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Historic frequency and severity of fire in whitebark pine forests of the Cascade Mountain Range, USA
Whitebark pine (Pinus albicaulis Engelm.) is a foundation species of high elevation forest ecosystems in the Cascade Mountain Range of Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia. We examined fire evidence on 55 fire history sites located in the…
Author(s): Michael P. Murray, Joel Siderius
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Area burned in alpine treeline ecotones reflects region-wide trends
The direct effects of climate change on alpine treeline ecotones – the transition zones between subalpine forest and non-forested alpine vegetation – have been studied extensively, but climate-induced changes in disturbance regimes have received…
Author(s): C. Alina Cansler, Donald McKenzie, Charles B. Hansler
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Previous fires moderate burn severity of subsequent wildland fires in two large western US wilderness areas
Wildland fire is an important natural process in many ecosystems. However, fire exclusion has reduced frequency of fire and area burned in many dry forest types, which may affect vegetation structure and composition, and potential fire behavior. In…
Author(s): Sean A. Parks, Carol Miller, Cara R. Nelson, Zachary A. Holden
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Restoration of whitebark pine forests in the northern Rocky Mountains, USA
Whitebark pine (Pinus albicaulis) has been declining across much of its range in North America because of the combined effects of mountain pine beetle epidemics, fire exclusion policies, and widespread exotic blister rust infections. Whitebark pine…
Author(s): Robert E. Keane
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Influence of fire on mycorrhizal colonization of planted and natural whitebark pine seedlings: ecology and management implications
Whitebark pine (Pinus albicaulis) is a threatened keystone species in subalpine zones of Western North America that plays a role in watershed dynamics and maintenance of high elevation biodiversity (Schwandt, 2006). Whitebark pine has experienced…
Author(s): Paul E. Trusty, Cathy L. Cripps
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CCE fire regimes and their management
A spectacular forest in the center of the Crown of the Continent Ecosystem (CCE) cuts a 15- by 5-km swath along the Flathead River's South Fork around Big Prairie in the middle of the Bob Marshall Wilderness Area in Montana (Figure 13- 1). This…
Author(s): Robert E. Keane, Carl H. Key
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Forest fire and climate change in western North America: insights from sediment charcoal records
Millennial-scale records of forest fire provide important baseline information for ecosystem management, especially in regions with too few recent fires to describe the historical range of variability. Charcoal records from lake sediments and soil…
Author(s): Daniel G. Gavin, Douglas J. Hallett, Feng S. Hu, Kenneth P. Lertzman, Susan J. Prichard, Kendrick J. Brown, Jason A. Lynch, Patrick J. Bartlein, David L. Peterson
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Mapping historic fire regimes for the western United States: integrating remote sensing and biophysical data
We have developed a spatial database of historic natural fire regimes for the eleven western States to provide information in support of expected national increases in prescribed burning. Fire regimes are described in terms both of frequency and…
Author(s): Colin C. Hardy, James P. Menakis, Donald G. Long, James K. Brown, David L. Bunnell
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Fire-dependent forests in the Northern Rocky Mountains
One objective of wilderness and parkland fire ecology research is to describe the relationships between fire and unmanaged ecosystems, so that strategies can be determined that will provide a more nearly natural incidence of fire. More than 50 years…
Author(s): James R. Habeck, Robert W. Mutch
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