a Department of Forest Ecosystems and Society, Oregon State University, 321 Richardson Hall, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA b USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, Forestry Sciences Laboratory, 3200 SW Jefferson Way, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA c Department of Geography and Environment, Boston University, 675 Commonwealth Ave., 4th Floor, Boston, MA 02215, USA d Department of Geograph...

1An abbreviated version of this paper was presented at the Biswell Symposium: Fire Issues and Solutions in Urban Interface and Wildland Ecosystems, February 15-17,1994, Walnut Creek, California. 2Research Physical Scientist, Southern Research Station, USDA Forest Service, Southern Forest Fire Laboratory, Route 1, Box 182A, Dry Branch, GA 31020. Abstract: Major wildland/urban interface fire loss...

Understanding how ignitions occur is critical for effectively mitigating home fire losses during wildland fires. The threat of life and property losses during wildland fires is a significant issue for Federal, State, and local agencies that have responsibilities involving homes within and adjacent to wildlands. Agencies have shifted attention to communities adjacent to wildlands through pre-sup...

National and international efforts to manage forest biosecurity create tension between opposing sources of ecological and economic irreversibility. Phytosanitary policies designed to protect national borders from biological invasions incur sunk costs deriving from economic and political irreversibilities that incentivizes wait-and-see decision-making. However, the potential for irreversible eco...

National Park Service, Upper Columbia Basin Network, 63095 Deschutes Market Road, Bend, OR 97701, USA, US Forest Service/Bureau of Land Management Region 6 Bat Program, 3106 Pierce Pkwy, Springfield, OR 97477, USA, US Geological Survey, Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center, 2327 University Way, Suite 2, Bozeman, MT 59715, USA, Geospatial Laboratory for Environmental Dynamics, University of Id...

TOPIC 1 when viewing the activities of forest managers. It was pointed out that foresters engaged in seed procurenlent What can we achieve through tree hp-ovemaent? and seedling distribution not in'requently jeopardize (Papers by J . W . Wright and Robert E. Farmer.) Distheir own programs by ignoring common knowledge recussion Leader, Hans Nienstaedt, North Central Forest garding the adaptation...

Considerable research has recently been devoted to understanding biogeochemical processes under winter snow cover, leading to enhanced appreciation of the importance of many winter ecological processes. In this study, a comprehensive investigation of the stable carbon isotope composition (dC) of CO2 within a high-elevation subalpine forest snowpack was conducted. Our goals were to study the dC ...

—Shortleaf pine (Pinus echinata Mill.) is unique among the southern pines. It has the widest natural range and thrives on shallow rocky soils of the Interior Highlands, where most other pine species perform poorly. Although wood quality is excellent, it has been one of the most neglected species from both research and operational standpoints. It has a history of poor performance following outpl...

Large wildfire occurrence and burned area are modeled using hydroclimate and landsurface characteristics under a range of future climate and development scenarios. The range of uncertainty for future wildfire regimes is analyzed over two emissions pathways (the Special Report on Emissions Scenarios [SRES] A2 and B1 scenarios); three global climate models (Centre National de Recherches Météorolo...

1 When local means local: Polygenic signatures of local adaptation within 1 whitebark pine (Pinus albicaulis Engelm.) across the Lake Tahoe Basin, USA 2 3 Brandon M. Lind, Christopher J. Friedline, Jill L. Wegrzyn, Patricia E. Maloney, Detlev R. 4 Vogler, David B. Neale, and Andrew J. Eckert 5 6 Integrative Life Sciences program, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia 7 23284 USA ...