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Our experience testing ecosystem-based management (EM) treatments in ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa)/fir (Abies spp.) is summarized here. Topics covered include silvicultural treatments, fire application, soils and nutrient considerations, wildlife…
Author(s): Stephen F. Arno
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This FEIS species review synthesizes information on the relationship of Festuca altaica, Festuca campestris, Festuca hallii (Altai fescue, alpine rough fescue, plains rough fescue) to fire--how fire affects the species and its habitat, and fire…
Author(s): D. A. Tirmenstein
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A study was initiated in 1995 to measure landscape changes in forest structures between 1900 and 1995. A systematic sampling system was used to collect data on three forested faces on the Bitterroot Front. Over 1,200 tree cores were taken on 216…
Author(s): Michael G. Hartwell, Paul B. Alaback, Stephen F. Arno
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This study assessed the effectiveness of FireWorks, an educational trunk about wildland fire, in increasing student understanding, enabling students to apply classroom learning in a field setting, and improving the learning environment. Students who…
Author(s): Linda R. Thomas, James A. Walsh, Jane Kapler Smith
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Spending on postfire emergency watershed rehabilitation has increased during the past decade. A west-wide evaluation of USDA Forest Service burned area emergency rehabilitation (BAER) treatment effectiveness was undertaken as a joint project by USDA…
Author(s): Peter R. Robichaud, Jan L. Beyers, Daniel G. Neary
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It is now widely acknowledged that frequent low-intensity fires once structured many western forests. What is not generally recognized, however, is that most of those fires were purposefully set by native people, not started by lightning. Data from…
Author(s): Charles E. Kay
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The varied topics presented in these symposium proceedings represent the diverse nature of the Bitterroot Ecosystem Management Research Project (BEMRP). Separated into six sections, the papers cover the different themes researched by BEMRP…
Author(s): Helen Y. Smith
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This article examines the relationship between group management styles and the effectiveness of group decision making. The researchers first identified conflict management styles and then analyzed group decisions and their effectiveness. The results…
Author(s): Timothy Kuhn, M. Scott Poole
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As the intensity of the debates concerning land use assessments and planning inexorably increase, and the resultant allocation of increasingly scarce natural re-sources produces winners and losers, there is a parallel and in-creasing demand for the…
Author(s): Jack Ward Thomas, James Burchfield
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Pinus albicaulis (whitebark pine) is an important tree species in subalpine forests of the Northern Rocky Mountains. Populations have been declining at unprecedented rates due to the introduction of an exotic pathogen and fire suppression. We…
Author(s): Michael P. Murray, Stephen C. Bunting, Michael P. Murray
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This state-of-knowledge review about the effects of fire on flora and fuels can assist land managers with ecosystem and fire management planning and in their efforts to inform others about the ecological role of fire. Chapter topics include fire…
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This FEIS species review synthesizes information on the relationship of Pseudoroegneria spicata (bluebunch wheatgrass) to fire--how fire affects the species and its habitat, and fire management considerations. Information is also provided on the…
Author(s): Elena Zlatnik
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This FEIS species review synthesizes information on the relationship of Gutierrezia sarothrae (broom snakeweed) to fire--how fire affects the species and its habitat, and fire management considerations. Information is also provided on the species…
Author(s): D. A. Tirmenstein
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A symposium held September 15-18, 1997, in Provo, UT, and Sanpete County, UT, provided information on the ecology, management, resource values, and restoration of pinyon-juniper communities in the Interior Western United States. The conference was…
Author(s): Stephen B. Monsen, Richard Stevens
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This FEIS species review synthesizes information on the relationship of Symphoricarpos oreophilus (mountain snowberry) to fire--how fire affects the species and its habitat, and fire management considerations. Information is also provided on the…
Author(s): Keith Aleksoff
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The development of mature juniper woodlands has often been associated with decreases in the herbaceous and shrub components of the community. This study focused on changes in species richness and diversity along a successional gradient at both the…
Author(s): Stephen C. Bunting
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This comprehensive chapter documents, from a management perspective, the knowledge base on risk assessments and risk management. The previous chapter in the book is a companion article that provides the scientific foundation for the concepts and…
Author(s): D.A. Cleaves, R. W. Haynes
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The flea beetle, Aphthona nigriscutis Foudras, is a potentially useful agent for biological control of leafy spurge (Euphorbia esula L.) in grasslands devoted to wildlife conservation. However, effects of other grassland management practices on the…
Author(s): David P. Fellows, Wesley E. Newton
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This booklet presents land management recommendations to help bird communities in sagebrush habitats. It was prepared for the Western Working Group of Partners in Flight, a partnership of private citizens, industry groups, government agencies,…
Author(s): Christine Paige, Sharon Ritter
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This FEIS species review synthesizes information on the relationship of Purshia tridentata (antelope bitterbrush) to fire--how fire affects the species and its habitat, and fire management considerations. Information is also provided on the species…
Author(s): Elena Zlatnik
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