Fire regimes and ecoregions

Robert G. Bailey

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Fire regimes and ecoregions

Informally Refereed

Authors:

Robert G. Bailey

Year:

2010

Type:

General Technical Report

Station:

Rocky Mountain Research Station

Source:

In: Elliot, William J.; Miller, Ina Sue; Audin, Lisa, eds. Cumulative watershed effects of fuel management in the western United States. Gen. Tech. Rep. RMRS-GTR-231. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. p. 7-18.

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Abstract

The public land management agencies are phasing in a radically new approach to land management. They are shifting from their focus on individual resources to a more holistic approach of managing whole ecosystems. Fire-excluded systems are prone to changes in composition and density and are susceptible to catastrophic fire and invasion by non-native species. The cause of the problem in many areas includes more than a century of fire exclusion and suppression along with increased human development at the wildland-urban interface. Grazing and logging have also contributed to this problem.

Parent Publication

Cumulative watershed effects of fuel management in the western United States

Keywords

cumulative effects, watershed, wildfire, fuel management, water quality, soil erosion

Citation

Bailey, Robert G. 2010. Fire regimes and ecoregions. In: Elliot, William J.; Miller, Ina Sue; Audin, Lisa, eds. Cumulative watershed effects of fuel management in the western United States. Gen. Tech. Rep. RMRS-GTR-231. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. p. 7-18.