Launchbaugh, Karen, Bob Brammer, Matthew L. Brooks, Stephen Bunting, Patrick Clark, Jay Davison, Mark Fleming, Ron Kay, Mike Pellant, David A. Pyke,and Bruce Wylie. 2008. Interactions Among Livestock Grazing, Vegetation Type, and Fire Behavior in the Murphy Wildland Fire Complex in Idaho and Nevada, July 2007. Open-File Report 2008–1214, U.S. Department of the Interior U.S. Geological Survey.
Prepared in cooperation with the Murphy Wildland Fire Grazing and Fuel Assessment Team
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September 1, 2008 | Comments Off | Topic: Ecology, Forest and Fire Sciences
Pyne, Stephen J. 2007. Friendly Fire.
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August 30, 2008 | Comments Off | Topic: Case Studies, Restoration Forestry
Mann, Charles C. 2008. Ancient Earthmovers Of the Amazon. Science, Vol 321, 29 August 2008, pp 1148-1152
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August 30, 2008 | Comments Off | Topic: Cultivated Landscapes, History of Western Landscapes
Murchie, Archie. 1991. The Free Life of a Ranger : Archie Murchie in the U.S. Forest Service, 1929-1965 with R.T. (Robert Thomas) King. Univ of Nevada Oral History Program, 324 pgs.
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July 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment | Topic: Rural Life, Rural Culture
William Denevan. 1992. The Pristine Myth: The Landscape of the Americas in 1492. Annals of the American Association of Geographers v. 82 n. 3 (Sept. 1992), pp. 369-385.
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June 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment | Topic: Cultivated Landscapes, Cultural Landscapes, History of Western Landscapes, The Wilderness Myth
Smithson, Julie Kay. 2008. Animals whose behavior changes near their life’s end. Western Institute for Study of the Environment.
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June 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment | Topic: Ranching and Animal Husbandry, Rural Life, Rural Culture
Kay, Charles E. 2007. Were native people keystone predators? A continuous-time analysis of wildlife observations made by Lewis and Clark in 1804-1806. Canadian Field-Naturalist 121(1): 1–16.
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June 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment | Topic: Native Cultures, Wildlife History, History of Western Landscapes, The Wilderness Myth
Various authors. The People Who Lived Among the Clouds
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May 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment | Topic: Rural Culture, Local History, Resident Stewardship
USDA-APHIS Idaho Wildlife Services Wolf Activity Report Fiscal Year 2007
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May 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment | Topic: Population Dynamics, Wildlife Policy, Predators
Dunn, J.R. 2008. The Food Crisis. The American Thinker, April 2008.
J.R. Dunn is consulting editor of American Thinker
April 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment | Topic: Rural Culture, Rural Economics, Agriculture