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- Library Collection RecordPrescribed burning was utilized as a management tool on grasslands of the Northern Great Plains. We analyzed the use of fire to manipulate encroaching and unpalatable western snowberry (…Publication Date 2018
- prescribed burning
- northern Great Plains
- grasslands
- Symphoricarpos occidentalis
- tallgrass prairie
- plant community dynamics
- Poa pratensis
- Library Collection RecordManagement of conservation-reliant species can be complicated by the need to manage ecosystem processes that operate at extended temporal horizons. One such process is the role of fire in regulating…Publication Date 2017
- cutting
- fire
- juniper
- pinyon
- prescribed burning
- sagebrush
- Library Collection RecordDespite inhabiting fire-adapted grasslands and shrublands across much of their continental distribution, northern bobwhite (Colinus virginianus, hereafter bobwhite) behavior relative to disturbance (…Publication Date 2017
- Colinus virginianus
- dispersal
- home range
- movement
- prescribed burning
- prescribed fire
- Library Collection RecordPrairie-Oak Savanna is a temperate, globally-unique, endangered habitat type characterized by old-growth Bur Oak (Quercus macrocarpa) stands, expansive low prairie habitat, and wetland complexes.…Publication Date 2017
- restoration ecology
- oak savanna
- invasive hybrid cattail
- terrestrial laser scanning
- woody encroachment
- prescribed burning
- grazing management
- Corylus americana
- secretive marsh birds
- Library Collection RecordRangelands are fire-dependent ecosystems severely altered through direct fire suppression and fuels management. The removal of fire is a dominant cause of ecological sites moving across thresholds…Publication Date 2016
- ecosystem management
- fire effects
- prescribed burning
- wildland fire
- Library Collection RecordFrequent burning is a crucial ecological and economic component of the Kansas Flint Hills. Although burning is important for the preservation of tallgrass prairie and improving livestock production,…Publication Date 2016
- burn season
- fire ecology
- prescribed burning
- tallgrass prairie
- Library Collection RecordRangelands are fire-dependent ecosystems severely altered through direct fire suppression and fuels management. The removal of fire is a dominant cause of ecological sites moving across thresholds…Publication Date 2016
- ecosystem management
- fire effects
- prescribed burning
- wildland fire
- Library Collection RecordFrequent burning is a crucial ecological and economic component of the Kansas Flint Hills. Although burning is important for the preservation of tallgrass prairie and improving livestock production,…Publication Date 2016
- burn season
- fire ecology
- prescribed burning
- tallgrass prairie
- Library Collection RecordFire-resistant woody species have invaded many grassland and savanna ecosystems worldwide. Adults of many of these species are fire resistant because they resprout following fire; however, seedlings…Publication Date 2015-03
- brush
- prescribed burning
- seed ecology
- seedling establishment
- shrub-grass competition
- woody plant invasion
- Library Collection RecordFire-resistant woody species have invaded many grassland and savanna ecosystems worldwide. Adults of many of these species are fire resistant because they resprout following fire; however, seedlings…Publication Date 2015-03
- brush
- prescribed burning
- seed ecology
- seedling establishment
- shrub-grass competition
- woody plant invasion
- Library Collection RecordBelowground accumulation of vegetative buds provides a reservoir of meristems that can be utilized following disturbance. Perennial grass bud banks are the primary source of nearly all tiller growth…Publication Date 2015-01
- Bud bank
- grassland
- meristem
- prescribed burning
- tiller
- Vegetative Reproduction
- Library Collection RecordBelowground accumulation of vegetative buds provides a reservoir of meristems that can be utilized following disturbance. Perennial grass bud banks are the primary source of nearly all tiller growth…Publication Date 2015-01
- Bud bank
- grassland
- meristem
- prescribed burning
- tiller
- Vegetative Reproduction
- Library Collection RecordPurple threeawn (Aristida purpurea Nutt.) is a native perennial bunchgrass with limited forage value that dominates sites with disturbed soils and persists with repeated severe grazing. Fire and…Publication Date 2014-05
- digestibility
- gas production
- in vitro fermentation
- prescribed burning
- purple threeawn
- silica
- Library Collection RecordPurple threeawn (Aristida purpurea Nutt.) is a native perennial bunchgrass with limited forage value that dominates sites with disturbed soils and persists with repeated severe grazing. Fire and…Publication Date 2014-05
- digestibility
- gas production
- in vitro fermentation
- prescribed burning
- purple threeawn
- silica
- Library Collection RecordThis report was compiled from data reported by the Arizona State Land Department, the US Forest Service, Arivaca Fire, and the Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge.Publication Date 2014
