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Whitebark pine (Pinusa albicaulis)s found at timberline and in subalpine forests from central California and western Wyoming north to British Columbia and Alberta. This speciesh as been of little interest for commercial timber, but in recent years…
Author(s): Stephen F. Arno
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Field experiments were conducted to examine the effects of disturbance frequency on invertebrates and periphyton colonizing bricks in a third order Rocky Mountain (USA) stream. After an initial colonization period (30 days), sets of bricks were…
Author(s): Christopher T. Robinson, G. Wayne Minshall
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This issue of Fire Management Notes contains articles on fire shelters, fire behavior, the Butte Fire (Idaho 1985), crew mobilization, and using prescribed fire. Forest Fire Shelters Save Lives Art, Jukkala and Ted Putnam Methods for Predicting Fire…
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This is a classic textbook written by three well known authors (Kahneman recently won the Nobel Prize for economics) who have spent their careers working in the psychological fields of understanding how people make decisions under uncertainty. The…
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This publication is not available online.  It will have to be ordered from a library.
Author(s): Kendall L. Johnson
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More intensive management could be applied to many young stands in conifer forests of the Northern Rockies. Vast areas are stocked with stands that contain a mixture of conifer species. An important mixed species cover type in this region is the…
Author(s): Dennis M. Cole, Wyman C. Schmidt
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An increment borer is a precision instrument specially designed to extract a thin cylinder of wood from a tree, shrub, log or pole. It is available in a variety of sizes ranging in length from 4 inches to 40 inches. Although the increment borer is…
Author(s): James K. Agee, Mark H. Huff
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Means, standard deviations, and quartiles of fuel loadings were determined for litter, for downed woody material of 0 to one-fourth inch, one-fourth to 1 inch, 0 to 1 inch, and 1 to 3 inches, for herbaceous vegetation, and for shrubs by cover types…
Author(s): James K. Brown, Collin D. Bevins
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Describes the first 10 years of vegetation development following disturbance by a holocaustic forest fire in a western redcedar-western hemlock type in the Selkirk Range. Postfire development of vegetation is represented as life-form stages and…
Author(s): Peter F. Stickney
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Two mathematical models are given to determine the best locations for initial attack resources in terms of travel time: a linear programming model and a statistical model. An example for the Clearwater National Forest in Idaho illustrates some of…
Author(s): Romain Mees
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Provides information on use of prescribed fire to enhance productivity of bunchgrass ranges that have been invaded by Douglas-fir. Six vegetative "situations" representative of treatment opportunities most commonly encountered in Montana…
Author(s): George E. Gruell, James K. Brown, Charles L. Bushey
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Discusses fire as an ecological factor for forest habitat types occurring in central Idaho. Identifies "Fire Groups" of habitat types based on fire's role in forest succession. Considerations for fire management are suggested.
Author(s): Marilyn F. Crane, William C. Fischer
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Describes a method for appraising fuels and fire behavior potential in aspen forests to guide the use of prescribed fire and the preparation of fire prescriptions. Includes an illustrated classification of aspen fuels; appraisals of fireline…
Author(s): James K. Brown, Dennis Simmerman
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