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Project ID: 01-3-3-20

Year: 2002

Date Started: 01/25/2002

Date Completed: 12/11/2006

Title: Experimental Studies of the Role of Fire in Restoring and Maintaining Arid Grasslands

Project Proposal Abstract: Southwestern landscapes can be described as being structured by the interaction of several biotic and abiotic variables of which two land managers can manipulate; fire and grazing. Because of the importance of these variables both separately and together as structuring processes and management tools, we examine both the independent effects and the interaction of these processes. In 1998 research began on an 8,886-acre research pasture divided into four 2,200 acre sub-pastures. This experimental context creates four replicated research and demonstration sites. It is one of the few places where researchers can study, and visitors can observe, the effects of fire and grazing at scales appropriate for understanding these processes. The results from this study will demonstrate the practicality of using fire, with and without grazing, in restoring and maintaining the structure, composition, and biodiversity of arid grasslands.

Principal Investigator: Charles G. Curtin

Agency/Organization: Arid Lands Project

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Other Project Collaborators

Type	Name	Agency/Organization	Branch or Dept
Co-Principal Investigator	Ben Brown	Animas Foundation
Federal Cooperator	Carleton B. Edminster	Forest Service	RMRS-Southwest Forest Science Complex

Project Locations

Consortium

Southwest

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Project Deliverables

Final Report ("Results presented in JFSP Final Reports may not have been peer-reviewed and should be interpreted as tentative until published in a peer-reviewed source.")

	ID	Type	Title
	9765	NonRefereed Publication	Integration of Science and Community-Based Conservation in the Mexico/U.S. Borderlands
	9764	NonRefereed Publication	Experimental Studies of the Role of Fire and Interactions with Grazing in Restoring and Maintaining Semi-Arid Grasslands (2002)
	9763	NonRefereed Publication	Prescribed Burn Plan-South Half McKinney Flat pasture, White Water FMA
	9762	NonRefereed Publication	Experimental Studies of the Role of Fire and Interactions with Grazing in Restoring and Maintaining Semi-Arid Grasslands (2004)
	9761	NonRefereed Publication	Experimental Studies of the Role of Fire and Interactions with Grazing in Restoring and Maintaining Semi-Arid Grasslands (2005)
	9760	NonRefereed Publication	Experimental Studies of the Role of Fire and Interactions with Grazing in Restoring and Maintaining Semi-Arid Grasslands (2006)
	9759	NonRefereed Publication	Experimental Studies of the Interaction of Climate, Fire and Grazing on McKinney Flats
	9758	NonRefereed Publication	Toward Developing Adaptive Processes for Interacting Science and Stewardship in Natural Resources Management
	9757	NonRefereed Publication	Prairie Dogs, Cattle and the Conservation of Diversity in Desert Grasslands
	9756	NonRefereed Publication	Complexity, Community, and the Interaction of Indigenous Knowledge with Landscape-Level Research and Conservation
	9755	NonRefereed Publication	Landscape-Level Impacts of Livestock on the Diversity of a Desert Grassland: Preliminary Results from Long-Term Experimental Studies
	9754	NonRefereed Publication	Fire as a Landscape Restoration and Management Tool in the Malpai Borderlands
	9753	NonRefereed Publication	McKinney Flats Project
	9752	NonRefereed Publication	Lessons from the Borderlands

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