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Fire in our mountains – and mountains in our rivers
Swetnam
From the text ... 'The big fire years of the 20th century pale in comparison to the big fire years of previous centuries. ...If we intend to keep catastrophic fire off our mountains - and our mountains out of our rivers - we must find a way to live…
Year: 2005
Type: Document

Greater Huachuca Mountains Fire Management Group
Gebow, Lambert
The Greater Huachuca Mountains Fire Management Group is developing a fire management plan for 500,000 acres in southeast Arizona. Partner land managers include Arizona State Parks, Arizona State Lands, Audubon Research Ranch, Coronado National…
Year: 2005
Type: Document

Madrean pine-oak forest in Arizona: altered fire regimes, altered communities
Barton
In Madrean pine-oak forests in the Chiricahua Mountains, surface fire favors pines, which exhibit high top-survival, but resprouting allows oaks to rebound during inter-fire periods. These patterns plus age structure and radial growth data suggest…
Year: 2005
Type: Document

Fire, forest health, and biodiversity: a summary of the Proceedings of the Second Annual Symposium of the National Commission on Science and Sustainable Forestry
Christensen
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Year: 2005
Type: Document

Ponderosa pine snag dynamics and cavity excavation following wildfire in northern Arizona
Chambers, Mast
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Year: 2005
Type: Document

Understorey plant community structure in lower montane and subalpine forests, Grand Canyon National Park, USA
Laughlin, Bakker, Fulé
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Year: 2005
Type: Document

Lodgepole pine forest age class dynamics and susceptibility to mountain pine beetle attack
Li, Barclay, Hawkes, Taylor
Because mountain pine beetle attack mature pine stands, an understanding of forest age class dynamics is important to managing forests within the distribution of the beetle. The assumed theoretical negative exponential forest age distribution…
Year: 2005
Type: Document

The importance of traditional fire use and management practices for contemporary land managers in the American southwest
Raish, González-Cabán, Condie
Indigenous and traditional peoples worldwide have used fire to manipulate their environment for thousands of years. These long-standing practices still continue and have considerable relevance for today's land managers. This discussion explores the…
Year: 2005
Type: Document

Rodeo-Chediski: some underlying questions: Websites on fire
Beal
Editor's note: 'The fires of 2002 revived a fierce debate over who or what is to blame for uncharacteristically severe wildland fires in the Interior West. Some say it's too little active management, and others say it's too much, or maybe not the…
Year: 2005
Type: Document

The southwest: a record-breaking fire year: 2002 fire season outlook for the southwest: The colors tell the story
Keller
From the text ... 'If you lived in New Mexico or Arizona during the fire season of 2002, nothing was normal. ...In 2002, the parched Southwest was drier than it had been in 100 years. ...By the end of fire season, some 940,000 acres had burned on…
Year: 2005
Type: Document