- prescribed burning
- fires
- Altar Valley
- Library Collection RecordOn the Ground • Smutgrass (Sporobolus indicus) is an invasive plant in Florida sandy soils, prevalent in central and south Florida where temperatures seldom drop below freezing and hard frost events…Publication Date 2013-10-01
- rotational stocking
- smutgrass
- prescribed burning
- mob grazing
- integrated pest management
- IPM
- Library Collection RecordPurple threeawn (Aristida purpurea Nutt. varieties) is a native grass capable of increasing on rangelands, forming near monocultures, and creating a stable state. Productive rangelands throughout the…Publication Date 2013-09-01
- Aristida
- grasslands
- nitrogen amendments
- prescribed burning
- restoration
- Library Collection RecordAristida purpurea (purple threeawn) is a competitive native perennial grass with monoculturistic tendencies and poor palatability. We examined effects of fire, defoliation, and interspecific/…Publication Date 2013-05-01
- Bouteloua
- Pascopyrum
- prescribed burning
- productivity
- purple threeawn
- simulated grazing
- Library Collection RecordOn The Ground • The Conservation Effects Assessment Project (CEAP) is a multi-agency effort to quantify the Environmental effects of conservation practices and programs and develop the science base…Publication Date 2013-02-01
- Conservation Effects Assessment Project
- prescribed grazing
- prescribed burning
- brush management
- range planting
- riparian hernaceous cover
- upland wildlife management
- Library Collection RecordSagebrush (Artemisia L.) taxa historically functioned as the keystone species on 1 090 000 km2 of rangeland across the western United States, and Wyoming big sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata Nutt. ssp…Publication Date 2012-09-01
- Artemisia tridentata wyomingensis
- elk
- greater sage-grouse
- herbicide applications
- mechanical treatments
- mule deer
- prescribed burning
- pronghorn
- Library Collection RecordFire is an important process in many ecosystems, especially grasslands. However, documentation of plant community and soil environment responses to fire is limited for semiarid grasslands relative to…Publication Date 2011-01-01
- drought
- prescribed burning
- productivity
- rangelands
- semiarid grasslands
- Library Collection RecordSuccessful prairie restoration will depend in part on convincing private landowners with agricultural and recreational use goals to implement appropriate rangeland management practices, such as…Publication Date 2010-11-01
- adaptive ecosystem management
- biodiversity
- grazing management
- Juniperus virginiana
- landowner attitudes
- prairie restoration
- prescribed burning
- Library Collection RecordPrescribed fire and/or mechanical methods can be used to modify the quantity, continuity, and/or spatial arrangement of flammable fuel. Yet the consequences of fuel management, both in terms of…Publication Date 2010-09-01
- Eucalyptus
- fire ecology
- fire management
- mallee
- prescribed burning
- resprout
- Library Collection RecordMedusahead (Taeniatherum caput-medusae [L.] Nevski) is an exotic annual grass invading western rangelands. Invasion by medusahead is problematic because it decreases livestock forage production,…Publication Date 2010-09-01
- annual grass invasion
- fire-herbicide control
- invasive plants
- prescribed burning
- sagebrush community restoration
- Taeniatherum caput-medusae
- Library Collection RecordThis paper examines if post-fire deferment and periodic rests provided by rotational grazing allowed for more rapid recovery of soil cover, soil chemical and physical parameters, and vegetation…Publication Date 2010
- grazing management
- infiltration
- prescribed burning
- soil health
- summer fire
- rangeland restoration
- Soil Condition
- management
- grazing
- fire ecology
- plant production
- plant community ecology
- rangeland condition
- rangelands
- Texas
- USA
- Library Collection RecordThis paper evaluates the history of fire management in the Bontebok National Park (3435 ha) over a period of almost four decades. A GIS database was compiled of all fires between 1972 and 2009 and…Publication Date 2010
- fire frequency
- fire season
- Grazers
- Post-fire age distribution
- prescribed burning
- Bontebok National Park
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordEfficacy of fire in reducing shrub density is low in plant communities where most woody plants resprout from stem bases and crowns following fire. Our objective was to determine the relationship of…Publication Date 2009-03-01
- Acacia farnesiana
- Celtis ehrenbergiana
- Condalia bookeri
- prescribed burning
- south Texas
- Library Collection RecordPrescribed fire in rangeland ecosystems is applied for a variety of management objectives, including enhancing productivity of forage species for domestic livestock. In the big sagebrush (Artemisia…Publication Date 2009-01-01
- bunchgrass
- Idaho fescue
