Proceedings: the role of fire for nongame wildlife management and community restoration: traditional uses and new directions

Abstract

Contains 16 papers and 4 abstracts on the use of fire for nongame wildlife management and rare plant community management in restoration in the United States with an emphasis on forested systems.

Titles contained within Proceedings: the role of fire for nongame wildlife management and community restoration: traditional uses and new directions

• Preface
• Fire in the eastern United States: influence on wildlife habitat
• The historical foundations of prescribed burning for wildlife: a southeastern perspective
• Fire, herbicide, and chainsaw felling effects on arthropods in fire-suppressed longleaf pine sandhills at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida
• Responses of amphibians to fire disturbance in Pacific Northwest forests: a review
• The effects of burning and grazing on survival, home range, and prey dynamics of the Texas horned lizard in a thornscrub ecosystem
• Fire and bird communities in the South
• Burning for birds: concepts and applications
• Management options for songbirds using the oak shelterwood-burn technique in upland forests of the Southeastern United States
• Influence of ecosystem restoration for red-cockaded woodpeckers on breeding bird and small mammal communities
• Fire, Habitat structure and herpetofauna in the Southeast
• Numerical response of small vertebrates to prescribed fire in California oak woodland
• Fire management and research for biodiversity in the Green Swamp
• The role of non-industrial private forest lands in the conservation of southern fire-dependent wildlife
• Herbicides as an alternative to prescribed burning for achieving wildlife management objectives
• Fire and bats in the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic: more questions than answers?
• Wildlife, habitat, and prescribed fire in the Southeastern Coastal Plain: past, present, and future
• The role of fire in riparian zones of the Northern Rocky Mountains
• The restoration of oak-hickory forests in the central hardwoods: results of a landscape-scale prescribed burning experiment in Ohio

Citation

Ford, W. Mark; Russell, Kevin R.; Moorman, Christopher E.; [Editors] 2002. Proceedings: the role of fire for nongame wildlife management and community restoration: traditional uses and new directions. Gen. Tech. Rep. NE-288. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Research Station. 145 p.