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The Right to Burn: Barriers and Opportunities for Indigenous-Led Fire Steward...
ABSTRACT Indigenous fire stewardship enhances ecosystem diversity, assists with the management of complex resources, and reduces wildfire risk by lessening fuel loads. Although... -
Conservation of Earth's Biodiversity is Embedded in Indigenous Fire Stewardship
ABSTRACT Increasingly, severe wildfires have led to declines in biodiversity across all of Earth’s vegetated biomes [D. B. McWethy et al., Nat. Sustain. 2, 797–804 (2019)].... -
Babine Watershed Indicator Data Summary Report
INTRODUCTION The Babine Watershed is located 65 km north of Smithers and 30 km north of Hazelton BC, with the Babine River being a tributary to the Skeena River. The Babine... -
A Roadmap for Pyrodiversity Science
ABSTRACT Background: Contemporary and projected shifts in global fire regimes highlight the importance of understanding how fire affects ecosystem function and biodiversity... -
Long-Term Recovery of Vegetation Communities After Harvesting in the Coastal ...
ABSTRACT We sampled second-growth forests ranging in age from 28 to 98 years and compared them with old-growth forests to quantify rates of terrestrial vegetation recovery... -
Range of Natural Variation in Structural Attributes of Young Stands: Refining...
ABSTRACT Most natural disturbances leave structural legacies that are used by a variety of organisms as forest regrows. Forest management prescribes retention of “wildlife tree... -
Grasslands at the Northwest Edge
Imagine for a moment, the grasslands of British Columbia. Chances are, the last place that will come to mind is the Skeena Region of northwest B.C. This, after all, is the land... -
Impacts on Biodiversity - Technical Workshop
This technical workshop was held in Smithers in 2010 as part of the Nadina Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment. -
Developing Indicators of Soil Productivity, Function and Biodiversity through...
ABSTRACT Potential indicator species for forest management were explored in a series of studies of old-growth boreal stands encompassing a range of inherent site productivity.... -
Dead Wood in Forested Ecosystems: Managing, Modeling, Monitoring, and other M...
The document outlines a collaborative effort involving various stakeholders to establish ecologically-driven strategies for the preservation of downed woody material (DWM) and... -
Management Strategies for Climate-Change Adaptation in the Nadina Forest Dis...
ABSTRACT This report presents a preliminary set of strategies for sustainable forest management in the Nadina Forest District in an era of climate change. These "adaptation... -
An Evaluation of the Main Factors Affecting Yield Differences between Single-...
In British Columbia, many of our second-growth stands have regenerated as mixed-species stands and yet our understanding of how to manage these stands to achieve multiple goals... -
Nadina Climate Change Adaption Workshop Proceedings
Held in Burns Lake 2011, this workshop outlined an adaptive, forest management response to climate change in the Nadina District considering potential impacts of climate change...
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