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Mixed-severity fire regimes in the Northern Rocky Mountains: consequences of fire exclusion and options for the future
Findings from fire history studies have increasingly indicated that many forest ecosystems in the northern Rocky Mountains were shaped by mixed-severity fire regimes, characterized by fires of variable severities at intervals averaging between about…
Author(s): Stephen F. Arno, David J. Parsons, Robert E. Keane
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The use of shaded fuelbreaks in landscape fire management
Shaded fuelbreaks and larger landscape fuel treatments, such as prescribed fire, are receiving renewed interest as forest protection strategies in the western United States. The effectiveness of fuelbreaks remains a subject of debate because of…
Author(s): James K. Agee, Bernhard Bahro, Mark A. Finney, Philip N. Omi, David B. Sapsis, Carl N. Skinner, Jan W. van Wagtendonk, Charles P. Weatherspoon
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Landscape trends (1753-1993) of whitebark pine (Pinus albicaulis) forests in the west big hole range of Idaho/Montana
Pinus albicaulis (whitebark pine) is an important tree species in subalpine forests of the Northern Rocky Mountains. Populations have been declining at unprecedented rates due to the introduction of an exotic pathogen and fire suppression. We…
Author(s): Michael P. Murray, Stephen C. Bunting, Michael P. Murray
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Toward an integrated classification of ecosystems: defining opportunities for managing fish and forest health
Many of the aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems of the Pacific Northwest United States have been simplified and degraded in part through past land-management activities. Recent listings of fishes under the Endangered Species Act and major new…
Author(s): Bruce E. Rieman, Paul F. Hessburg, Danny C. Lee, Russell F. Thurow, James R. Sedell
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Silvicultural treatments
Sustainable, ecologically-based management of pine/fir forests requires silviculturists to integrate several treatments that emulate historic disturbance processes. Restoration prescriptions typically include cleaning or heavy understory thinning,…
Author(s): Carl E. Fiedler
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Building consensus: legitimate hope or seductive paradox?
To understand how participants in a natural resource planning situation described the nature of consensus, we interviewed scientists, agency planners and managers, and public representatives in two planning processes on the Bitterroot National…
Author(s): Stephen F. McCool, Kathleen Guthrie, Jane Kapler Smith
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Synergy between ecological needs and economic aspects of ecosystem restoration
The implementation of properly designed treatments to restore and sustain desired forest conditions in the Inland Northwest, besides moving forest stands more rapidly to an ecologically desirable and sustainable condition, can generate positive…
Author(s): Charles E. Keegan, Carl E. Fiedler
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Fire and invasive species within the temperate and boreal coniferous forests of western North America
Invasive, nonnative plant species have been a concern of land managers within the temperate and boreal coniferous forest eco-region for nearly a century. Fire management, timber harvest, grazing, mining, recreation, and agriculture have not only…
Author(s): Richy J. Harrod, Sarah Reichard
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