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  • How We’ve Rebuilt : Collaboration, Community, Institutions, and Adaptation Following Catastrophic Wildland Fire in the United States

    Creator:
    Fishler, Hillary K.
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    In the study of rebuilding and recovery after natural disasters in the United States, little attention is paid to understanding how and why people rebuild following recurring, small-scale events, like wildfire. Hazard and risk literature, instead, is focused on understanding how larger communities with greater resources, economics, and social capital,...
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    Comprehensive Wildfire Protection Plan Process…………. 217 4.5.2 Rurality and Defining the Community

  • Demography, home range, and habitat selection of northern spotted owls in the Ashland Watershed

    Creator:
    Schilling, Jason W.
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    Northern Spotted Owls (Strix occidentalis caurina) inhabit productive forests that historically supported frequent, large, variable-severity fires in the Klamath province of southwestern Oregon occur in complex. The potential for high-severity wildfire remains high throughout this region, so remaining spotted owl habitat is at risk. An adaptive management approach to fire...
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    wildfire has resulted in higher stand densities and increased fuel loads, and when fires do occur, fire

  • Communicating the wildland fire message : an investigation of agency outreach strategies

    Creator:
    Toman, Eric Lee
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    Wildfire impacts have increased in recent years. The management response outlined by recent policy initiatives (e.g., the National Fire Plan, Healthy Forests Restoration Act) emphasizes the use of prescribed fire and mechanized thinning to reduce the risk of future fire events. These policies also call for an unprecedented level of...
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    need for community involvement in fire and fuel planning, our investigations yielded few places where

  • Public perceptions of smoke from wildfire, prescribed fire, and fire use

    Creator:
    Frederick, Stacey Sargent
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    Managers and policy-makers across broad disciplines and organizations are calling for a better understanding of public opinion on natural resource issues. One such issue is that of fire and its role in the management of our forests and rangelands. Public perceptions of fuel reduction techniques, with a particular emphasis on...
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    and socio-economic conditions where smoke from wildfire and prescribed fire was a concern. In

  • Managing for landscape resilience in the frequent-fire forests of central Oregon

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    Platt, Emily K.
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    Wildfire in dry, frequent-fire forests is a pressing issue for natural resource managers, communities and politicians in the western United States. Area affected by wildfire has climbed steadily over the last twenty years and is expected to increase in the future. Recognition of the importance of both social and biophysical...
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    : ____________________________________________________ John D. Bailey Wildfire in dry, frequent-fire forests is a pressing issue for natural

  • Forest restoration and fuels reduction on non-industrial private land in northwestern California

    Creator:
    Latimer, Lisa Marie
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    This thesis explores the complexity of relationships between communities and the ecosystems in which they live through a focus on forest restoration and fuels reduction on private land. As a case study, research took place in the Klamath-Siskiyou region of rural Northern California, in Humboldt and Siskiyou counties. The research...
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    forest resources, high levels of biodiversity, current wildfire problem, and community interest in fuels

  • Remote detection and predicted locations of NIPF fuel treatments in central Oregon

    Creator:
    Hall, Michael P.
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    Fire regimes across the western United States have been altered due to past land management and changing land use. Mitigating increased risks of wildfire occurrence in landscapes such as central Oregon requires landscape level management from both governmental and private organizations. Non-industrial private forest (NIPF) owners manage a relatively small...
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    land management and changing land use. Mitigating increased risks of wildfire occurrence in

  • The economic impacts of sagebrush steppe wildfires on an eastern Oregon ranch

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    Maher, Anna T.
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    The relative success of restoration practices on cheatgrass infested sagebrush steppe lands in the Great Basin can affect the probability of crossing an ecological threshold and have economic effects on cattle ranches using federal rangelands. Cheatgrass invasion implies an increase in the risk of fire, which in turn increases the...
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    there is an economic impact associated with changes in late spring AUMs under the assumed fire regime

  • Resource Selection, and Demographic Rates of Female Greater Sage-Grouse Following Large-Scale Wildfire

    Creator:
    Foster, Lee
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    Understanding the effects of habitat disturbance on a species' habitat selection patterns, and demographic rates, is essential to projecting the trajectories of populations affected by disturbance, as well as for determining the appropriate conservation actions needed to maintain those populations. Greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) is a species of conservation concern...
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    exist and reproduce in habitats disturbed by wildfire during the immediate years following a fire

  • Where Old West meets New West : confronting conservation, conflict and change on Utah's last frontier

    Creator:
    Leaver, Jennifer Jensen
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    In the United States during the last 30 years there has been a shift from extractive natural resource-based economies of the Old West to a New West defined by environmental protection. Over the past century, a growing national support for environmental protection has influenced a lengthening list of national and...
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    history.' In addition, Clintongave the BLM three years to come up with a GSENM Management Plan ("Plan