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Prescribed Fire as a Tool to Reduce Tick Populations

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Author:

Michael R. Gallagher, Jesse K. Kreye, Erika T. Machtinger, Alexis Everland, Nathaniel Schmidt, Nicholas S. Skowronski

Spiders’ Response to Fire and Fire Surrogate Treatments in the Southern Appalachians

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Author:

Campbell, J.W., Grodsky, S.M., Milne, M.A., Vigueira, P., Vigueira, C.C., Stern, E. and Greenberg, C.H.

Causes and Outcomes of the 2016 Wildfires in the Southern Appalachians

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Author:

Reilly, M.J., Norman, S.P., O'Brien, J.J., Loudermilk, E.L.

Pennsylvania Private Forest Landowners Desire to Use Prescribed Fire

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Author:

Arun Regmi, Melissa Kreye, and Jesse Kreye

On Long-unburned Sites, Oak-hickory Dominance Can Lead to Greater Delayed Canopy Dieback After Wildfire Due to Greater Duff Consumption and Fine Root Damage

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Author:

Dana O. Carpenter, Melanie K. Taylor, Mac A. Callaham, J. Kevin Hiers, E. Louise Loudermilk, Joseph J. O’Brien, Nina Wurzburger

Featured Publication: The Fire Manager’s Guide to Blue Ridge Ecozones

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Author:

Adam Warwick

Early Growing-Season Prescribed Fires Shown to Burn More Completely and at Greater Intensity than Dormant Season-Burns

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Author:

Matthew Vaughan, Donald Hagan, William Bridges, Matthew Dickinson, and Adam Coates

High Severity Wildfire Impacts Water Yield and Water Quality in Southern Appalachian Watersheds.

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Author:

Peter Caldwell, Katherine Elliott, Ning Liu, James Vose, David Zietlow, and Jennifer Knoepp

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