid grasslands may be affected by the length of time grazing is excluded during the postfire regeneration period. The degree of grazing tolerance for the semiarid bunchgrass species, Festuca idahoensis and…
Author(s): Stephen C. Bunting, Ronald Robberecht, Guillermo E. Defosse
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Miller Creek, on the Flathead National Forest in northwest Montana, is a demonstration forest, showing up to 30 years of forest change after clearcutting and a wide range of fire treatments in 1967 and 1968. Differences in tree regeneration and…
Author(s): Penelope A. Latham, Raymond C. Shearer, Kevin L. O'Hara
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Tenderfoot Creek Experimental Forest is used as a case study to model the effects of prescribed fire and silvicultural treatments on stand structure, snag recruitment, and coarse woody debris. The Forest Vegetation Simulator (FVS) and the Fire and…
Author(s): Colin C. Hardy, Elizabeth D. Reinhardt
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Fires occur frequently in dry forests of the Inland West. Fire effects vary across the landscape, reflecting topography, elevation, aspect, slope, soils, and vegetation attributes. Patches minimally affected by successive fires may be thought of as…
Author(s): Ann Camp, Chad Oliver, Paul F. Hessburg, Richard L. Everett
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Presents maps of major fire episodes in the inland northwestern United States between 1540 and 1940 based on a compilation of fire history studies. Estimates annual acreage historically burned in this region and compares that with recent fire years.
Author(s): Stephen W. Barrett, Stephen F. Arno, James P. Menakis
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We are developing new management treatments for regenerating and sustaining lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta) forests through emulation of natural disturbance processes. Lodgepole pine is the principal forest cover on over 26 million hectares in…
Author(s): Colin C. Hardy, Ward W. McCaughey
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This FEIS species review synthesizes information on the relationship of Amelanchier alnifolia (Saskatoon serviceberry) to fire--how fire affects the species and its habitat, and fire management considerations. Information is also provided on the…
Author(s): Janet L. Howard
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Issues related to forest health and the threat of larger, more destructive wildfires have led to major new initiatives to restructure and recompose forest communities in the western United States. Proposed solutions will depend, in part, on…
Author(s): Bruce E. Rieman, James L. Clayton
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This FEIS species review synthesizes information on the relationship of Poa fendleriana (Fendler bluegrass) to fire--how fire affects the species and its habitat, and fire management considerations. Information is also provided on the species'…
Author(s): Janet L. Howard
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