- Author
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Bureau of Land Management
- Title
- Guidebook for Prescribed Natural Fire Planning and Implementation. Grand Junction Resource Area. Ruby Canyon/Black Ridge Integrated Resource Management Plan. DRAFT.
- Coporate
- Bureau of Land Management, Grand Junction, CO
- Report
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DRAFT
1997
118 p.
- Distribution
- Available from National Technical Information Service
- Keywords
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prefire planning
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handbooks
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ecology
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forestry
- Abstract
- The Grand Junction Resource Area has developed a Prescribed Natural Fire (PNF) guide for the Ruby Canyon/Black Ridge (RCBR) Integrated Resource Management Plan. The RCBR is an area which is inherently dynamic and constantly changing as a result of plant succession, insects, disease, drought, commodity use, human activity, windstorm and fire. While most of these processes have gone on relatively unchecked, fires in and around the RCBR have been aggressively suppressed since the early 1900's. Fires are an integral component of the natural dynamics of an ecosystem such as the RCBR. The affects of modifying fire's role in an ecosystem through man's interference can, and may have, adversely impacted the flora and fauna of the RCBR area.