Prescribed Fire
Short- and Long-Term Effects on Fuels, Forest Structure, and Wildfire Potential from Prescribed Fire and Resource Benefit Fire in Southwestern Forests, USA
... in fire-prone landscapes in the ...in fire behavior and ...recent prescribed fires, resource benefit fires, and re- peated fires in ponderosa pine forests, as well as recent resource benefit fires in ...
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Prescribed Fire and Post-Fire Seeding in Brush Masticated Oak-Chaparral: Consequences for Native and Non-Native Plants
... In fire-suppressed oak-chaparral communities, land managers have treated thousands of hectares by mechanical mastication to reduce hazardous fuels in areas of wildland-urban ...of prescribed fire and ...
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Identifying gap, challenges and opportunities in prescribed fire efforts within the Southeastern US
... increase prescribed fire use to meet land management objectives that support restoration and enhancement of fire dependent ecosystems, reduce wildfire risk, and promote active land management needed ...
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Effects of Creating Two Forest Structures and Using Prescribed Fire on Coarse Woody Debris in Northeastern California, USA
... of prescribed burning at the Blacks Mountain Experimental Forest in northeastern Califor- nia following creation of two stand structure conditions: 1) high structural diversity (HiD) that included retaining large, ...
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Does Prescribed Fire Promote Resistance to Drought in Low Elevation Forests of the Sierra Nevada, California, USA?
... Can prescribed fire create conditions that enhance forest drought resistance? The an- swer to this question has profound implica- tions for forest management over the coming ...scribed fire may serve ...
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Bat activity following repeated prescribed fire in the central Appalachians, USA
... of fire decreased through the 1960s in the central Appalachians of western Virginia and else- where in the mid-Atlantic Highlands, resulting in profound forest composition shifts that now favor ...
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Wintering Grassland Bird Habitat Selection Following Summer Prescribed Fire in a Texas Gulf Coast Tallgrass Prairie
... Prescribed fire can be used to sustain native vegetation, stem woody plant advancements, and improve forage and habitat quality for grassland wildlife species (Rohrbaugh et ...summer fire regimes ...
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Longleaf pine proximity effects on air temperatures and hardwood top-kill from prescribed fire
... for prescribed fire practitioners in Southeastern USA that a longleaf pine overstory with wiregrass ground cover is a prized fuel bed, because ig- nition can be achieved under damp or cool weather con- ...
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Thinning and Prescribed Fire Effects on Fuels and Potential Fire Behavior in an Eastern Cascades Forest, Washington, USA
... than prescribed fire in reducing potential wildland fire behavior (van Wagtendonk 1996, Stephens 1998, Agee and Skinner 2005, Stephens and Moghaddas ...surface fire behavior and brought stands ...
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Evaluating Prescribed Fire Effectiveness Using Permanent Monitoring Plot Data: A Case Study
... entry prescribed fire often do not meet fuel reduction objec- tives due to the long history of fire exclusion and the lack of ladder fuel removal (Cooper 1960, Stephens et ...post fire leads ...
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Long-term Response of Herpetofauna and Soricids to Prescribed Fire and Fuel Reduction Treatments in the Southern Appalachian Mountains
... Fuel hazards have increased in forests across the United States because of fire exclusion during the 20th century. Treatments used to reduce fuel buildup may affect wildlife, such as shrews, living on the forest ...
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Effects of Prescribed Fire at Two Frequencies on N Mineralization and Nitrification at Two Spatial Scales in Mixed-Oak Forests
... of fire suppression, countering the acidifying effects of atmospheric deposition rich in inorganic N, improving watershed condition, and increasing sequestration of ...(using prescribed fire) have ...
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Effects of Prescribed Fire on Northern Bobwhite Nest Success and Breeding Season Habitat Selection.
... growing-season prescribed fire has shown mixed ...growing-season prescribed fires do not have short-term negative impacts on bobwhite (Brennan et ...last prescribed fire or season of ...
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A Dangerous Servant and a Fearful Master: Why Florida’s Prescribed Fire Statute Should be Amended
... of fire has in reducing wildfire hazard, not to mention its important ecological and economic functions, the Florida legislature enacted laws protecting fire practitioners from ...the fire and meet ...
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Aspen Restoration in the Eastern Sierra Nevada: Effectiveness of Prescribed Fire and Conifer Removal
... and prescribed fire in two sites ...two prescribed fire sites showed significant increases in total stem density and two regeneration size classes, but also exhibited signif- icant stem ...
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Prescribed Fire in Grassland Butterfly Habitat: Targeting Weather and Fuel Conditions to Reduce Soil Temperatures and Burn Severity
... Prescribed burning is a primary tool for habitat restoration and manage- ment in fire-adapted grasslands. Con- cerns about detrimental effects of burning on butterfly populations, however, can inhibit ...
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The response of avian foraging guilds and plant communities to prescribed fire in the ponderosa pine forests of the U.S. Southwest
... Food resources are cited as the most influential factor of avian habitat selection (Koplin 1972; Pyke 1984). Because most forest birds are insectivorous during the breeding season, it has been hypothesized that avian ...
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Northern Long-Eared Bat Day-Roosting and Prescribed Fire in the Central Appalachians, USA
... of prescribed fire on many aspects of bat ecology have steadily increased as con- servation concern for bats has risen and the use of prescribed fire has become more wide- spread throughout ...
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Minimal Persistence of Native Bunchgrasses Seven Years after Seeding following Mastication and Prescribed Fire in Southwestern Oregon, USA
... Hypothesis 1, that bunchgrasses that had survived two growing seasons would persist and expand, was not supported. Seeded bunchgrasses that were present two years fol- lowing prescribed fire and seeding ...
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Seasonality of prescribed fire weather windows and predicted fire behavior in the northern Great Plains, USA
... Background: Prescribed fire is an important management practice used to control woody encroachment and invasive species in ...which prescribed fire can be applied and how fire behavior ...
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