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The Federal Wildland Fire Management Policy and Program Review, chartered and completed in 1995, represents the latest stage in the evolution of wildland fire management. The concept of appropriate management response is central to this policy.…
Author(s): G. Thomas Zimmerman
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Descriptions of critical fire weather patterns from across the United States. Watch out conditions discussed.
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The principal native trees in the semiarid regions of southern Alberta are riparian cottonwoods. These include narrowleaf cottonwood, Populus angustifolia James, balsam poplar, Populus balsamifera ssp. balsamifera L., black cottonwood, Populus…
Author(s): Lori A. Gom, Stewart B. Rood
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This FEIS species review synthesizes information on the relationship of Amelanchier utahensis (Utah serviceberry) 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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We assessed the influence of riparian disturbance on 26 stream variables in Linesville Creek and six tributaries, in northwestern Pennsylvania, USA. Redundancy analysis, a canonical ordination technique. was used in three separate analyses to test…
Author(s): M. Henry H. Stevens, Kenneth W. Cummins
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According to Nutt, decisions that fail in organizations can be traced to managers who impose decisions, limit the search for alternatives, and use power to implement plans. Nutt finds that managers who make the need for action clear, set objectives…
Author(s): Paul C. Nutt
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In this book, Isaacs argues that we should learn to kindle and sustain a new conversational spirit in our relationships, organizations, and communities. A conversational spirit will help us in times of frustration and conflict and help us work…
Author(s): William Isaacs
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This FEIS species review synthesizes information on the relationship of Achnatheruum hymenoides (Indian ricegrass) 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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This FEIS species review synthesizes information on the relationship of Elymus glaucus (blue wildrye) to fire--how fire affects the species and its habitat, and fire management considerations. Information is also provided on the species'…
Author(s): Kathleen A. Johnson
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This FEIS species review synthesizes information on the relationship of Artemisia tridentata subsp. tridentata (basin big sagebrush) to fire--how fire affects the species and its habitat, and fire management considerations. Information is also…
Author(s): D. A. Tirmenstein
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Prescribed burning is used to achieve a variety of silvicultural objectives, including controlling heavy fuel accumulation, exposing mineral soil, releasing available nutrients for seedbed preparation, and controlling certain insects, diseases, and…
Author(s): Kevin R. Russell, David H. Van Lear, David C. Guynn, Jr.
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In the West, thinning and partial cuttings are being considered for treating millions of forested acres that are overstocked and prone to wildfire. The objectives of these treatments include tree growth redistribution, tree species regulation,…
Author(s): Russell T. Graham, Alan E. Harvey, Theresa B. Jain, Jonalea R. Tonn
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As pinyon-juniper have increased their dominance throughout the Great Basin, other perennial plants have declined in abundance. Riparian areas traditionally have the greatest biodiversity found in the region. The increase of pinyon-juniper can…
Author(s): G. Allen Rasmussen, Robin J. Tausch, Stephen C. Bunting
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Visitors to National Forests in Colorado, Idaho, and Wyoming were asked how their visitation rates would change with the presence of a high-intensity crown fire, prescribed fire, and a 20-year-old high-intensity fire at the area they were visiting.…
Author(s): John B. Loomis, Jeffrey Englin, Armando Gonzalez-Caban
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The 1988 fires in Yellowstone National Park provided an opportunity to study effects of a large infrequent disturbance on a natural community. This study addressed two questions: (1) How does prefire heterogeneity of the landscape affect postfire…
Author(s): Monica G. Turner, William H. Romme, Robert H. Gardner
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Fuel treatment activities are analyzed at the landscape scale by using both simulation and optimization. Simulating vegetative patterns and processes at landscape scales (SIMPPLLE), a stochastic simulation modeling system, is initially applied to…
Author(s): J. Greg Jones, Jimmie D. Chew, Hans R. Zuuring
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This FEIS species review synthesizes information on the relationship of Hesperostipa comata (needle-and-thread grass) 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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Prescribed fire is used as a site treatment after timber harvesting. These fires result in spatial patterns with some portions consuming all of the forest floor material (duff) and others consuming little. Prior to the burn, spatial sampling of duff…
Author(s): Peter R. Robichaud, S. M. Miller
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In this chapter, Kantor and Ober introduce a model for dealing with conflicts that arise when employees are resistant to organizational change. Change situations are high stakes situations that cause greater fear and anxiety than low stakes…
Author(s): David Kantor, Steven Ober
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