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This FEIS species review synthesizes information on the relationship of Krascheninnikovia lanata (winterfat) to fire--how fire affects the species and its habitat, and fire management considerations. Information is also provided on the species…
Author(s): Jennifer H. Carey
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This FEIS species review synthesizes information on the relationship of Heracleum maximum (common cowparsnip) to fire--how fire affects the species and its habitat, and fire management considerations. Information is also provided on the species…
Author(s): Lora L. Esser
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This FEIS species review synthesizes information on the relationship of Bubo virginianus (great horned owl) to fire--how fire affects the species and its habitat, and fire management considerations. Information is also provided on the species'…
Author(s): Janet Sullivan
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This document is a letter to Jack Ward Thomas, Chief of Forest Service, from Joseph A. Dear, Assistant Secretary OSHA, outlining the findings of the Occupational Safety and Health Adminstration's investigation of the South Canyon fire, February 8,…
Author(s): Joseph A. Dear
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I was disappointed with the OSHA report of the South Canyon Fire. My feelings are not the result of any need to defend my agency (USDA Forest Service). In another time and place, I thought the OSHA report following the death of Bill Martin (a…
Author(s): James M. Saveland
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This FEIS species review synthesizes information on the relationship of Ribes lacustre (prickly currant) to fire--how fire affects the species and its habitat, and fire management considerations. Information is also provided on the species'…
Author(s): Anna Marshall
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This FEIS species review synthesizes information on the relationship of Prunus emarginata (bitter cherry) to fire--how fire affects the species and its habitat, and fire management considerations. Information is also provided on the species'…
Author(s): Lora L. Esser
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A 750-year fire history was reconstructed for the Central Plateau of Yellowstone National Park from the deep-water sediments of five lakes. The charcoal record from a large lake provided a chronology of regional fires. Data from four small lakes…
Author(s): Sarah H. Millspaugh, Cathy L. Whitlock
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The effects of different seedbeds on western larch (Larix occidentalis) germination and seedling mortality were assessed in a grandfir/ninebark (Abies grandis/Physocarpus malvaceus) habitat type in northern, Idaho,  U.S.A. Two plots…
Author(s): Brian P. Oswald, Leon F. Neuenschwander
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Sagebrush seedling establishment appeared to be strongly related to moisture availability as influenced by ecological site, soil surface texture, herbaceous competition, microtopography, seedling year precipitation, exposure, position on slope, etc…
Author(s): Mike Boltz
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This FEIS species review synthesizes information on the relationship of Bromus ciliatus (fringed brome) to fire--how fire affects the species and its habitat, and fire management considerations. Information is also provided on the species'…
Author(s): Lora L. Esser
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A fire history investigation was conducted for three forest community types in the Absaroka Mountains of Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. Master fire chronologies were based on fire-initiated age classes and tree fire scars. The area's major…
Author(s): Stephen W. Barrett
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This FEIS species review synthesizes information on the relationship of Deschampsia elongata (slender hairgrass) to fire--how fire affects the species and its habitat, and fire management considerations. Information is also provided on the species…
Author(s): Lora L. Esser
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Following fire, changes in streamflow and bank stability in burned watersheds can mobilize coarse woody debris. In 1990 and 1991, I measured characteristics of coarse woody debris and standing riparian trees and snags in Jones Creek, a watershed…
Author(s): Michael K. Young
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This FEIS species review synthesizes information on the relationship of Aquila chrysaetos (golden eagle) to fire--how fire affects the species and its habitat, and fire management considerations. Information is also provided on the species'…
Author(s): Julie L. Tesky
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This FEIS species review synthesizes information on the relationship of Ratibida columnifera (upright prairie coneflower) to fire--how fire affects the species and its habitat, and fire management considerations. Information is also provided on the…
Author(s): Roberta A. Walsh
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The objective of this paper is to examine whether the severity and great extent of the 1988 Yellow-stone fires impacted the water quality of two of Yellowstone's major lakes. Analysis of water quality records for Yellowstone and Lewis Lakes…
Author(s): R. G. Lathrop
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Sagebrush is considered to be an obligate vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizal plant. Some studies have shown that burning lowers the mycorrhizal inoculum potential (MIP) of the soil (Klopatek and others 1988, 1990; Wicklow-Howard 1989). If this happens…
Author(s): Jan E. Gurr, Marcia Wicklow-Howard
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This FEIS species review synthesizes information on the relationship of Chimaphila umbellata (pipsissewa) to fire--how fire affects the species and its habitat, and fire management considerations. Information is also provided on the species'…
Author(s): Robin F. Matthews
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This FEIS species review synthesizes information on the relationship of Bromus vulgaris (Columbia brome) to fire--how fire affects the species and its habitat, and fire management considerations. Information is also provided on the species'…
Author(s): Roberta A. Walsh
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