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Water production from mountain watersheds depends on total precipitation input, the type and distribution of precipitation, the amount intercepted in tree canopies, and losses to evaporation, transpiration and groundwater. A systematic process was…
Author(s): Ward W. McCaughey, Phillip E. Farnes, Katherine J. Hansen
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Presents detailed age structure for two western larch stands that historically experienced frequent fires. Compares age structures of eleven ponderosa pine and western larch stands representing a broad range of sites that had frequent fires.…
Author(s): Stephen F. Arno, Helen Y. Smith, Michael A. Krebs
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Sediment influx to channel networks is stochastically driven by rainstorms and other perturbations, which are discrete in time and space and which occur on a landscape with its own spatial variability in topography, colluvium properties, and state…
Author(s): Lee E. Benda, Thomas Dunne
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This book focuses on the causes, consequences, and possible means of avoiding organizational accidents. While individual accidents are more frequent and often target the individual for blame, organizational accidents are deep rooted errors in the…
Author(s): James Reason
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Acute toxicity tests were conducted with Hyalella azteca Saussure (an amphipod) exposed in soft and hard waters to three fire retardants (Fire‐Trol GTS‐R, Fire‐Trol LCG‐R, and Phos‐Chek D75‐F) and two foam suppressants (Phos‐Chek WD‐881 and Silv‐Ex…
Author(s): S. F. McDonald, Steven J. Hamilton, Kevin J. Buhl, James F. Heisinger
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In this study vegetation development is compared and contrasted following natural and logging disturbances in a major boreal river valley in Alberta. Permanent sample plots and releves were established and sampled for vegetation and landscape…
Author(s): Kevin P. Timoney, George Peterson, Ross W. Wein
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Species descriptions for Betula nana and Betula glandulosa.
Author(s): William J. de Groot, P. A. Thomas, Ross W. Wein
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To understand and avoid future calamities, decision makers must have a more accurate way of understanding past calamities. Most of what we know about calamities comes from eye witness accounts that favor relief efforts and damage reports rather than…
Author(s): Barry A. Turner, Nick F. Pidgeon
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The Fire Effects Model Extension is a new extension to FVS and the PPE that allows users to simulate the effects of fire on a number of indicators, including stand structure and composition, fuel loading, and size and density of snags. In the…
Author(s): Sarah J. Beukema, Julee A. Greenough, Donald C. E. Robinson, Werner A. Kurz, Elizabeth D. Reinhardt, Nicholas L. Crookston, Albert R. Stage
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From the introduction... "The magnitude and intensity of recent fires heighten concerns regarding forest/ecosystem health, the potential loss of valuable wood fiber and private property, and the apparent threat to sensitive species. Such concerns…
Author(s): Bruce E. Rieman, Danny C. Lee, Gwynne L. Chandler, Deborah Myers
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The Butte City Fire occurred on July 1, 1994, west of Idaho Falls, ID. Ignited from a burning flat tire, the blaze was driven by high winds that caused it to cover over 20,500 acres in just over 6.5 hours. Sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata ssp.…
Author(s): Bret W. Butler, Timothy D. Reynolds
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Geostatistics provides a method to describe the spatial continuity of many natural phenomena. Spatial models are based upon the concept of scaling, kriging and conditional simulation. These techniques were used to describe the spatially-varied…
Author(s): Peter R. Robichaud
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We examined the influence of a moderately severe wildfire on the thermal patterns in three small streams in central Idaho, USA, for an 11-month period beginning ten months after the fire. Two streams in unburned catchments served as reference sites…
Author(s): Todd V. Royer, G. Wayne Minshall
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This FEIS species review synthesizes information on the relationship of Ambystoma macrodactylum (long-toed salamander) 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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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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Provides information on fire ecology in forest habitat and community types occurring in northern Idaho. Identifies fire groups based on presettlement fire regimes and patterns of succession and stand development after fire. Describes forest fuels…
Author(s): Jane Kapler Smith, William C. Fischer
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The stochastic field of sediment supply to the channel network of a drainage basin depends on the large‐scale interactions among climatically driven processes such as forest fire and rainstorms, topography, channel network topology, and basin scale…
Author(s): Lee E. Benda, Thomas Dunne
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The native salmonids of the Idaho Panhandle National Forests, bull chaff (Salvelinus confluentus) and westslope cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus clarki lewisz) evolved with natural pulse disturbances of which the most common were fire and flood. These…
Author(s): D. Cross
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This FEIS species review synthesizes information on the relationship of Athene cunicularia (burrowing owl) 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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One of the critical mistakes made by wildland firefighters during both the Mann Gulch and South Canyon fires was their unwillingness to drop heavy tools and packs as they attempted to outrun the flames. Weick points to 10 possible reasons for their…
Author(s): Karl E. Weick
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