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The Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife & Parks (FWP) has long recognized the importance of sagebrush/grassland vegetative communities as wildlife habitat. Efforts to manipulate these communities concern FWP because of the potential…
Author(s): Joel G. Peterson
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It has become increasingly clear that wildland firefighters are experiencing collapses in decisionmaking and organizational structure when conditions on the fireline become life-threatening. Since 1990 wildland fire agencies have lost 23 people who…
Author(s): Ted Putnam
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This FEIS species review synthesizes information on the relationship of Schedonorus arundinaceus (tall fescue) to fire--how fire affects the species and its habitat, invasiveness of the species, and fire management considerations. Information is…
Author(s): Roberta A. Walsh
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This FEIS species review synthesizes information on the relationship of Canis latrans (coyote) to fire--how fire affects the species and its habitat, and fire management considerations. Information is also provided on the species' taxonomy,…
Author(s): Julie L. Tesky
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This FEIS species review synthesizes information on the relationship of Urtica dioica (stinging nettle) to fire--how fire affects the species and its habitat, and fire management considerations. Information is also provided on the species'…
Author(s): Jennifer H. Carey
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This FEIS species review synthesizes information on the relationship of Sialia mexicana (western bluebird) to fire--how fire affects the species and its habitat, and fire management considerations. Information is also provided on the species'…
Author(s): Janet Sullivan
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Describes age structure of nine old growth ponderosa pine/Douglas-fir stands in western Montana. Interprets the influence of past fires and 20th century fire exclusion on stand structure. Gives implications for management to restore and maintain…
Author(s): Stephen F. Arno, Joe H. Scott, Michael G. Hartwell
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This FEIS species review synthesizes information on the relationship of Ribes aureum (golden currant) to fire--how fire affects the species and its habitat, and fire management considerations. Information is also provided on the species'…
Author(s): Anna Marshall
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This FEIS species review synthesizes information on the relationship of Spiraea douglasii (rose spirea) to fire--how fire affects the species and its habitat, and fire management considerations. Information is also provided on the species'…
Author(s): Lora L. Esser
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This FEIS species review synthesizes information on the relationship of Dichanthelium acuminatum (tapered rosette grass) to fire--how fire affects the species and its habitat, and fire management considerations. Information is also provided on the…
Author(s): Roberta A. Walsh
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This FEIS species review synthesizes information on the relationship of Sialia currucoides (mountain bluebird) to fire--how fire affects the species and its habitat, and fire management considerations. Information is also provided on the species…
Author(s): Janet Sullivan
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This FEIS species review synthesizes information on the relationship of Lynx rufus (bobcat) to fire--how fire affects the species and its habitat, and fire management considerations. Information is also provided on the species' taxonomy,…
Author(s): Julie L. Tesky
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This document is a letter to Jack Ward Thomas, Chief of Forest Service, from Joseph A. Dear, Assistant Secretary OSHA, outlining the findings of the Occupational Safety and Health Adminstration's investigation of the South Canyon fire, February 8,…
Author(s): Joseph A. Dear
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This FEIS species review synthesizes information on the relationship of Lepus californicus (black-tailed jackrabbit) 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 Muhlenbergia montana (mountain muhly) to fire--how fire affects the species and its habitat, and fire management considerations. Information is also provided on the species…
Author(s): Roberta A. Walsh
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This FEIS species review synthesizes information on the relationship of Lepus americanus (snowshoe hare) to fire--how fire affects the species and its habitat, and fire management considerations. Information is also provided on the species'…
Author(s): Janet Sullivan
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A 750-year fire history was reconstructed for the Central Plateau of Yellowstone National Park from the deep-water sediments of five lakes. The charcoal record from a large lake provided a chronology of regional fires. Data from four small lakes…
Author(s): Sarah H. Millspaugh, Cathy L. Whitlock
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The effects of different seedbeds on western larch (Larix occidentalis) germination and seedling mortality were assessed in a grandfir/ninebark (Abies grandis/Physocarpus malvaceus) habitat type in northern, Idaho,  U.S.A. Two plots…
Author(s): Brian P. Oswald, Leon F. Neuenschwander
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I was disappointed with the OSHA report of the South Canyon Fire. My feelings are not the result of any need to defend my agency (USDA Forest Service). In another time and place, I thought the OSHA report following the death of Bill Martin (a…
Author(s): James M. Saveland
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This FEIS species review synthesizes information on the relationship of Ribes oxyacanthoides (northern gooseberry) to fire--how fire affects the species and its habitat, and fire management considerations. Information is also provided on the species…
Author(s): Jennifer H. Carey
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