- prescribed burning
- secondary succession
- Thurber’s needlegrass
- utilization
- Wyoming big sagebrush
- Library Collection RecordJapanese brome (Bromus japonicus Thunb. ex Murr.) is an introduced, annual cool-season grass adapted to the central and northern Great Plains. Japanese brome has negatively impacted perennial grasses…Publication Date 2007-09-01
- annual brome
- litter cover
- prescribed burning
- seedling density
- vegetative composition
- Library Collection RecordWyoming big sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata subsp. wyomingensis [Beetle A. Young] S.L. Welsh) plant communities of the Intermountain West have been greatly reduced from their historic range as a…Publication Date 2007-09-01
- Artemisia tridentata subsp. wyomingensis
- cover
- fire
- prescribed burning
- production
- resource availability
- Library Collection RecordFactors influencing the distribution and abundance of black-tailed prairie dog (Cynomys ludovicianus) colonies are of interest to rangeland managers because of the significant influence prairie dogs…Publication Date 2007-09-01
- Cynomys ludovicianus
- grassland disturbance
- prescribed burning
- semiarid rangelands
- wildfire
- Library Collection RecordThere is increased interest in the use of summer-season fires to limit woody plant encroachment into grasslands, but effects of these fires on grasses are poorly understood. We quantified effects of…Publication Date 2007-03-01
- brush management
- fire
- herbaceous production
- prescribed burning
- summer fire
- woody plant encroachment
- Library Collection RecordPrescribed fire is commonly used to initiate redberry juniper (Juniperus pinchotti Sudw.) suppression, and herbivory by goats presents a potentially effective mechanism to prolong the efficacy of the…Publication Date 2007-01-01
- Juniperus pinchotii
- terpenes
- glands
- prescribed burning
- goats
- Library Collection RecordThis report presents the results of field surveys for Pima Pineapple Cactus (PPC) on the Las Delicias burn unit conducted after a 2006 prescribed burn.Publication Date 2007
- prescribed burning
- endangered species
- Pima Pineapple Cactus
- Library Collection RecordThere is increased interest in the use of summer-season fires to limit woody plant encroachment on southern prairie grasslands, but collateral effects of these fires on grasses are poorly understood…Publication Date 2006-05-01
- Bouteloua curtipendula
- C4 grasses
- grazing management
- herbage production
- prescribed burning
- summer fire
- woody plant encroachment
- Library Collection RecordYaupon invasion into historic grassland savannahs can be effectively reduced with prescribed burning and herbicides. The Rangelands archives are made available by the Society for Range Management and…Publication Date 2005-10-01
- savannas
- Ilex vomitoria
- shrubs
- Weeds
- invasive species
- prescribed burning
- herbicides
- cost analysis
- Texas
- wildlife management areas
- Library Collection RecordThe Rangelands archives are made available by the Society for Range Management and the University of Arizona Libraries. Contact lbry-journals@email.arizona.edu for further information. Migrated from…Publication Date 2005-10-01
- moisture content
- plant litter
- woody plants
- grasses
- prescribed burning
- rangelands
- Library Collection RecordPrescribed burning is a recommended maintenance treatment following mechanical treatments of south Texas brushlands, but it is unknown whether it is preferable to additional mechanical treatments to…Publication Date 2004-01-01
- aeration
- brush
- brush management
- forbs
- maintenance treatments
- Odocoileus virginianus
- prescribed burning
- white-tailed deer
- Library Collection RecordThe effects of early spring burning on current year standing crop, litter, and total standing crop (current year standing crop plus litter) were examined in Festuca- and Stipa-Agropyron-dominated…Publication Date 2003-11-01
- Hesperostipa
- Elymus lanceolatus subsp. lanceolatus
- Hesperostipa spartea
- Saskatchewan
- prescribed burning
- prairies
- plant litter
- Agropyron dasystachyum
- fescue prairie
- Festuca hallii
- fire
- litter
- Northern Mixed Prairie
- primary productivity
- Stipa curtiseta
- total standing crop
- Library Collection RecordMechanical clearing and herbicide-burn treatments were compared to evaluate saltcedar (Tamarix chinensis Lour.) control and recovery along the Rio Grande on the Bosque del Apache National Wildlife…Publication Date 2003-09-01
- plowing
- root plowing
- Tamarix chinensis
- imazapyr
- cost effectiveness
- plant volume
- brush cutting
- volume
- glyphosate
- stems
- height
- riparian areas
- brush control
- mortality
- cutting
- prescribed burning
- land restoration
- plant density
- invasive species
- canopy
- New Mexico
- plant height
- Riparian restoration
- imazapyr
- glyphosate
- prescribed fire
- root plowing
- root raking
- Library Collection RecordPrescribed burning has long been recognized as a useful tool in rangeland management, but with it comes the risk of fire and smoke damage to the property of others. All but 2 states have codified…Publication Date 2003-07-01
