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Wildfire is a natural process that plays an important role in creating, shaping, and maintaining the forests, woodlands, and grasslands of our physical environment (Swetnam et al. 1999). Most forested landscapes require…
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This FEIS species review synthesizes information on the relationship of Opuntia humifusa (eastern pricklypear) to fire--how fire affects the species and its habitat, effects of the species on fuels and fire regimes, and fire management…
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The Random Forests multiple-regression tree was used to model climate profiles of 25 biotic communities of the western United States and nine of their constituent species. Analyses of the communities were based on a gridded sample of ca. 140,000…
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This FEIS species review synthesizes information on the relationship of Acer grandidentatum (bigtooth maple) to fire--how fire affects the species and its habitat, effects of the species on fuels and fire regimes, and fire management considerations…
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Wildlife managers often resort to prescribed fire to restore sagebrush (Artemisia spp.) ecosystems thought to have been affected by fire exclusion. However, a fire mosaic of burned and unburned areas may be tolerated by certain wildlife but can be…
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This FEIS species review synthesizes information on the relationship of Juniperus horizontalis (creeping juniper) to fire--how fire affects the species and its habitat, effects of the species on fuels and fire regimes, and fire management…
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Evaluation of MM5 model resolution when applied to prediction of National Fire Danger Rating indexes
Weather predictions from the MM5 mesoscale model were used to compute gridded predictions of National Fire Danger Rating System (NFDRS) indexes. The model output was applied to a case study of the 2000 fire season in Northern Idaho and Western…
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The wildland fires of 2000, 2002, and 2003 created many opportunities to conduct post-fire logging operations in the Inland Northwest. Relatively little information is available on the impact of post-fire logging on long-term soil productivity or on…
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This FEIS species review synthesizes information on the relationship of Prunus pumila (sand cherry) to fire--how fire affects the species and its habitat, effects of the species on fuels and fire regimes, and fire management considerations.…
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The resource heterogeneity hypothesis (RHH) is frequently cited in the ecological literature as an important mechanism for maintaining species diversity. The RHH has rarely been evaluated in the context of restoration ecology in which a commonly…
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This FEIS species review synthesizes information on the relationship of Balsamorhiza hookeri (Hooker balsamroot) to fire--how fire affects the species and its habitat, effects of the species on fuels and fire regimes, and fire management…
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Numerous wildfires in recent years have highlighted managers' needs for reliable tools to predict postfire mortality of ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa Dougl. ex Laws.) trees. General applicability of existing mortality models is uncertain, as…
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This FEIS species review synthesizes information on the relationship of Goodyera oblongifolia (western rattlesnake plantain) to fire--how fire affects the species and its habitat, effects of the species on fuels and fire regimes, and fire management…
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We compared the accuracy and precision of digital hemispherical photography and the LI-COR LAI-2000 plant canopy analyzer as predictors of canopy fuels. We collected data on 12 plots in western Montana under a variety of lighting and sky conditions…
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The bird species in western North America that are most restricted to, and therefore most dependent on, severely burned conifer forests during the first years following a fire event depend heavily on the abundant standing snags for perch sites, nest…
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This research effort is designed to investigate effectiveness of burn severity mapping, using differenced Normalized Burn Ratio (dNBR) for ecosystem monitoring at the 30m scale. The hypothesis of our research is that the differenced normalized burn…
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Spatial variation in vegetation and coarse wood is a major source of forest heterogeneity, yet little is known about how this affects ecosystem processes. In 15-year-old postfire lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta var. latifolia Englem.) stands in…
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This FEIS species review synthesizes information on the relationship of Mahonia repens (creeping barberry) to fire--how fire affects the species and its habitat, effects of the species on fuels and fire regimes, and fire management considerations.…
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Evaluation of post-wildfire debris flow mitigation methods and development of decision-support tools
In this study we analyzed the effectiveness of erosion control treatments in reducing post-fire debris-flow volume. We used detailed surveys of series channel cross sections in 46 basins in Colorado, Utah and California to develop graphs of the…
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Isolated wilderness ecosystems with a history of frequent, low-severity fires have been altered due to many decades of fire exclusion and, as a result, are difficult to restore for philosophical and logistical reasons. In this paper, we describe the…
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