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Restoration concepts and techniques
Innovative techniques are needed to restore the health of whitebark pine (Pinus albicaulis) communities in the northern Rocky Mountains of the United States, inland West, and adjacent areas of Canada, because of the detrimental effects of the exotic…
Author(s): Robert E. Keane, Stephen F. Arno
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Educational program about wildland fire integrates plant science into curriculum
A science fiction story by Edmond Hamilton entitled 'Alien Earth' (Hamilton 1949) describes the experience of a young scientist in a tropical country. The scientist obtains a potion that slows his physiology to a rate at which he can…
Author(s): Jane Kapler Smith, Nancy E. McMurray, Garon C. Smith
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Delayed seed germination in whitebark pine and regeneration patterns following the Yellowstone fires
Whitebark pine (Pinus albicaulis) seeds are dispersed by Clark's Nutcracker (Nucifraga columbiana), a bird that makes caches under 2-3 cm of soil. Cached seeds may delay germination for one or more years in part because of underdeveloped…
Author(s): Diana F. Tomback, Angela J. Anderies, Katherine S. Carsey, Mary L. Powell, Sabine Mellmann-Brown
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Evaluating a century of fire patterns in two Rocky Mountain wilderness areas using digital fire atlases
Changes in fire size, shape, and frequency under different fire-management strategies were evaluated using time series of fire perimeter data (fire atlases) and mapped potential vegetation types (PVTs) in the Gila-Aldo Leopold Wilderness Complex (…
Author(s): Matthew G. Rollins, Thomas W. Swetnam, Penelope Morgan
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Are old forests underestimated as global carbon sinks?
Old forests are important carbon pools, but are thought to be insignificant as current atmospheric carbon sinks. This perception is based on the assumption that changes in productivity with age in complex, multiaged, multispecies natural forests can…
Author(s): Elieen V. Carey, Anna Sala, Robert E. Keane, Ragan M. Callaway
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Water quality, substratum and biotic responses of five central Idaho (USA) streams during the first year following the Mortar Creek fire
The Mortar Creek Fire burned 26 000 ha of mixed-conifer Rocky Mountain forest in July-August 1979. Changes in burn stream conditions were examined relative to reference streams for various ecological factors on two to six occasions, from October…
Author(s): G. Wayne Minshall, James T. Brock, Douglas A. Andrews, Christopher T. Robinson
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Populus balsamifera subsp. trichocarpa (black cottonwood)
This FEIS species review synthesizes information on the relationship of Populus balsamifera subsp. trichocarpa (black cottonwood) to fire--how fire affects the species and its habitat, effects of the species on fuels and fire regimes, and fire…
Author(s): Peter D. Steinberg
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Pinus flexilis (limber pine)
This FEIS species review synthesizes information on the relationship of Pinus flexilis (limber pine) to fire--how fire affects the species and its habitat, effects of the species on fuels and fire regimes, and fire management considerations.…
Author(s): Kathleen A. Johnson
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Acer glabrum (Rocky Mountain maple)
This FEIS species review synthesizes information on the relationship of Acer glabrum (Rocky Mountain maple) to fire--how fire affects the species and its habitat, effects of the species on fuels and fire regimes, and fire management considerations.…
Author(s): Michelle B. Anderson
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Dasiphora floribunda (shrubby cinquefoil)
This FEIS species review synthesizes information on the relationship of Dasiphora floribunda (shrubby cinquefoil) to fire--how fire affects the species and its habitat, effects of the species on fuels and fire regimes, and fire management…
Author(s): Michelle B. Anderson
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Salix scouleriana (Scouler willow)
This FEIS species review synthesizes information on the relationship of Salix scouleriana (Scouler willow) to fire--how fire affects the species and its habitat, effects of the species on fuels and fire regimes, and fire management considerations.…
Author(s): Michelle B. Anderson
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Ceanothus velutinus (snowbrush ceanothus)
This FEIS species review synthesizes information on the relationship of Ceanothus velutinus (snowbrush ceanothus) to fire--how fire affects the species and its habitat, effects of the species on fuels and fire regimes, and fire management…
Author(s): Michelle B. Anderson
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Vaccinium scoparium (grouse whortleberry)
This FEIS species review synthesizes information on the relationship of Vaccinium scoparium (grouse whortleberry) to fire--how fire affects the species and its habitat, effects of the species on fuels and fire regimes, and fire management…
Author(s): Kathleen A. Johnson
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Cirsium arvense (Canada thistle)
This FEIS species review synthesizes information on the relationship of Cirsium arvense (Canada thistle) to fire--how fire affects the species and its habitat, invasiveness of the species, effects of the species on fuels and fire regimes, and fire…
Author(s): Kristin L. Zouhar
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Taeniatherum caput-medusae (medusahead)
This FEIS species review synthesizes information on the relationship of Taeniatherum caput-medusae (medusahead) to fire--how fire affects the species and its habitat, invasiveness of the species, effects of the species on fuels and fire regimes, and…
Author(s): Amy Archer
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