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Distribution of nutrients after the Entiat fire in north central Washington was examined. This intense fire produced an average ash weight on the soil surface of 2900 kg/ha. The ash layer contained 23 kg/ha N, 314 kg/ha Ca, 54 kg/ha Mg, 70 kg/ha K,…
Author(s): Charles C. Grier
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Twenty-nine journals and diaries were reviewed for their vegetation descriptions of the sagebrush-grass area in an attempt to assess the relative importance of herbaceous plants and woody brush in the northern Intermountain West. The early writings…
Author(s): Thomas R. Vale
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Three cutting units of varying size, soil, and aspect located along streams in the Priest River Experimental Forest in northern Idaho were chosen for evaluation of changes in water quality caused by clearcutting and subsequent burning of slash.…
Author(s): Gordon G. Snyder, Harold F. Haupt, George H. Belt
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Establishment of western larch (Larix occidentalis Nutt.) seedlings is favored by site preparation that reduces both the duff layer and the sprouting potential of competing vegetation. A cooperative study of the use of fire in silviculture in…
Author(s): Raymond C. Shearer
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Reports a first attempt to provide a computation system that will permit a rapid estimate of the amount of hazard to game fish caused by release of fire retardant chemical into streams. Field measurements necessary for application of the system are…
Author(s): Wayne P. Van Meter, Charles E. Hardy
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Contains 910 sets of forest fire ecology questions mailed to the authors by 302 land managers and scientists throughout the western United States and Canada. Questions were submitted in response to a survey of important research needs for…
Author(s): Alan R. Taylor, Ronald N. Kickert, David H. Firmage, Mark J. Behan
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