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Assessing risks to spotted owls from forest thinning in fire-adapted forests of the western United States
Danny C. Lee,Larry L. Irwin +1 more
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In this article, the authors use published literature and data from the southern Sierra Nevada to examine the potential effects of landscape-level reductions in canopy cover (CC) on owl occupancy and reproduction, and show that modest fuels treatments in the Sierra Nevada would not be expected to reduce canopy cover sufficiently to have measurable effects on owl reproduction.About:
This article is published in Forest Ecology and Management.The article was published on 2005-06-06. It has received 49 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Prescribed burn & Forest ecology.read more
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Conserving Old-Growth Forest Diversity in Disturbance-Prone Landscapes
TL;DR: The state of knowledge of old-growth forests in the Northwest Forest Plan area is summarized, challenges to conserve them are identified, and some conservation approaches that might better meet the goals of the plan are suggested.
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Modeling wildfire risk to northern spotted owl (Strix occidentalis caurina) habitat in Central Oregon, USA
TL;DR: In this paper, a probabilistic risk analysis system for quantifying wildfire threats to spotted owl habitat and comparing the efficacy of fuel treatment scenarios was presented, which demonstrated a strong spatial pattern in burn probability created by natural fuel breaks.
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Constraints on Mechanized Treatment Significantly Limit Mechanical Fuels Reduction Extent in the Sierra Nevada
Malcolm P. North,April Brough,Jonathan W. Long,Brandon M. Collins,Phil Bowden,Don Yasuda,Jay D. Miller,Neil Sugihara +7 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluated the alternative and analyzed the amount and distribution of constraints on mechanical fuels treatments on USDA Forest Service land, and developed a hierarchy of biological (nonproductive forest), legal (wilderness), operational (access to equipment access), and administrative (sensitive species and riparian areas).
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Habitat Use and Selection by California Spotted Owls in a Postfire Landscape
TL;DR: The authors examined effects of fire on 7 radiomarked California spotted owls from four territories by quantifying use of habitat for nesting, roosting, and foraging according to severity of burn in and near a 610-km2 fire in the southern Sierra Nevada, California, USA, 4 years after fire.
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Informed multi-objective decision-making in environmental management using Pareto optimality
TL;DR: Effective decisionmaking in environmental management requires the consideration of multiple objectives that may conflict, and common optimization methods use weights on the multiple objectives to aggregate them into a single value, neglecting valuable insight into the relationships among the objectives.
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