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Fire dramatically alters hydrologic processes in many regions of the world. Individual fires reduce vegetation and change soil characteristics, sometimes producing dramatic runoff events in the years shortly after a fire. The greatest determinant of…
Author(s): Charles H. Luce
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This report presents a compilation of data on the erosive response, debris-flow initiation processes, basin morphology, burn severity, event-triggering rainfall, rock type, and soils for 608 basins recently burned by 53 fires located throughout the…
Author(s): J. E. Gartner, Susan H. Cannon, Erica R. Bigio, Nicole K. Davis, C. Parrett, Kenneth L. Pierce, M. G. Rupert, Brandon L. Thurston, Matthew J. Trebesch, Steve P. Garcia, A.H. Rea
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This report presents a compilation of data on the erosive response, debris-flow initiation processes, basin morphology, burn severity, event-triggering rainfall, rock type, and soils for 608 basins recently burned by 53 fires located throughout the…
Author(s): J. E. Gartner, Susan H. Cannon, Erica R. Bigio, Nicole K. Davis, C. Parrett, Kenneth L. Pierce, M. G. Rupert, Brandon L. Thurston, Matthew J. Trebesch, Steve P. Garcia, A.H. Rea
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Several large, uncharacteristic wildfires occurred on the Boise National Forest in Southwest Idaho, from 1986 to 2003. From 1987 to 1994, severe wildfires burned almost 50% of the ponderosa pine forest types (about 200,000 ha). The intensity of the…
Author(s): Timothy A. Burton
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The increasing size and severity of wildfires in the western United States has caused a corresponding increase in post-fire emergency erosion control activities. Hillslope treatments, such as broadcast seeding, mulching and installed barriers, are…
Author(s): Peter R. Robichaud
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Hillside hollows which produced bulking debris flows in southwestern Idaho in 2003-2005 consistently show a stair-step morphology with vertical risers and planar, roughly horizontal treads. We propose a process model of step formation by plunging…
Author(s): C. W. Welcker, John M. Buffington, Charles H. Luce, J. A. McKean
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Successful fire exclusion in the 20th century has created severe fire problems across the West. Not every forest is at risk of uncharacteristically severe wildfire, but drier forests are in need of active management to mitigate fire hazard. We…
Author(s): James K. Agee, Carl N. Skinner
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