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Wildland fire: Nature’s fuel treatment
From the Rocky Mountain Research Station: Every year wildland fires affect much more acreage in the United States compared to controlled burns. Like controlled burns, wildland fire can help promote […]
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Learn from the burn: The High Park Fire 5 years later
From the Rocky Mountain Research Station: The 2012 High Park Fire that occurred near Fort Collins, CO was particularly severe with nearly half of the total burn area being classified […]
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Painting a picture across the landscape with ModelMap
From the Rocky Mountain Research Station: Scientists and statisticians working for the Rocky Mountain Research Station have created a software package that simplifies and automates many of the processes needed […]
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Where’s the beef? Predicting the effects of climate change on cattle production in western U.S. rangelands
From the Rocky Mountain Research Station: Matt Reeves, a research economist with the USFS Rocky Mountain Research Station, along with collaborators, have been trying to understand the impacts of climate […]
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Streamwater nitrogen and forest dynamics following a mountain pine beetle epidemic: Insights from three decades of research at Fraser Experimental Forest, CO
From the Rocky Mountain Research Station: A recently published study by a team of Rocky Mountain Research Station (RMRS) scientists describes a 10-year investigation of streamwater nitrogen (N) and forest […]
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Recreating in color: Promoting ethnic diversity in public lands
From the Rocky Mountain Research Station: Recent studies of the Forest Service’s National Visitor Use Monitoring data show a wide disparity in racial and ethnic use of national forests. Researchers […]
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Warming and warnings: Assessing climate change vulnerability in the Rocky Mountain Region
From the Rocky Mountain Research Station: To help evaluate ecosystem vulnerability across the Rocky Mountain Region, a team of scientists with the U.S. Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station compiled […]
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Sex in the sagebrush: How new research can help protect greater sage-grouse mating areas
From the Rocky Mountain Research Station: Recently published work from scientists at the Rocky Mountain Research Station (RMRS) may help protect the greater sage-grouse habitat and their ability to reproduce. […]
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A world in pixels: How new research is helping to predict probability of high-severity fire
From the Rocky Mountain Research Station: A new paper by Sean Parks, a research ecologist with the Rocky Mountain Research Station and the Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institute, and collaborators […]
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Consequences of an endless summer: Untangling the link between summer precipitation and western wildfires
From the Rocky Mountain Research Station: U.S. Forest Service scientists suspected another weather factor was being overlooked as a contributor to recent trends in wildfire: precipitation, specifically summer precipitation. Zachary […]
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