[APWG] NEWS: Invasive Plants Encourage Wildfires

[Wayne Tyson]

APWG:

While the linked paper was accessible, the others in the colloquium required 
either subscription or payment for 24-hour access. If I paid for every 
article I scanned, my Social Security check would be absorbed pretty 
quickly.

WT

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Olivia Kwong" <plant at plantconservation.org>
To: <apwg at lists.plantconservation.org>
Sent: Friday, September 16, 2011 6:55 AM
Subject: [APWG] NEWS: Invasive Plants Encourage Wildfires


> http://www.newswise.com/articles/invasive-plants-encourage-wildfires-with-negative-human-and-ecological-consequences
>
> Invasive Plants Encourage Wildfires, with Negative Human and Ecological 
> Consequences
> Released: 9/15/2011 2:30 PM EDT
> Source: Allen Press Publishing Services
>
> Newswise -- The past decade has seen 77,951 fires burn about 6.7 million 
> acres in the United States. One condition that facilitates the spread of 
> wildfires is invasive plant species. Nonnative weeds can modify the 
> vegetation of a landscape and provide a source of fuel that did not 
> previously exist.
>
> See the link above for the full article text.  Full text of the Fire and 
> Invasive Plants Special Feature, "Economic and Social Impacts of Wildfires 
> and Invasive Plants in American Deserts: Lessons From the Great Basin," 
> Rangeland Ecology & Management, Vol. 64, No. 5, September 2011, is 
> available at http://www.srmjournals.org/toc/rama/64/5
>
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