Mammals of the Superior National Forest in Minnesota


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The mammals of the Superior National Forest are common (short-tailed shrew, pygmy shrew, masked shrew, snowshoe hare, meadow vole, red-backed vole, Eastern chipmunk, red squirrel, northern flying squirrel, deer mouse, beaver, muskrat, red fox, mink, striped skunk, white-tailed deer, moose), fairly common (Arctic shrew, northern water shrew, little brown bat, meadow jumping mouse, woodland jumping mouse, porcupine, gray wolf, black bear, bobcat, fisher, river otter, short-tailed weasel, woodchuck), rare (star-nosed mole, Keen's bat, silver-haired bat, red bat, hoary bat, cottontail rabbit, least chipmunk, gray squirrel, Norway rat, coyote, raccoon, pine marten, least weasel, long-tailed weasel, lynx), and very rare (Franklin's ground squirrel, thirteen-lined ground squirrel, gray fox, cougar, badger).



















Mixed Severity Fires


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The second edition of Mixed Severity Fires: Nature's Phoenix focuses on wildfire as a keystone ecological process that has shaped plant and animal communities for over 400 million years. The book will describe the renewal process that follows wildfires in forests and chaparral ecosystems as "nature's phoenix" by drawing from examples of wildfire effects in several regions of the world.In addition, the book will describe management and policies that have contributed to wildfire problems, including climate change and land-use practices incompatible with nature's phoenix and what must happen to get to coexistence with wildfires that are not going away no matter how much we try to suppress or alter fire behavior. This second edition of Mixed Severity Fires: Nature's Phoenix provides a comprehensive reference for documenting and synthesizing fire's ecological role. - Comprehensive and complete reference on wildfire ecology that includes the latest science and citations - Debunks debates on wildfire management that can be used by conservation groups and decision-makers to shift egregious wildfire policies - Contains a broad synthesis of the ecology of mixed- and high-severity fires, covering such topics as vegetation, birds, mammals, insects, aquatics, and management actions




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