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NMPIF Forests 2
(Ganey et al. 1996 in Ffolliott et al. 1996). Fires can ... ). Hot Fires are often stand-replacing fires, sterilizing the soils and destroying habitat for many species. They burn overstory trees and are costly to fight. Recovery of bird populations in high-intensity burns ...
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These frequent, low intensity fires did not usually burn hot enough or long enough to damage mature trees or ... ponderosa pine for example, have shown that they have lived through as many as 200 low intensity fires. Such fire-adapted forests had a different look from their modern day descendents. Formerly a ...
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Fire for Backyard Pines: Florida Environment Radio
Southeast U.S. flourished, partly as a result of frequent, low-intensity fires that cleared away dead matter and kept competing plants in check. ... fe30423 If some Florida Scientists have their way, you'll be seeing fires on golf courses here. It turns out they're the ... healthy. And there's new research suggesting the same kind of fires might benefit the pines in your own backyard. Botanist Francis ...
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Gopher Tortoise Council About Gopher Tortoise
Periodic natural fires play an important role in maintaining tortoise habitat by opening up the canopy and ... the growth of grasses and other gopher tortoise food plants. Hand-planting of trees and low intensity site preparation also lessen negative impacts to tortoises. -Disease. There is little information regarding ...
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NMPIF Forests 3
Recurrent, low-intensity fires occurred at 2-10 year intervals prior to about 1900, when fires suppression actions were taken. These fires helped maintain open, parklike vistas, ... importance of fire in ponderosa pine forest. The differences between stand-replacing fires and cool, low-intensity fires need to be conveyed to the public. Table 2. Ponderosa Pine Forest ...
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Southeastern Arizona Bird Observatory Field Trip Photo Album: Miller Canyon and Beatty's Guest Ranch
The habitats created by fires of low to moderate intensity are important to many wildlife species, including some of Arizona's rarer birds ... , a Rufous-capped Warbler was spotted singing in a steep shrubby meadow resulting from a low-intensity fire in 1995. Though spring and summer are the best seasons for birding, fall draws ...
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Ponderosa Pine Forests of the Colorado Plateau
Winters are relatively mild (average slightly above 30° F) and precipitation as snow saturates the soil. The spring dry season is accompanied by increasing air temperatures, low humidity ... grasses and occasional shrubs beneath, as young ponderosa seedlings were often killed by the low-intensity fires while mature pines, with their thick yellowish red bark, were only scarred. The effects ...
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Wildfire History and Ecology on the Colorado Plateau
Pinyon-juniper woodlands, ponderosa pine forests, and drier mixed conifer forests shifted from a fire regime of frequent, surface fires to one of stand-replacing, high-intensity fires ...
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Global Forest Watch: Alaska
(Gap 3 status) Other protected areas (Gap 4 or Gap 5 status) Intact Forest Areas Land tenure (Management status of intact forest areas) Vegetation Forest cover Fires, 1950 ...
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Letters and Articles on Forest Issues - 7/9/97 onwards (number 71 -> )
These changes compound the problem. The Aboriginal approach was to learn how to use fire to manage fire. They instigated frequent low-intensity fires in ... the absence of forest-protester type greenies at the Caledonia/alpine National Park bush fires. I appreciate Mr Blackwoods frustration. A third generation logger, he feels a strong attraction ...
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