Fire Ecology of Forests and Woodlands in Utah

Fire Ecology of Forests and Woodlands in Utah
Author: Anne F. Bradley
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Total Pages: 136
Release: 1992
Genre: Fire ecology
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Provides information on fire as an ecological factor in forest habitat types, and in pinyon-juniper woodland and oak-maple brushland communities occurring in Utah. Identifies Fire Groups based on fire's role in forest succession. Describes forest fuels and suggests considerations for fire management.

Fire Ecology of the Forest Habitat Types of Northern Idaho

Fire Ecology of the Forest Habitat Types of Northern Idaho
Author: Jane Kapler Smith
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Total Pages: 148
Release: 1997
Genre: Fire ecology
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Provides information on fire ecology in forest habitat and community types occurring in northern Idaho. Identifies fire groups based on presettlement fire regimes and patterns of succession and stand development after fire. Describes forest fuels and suggests considerations for fire management.

Fire Ecology and Management of the Major Ecosystems of Southern Utah

Fire Ecology and Management of the Major Ecosystems of Southern Utah
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Total Pages: 124
Release: 2007
Genre: Fire ecology
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This document provides managers with a literature synthesis of the historical conditions, current conditions, fire regime condition classes (FRCC), and recommended treatments for the major ecosystems in southern Utah. Sections are by ecosystems and include: 1) coniferous forests (ponderosa pine, mixed conifer, and Engelmann spruce-subalpine fir), 2) aspen, 3) pinyon-juniper, 4) big and black sagebrush, and 5) desert shrubs (creosotebush, blackbrush, and interior chaparral). Southern Utah is at the ecological crossroads for much of the western United States. It contains steep environmental gradients and a broad range of fuels and fire regimes associated with vegetation types representative of the Rocky Mountains, the Great Basin, Northern Arizona and New Mexico, and the Mohave Desert. The Southern Utah Demonstration Area consists of contiguous state and federal lands within the administrative boundaries of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Fishlake and Dixie National Forests, National Park Sevice, and State of Utah, roughly encompassing the southern 15 percent of Utah (3.24 million ha). The vegetation types described are similar in species composition, stand structure, and ecologic function, including fire regime to vegetation types found on hundreds of millions of hectares in the 11 western states.

Fire in Sierra Nevada Forests

Fire in Sierra Nevada Forests
Author: George E. Gruell
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Total Pages: 266
Release: 2001
Genre: Nature
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In Fire in Sierra Nevada Forests, George Gruell examines the woodlands through repeat photography: rephotographing sites depicted in historical photographs to compare past vegetation to present. The book asks readers to study the evidence, then take an active part in current debates over prescribed fire, fuel buildup, logging, and the management of our national forests.