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Introduction The importance of fire as a keystone process in northern Rocky Mountain forests is widely recognized (e.g., Habeck and Mutch 1973; Wright and Heinselman 1973; Arno 1980; Wadleigh and Jenkins 1996; Barrett et al. 1997; Murray et al. 1998). At a landscape scale, periodic fire partitions the landscape into patches of forest at various stages of recovery providing a diverse array of habitats (Romme 1982; Turner et al. 1994; Turner and Romme 1994; Turner et al. 1997; Wright and Hayward 1998). Fire impacts forests …

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… Fire. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. Woodhouse, C. A. 1999. Artificial nueral networks and dendroclimatic reconstructions: an example from the Front Range, Colorado, USA. The Holocene 9:521-529. Wright, A. L. and G. D. Hayward. 1998. Barred owls expansion into the central Idaho wilderness. Journal of Raptor Research 32:77-81. Wright, H. E. and M. L. Heinselman. 1973. The ecological role of fire in natural conifer forests of western and northern North America; Introduction. Quaternary Research 3:317-328.