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Quantifying the effect of elevation and aspect on fire return intervals in the Canadian Rocky Mountains
The effect of topography on wildfire distribution in the Canadian Rockies has been the subject of debate. We suspect the size of the study area, and the assumption fire return intervals are distributed as a Weibull distribution used in many previous…
Author(s): Marie-Pierre Rogeau, Glen W. Armstrong
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Tree regeneration, understory development, and biomass dynamics following wildfire in a mountain hemlock (Tsuga mertensiana) forest
Processes initiated by wildfire largely determine ecological characteristics of forested landscapes in subsequent decades, including vegetation composition, habitat quality, carbon balance, and probability of fire recurrence. Post-fire biomass…
Author(s): Jane A. Kertis, Steven A. Acker, Robert J. Pabst
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Fire history and fire-climate interactions in high elevation whitebark pine dominated forest
The objectives of this study were to identify whitebark pine fire-climate interactions, and tree establishment and mortality patterns in a landscape context. Specific objectives were to : 1) develop a whitebark pine tree-ring chronology to date fire…
Author(s): Alan H. Taylor, Catherine Airey Lauvaux
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The normal fire environment - modeling environmental suitability for large forest wildfires using past, present, and future climate normals
We modeled the normal fire environment for occurrence of large forest wildfires (>40 ha) for the Pacific Northwest Region of the United States. Large forest wildfire occurrence data from the recent climate normal period (1971-2000) was used…
Author(s): Raymond J. Davis, Zhiqiang Yang, Cole Belongie, Warren B. Cohen
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Downed and dead woody fuel and biomass in the northern Rocky Mountains
Weights and volumes of downed woody material in diameter classes of one-fourth to 1, 1 to 3, and greater than 3 inches and forest floor duff depths were summarized from extensive inventories in nothern Idaho and Montana. Biomass loadings are shown…
Author(s): James K. Brown, Thomas E. See
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Fire intensity and frequency as factors in the distribution and structure of northern ecosystems
Most presettlement Canadian and Alaskan boreal forests and Rocky Mountain subalpine forests had lightning fire regimes of large-scale crown fires and high-intensity surface fires, causing total stand replacement on fire rotations (or cycles) to 50…
Author(s): Miron L. Heinselman
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Residue characteristics in the Northern Rocky Mountains
ANNOTATION: In the northern Rocky Mountains, 350-450 million cubic feet (9.9 to 12.7 million cubic meters) of logging residue is generated each year. Up to 60 percent of the residue material is technologically suitable for wood products, but…
Author(s): Robert E. Benson, Joyce A. Schlieter
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Intensive utilization with conventional harvesting systems
ANNOTATION: Forest residues utilization research has included case studies of the efficiency of existing harvesting systems in achieving close fiber utilization. Field evaluations included the use of in-woods chipping systems in gentle terrain;…
Author(s): Roland L. Barger, Robert E. Benson
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