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Ecology resources

Overall Forest Ecosystem Health and Restoration

Reed F. Noss, Jerry F. Franklin, William L. Baker, Tania Schoennagel, and Peter B. Moyle. 2006. Managing fire-prone forests in the western United States. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 4(9): 481-487. Ecological Society of America.

Rick Brown. "Thinning, Fire and Forest Restoration: A Science-Based Approach for National Forests in the Interior Northwest," Defenders of Wildlife, 2001.

Executive summary of the Eastside Forests Scientific Societies Panel report.
Paul Hessberg, James Agee and Jerry Franklin, "Dry Forests and Wildland Fires of the Inland Northwest USA: Contrasting the Landscape Ecology of the Pre-Settlement and Modern Eras," Forest Ecology and Management, 2005.
Kolb, Agee, Fule, McDowell, Pearson, Sala, Waring. “Perpetuating Old Ponderosa Pine”.
James Agee and Carl Skinner, 2005. "Basic Principles of Forest Fuel Reduction Treatments," Forest Ecology and Management.
Constance Millar, Nathan Stephenson, and Scott L. Stephens. “Climate Change and Forests of the Future: Managing in the Face of Uncertainty.” 2007.

Fire and fuels management

Characterizing the ecology and ecological change in the Blue Mountains and Inner Columbia Basin

Charles G. Johnson, Jr., "Forest Health in the Blue Mountains: A Plant Ecologist's Perspective on Ecosystem Processes and Biological Diversity," PNW-GTR-339, 1994.

Ponderosa pine ecosystems and old growth

Paul F. Hessburg, R. Brion Salter, Kevin M. James. Evidence for Mixed Severity Fires in Pre-Management Era Dry Forests of the Inland Northwest, USA. USDA Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station.

Effectiveness of fuel treatments

Wildlife

David Pilliod and Evelyn Bull. "Wildlife and Invertebrate Response to Fuel Reduction Treatments in Dry Coniferous Forests of the Western United States: A Synthesis." USDA Forest Service. September 2006.

Insects and fire

Thomas J. Parker, Karen M. Clancy and Robert L. Mathiasen. Interactions among fire, insects and pathogens in coniferous forests of the interior western United States and Canada. Agriculture and Forest Entomology. 2006.

Climate and fuels

Westerling, A. L., H. G. Hidalgo, D. R. Cayan and T. W. Swetnam. 2006 Warming and earlier spring increase western U.S. forest wildfire activity. Science, 313:940-943.

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