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Organizations need reliable ways to adjust business practices when work conditions change. A proven method of successfully learning and applying organizational best practices is through a process called benchmarking. This book introduces the…
Author(s): Robert C. Camp
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Maintaining an ecosystem shaped primarily by natural geological and ecological processes is a primary goal in Yellowstone National Park (YNP) (Houstori 1971). Thus, one important question about the fires of 1988 is whether they were really natural:…
Author(s): William H. Romme, Don G. Despain
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This FEIS species review synthesizes information on the relationship of Salix lemmonii (Lemmons willow) to fire--how fire affects the species and its habitat, and fire management considerations. Information is also provided on the species'…
Author(s): Ronald Uchytil
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Fire affects spawning areas and food habitat in streams by indirectly influencing waterflow, nutrients, erosion, sedimentation, debris, and water temperature. The response of vegetation following fire is the most important factor affecting aquatic…
Author(s): James K. Brown
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Fire has been used inconsistently to manage native and tame grasslands in the Northern Great Plains (NGP) of the north-central U.S. and south-central Canada, particularly the grasslands found in prairies, plains, agricultural land retirement…
Author(s): Kenneth F. Higgins, Arnold D. Kruse, James L. Piehl
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Adjacent headwater streams were monitored for postfire shade, summer streamflow and maximum water temperature following the 40,000 ha Silver Complex fire in southern Oregon. Average postfire shade (30 percent) for the three streams was considerably…
Author(s): Michael Amaranthus, Howard Jubas, David Arthur
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Few studies have examined the effect of fire on the aquatic biota, and none has adequately addressed major aspects of aquatic ecosystem function. Most of the research has examined the effects of fire on water chemistry (Schindler et al. 1980,…
Author(s): G. Wayne Minshall, James T. Brock, John D. Varley
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This FEIS species review synthesizes information on the relationship of Sambucus nigra subsp. cerulea (blue elderberry) to fire--how fire affects the species and its habitat, and fire management considerations. Information is also provided on the…
Author(s): Marilyn F. Crane
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We define disturbance in stream ecosystems to be: any relatively discrete event in time that is characterized by a frequency, intensity, and severity outside a predictable range, and that disrupts ecosystem, community, or population structure and…
Author(s): Vincent H. Resh, Arthur V. Brown, Alan P. Covich, Martin E. Gurtz, Hiram Li, G. Wayne Minshall, Seth R. Reice, Andrew L. Sheldon, J. Bruce Wallace, Robert C. Wissmar
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Crisis situations are often complicated by the very behaviors people use to manage crisis. Enactment suggests that how people think about the work they do shapes how they behave toward that work. This process allows people to see certain aspects of…
Author(s): Karl E. Weick
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Describes use of increment borers for interpreting fire history in coniferous forests. These methods are intended for use in wilderness, parks, and other natural areas where sawing cross-sections from fire-scarred trees is prohibited.
Author(s): Stephen W. Barrett, Stephen F. Arno
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The riparian vegetation along the Bighorn River in Wyoming forms a complex mosaic comprised of cottonwood (Populus deltoides) groves, meadows, marshes, and several kinds of shrubland. Changes in the riparian mosaic during the last 50 years were…
Author(s): Y. Akashi, Dennis H. Knight
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This FEIS species review synthesizes information on the relationship of Andropogon gerardii (big bluestem) to fire--how fire affects the species and its habitat, and fire management considerations. Information is also provided on the species'…
Author(s): Ronald Uchytil
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Measurements in the plumes from seven forest fires show that the concentrations of NH3 were considerably in excess of ambient values. Calculation of NH3 emissions from the fires, based on the ratio of NH3/CO in the plumes and emissions of CO from…
Author(s): Dean A. Hegg, Lawrence F. Radke, Peter V. Hobbs, Philip J. Riggan
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Monthly average soil temperatures in a burned aspen stand ranged from 0 to 8 °F higher than in the unburned stand at depths to 12 inches for a site in southeastern Idaho. From June through August the first year after burning, soil temperatures were…
Author(s): Roger D. Hungerford
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Includes 25 invited papers and panel discussions, 6 workshop reports, and 15 poster papers that focus on the escalating problem of wildfire in wildland residential areas throughout the western United States and Canada.
Author(s): William C. Fischer, Stephen F. Arno
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This paper offers some suggestions and field guides with respect to the operational application of C.E. Van Wagner's (1997, Can. J. For. Res. 7:23-34) theory to calculate the threshold conditions for the start and spread of crown fires in…
Author(s): Martin E. Alexander
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Airborne measurements have been made in the smokes from large fires of standing coniferous trees and logging debris, standing chaparral, fallen jack pine, and wheat stubble. Panicle emission factors, particle size distributions, optical properties…
Author(s): Lawrence F. Radke, Dean A. Hegg, Jaime H. Lyons, Charles A. Brock, Peter V. Hobbs, Raymond E. Weiss, Rei A. Rasmussen
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Economic efficiency and risk have long been considered during the selection of fire management programs and the design of fire management polices. The risk considerations was largely subjective, however, and efficiency has only recently been…
Author(s): Thomas J. Mills, Frederick W. Bratten
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This FEIS species review synthesizes information on the relationship of Acer negundo (boxelder) to fire--how fire affects the species and its habitat, and fire management considerations. Information is also provided on the species' taxonomy,…
Author(s): Lynn Rosario
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