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Wildland Urban Interface Fire Problem: A consequence of fire exclusion

THE WILDLAND-URBAN INTERFACE FIRE PROBLEM by Jack Cohen Read the publication here.
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The Wildland-Urban Interface in the United States

Download the publication here. The purpose of this project is to provide information on “the area where houses and wildland vegetation coincide.” Although there are other ways of defining the […]
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Community Wildfire Safety Through Regulation: A Best Practices Guide for Planners and Regulators

From the National Fire Protection Association: How this manual can help you: It provides planners and public officials with sound technical and legal justifications for adoption of wildfire regulations. It […]
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Taking the Long View: Mountain Pine Beetles as Agents of Change

From the Rocky Mountain Research Station: Mountain pine beetles (MPB) are a constant presence in the Rocky Mountain Region, with a long history of periodic outbreaks. The latest beetle epidemic, […]
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Sage Grouse Initiative Live-Streamed Symposia Now Available for Viewing!

From the Sage Grouse Initiative: Two special symposia hosted at this year’s annual meeting of the Society for Range Management in Sparks, Nevada, featured 30 presentations by researchers and land […]
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Fourmile Canyon Fire Findings

Read the report. The Fourmile Canyon Fire burned in the fall of 2010 in the Rocky Mountain Front Range adjacent to Boulder, Colorado. The fire occurred in steep, rugged terrain, […]
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Is That Tree Dead? Quantifying Fire-Killed Trees to Inform Salvage and Forest Management

From the Rocky Mountain Research Station: Wildfires are natural disturbances in the western United States. Managing the resulting stands of dead and dying trees requires balancing conflicting priorities. Although these […]
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FIRE-BIRD: Habitat suitability model application tools for disturbance-associated woodpeckers

FIRE-BIRD is an ArcGIS spatial tool for applying habitat suitability models to generate maps that inform forest management planning. This tool focuses on disturbance-associated woodpecker species of conservation concern. More […]
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Of Woodpeckers and Harvests: Finding Compatibility Between Habitat and Salvage Logging

From the Rocky Mountain Research Station: Vicki Saab, a research wildlife biologist with the Rocky Mountain Station, has spent over two decades studying the habitat niches of disturbance-associated woodpecker species […]
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Post-Fire Native Species Seed Mixes Are Effective at Keeping Out Cheatgrass in the Great Basin

From the Rocky Mountain Research Station: Seeding an area after a fire has long been used to control erosion and suppress problem invasive grasses like cheatgrass. But for managers, choosing […]
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