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The flea beetle, Aphthona nigriscutis Foudras, is a potentially useful agent for biological control of leafy spurge (Euphorbia esula L.) in grasslands devoted to wildlife conservation. However, effects of other grassland management practices on the…
Author(s): David P. Fellows, Wesley E. Newton
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The 1988 fires in Yellowstone National Park provided an opportunity to study effects of a large infrequent disturbance on a natural community. This study addressed two questions: (1) How does prefire heterogeneity of the landscape affect postfire…
Author(s): Monica G. Turner, William H. Romme, Robert H. Gardner
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This assessment of Montana used data collected from Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) plots across Montana and summarized by forest type, density, and structure. The focus of the analysis was on ponderosa pine/Douglas fir/ dry mixed conifer…
Author(s): Carl E. Fiedler, Charles E. Keegan, Daniel P. Wichman, Stephen F. Arno
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Prescribed fire is used as a site treatment after timber harvesting. These fires result in spatial patterns with some portions consuming all of the forest floor material (duff) and others consuming little. Prior to the burn, spatial sampling of duff…
Author(s): Peter R. Robichaud, S. M. Miller
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We assessed the influence of riparian disturbance on 26 stream variables in Linesville Creek and six tributaries, in northwestern Pennsylvania, USA. Redundancy analysis, a canonical ordination technique. was used in three separate analyses to test…
Author(s): M. Henry H. Stevens, Kenneth W. Cummins
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Prescribed burning is used to achieve a variety of silvicultural objectives, including controlling heavy fuel accumulation, exposing mineral soil, releasing available nutrients for seedbed preparation, and controlling certain insects, diseases, and…
Author(s): Kevin R. Russell, David H. Van Lear, David C. Guynn, Jr.
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Recent fires have renewed interest in fire's effect on different components of the ecosystems, particularly erosion and soil productivity. Our objectives were to (1) determine hillslope erosion rates after a high severity wildfire in an unmanaged…
Author(s): Peter R. Robichaud, Robert E. Brown
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The principal native trees in the semiarid regions of southern Alberta are riparian cottonwoods. These include narrowleaf cottonwood, Populus angustifolia James, balsam poplar, Populus balsamifera ssp. balsamifera L., black cottonwood, Populus…
Author(s): Lori A. Gom, Stewart B. Rood
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Evaluation of the erosional response of 95 recently burned drainage basins in Colorado, New Mexico and southern California to storm rainfall provides information on the conditions that result in fire-related debris flows. Debris flows were produced…
Author(s): Susan H. Cannon
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Atop a ridge in Yellowstone National Park in 1984, a freak summer wind—perhaps a tornado or a downburst from a thunderstorm—leveled an ancient lodge-pole pine forest, piling up a head-high maze of logs. In the notorious summer of 1988, when…
Author(s): Y. Baskin
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The 1988 fires in Yellowstone National Park provided an opportunity to study effects of a large infrequent disturbance on a natural community. This study addressed two questions: (1) How does prefire heterogeneity of the landscape affect postfire…
Author(s): Monica G. Turner, William H. Romme, Robert H. Gardner
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Hedysarum (Hedysarum spp.) roots are a primary food of grizzly bears (Ursus arctos) in the Front Ranges of the Canadian Rocky Mountains. I studied the effects of recent forest fire on yellow hedysarum (H. sulphurescens) habitat by comparing root…
Author(s): David Hamer
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The “Harvard Method,” as it is sometimes called, emphasizes the importance of easy two-way communication. Yet in both negotiations and daily life, for good reasons or bad, we often don’t talk to each other, and don’t want to. And sometimes when we…
Author(s): Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, Sheila Heen
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According to Nutt, decisions that fail in organizations can be traced to managers who impose decisions, limit the search for alternatives, and use power to implement plans. Nutt finds that managers who make the need for action clear, set objectives…
Author(s): Paul C. Nutt
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In this book, Isaacs argues that we should learn to kindle and sustain a new conversational spirit in our relationships, organizations, and communities. A conversational spirit will help us in times of frustration and conflict and help us work…
Author(s): William Isaacs
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In every organization, things go wrong. For the most part, these errors are minor and often go unnoticed. However, when disaster occurs, external pressure often forces the exposure of many of the failures that occur within an organization. Thus, a…
Author(s): Andrew Hopkins
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This comprehensive chapter documents, from a management perspective, the knowledge base on risk assessments and risk management. The previous chapter in the book is a companion article that provides the scientific foundation for the concepts and…
Author(s): D.A. Cleaves, R. W. Haynes
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Many of the accidents that organizations face are a result of complex interactions between multiple events and with multiple actors. They cannot be explained as being only one group or individual’s “fault”. In this book, Perrow investigates the…
Author(s): Charles Perrow
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In this chapter, Kantor and Ober introduce a model for dealing with conflicts that arise when employees are resistant to organizational change. Change situations are high stakes situations that cause greater fear and anxiety than low stakes…
Author(s): David Kantor, Steven Ober
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Wildland fire operations are conducted in a high-risk environment. Individuals involved in all aspects of fire management are subject to the dangers of burnovers, vehicle and aircraft accidents, and medical emergencies. Between 1990 and 1998, 133…
Author(s): Richard Mangan
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