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Restoring nature's creative force [Chapter 10]
Arno, Allison-Bunnell
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Year: 2002
Type: Document

Environmental impacts: fire's influence on soils, water, and air [Chapter 7]
Arno, Allison-Bunnell
[no description entered]
Year: 2002
Type: Document

Fire on the landscape: past, present, and future [Chapter 3]
Arno, Allison-Bunnell
[no description entered]
Year: 2002
Type: Document

Mixed signals: a brief history of American perceptions of fire [Chapter 2]
Arno, Allison-Bunnell
[no description entered]
Year: 2002
Type: Document

The impact of invasive exotic grasses on quail in the southwestern United States
Kuvlesky, Fulbright, Engel-Wilson
Five native quail species inhabit arid and semi-arid ecosystems in the southwastern United States. One species is endangered, one species is declining throughout it's historic range, another species is declining in portions of its historic range,…
Year: 2002
Type: Document

Effects of Phos-Chek® G75-F and Silv-Ex® on developing northern bobwhite quail (Colinus virginianus)
Buscemi, Hoffman, Vyas, Spann, Kuenzel
Eggs of nesting birds situated in peripheral areas serving as fire breaks are at risk of being sprayed with fire control chemicals. Acute toxicity tests were conducted by immersing northern bobwhite quail eggs for 10 s in different water-based…
Year: 2002
Type: Document

Burning under old-growth ponderosa pines on lava soils
Fulé, Verkamp, Waltz, Covington
From the text ... 'Every year, fire managers successfully restore surface fires to ponderosa pine forests that have not burned for a century or more. Nevertheless, the power of fire can have unanticipated effects on stressed trees. In northern…
Year: 2002
Type: Document

False gods, ecological myths, and biological reality
Kay
From the text (p.250) ... 'In addition to the materials reviewed by Williams in chapter 7, there are several ecological data sets that suggest aboriginal burning once accounted for most fires in the West, as well as in eastern forests. Brown et al…
Year: 2002
Type: Document

Forest fire research & wildland fire safety: proceedings of the IV International Conference on Forest Fire Research / 2002 Wildland Fire Safety Summit, Luso, Coimbra, Portugal 18-23 November 2002
Forest fires are one of the major threats to the environment, to socio-economic activity and also to human life. Throughout history several generations have attempted to understand the role played by fire in the forest and to manage it. The…
Year: 2002
Type: Document

Severe wildland fires: leadership and accountability needed to reduce risks to communities and resources
Hill, Janik, Belak, Cotton, Dominicci, Johnson, Jones, Joy, Vargas
From the text ... 'Our work has shown that a single focal point is critical for efforts -- such as reducing severe wildland fires and the vegetation that fuels them -- that involve many federal agencies as well as state and local governments, the…
Year: 2002
Type: Document