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ISBN:
Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Research Note RMRS
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Shasta-Trinity National Forest (N.F.), Browns Project
Author: Forest Structure and Fire Hazard in Dry Forests of the Western United States
Author: David Lawrence PetersonPublisher:
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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.
Research Paper RMRS
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Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
2004 Science Accomplishments of the Pacific Northwest Research Station
Author: Pacific Northwest Research Station (Portland, Or.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
ForestryBased Biomass Economic and Financial Information and Tools: An Annotated Bibliography
Author: Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1437941540
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Science Basis for Changing Forest Structure to Modify Wildfire Behavior and Severity
Author: Tree Rings and Natural Hazards
Author: Markus StoffelPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9048187362
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
Dendrogeomorphology Beginnings and Futures: A Personal Reminiscence My early forays into dendrogeomorphology occurred long before I even knew what that word meant. I was working as a young geoscientist in the 1960s and early 1970s on a problem with slope movements and deformed vegetation. At the same time, unknown to me, Jouko Alestalo in Finland was doing something similar. Both of us had seen that trees which produced annual growth rings were reacting to g- morphic processes resulting in changes in their internal and external growth p- terns. Dendroclimatology was an already well established field, but the reactions of trees to other environmental processes were far less well understood in the 1960s. It was Alestalo (1971) who first used the term, dendrogeomorphology. In the early 1970s, I could see that active slope-movement processes were affecting the growth of trees in diverse ways at certain localities. I wanted to learn more about those processes and try to extract a long-term chronology of movement from the highly diverse ring patterns.
Shasta-Trinity National Forest (N.F.), Salt Timber Harvest and Fuel Hazard Reduction Project
Author: Computational Science and Its Applications - ICCSA 2011
Author: Beniamino MurgantePublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3642218865
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 765
Book Description
The five-volume set LNCS 6782 - 6786 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications, ICCSA 2011, held in Santander, Spain, in June 2011. The five volumes contain papers presenting a wealth of original research results in the field of computational science, from foundational issues in computer science and mathematics to advanced applications in virtually all sciences making use of computational techniques. The topics of the fully refereed papers are structured according to the five major conference themes: geographical analysis, urban modeling, spatial statistics; cities, technologies and planning; computational geometry and applications; computer aided modeling, simulation, and analysis; and mobile communications.