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Analysis of video footage taken of crown fires during the 1988 fire season in Yellowstone National Park indicated that the most frequent length of time required to completely burn tree crowns was 15-20 seconds. Lodge-pole pine (Pinus contorta Laws…
Author(s): Don G. Despain, D. L. Clark, James J. Reardon
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Airborne remotely sensed data were collected and analyzed during and following the 1988 Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (GYE) fires in order to characterize the fire front movements, burn intensities and various vegetative components of selected…
Author(s): James A. Brass, Vincent G. Ambrosia, Philip J. Riggan, Paul D. Sebesta
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Covering just over 1 million acres, Glacier National Park straddles the Continental Divide in northwestern Montana. Diverse vegetation communities include moist western cedar- western hemlock (Thuja plicata - Tsuga heterophylla) old growth forests…
Author(s): Laurie L. Kurth
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From the Background...'A rapid decline in whitebark pine has occurred during the last 60 years as a result of three interrelated factors: epidemics of mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae); the introduced disease white pine blister…
Author(s): Robert E. Keane, Stephen F. Arno
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During the last 2 years, many people from numerous government agencies and private institutions compiled a scientific assessment of the natural and human resources of the Interior Columbia River Basin (Jensen and Bourgeron 1993). This assessment is…
Author(s): Robert E. Keane, James P. Menakis, Wendel J. Hann
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The 26 papers in this document address the current knowledge of fire as a disturbance agent, fire history and fire regimes, applications of prescribed fire for ecological restoration, and the effects of fire on the various forested ecosystems of the…
Author(s): Colin C. Hardy, Stephen F. Arno
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An ecological process model of vegetation dynamics mechanistically simulates long-term stand dynamics on coniferous landscapes of the Northern Rocky Mountains. This model is used to investigate and evaluate cumulative effects of various fire regimes…
Author(s): Robert E. Keane, Penelope Morgan, Steven W. Running
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This FEIS species review synthesizes information on the relationship of Populus tremuloides (quaking aspen) 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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This FEIS species review synthesizes information on the relationship of Mustela vison (American mink) 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 Urocyon cinereoargenteus (common gray fox) 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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The severity and extent of recent fires (1979-1990) were compared with that of presettlement fires (pre-1935) by eight major forest types in the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness (SBW) in Idaho and Montana. Presettlement fire intervals were determined…
Author(s): James K. Brown, Stephen F. Arno, Stephen W. Barrett, James P. Menakis
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Total particulate matter (PM) emissions were estimated for recent fires (1979-1990) and the presettlement period (prior to 1935) in the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness (SBW) in Idaho and Montana. Recent period emissions were calculated by 10-day…
Author(s): James K. Brown, Larry S. Bradshaw
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A fire history investigation was conducted for three forest community types in the Absaroka Mountains of Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. Master fire chronologies were based on fire-initiated age classes and tree fire scars. The area's major…
Author(s): Stephen W. Barrett
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This FEIS species review synthesizes information on the relationship of Carex concinna (low northern sedge) 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 Hierochloe odorata (sweet grass) 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 Rudbeckia hirta (black-eyed Susan) 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 Solidago missouriensis (prairie goldenrod) 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 Bromus vulgaris (Columbia brome) 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 Bromus pumpellianus (Pumpelly brome) 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 Chimaphila menziesii (little prince's-pine) to fire--how fire affects the species and its habitat, and fire management considerations. Information is also provided on the…
Author(s): Robin F. Matthews
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