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Trinity Integrated Fire Management Partnership: A Case Study

From the Rural Voices for Conservation Coalition: Working across public and private boundaries, or on “all lands”, is essential to address the ecological and economic challenges that communities in the
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From Ideas to Action: A Guide to Funding and Authorities for Collaborative Restoration

From the Rural Voices for Conservation Coalition: This guidebook presents a menu of USDA Forest Service and Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) tools and programs available to implement land stewardship
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Understanding Good Neighbor Authority: Case Studies from Across the West

From the Rural Voices for Conservation Coalition (RVCC): Read the report here. AUTHORS: Tyson Bertone-Riggs, RVCC Laren Cyphers, RVCC Emily Jane Davis, Oregon State University Karen Hardigg, RVCC
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From death comes life: Recovery and revolution in the wake of epidemic outbreaks of mountain pine beetle

From the Rocky Mountain Research Station: Changing climatic conditions and an abundance of dense, mature pine forests have helped to spur an epidemic of mountain pine beetles larger than any
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Upwardly mobile in the western U.S. desert: Blackbrush shrublands respond to a changing climate

From the Rocky Mountain Research Station: Blackbrush (Colegyne ramosissima) is a desert shrubland species that is currently dominant on over three million acres of the transition zone between the cold
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Seeing red: New tools for mapping and understanding fire severity

From the Rocky Mountain Research Station: Large, severe fires are ecologically and socially important because they have lasting effects on vegetation and soils, can potentially threaten people and property, and
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Fire on the mountain: What motivates homeowners to reduce their wildfire risk?

From the Rocky Mountain Research Station: New home building in the wildland-urban interface (WUI) continues unabated, despite the high financial and human costs of fighting fires in these areas. The
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Coming to a landscape near you: Natural resource changes in the Interior West

From the Rocky Mountain Research Station: In the coming decades, population growth, economic growth, and associated land-use changes – in concert with climate change – will influence forests and rangelands
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Our relationship with a dynamic landscape: Understanding the 2013 Northern Colorado Flood

From the Rocky Mountain Research Station: The summer of 2013 was drier than normal along the Front Range, so when rain started falling on the northern end on September 9,
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From watersheds to the web: Online tools for modeling forest soil erosion

From the Rocky Mountain Research Station: Forest erosion can lead to topsoil loss, and also to damaging deposits of sediment in aquatic ecosystems. For this reason, forest managers must be
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