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The Perfect Firestorm: Bringing Forest Service Wildfire Costs under Control [PDF]
, 2007 Blessed and cursed by a Congress that gives it a virtual if not literal blank check for fire protection, the Forest Service's fire spending is out of control.
Randal O'Toole
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Fire and Materials, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This research was conducted within the framework of project SI2.825082, funded by the European Commission—DG GROW. The project's objective was to finalise a European approach for assessing the fire performance of façades under medium and large fire exposure conditions.
Péter Tóth +7 more
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Investigating the relationship between stakeholder opinion about wildfire management and landscape context using GIS [PDF]
, 2006 Colorado residents living in the wildland urban interface (WUI) were asked about their perception of wildfire risk and their willingness-to-pay (WTP) for three fire management procedures: fuel reduction by thinning, fire suppression and prescribed fires.
Kaval, Pamela +2 more
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Extremal Trees With Prescribed Burning Numbers
18 pages, revised from version 1 to improve the similarity ...
Leong, Eugene Jun Tong +2 more
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Food Chemistry International, EarlyView.After collecting Musa paradisiaca leaves, some were dried and others were used to produce aqueous extracts. The extracts and powders were characterized and then administered to rats made anaemic by PHZ. After 14 days of administration of the two samples, the rats were euthanized and it was observed that after 9 days of treatment, the aqueous extract ...
Josée Rebeca Nombo +8 more
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Prescribed Burning in an Aspen – Mixed Hardwood Forest
Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 1974 The effects of prescribed burning and complete clearcutting on Populustremuloides and associated hardwoods and shrubs were compared for 8 years after commercial harvest of a 60-year-old P. tremuloides stand. Because of the lack of suitable burning weather, P. tremuloides suckers were 2 years old before the burn could be made.
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Anthropologist, heal thyself: Toward an anthropology of healing through relational interbeing
Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract I call for an anthropology that confronts its own woundedness. Anthropologists often bear witness to suffering but rarely examine how our own grief, trauma, and institutional distress shape the affective tone of our work. Drawing on fieldwork with Runa (Quechua) women affected by forced sterilization in Peru and guided by my collaborator and ...
Lucía Isabel Stavig
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Gut Medicine, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Post‐stroke gastroparesis (GP) is a debilitating complication that severely impairs quality of life. Although abdominal acupuncture is widely used, robust evidence regarding its efficacy, particularly concerning the critical parameter of the needling depth, is still lacking.
Xiangcheng Wei +8 more
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The Response of Zigadenus fremontii to Variation in Fire Regime [PDF]
, 2010 California\u27s chaparral shrub communities are naturally exposed to dry-season fire. It could be reasoned that prescription burns set during the wet season by land managers would have more detrimental effects on plant regeneration than dry season fires
Dinis, Shannon Elizabeth
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Perceptions of Prescribed Fire Among Ranchers near Northern US National Grasslands
FireMany barriers prevent ranchers from supporting prescribed fire on grazing leases or their own land. Barriers include negative perceptions of fire resources limitations, and fear of liability.
Kaylee Boland +5 more
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