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Prescribed Fire in a Florida Landscape with Mixed Ownership: Spatial Interactions
Across the U.S., wildfires have become increasingly destructive and costly over the past few decades, with impacts particularly severe in the State of Florida. Because of an increase in wildfire frequency and severity and the number of people living in fire-prone areas the issue of wildfire risk …
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Measuring and Understanding Effects of Prescribed Fire in a Headwater Catchment
… storms) or limited in duration. For example, prescribed fire is a commonly applied forest management tool, but there remain questions regarding how this disturbance affects catchment soils and resultant stream water chemistry. Effective assessment of prescribed fire thus requires coupled …
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Floristic dynamics of Appalachian pine-oak forests over a prescribed fire chronosequence
Vegetation dynamics after prescribed fire were modeled on three mountains in the George Washington National Forest representing a chronosequence of conditions since burning: pre-burn, and 1, 2 and 12 years post-treatment. Vegetation structure was more affected by environmental and spatial (burn …
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Prescribed Fire Perspectives of African American Landowners in Alabama, Florida, and Georgia
… southeastern United States. At the same time, prescribed fire use, research, and outreach are increasing. This disparity between changing landowner demographics and a renewed interest in a historically prevalent land management tool has prompted a broader conversation about diversity and …
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Spatial distribution of charcoal after a prescribed fire on Middle Mountain, VA
… distribution of surface charcoal after a managed fire and its relationship to fire intensity and site characteristics. Such studies are lacking for the southern Appalachian Mountains. In April 2010, The Nature Conservancy conducted a ~150ha prescribed burn in pine- and oak-dominated forests on the …
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Assessing the Influence of Prescribed Fire on Faunal Communities in a Pyric Landscape
… hereafter, LLP) ecosystem is an archetypal fire-mediated ecosystem, which has seen drastic reductions in land area due to fire suppression. Current restoration utilizes prescribed fire and hardwood removal, but more research is needed to understand the influence of these restoration efforts …
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The Effects of Prescribed Fire on Bat Activity in the Ozark National Scenic Riverways
In recent years, prescribed fire has become a widely accepted management tool to restore and maintain healthy forests. The effects of prescribed fire on bats are not fully understood and impacts vary depending on species life history and habitat requirements. This study was conducted to further the …
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Effects of prescribed fire on breeding forest songbird abundances in central and Southern Illinois
… in their oak- and hickory-dominated status. Prescribed fire is one of the tools that forest managers use to meet this challenge. While the forest managers monitor the effects of prescribed fire on the structure and species composition of the trees, it is imperative to also understand how …
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Prescribed Fire Effects on Tree Grades and Wounds on the Monongahela National Forest, WV
… to withstand potential heating from wildland fire. Trees exhibiting similarities for these properties and others may be classified into two broad functional groups: pyrophytes and pyrophobes. To our knowledge, few research studies have been conducted to determine how prescribed fires may …
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Effects of prescribed fire timing on vigor of sericea lespedeza in the Kansas Flint Hills
We evaluated effects of annual, prescribed burning on vigor of the noxious weed, sericea lespedeza (Lespedeza cuneata; SL) in native tallgrass prairie over a 4-yr period. We hypothesized that annual prescribed burning conducted during the growing season would selectively pressure SL, whereas …
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Influence of Woody Vegetation Composition and Structure on Fuels and Prescribed Fire in Mountain Longleaf Restoration
… widespread ecological state shift largely due to fire exclusion which has allowed mesophytes, i.e., shade-tolerant, often fire-sensitive species to encroach, reducing flammability and biodiversity through a process known as “mesophication.” Although prescribed fire is commonly used to reverse …
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The Effects of Prescribed Fire on Millipede and Salamander Populations in a Southern Appalachian Deciduous Forest.
<p>Prescribed fire has increased as a forest management practice in southern Appalachia, but investigations into the effects of this silvicultural treatment on non-game wildlife inhabiting the region is limited. This study investigated the effects of prescribed fire on millipede and salamander …
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LONG-TERM OVERSTORY VEGETATION RESPONSES TO PRESCRIBED FIRE MANAGEMENT FOR LONGLEAF PINE AT BIG THICKET NATIONAL PRESERVE
… Park Service continued monitoring the study’s fire ecology research plots. After two decades of data collection, ordination was applied to species abundance data to examine changes in vegetation communities from a variety of prescribed fire treatments and controls. The vegetation data was …
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Bryophyte Community Response to Prescribed Fire and Thinning in Mixed-Oak Forests of the Unglaciated Allegheny Plateau
… with the common silvicultural methods of prescribed fire and thinning. Study sites were within the design of the USDA Forest Service Fire and Fire Surrogate (FFS) Research Program located in three southeastern Ohio forests. Each of these forests contain four treatments: untreated control, …
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Prescribed Fire Effects on Woodland Structure, Light Levels and Understory Plant Communities in Missouri Oak-Hickory Woodlands
Prescribed fire is a tool used to manage oak-hickory woodlands for wildlife habitat. This study examined how prescribed fire affected woodland structure and how this structure alters transmittance of light within Drury-Mincy Conservation Area, (Taney County, Missouri). Sampling occurred in twenty …
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Long-term Effects of Prescribed Fire and Fire Surrogate Treatments on Southern Appalachian Mountain Forest Soil Chemistry
As a response to rising wildfire hazard and forest structure and composition concerns, the National Fire and Fire Surrogate Study was established in 2000 to determine how fuel reduction and ecosystem restoration techniques might affect ecosystem properties and processes across the United States. …
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Impact of Prescribed Fire on the Terrestrial Orchid, <i>Isotria medeoloides</i> in Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains
… provided a management framework that suggests fire may be useful to recovering this flower and restoring its habitat for the benefit of the species that share it. Our study site is one of these habitats where small whorled pogonia grows in a region with a historical regime of frequent fire. The …
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EFFECTIVENESS OF PRESCRIBED FIRE ON MEETING FUEL LOAD AND WILDLIFE HABITAT MANAGEMENT OBJECTIVES IN EAST TEXAS NATIONAL FORESTS
… the National Forests and Grasslands in Texas’ Fire Monitoring Program for data collection, the efficacy of current Forest Service prescribed burn regimes were analyzed for 24 study sites in East Texas National Forests. Study sites were located within Sam Houston, Davy Crockett, and …
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Long-Term Effects of Thinning and Prescribed Fire on Tree Growth and Bark Beetle Demography in a Jeffrey Pine Stand
… reflected not only the absence of detrimental fire impacts but also the benefits of on-site slash retention. For stand level biomass, diminished growth in the whole-tree treatment was again evident, with that in the burned portion again most pronounced, while biomass accrual in the unburned …
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The Lasting Effects of Prescribed Fire and Harvesting on Forest Floor and Soil Nutrients in the Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains
Silviculture thinning and prescribed fire are common management tools used to eliminate thick fuel loads that could otherwise cause a harmful wildfire. Although these mechanical harvesting techniques are becoming more popular, little is known about their long-term effects on soil fertility, forest …
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