- loss prevention
- agricultural law
- fire hazard
- risk communication
- liability
- negligence
- risk reduction
- cost-benefit analysis
- fires
- prescribed burning
- profitability
- Oklahoma
- range management
- fire
- natural resources policy
- prescribed fire
- rangeland fires
- rangeland policy
- Library Collection RecordIn many riparian corridors of the semi-arid west, stream incision has resulted in lowered water tables, basin big sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata var. tridentata Nutt.) encroachment and the loss of…Publication Date 2003-07-01
- Lupinus argenteus
- soil nutrients
- soil enzymes
- Artemisia tridentata var. tridentata
- Carex douglasii
- semiarid soils
- soil organic matter
- enzyme activity
- soil depth
- ash
- nutrient content
- water table
- riparian areas
- Carex
- grasslands
- soil pH
- fire ecology
- prescribed burning
- Artemisia tridentata
- semiarid zones
- land restoration
- biomass
- plant litter
- Nevada
- invasive species
- restoration
- riparian ecosystems
- water table depth
- Library Collection RecordChanges in soil nutrient pools and microbial activity due to fire are important for understanding the availability of nutrients to plants. The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of…Publication Date 2003-05-01
- Actinomycetales
- Paspalum quadrifarium
- soil bacteria
- carbon
- soil nutrient dynamics
- Paspalum
- grasslands
- soil fertility
- fire ecology
- nitrogen
- prescribed burning
- phosphorus
- biomass
- range management
- seasonal variation
- Argentina
- Paspalum quadrifarium
- fire
- microbial biomass
- soil nutrients
- flooding pampa
- Library Collection RecordAn experimental design required burn treatments for 10-m2 circular plots. We constructed a fire enclosure for the plots using sheetmetal, electrical conduit, and other commonly available materials.…Publication Date 2003-05-01
- peak temperature
- experimental rigs
- field experimentation
- soil temperature
- fire ecology
- prescribed burning
- range management
- botanical composition
- Nevada
- Utah
- fire
- Great Basin
- sagebrush
- burn barrell
- temperature
- temperature monitoring
- Library Collection RecordA 2-year field experiment was undertaken to quantify the interacting effects of a late-spring prescribed burn and summer rainfall on seasonal runoff and erosion in a southern Arizona grassland. Six…Publication Date 2003-01-01
- Lycurus
- perennial bunchgrasses
- soil water movement
- Muhlenbergia
- soil density
- Eragrostis
- Bouteloua
- water erosion
- semiarid grasslands
- rain
- runoff
- prescribed burning
- rainfall simulators
- plant communities
- sediment yield
- grasses
- bulk density
- Arizona
- Arizona
- sediment yield
- summer rainfall
- Library Collection RecordEvidence for the purposeful use of fire by American Indians–also termed Native Americans, Indigenous People, and First Nations/People–in many ecosystems has been easy to document but difficult to…Publication Date 2003
- forest fire management
- prescribed burning
- Library Collection RecordThe Rangelands archives are made available by the Society for Range Management and the University of Arizona Libraries. Contact lbry-journals@email.arizona.edu for further information. Migrated from…Publication Date 2002-10-01
- rotational grazing
- rangelands
- prescribed burning
- range management
- grasslands
- fires
- liming
- mowing
- nitrogen-phosphorus fertilizers
- field experimentation
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordFires were once a natural part of most savanna ecosystems, but lack of fine fuel and an active suppression policy have changed fire frequency and seasonality. Re-introducing fires to these systems…Publication Date 2002-09-01
- fire intensity
- Acacia
- shrublands
- Prosopis glandulosa
- brush control
- savannas
- ecological succession
- population structure
- shortgrass prairie
- prescribed burning
- forbs
- plant density
- Texas
- botanical composition
- canopy
- grasses
- fire frequency
- seasonality
- prescribed burns
- Prosopis glandulosa
- Acacia
- detrended correspondence analysis
- ordination
- Library Collection RecordThe Rangelands archives are made available by the Society for Range Management and the University of Arizona Libraries. Contact lbry-journals@email.arizona.edu for further information. Migrated from…Publication Date 2002-08-01
- controlled grazing
- cattle
- rotational grazing
- prescribed burning
- grazing intensity
- stocking rate
- literature reviews
- brush control
- grazing trials
- economic analysis
- veld
- Zimbabwe
- Library Collection RecordThe Rangelands archives are made available by the Society for Range Management and the University of Arizona Libraries. Contact lbry-journals@email.arizona.edu for further information. Migrated from…Publication Date 2002-08-01
- game birds
- grassland condition
- Oklahoma
- invasion
- woody weeds
- habitat destruction
- Juniperus virginiana
- prescribed burning
- weed control