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Simulation of crown fire effects on canopy seed bank in lodgepole pine
Analysis of video footage taken of crown fires during the 1988 fire season in Yellowstone National Park indicated that the most frequent length of time required to completely burn tree crowns was 15-20 seconds. Lodge-pole pine (Pinus contorta Laws…
Author(s): Don G. Despain, D. L. Clark, James J. Reardon
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Remote sensing of forest fire severity and vegetation recovery
Burned forested areas have patterns of varying burn severity as a consequence of various topographic, vegetation, and meteorological factors. These patterns are detected and mapped using satellite data. Other ecological information can be abstracted…
Author(s): Joseph D. White, Kevin C. Ryan, Carl H. Key, Steven W. Running
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Consequences of fire on aquatic nitrate and phosphate dynamics in Yellowstone National Park
Airborne remotely sensed data were collected and analyzed during and following the 1988 Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (GYE) fires in order to characterize the fire front movements, burn intensities and various vegetative components of selected…
Author(s): James A. Brass, Vincent G. Ambrosia, Philip J. Riggan, Paul D. Sebesta
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Stand hazard rating for central Idaho forests
Growing concern over sustainability of central Idaho forests has created a need to assess the health of forest stands on a relative basis. A stand hazard rating was developed as a composite of 11 individual ratings to compare the health hazards of…
Author(s): Robert W. Steele, Ralph E. Williams, Julie C. Weatherby, Elizabeth D. Reinhardt, James T. Hoffman, R. W. Thier
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Examples of fire restoration in Glacier National Park
Covering just over 1 million acres, Glacier National Park straddles the Continental Divide in northwestern Montana. Diverse vegetation communities include moist western cedar- western hemlock (Thuja plicata - Tsuga heterophylla) old growth forests…
Author(s): Laurie L. Kurth
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The use of fire in forest restoration
The 26 papers in this document address the current knowledge of fire as a disturbance agent, fire history and fire regimes, applications of prescribed fire for ecological restoration, and the effects of fire on the various forested ecosystems of the…
Author(s): Colin C. Hardy, Stephen F. Arno
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Populus tremuloides (quaking aspen)
This FEIS species review synthesizes information on the relationship of Populus tremuloides (quaking aspen) to fire--how fire affects the species and its habitat, and fire management considerations. Information is also provided on the species'…
Author(s): Janet L. Howard
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Mustela vison (American mink)
This FEIS species review synthesizes information on the relationship of Mustela vison (American mink) to fire--how fire affects the species and its habitat, and fire management considerations. Information is also provided on the species'…
Author(s): Janet Sullivan
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Urocyon cinereoargenteus (common gray fox)
This FEIS species review synthesizes information on the relationship of Urocyon cinereoargenteus (common gray fox) to fire--how fire affects the species and its habitat, and fire management considerations. Information is also provided on the species…
Author(s): Janet Sullivan
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