Browsing by Subject "prescribed fire"
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(2022-05-31)Traditional wildlife and range extension programs offered to landowners and land managers provide information, knowledge, and tools for land stewardship. However, effectively educating today’s landowners may require new ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2004-09-30)Grasslands are characterized by recurring disturbances such as fire and grazing occurring against a background of topoedaphic heterogeneity and climatic variability. The result is a complex, multi-scaled disturbance regime, ...
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(2020-07-29)As ecosystems around the world experience unprecedented anthropogenic impacts, the need for a more nuanced understanding of the human decision-making process and how it shapes social-ecological systems has become clear. ...
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(2009-05-15)In the southern Great Plains, the encroachment of grassland ecosystems by mesquite (Prosopis glandulosa), is widespread, and prescribed fire is commonly used in its control. Despite this, substantial quantitative information ...
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(2017-12-09)Prescribed fire is an affordable and effective tool in managing woody plant encroachment, but landowners’ liability perceptions contribute to their inconsistent application of fire. Personal liability concerns can be ...
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(2021-07-08)Woody plant encroachment (WPE) reduces ecosystem services and economic benefits obtained from rangelands. Prescribed fire disturbance regimes have been identified as an ecologically and economically viable management ...
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(2019-01-04)There is a pressing need to assist resource managers and ranchers with the recovery of degraded rangelands in the Edwards Plateau region of Texas. In the last century, the plant community in this rangeland savanna ecosystem ...
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(2023-08-06)Prescribed fire is a common method for managing forests and rangelands for livestock and wildlife in the United States. In areas like the Coastal Sand Plain ecoregion of Texas, prescribed fire is used to remove mature gulf ...
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(2020-10-19)Although the risks of industrial denotations in semi-open and congested geometries are often neglected by many safety practitioners, recent studies have shown that detonation onset in industrial installations might be more ...