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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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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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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…
Author(s): Dennis M. Cole, Wyman C. Schmidt
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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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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…
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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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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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This publication is not available online.  It will have to be ordered from a library.
Author(s): Kendall L. Johnson
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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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The objective of thesis was to summarize 80 years of changes associated with several cutting regimes in the Lick Creek Drainage. The Lick Creek Drainage was first selectively cut in 1906, followed by several commercial and …
Author(s): James P. Menakis
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Changes in bird populations as a result of a 122 ha forest fire are evaluated. There is little evidence of any drastic effect on numbers of birds, species, or species diversity in the year of the fire or 2 years later.
Author(s): L. Jack Lyon, John M. Marzluff
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The historical importance of fire was investigated on the upper Swan Valley winter white-tailed deer range in northwestern Montana. The relatively recent impacts of logging on winter range quality were also included in these studies. Fire exclusion…
Author(s): June D. Freedman, James R. Habeck
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This report analyzed the events leading up to the Lake Mountain Fire entrapment in the Salmon National Forest, Idaho, in 1985.  The authors looked at the fire and activities in terms of the 10 standard fire fighting orders and the 13 shout…
Author(s): Dave Dahl, Jim Sweeney, Roy Keck
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Fire plays an important role in Ceanothus velutinus habitat. Its impact varies with season and severity of fire. Knowledge of the interaction between fire severity and evergreen ceanothus habitat can assist managers in estimating the effect of fire…
Author(s): Nonan V. Noste
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Relationships for predicting duff reduction, mineral soil exposure, and consumption of downed woody fuel were determined to assist in planning prescribed fires. Independent variables included lower and entire duff moisture contents, loadings of…
Author(s): James K. Brown, Michael A. Marsden, Kevin C. Ryan, Elizabeth D. Reinhardt
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On August 29, 1985, 73 firefighters were forced into safety zones, where they took refuge in their fire shelters for 1 to 2 hours while a very severe crown fire burned over them. The incident took place on the Butte Fire on the Salmon National…
Author(s): Richard C. Rothermel, Robert W. Mutch
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This pdf contains two letters and a record of the findings, interviews, and analysis of the use of fire shelters in the Butte Fire in Idaho in 1985.
Author(s): John A. Hafterson
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Author(s): Ken Sanders, Jack Durham
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This conceptual model of early seral shrub succession following clearcutting and broadcast burning synthesizes ideas from previous research and modeling approaches into a simple diagrammatic model of the critical successional…
Author(s): Penelope Morgan, Leon F. Neuenschwander
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