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Sesnie, Dickson, Johnson, Sisk
Prescribed fire plays a vital role in restoring vegetation and fuel bed conditions characteristic of frequent fire regimes in southwestern semidesert grasslands. Nevertheless, fire management activities implemented at local- to landscape-scales must…
Year: 2019
Type: Project
Loehman, Archer, Butler, Civitello, Dyer, Evans, Gauthier, Reardon, Steffen
Uncharacteristically severe wildfires can threaten cultural resources through direct effects that are obvious and immediate, such as destruction of structures; or that may be harder to recognize, such as thermal alteration of surface materials.…
Year: 2016
Type: Project
Sesnie, Dickson, Sisk
Native and non-native annual and perennial grasses and forbs comprise a majority of the flammable fuel-bed material in southwestern desert ecosystems. Variation in seasonal and annual precipitation mediates plant production cycles which periodically…
Year: 2015
Type: Project
Koprowski
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Year: 2015
Type: Project
Watson, Carver
The overall objective is to develop several landscape level stories, through facilitated self-study and mapping exercises, to illustrate specific fire adapted ecosystem sites that contain meanings that have been threatened by environmental change…
Year: 2014
Type: Project
Reeves
We propose development of a new methodology that can be used by forest and fire managers and planners to consider the potential effects of all aspects of fire management (i.e., fuels reduction to post-fire restoration) on native stream fishes and…
Year: 2012
Type: Project
Rollins, Holden, Morgan
This research will investigate the broad-scale factors associated with burn severity in the Gila Wilderness, NM. This directly addresses JFSP Task 2-1 (AFP 2005-2) since this is an important local need identified by the Gila National Forest and the…
Year: 2008
Type: Project
Conway
The Yuma clapper rail (Rallus longirostrisyumanensis) is a federally endangered species that occurs in wetlands in Arizona, Nevada, and southern California. Ninety percent of the U.S. population exists in only 2 wetland complexes. The California…
Year: 2007
Type: Project
Wester, Britton
Kuenzler's hedgehog cactus (Echinocereus fendleri variety kuenzleri [Castetter, Pierce, and Schwerin] L. Benson]), currently listed as an endangered species by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the State of New Mexico, occurs in semiarid arid…
Year: 2007
Type: Project
Brooks, Belnap, Duck, Keeley, Lair, Matchett, McGinnis, Sanford, Wojcik
Annual grasses have invaded shrub and forest ecosystems in western North America and are linked to changes in both ecosystem structure and function and in some cases have altered fire regimes. This has occurred over vast expanses of public lands in…
Year: 2005
Type: Project