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The complexity of managing fire-dependent ecosystems in wilderness: relict ponderosa pine in the Bob Marshall Wilderness
Isolated wilderness ecosystems with a history of frequent, low-severity fires have been altered due to many decades of fire exclusion and, as a result, are difficult to restore for philosophical and logistical reasons. In this paper, we describe the…
Author(s): Robert E. Keane, Stephen F. Arno, Laura J. Dickinson
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History of fire and Douglas-fir establishment in a savanna and sagebrush-grassland mosaic, southwestern Montana, USA
Over the past century, trees have encroached into grass- and shrublands across western North America. These include Douglas-fir trees (Pseudotsuga menziesii (Mirb.) Franco var. glauca (Beissn.) Franco) encroaching into mountain big sagebrush Nutt.…
Author(s): Emily K. Heyerdahl, Richard F. Miller, Russell A. Parsons
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Evaluate sensitivities of burn-severity mapping algorithms for different ecosystems and fire histories in the United States - Final Report to the Joint Fire Science Program
This research effort is designed to investigate effectiveness of burn severity mapping, using differenced Normalized Burn Ratio (dNBR) for ecosystem monitoring at the 30m scale. The hypothesis of our research is that the differenced normalized burn…
Author(s): Zhiliang Zhu, Carl H. Key, Donald Ohlen, Nathan C. Benson
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Managing fire-prone forests in the Western United States
The management of fire-prone forests is one of the most controversial natural resource issues in the US today, particularly in the west of the country. Although vegetation and wildlife in these forests are adapted to fire, the historical range of…
Author(s): Reed F. Noss, Jerry F. Franklin, William L. Baker, Tania L. Schoennagel, Peter B. Moyle
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Vegetation response to restoration treatments in ponderosa pine-Douglas-fir forests
The study site is located at the University of Montana's Lubrecht Experimental Forest, Missoula County, Montana, USA. This study is 1 of 13 in a nationwide network of Fire/Fire Surrogate (FFS) studies investigating the interdisciplinary effects…
Author(s): Kerry L. Metlen, Erich K. Dodson, Carl E. Fiedler
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Ecological science relevant to management policies for fire-prone forests of the western United States, Society for Conservation Biology scientific panel of fire in western U.S. forests
Fire is a primary natural disturbance in most forests of western North America and has shaped their plant and animal communities for millions of years. Native species and fundamental ecological processes are dependent on conditions created by fire.…
Author(s): Reed F. Noss, Jerry F. Franklin, William L. Baker, Tania L. Schoennagel, Peter B. Moyle
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Fire effects on vegetation recovery following eight large western wildfires
We examined vegetation diversity and landscape pattern relative to burn severity following eight large wildfires that burned in 2003 and 2004 in California chaparral, in mixed conifer forests in Montana, and in boreal forests in interior Alaska. Our…
Author(s): Leigh B. Lentile, Penelope Morgan, Michael J. Bobbitt, Sarah A. Lewis, Andrew T. Hudak, Peter R. Robichaud
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The relation between forest structure and soil burn severity
A study funded through National Fire Plan evaluates the relation between pre-wildfire forest structure and post-wildfire soil burn severity across three forest types: dry, moist, and cold forests. Over 73 wildfires were sampled in Idaho, Oregon,…
Author(s): Theresa B. Jain, Russell T. Graham, David S. Pilliod
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