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U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service :: Fire Management Home Page
U.S. (and more than 90% in Alaska) include fire-adapted ecosystems with vegetation dependent on periodic fire. An average of 500 wildfires burn 260,000 acres each year ... and Wildlife Service is completed using prescribed fire. Inside Fire News Inside Fire Management April 2008 Issue Inside Fire Management Summer 2007 Issue Last Updated: Fire Management Home | FWS Home | NWRS Home | FOIA ...
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SAF - Policy and Press: Position Statements - Wildfire Management
Reduce hazardous fuels, Restore fire-adapted ecosystems, and Promote community assistance.   In support of the National Fire Plan, the SAF advocates · well funded and well trained fire ...
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Ponderosa Pine Fire Ecology on the Colorado Plateau
Ecosystems Research: Fire-Southern Oscillation Relations in the Southwestern United States. A close linkage between fire and climate could diminish the importance of local processes in the long-term dynamics of fire-prone ecosystems ... higher in an ecosystem that approximates the natural structure and disturbance regime. Adapted from a published journal article by W. Wallace Covington et al. Changed ...
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Native American Use of Fire on the Colorado Plateau
Adapted from a published journal article by Marlin Johnson. Fire-Southern Oscillation Relations in the Southwestern United States. A close linkage between fire and climate could diminish the importance of local processes in the long-term dynamics of fire-prone ecosystems. The structure and diversity of communities regulated by fire may ...
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Fire Ecology — Forest Encyclopedia Network
Appalachians, these communities require periodic fire to maintain their structure and diverse species assemblages. Intermixed with these fire-adapted ecosystems are fire-sensitive communities with historically long intervals between fires. We have learned much in the past several decades about how fire affects ...
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Background paper: Cities and conservation in Mediterranean-type ecosystems
Fire: Wildfires are a natural, or longtime human-caused, part of MTEs, which are defined as “fire-adapted ecosystems”; in fact, many plant species in them need fire to regenerate. However, fires along the urban-wildland interface and in forest settlements can be very destructive of human life and property. Fire ...
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Principles of ecology - MarineBio.org
The montane forests of the Sierra Nevada, including the Giant Sequoia forests, are examples of these fire-adapted ecosystems ... did not understand the role of fire in these ecosystems, and saw it as detrimental to both the forests and the wildlife. They instituted the policy of fire suppression, and as a result ...
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Project Learning Tree - Special Initiatives:Fire Education
Fire The Learning to Live with Fire activity addresses California’s fire-adapted ecosystems, the role of fire in California, using fire to manage wildfires and what it means to live in a fire ...
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EcoEarth.Info Environment Links: Land/Restoration Ecology
Northern Arizona University works to heal fire-adapted ecosystems in western North America Added: Jun. 17, 2003 | Rate It Forests Main - Sierra Club ... forests/ (2 votes) Forest Protection & Restoration campaign works to protect and restore healthy forest ecosystems and sustainable local economies, preserve our National Forests, and protect communities from the ...
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EcoEarth.Info Environment Links: Land/Ecology/Natural Fires
Northern Arizona University works to heal fire-adapted ecosystems in western North America Added: Jun. 17, 2003 | Rate It Links Home | Search | New | Cool ...
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