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The Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife & Parks (FWP) has long recognized the importance of sagebrush/grassland vegetative communities as wildlife habitat. Efforts to manipulate these communities concern FWP because of the potential…
Author(s): Joel G. Peterson
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This FEIS species review synthesizes information on the relationship of Phasianus colchicus (ring-necked pheasant) 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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It has become increasingly clear that wildland firefighters are experiencing collapses in decisionmaking and organizational structure when conditions on the fireline become life-threatening. Since 1990 wildland fire agencies have lost 23 people who…
Author(s): Ted Putnam
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Most stands of trembling aspen (Populus tremuloides) in northern Yellowstone National Park appear to have become established between 1870 and 1890, with little regeneration since 1900. There has been controversy throughout this century regarding the…
Author(s): William H. Romme, Monica G. Turner, Linda L. Wallace, Jennifer S. Walker
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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 Sylvilagus floridanus (eastern cottontail) 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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The effect of fire and habitat heterogeneity on winter foraging by ungulates was studied in northern Yellowstone National Park (YNP). Grazing was monitored at 15 study sites for 14 wk during the winters of 1991 and 1992. The location and intensity…
Author(s): Scott M. Pearson, Monica G. Turner, Linda L. Wallace, William H. Romme
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This FEIS species review synthesizes information on the relationship of Molothrus ater (brown-headed cowbird) to fire--how fire affects the species and its habitat, invasiveness of the species, and fire management considerations. Information is also…
Author(s): Janet Sullivan
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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 FEIS species review synthesizes information on the relationship of Puma concolor (mountain lion) 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 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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The trophic ecology of 11 benthic macroinvertebrate taxa found in Cache Creek, Yellowstone National Park (YNP) was studied to determine if burned organic matter is an important resource and how resource utilization patterns may be altered in post-…
Author(s): Timothy B. Mihuc, G. Wayne Minshall
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This FEIS species review synthesizes information on the relationship of Ribes montigenum (gooseberry 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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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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ANNOTATION: This article provides several harvest cost estimation methods for forest managers. Methods discussed include elements of stump-to-truck timber harvest cost estimation methods in ecosystem restoration prescriptions. Particular attention…
Author(s): Charles E. Keegan, Carl E. Fiedler, Fred J. Stewart
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