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ISBN:
Category : Ecosystem management
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Proceedings of a Symposium on the Kings River Sustainable Forest Ecosystems Project
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ecosystem management
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Sierra National Forest (N.F.). Kings River Project
Author: Publications List
Author: General Technical Report PSW.
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Forest Structure and Fire Hazard in Dry Forests of the Western United States
Author: David Lawrence PetersonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forest fires
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Fire, in conjunction with landforms and climate, shapes the structure and function of forests throughout the Western United States, where millions of acres of forest lands contain accumulations of flammable fuel that are much higher than historical conditions owing to various forms of fire exclusion. The Healthy Forests Restoration Act mandates that public land managers assertively address this situation through active management of fuel and vegetation. This document synthesizes the relevant scientific knowledge that can assist fuel-treatment projects on national forests and other public lands and contribute to National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) analyses and other assessments. It is intended to support science-based decisionmaking for fuel management in dry forests of the Western United States at the scale of forest stands (about 1 to 200 acres). It highlights ecological principles that need to be considered when managing forest fuel and vegetation for specific conditions related to forest structure and fire hazard. It also provides quantitative and qualitative guidelines for planning and implementing fuel treatments through various silvicultural prescriptions and surfacefuel treatments. Effective fuel treatments in forest stands with high fuel accumulations will typically require thinning to increase canopy base height, reduce canopy bulk density, reduce canopy continuity, and require a substantial reduction in surface fuel through prescribed fire or mechanical treatment or both. Long-term maintenance of desired fuel loadings and consideration of broader landscape patterns may improve the effectiveness of fuel treatments.
General Technical Report PNW-GTR
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ISBN:
Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 748
Book Description
Ecological Effects of Prescribed Fire Season
Author: Eric KnappPublisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1437926150
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 85
Book Description
Historical and prescribed fire regimes for different regions in the continental U.S. were compared and literature on season of prescribed burning synthesized. In regions and vegetation types where considerable differences in fuel consumption exist among burning seasons, the effects of prescribed fire season appears to be driven more by fire-intensity differences among seasons than by phenology or growth stage of organisms at the time of fire. Where fuel consumption differs little among burning seasons, the effect of phenology or growth stage of organisms is often more apparent, because it is not overwhelmed by fire-intensity differences. Species in ecosystems that evolved with fire appear to be resilient to one or few out-of-season prescribed burns. Illus.
Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest (N.F.), Ashland Forest Resiliency
Author: The Fall River Long-term Site Productivity Study in Coastal Washington
Author: Fall River longterm site productivity study in coastal Washington site characteristics, methods, and biomass and carbon and nitrogen stores before and after harvest
Author: Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 9781422324721
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description