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Effects of prescribed fire on Wyoming big sagebrush communities : implications for ecological restoration of sage grouse habitat

Creator:

Wrobleski, David W.

Resource Type:

Masters Thesis

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the Intermountain rangelands in the western United States are dominated by big sagebrush (Artemesia
Vegetation composition and response to fire of native Willamette Valley wetland prairies

Creator:

Pendergrass, Kathy L. (Connelly)

Abstract:

Fires set by Native Americans were important in shaping and maintaining Willamette Valley prairie plant communities. With fire exclusion after Euro-American settlement in the 1840's, composition of the remaining prairies shifted toward shrub and tree dominance with a concomitant decline in endemic prairie plant populations. I hypothesize that by restoring...

Resource Type:

Masters Thesis

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indicated that western United States was semiarid with a warmer climate than present (Detling 1968). The